On Tuesday, Dec 22, 2015 seven of us gathered in Limpopo Province to hear the testimony of Respect Ncube.
Respect has been a faithful man declaring the gospel to all that he comes across.
He is responsible for many in the Johannesburg area townships coming to Christ.
Here is his testimony as given by him.
Would you pray for him?
He is now a member of Lehigh Valley Baptist Church, Emmaus, Pa.
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Click the picture above to hear how Florah came to know Christ, or download the video –> HERE <–
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This last week I wrote a note to Bible Baptist Church of Grand Forks to say “Thank you!” for purchasing the paper to print the testimony tracts.
Personal Stories of Transformed Lives
This is chapter 1 and part of what I wrote them…
I made a trip to the north part of the country and we went into Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. I have a group of men I have contact with in an out of the way marketplace there.
We stopped there with the tracts and by the time we were finished we had given out about 400 in the marketplace alone. I had an impromptu Bible study with 2 women and 10 men. And we signed up 42 people for correspondence Bible studies all in the space of about 2 hours at the market.
The folks there went wild asking for the testimony tracts when they saw they were stories of Africans.
But that is only the tip of the iceberg…chapter 2 being written right now…on Friday I got a text message from a man in Kasane who we had given one of the personal stories to. He was requesting a Bible study so he could know the Word of God.
Then this morning I received a phone call from a lady in a far off village who had gotten one of the testimony tracts. She expressed that she wanted to follow Christ and needed help. Unfortunately she is so far away she cannot come to where we are. BUT….
She told me where she is and I told her we have a man in that VERY village who is preaching the gospel and has a small group of believers gathered. He called her 30 minutes later and set up an appointment with her tomorrow.
Please pray for Kato and others who are excited to receive these personal stories of Africans who have been transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Oabile came to Christ about 8 months ago. The Lord has been changing him in many ways.
Here you see his picture when we first met him, influenced by Rastifarianism.
Here you see his picture today, changed by Christ!
Listen to an audio clip of his testimony here…
My name is Oabile David, and this is the story about how God changed my life.
I was born in Francistown in January 1993 and lived with my parents there. They didn’t build a house, so we were just renting. When I was young, my mother attended the Zion Christian Church so my brother and sisters and I went together with her. But I did not understand that church. They did a lot of strange things there.
My mother died in 2001. My uncle was a policeman in another village and he took me with him to stay with him there. I lived there with him for 9 years. My uncle attended a church there in the village, but I don’t remember the name. I had only been there for one week and they took me to the river and I got baptized there. They didn’t ask me any questions about whether I was born again—they just baptized me. I hated that baptism because I was very afraid, the water was very deep and I couldn’t breathe.
In 2005 my little brother died and in March of 2010 my father died. So I moved back to Francistown in October 2010 to stay with my aunt and to look for a job. My aunt belonged to the Christ Embassy church, so I started going to church with her. At that church, they pray in tongues. While they were praying I looked at them and wondered, “How do these people know that God understands them?” I thought maybe they should teach me how to pray in tongues, but then I thought, “No, it is too hard. I cannot do that.” So I just prayed my own prayer to God, but not in tongues.
We were very poor and I needed to help support my sisters and my aunt. I went everywhere in town looking for a job but could not find one. Finally after many days, I found a job at Kan-Kan. I began to work there, and every day on my lunch break, I would go over to the Civic Center across the street and eat my lunch there.
One day in January 2011, a man was there at the Civic Center passing out little booklets. He passed by me and then came back and handed one to me. The little booklet was a gospel tract and there was a card that you could fill out for a free Bible study if you were interested. I filled out the card and gave it back to the man.
He then introduced himself to me. His name was Jesse and he asked me if I would like to do a Bible study with him. I told him that I was interested and he asked me if I had ever read the Bible. I told him, “No, I have never read the Bible in my life and I don’t know anything about the Bible.” So we set up to meet the next day to start a Bible study.
The next day on my lunch hour I met with him to start the Bible study. We studied about life after death. That was the subject and the words that got me interested in studying the Bible more. The Bible teaches that after we die, we are going to be judged by God according to our wrong doings, for what we did when we were still on the earth. I wanted to know more about that, because I knew that I had done many wrong things. So I continued studying the Bible with Jesse.
We met several times and he taught me many things from the Bible. When I finished the studies, I was at home one night, just thinking about what I had heard and about how God will judge us and what will happen to me after I die and after He judged me. I thought, “I should just turn from the things I have been doing and turn to God right now. It’s time for me to turn to God.”
