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in the end he will look in triumph on his foes.” Psalm 112:4,6–8 .
Many times as I ran through the darkness I slipped over, but God guided me with his abundant mercy. After several hours I’d climbed over two mountains and crossed a river. Suddenly in the darkness I heard someone shouting, “Brother Yun, where are you going?”
A man approached me and asked, “Brother Yun, why do you look like this?” He saw the blood and scars on my hands and cried, “What has happened to you?”
It was about midnight. I couldn’t see who it was, so I asked him quietly, “Do you believe in Jesus? Do you know me?”
The man replied, “Yesterday and this morning I attended your meeting, but this afternoon when you lost your voice I ran back to my farm to do some work.”
He hadn’t heard about the arrests earlier that day. In God’s provision he had enabled this man to leave the meeting just minutes before the PSB came. This brother was a hardworking farmer who had many chores to attend to each day. He was working in the field at midnight, spreading fertiliser on his crops, trying to catch up with the time he had lost while attending the meetings.
I told him, “I was captured by the PSB this afternoon but the Lord has rescued me from their hands. He helped me escape over the police station wall. Where am I? Can you help me?”
This dear brother told me, “Come to my home and change your clothes.”
“No!” I protested. “There’s no time. The most important thing is that you take me to see my co-workers and your church leaders.”
This brother’s farm was a long way from our meeting place. He immediately put his load on the ground and led me down a very narrow pathway until finally we came to the house where I’d been arrested the previous afternoon.
When we arrived we heard people loudly praying. They were crying out for me before the Lord, interceding for my release. When they saw me they could scarcely believe their eyes! They were amazed that the Lord had rescued me from the hands of evil men. They changed my wet clothes, bathed my scars, and lovingly wiped the blood from my face and hands.
I encouraged the Shaanxi believers. I prayed for them and placed them in the merciful hands of God. I taught them, “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.” Acts 14:22. They confidently told me, “We will continue by obeying the words from the Bible.”
Everyone wept.
Before daybreak, after a final prayer, the three of us left that place and went to another destination by car. The embarrassed authorities searched everywhere for me but couldn’t find me. A few days later we safely returned home to Henan.
Our trip to the west was a journey of tears and marvellous protection from the hands of evil men. We were truly dependent on God’s mercy, poured out in response to the many fervent prayers of the brothers and sisters.
When I arrived back in Henan I met Brother Xu, Brother Fu, and my dear wife. When I saw them I quoted theScripture, “ We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.” 2 Corinthians 1:8–9.
Brother Fu was excited to see me. He said, “A few days ago during our prayer meeting your wife had a vision. A voice said, ‘Yun has been arrested in Shaanxi. He needs a great miracle to get him out.’ We told the church and everyone immediately fasted and prayed for you.”
After hearing these words I wept tears of thankfulness for God’s love and mercy.
* * *
Let me tell you what happened to the two young women who accompanied me on the trip to Shaanxi. Sister Juan was so nervous that she had broken down and cried when I first asked her to teach at the meeting.
God has done a
Many times as I ran through the darkness I slipped over, but God guided me with his abundant mercy. After several hours I’d climbed over two mountains and crossed a river. Suddenly in the darkness I heard someone shouting, “Brother Yun, where are you going?”
A man approached me and asked, “Brother Yun, why do you look like this?” He saw the blood and scars on my hands and cried, “What has happened to you?”
It was about midnight. I couldn’t see who it was, so I asked him quietly, “Do you believe in Jesus? Do you know me?”
The man replied, “Yesterday and this morning I attended your meeting, but this afternoon when you lost your voice I ran back to my farm to do some work.”
He hadn’t heard about the arrests earlier that day. In God’s provision he had enabled this man to leave the meeting just minutes before the PSB came. This brother was a hardworking farmer who had many chores to attend to each day. He was working in the field at midnight, spreading fertiliser on his crops, trying to catch up with the time he had lost while attending the meetings.
I told him, “I was captured by the PSB this afternoon but the Lord has rescued me from their hands. He helped me escape over the police station wall. Where am I? Can you help me?”
This dear brother told me, “Come to my home and change your clothes.”
“No!” I protested. “There’s no time. The most important thing is that you take me to see my co-workers and your church leaders.”
This brother’s farm was a long way from our meeting place. He immediately put his load on the ground and led me down a very narrow pathway until finally we came to the house where I’d been arrested the previous afternoon.
When we arrived we heard people loudly praying. They were crying out for me before the Lord, interceding for my release. When they saw me they could scarcely believe their eyes! They were amazed that the Lord had rescued me from the hands of evil men. They changed my wet clothes, bathed my scars, and lovingly wiped the blood from my face and hands.
I encouraged the Shaanxi believers. I prayed for them and placed them in the merciful hands of God. I taught them, “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.” Acts 14:22. They confidently told me, “We will continue by obeying the words from the Bible.”
Everyone wept.
Before daybreak, after a final prayer, the three of us left that place and went to another destination by car. The embarrassed authorities searched everywhere for me but couldn’t find me. A few days later we safely returned home to Henan.
Our trip to the west was a journey of tears and marvellous protection from the hands of evil men. We were truly dependent on God’s mercy, poured out in response to the many fervent prayers of the brothers and sisters.
When I arrived back in Henan I met Brother Xu, Brother Fu, and my dear wife. When I saw them I quoted theScripture, “ We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.” 2 Corinthians 1:8–9.
Brother Fu was excited to see me. He said, “A few days ago during our prayer meeting your wife had a vision. A voice said, ‘Yun has been arrested in Shaanxi. He needs a great miracle to get him out.’ We told the church and everyone immediately fasted and prayed for you.”
After hearing these words I wept tears of thankfulness for God’s love and mercy.
* * *
Let me tell you what happened to the two young women who accompanied me on the trip to Shaanxi. Sister Juan was so nervous that she had broken down and cried when I first asked her to teach at the meeting.
God has done a
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