But it was very hard for me to turn to God. Since I had started studying the Bible and reading the Word of God, there were times when I wanted to just give it up. Things for me didn’t go well. Sometimes reading the Word of God made me feel very bad and like I was crazy. So it was not easy for me to turn to God. But as I thought about it more, I knew that I needed to turn from my sin. I knew that Jesus Christ had died on the cross to pay for my sins. All I needed to do was repent of my sins and ask Him to save me. I decided that night to turn to God and I am very happy that I did. I just prayed and asked God to forgive me of my sins and told Him I didn’t want to sin anymore but I wanted to please Him.
Many things have changed in my life since I was saved. Before I was saved, I used to drink alcohol. I used to smoke the marijuana weed. I used to go to the bars, to the clubs. I didn’t have a right attitude towards other people. I didn’t have any love in my heart for people. After I got saved, that is when I realized that it is a good thing to change. To turn towards God is a very good thing. So I have changed from those things now. I don’t do them anymore. I just want to face the Lord.
Now here I am. I love God and I am very happy. It does not mean I am perfect. But I don’t want to sin anymore. It is very good to be in the Lord’s hands. To be in His way is a very good thing very much. I wish that everyone who reads this would come to love the Lord and to serve Him. God is the Creator and He loves you. He gave His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to die for your sins.
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My name is Pauline Dadane, and this is the story about how God answered my prayer.
I was born and raised in Botswana. In my younger years I attended St. John’s Apostolic Church with my family. There I learned the Sunday School songs and some Bible stories.
When I was older, I started fellowshipping with the Mount of Zion Church. They were reading the Bible but they could not explain what the Word of God meant. They believed in sacrifices and prophecy.
But I was always troubled in my spirit, when I looked at my life. I found that I was just like those who don’t know God. I was a member of the church, but I was no different than the people outside the church. We were doing the same things most of the time. I was worried—I was inside the church but I was no different from those who didn’t come to church. I wondered why. I wanted to understand the Word of God. I wanted to be born again. I wanted to be a child of God.
Then one day, the church I was attending had problems with some issues in the church and divided. The branch of Makobo was forced to register its own ministry. In 2001 we had 75 members. But then we stopped offering sacrifices after reading in the New Testament that it was wrong, and our membership dropped to just 10 people. We were reading the Bible but we didn’t understand how to be received by God. I knew that God had not received me. I was praying, praying to God, “God, give me the right thing. I want to be your child. Help me to know how I can be your child.”
All during the year 2008 we prayed and fasted. In 2009 I saw somebody selling books and one was titled, Helping Your Church to Grow Through Prayer. At that time I still wanted to be a child of God so I bought the book and read it. But I still felt that there was something missing.
In 2010 we sat down with our church leaders to talk about how we can make our church grow. We decided to send somebody to Nigeria to talk with a man there. We raised money for the journey but we couldn’t manage to go.
Then in February 2011 one day I came home from work, and my husband told me, “I was with a visitor from America who brought the Word of God. They are teaching the Word of God.” I tried to ask him, “What kind of Word of God?” And my husband told me, “If I understand him, it is the Word of God that we have been wanting.” But I still was not convinced. Then one day I found one of the tracts the visitor brought and I read the tracts. It talked about how to be born again. I knew this was what I had been looking for.
We started doing a Bible study with this man and he came to our village to teach the Word of God to us. I learned many things from the Word of God that I had never heard before. I learned that we are all sinners and God is going to judge us for our sin. I also learned that Jesus Christ died on the cross to pay for my sins and that I needed to turn from my sins and ask Him to save me. One verse from the Bible that God used to show me the truth was Psalm 51:10. “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew and right spirit within me.” That was what I wanted God to do in my life.
On the 26th of June, 2011, we ended our Bible study with a verse from the Bible. In John 6:37. Jesus said, “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” I knew this was God’s promise to me that if I would leave my sin and turn to Christ, He would save me.
That day, after we got finished with the Bible study, I bowed my head and prayed and asked God to save me. I told God that I was a sinner but I wanted to leave that sin and turn to Christ. I asked God to wash me clean in the blood of Jesus Christ. That is the day that I was born again.
Today I know that I am saved. My life was changed since I was born again. Today I am free in everything. I am very happy in my life. Now I can pray and know that God hears my prayers. When I read my Bible, I understand what God is saying and what God wants me to do. I thank God for having sent the message of salvation to me.
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