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    Grace Givers: Amazing Stories of Grace in Action
    Grace Givers: Amazing Stories of Grace in Action
    Grace Givers: Amazing Stories of Grace in Action
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    Grace Givers: Amazing Stories of Grace in Action

    By Dr. David Jeremiah

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    Heartwarming and powerful true stories of people who have reached out to their world with incredible acts of self-sacrificing service, with a deep and profound spirit of forgiveness, with both ordinary and extraordinary gifts of grace.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJun 29, 2006
    ISBN9781418560829
    Grace Givers: Amazing Stories of Grace in Action
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    Dr. David Jeremiah

    Dr. David Jeremiah is the founder of Turning Point, an international ministry committed to providing Christians with sound Bible teaching through radio and television, the internet, live events, and resource materials and books. He is the author of more than fifty books, including Where Do We Go From Here?, Forward, The World of the End, and The Great Disappearance. Dr. Jeremiah serves as the senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, California. He and his wife, Donna, have four grown children and twelve grandchildren.

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      Grace Givers - Dr. David Jeremiah

      Stories of People Who

      Have Been Captured by Grace-and

      Are Sharing It with the World

      GRACE

      GIVERS

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      © 2006 by Integrity Publishers

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other—except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson.

      Thomas Nelson is a registered trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Thomas Nelson, Inc. titles may be purchased in bulk for educational, business, fund-raising, or sales promotional use. For information, please e-mail SpecialMarkets@ThomasNelson.com.

      Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations used in this book are from

      The New King James Version. © 1979, 1980, 1982. Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Scripture quotations marked NIV from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation,

      © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,

      Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

      Cover and Interior Design: Greg Jackson, Thinkpen Design, LLC

      ISBN 978-1-4041-1380-0

      GRACE

      GIVERS

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Grace Givers Know How Much They’ve Been Forgiven

      His Grace Is Sufficient David Jeremiah

      I Simply Let Go Karen O’Connor

      When I Was a Prodigal Son

      Don Hall as told to Nanette Thorsen-Snipes

      Hospital Maneuvers Betty Winslow

      The Birthday Gift Judith Scharfenberg

      Serving Grace Darlene Schacht

      Graced and Gracious David Jeremiah

      Forgive? Who, Me? Suzannah Willingham

      Grace Givers See Others the Same Way God Does

      Giving Brings Healing Sharon Gibson

      Itty-Bitty Woman Candy Arrington

      My Friend Rose Janet Seever

      Dinner with Sinners Tonya Ruiz

      Grace Givers Give from the Heart

      and Lay Down Their Lives for Others

      Tied with Love Janice Young

      Mr. Bone’s Eye Jessica Inman

      A Dream Come True Oseola McCarty

      Green Ink Laura L. Smith

      Caregiver of the Century Katherine J. Crawford

      A Legacy of Giving Jennifer Lynn Cary

      A Cup of Hope Beverly Hill McKinney

      Grace Givers Experience—and

      Participate in—Miracles

      The Miracle of Love and Grace David Jeremiah

      A Cry for Mercy Loretta Leath as told to Nanette Thorsen-Snipes

      A God Nearby Christy Phillippe

      Answered Prayer at the Fair Answered Prayer at the Fair

      God’s Thread Heidi Shelton-Jenck

      Miracle in Ward Seventeen Christy Phillippe

      In Jesus’ Name Christy Phillippe

      Grace Givers Change the World

      Teaching the World Kathryn Lay

      One Child at a Time Dr. Bella Gentry as told to Laurie Klein

      The Light of Love Jessica Inman

      Going Global Andrew Nimick

      Where None Ever Bloomed Before

      Gene Beckstein as told to Gloria Cassity Stargel

      Grace Givers Are Blessed as They Bless Others

      Unexpected Blessings Jim Snipes as told to Nanette Thorsen-Snipes

      Hope Does Not Disappoint Margaret Lang

      Who Blessed Whom? Diane H. Pitts

      The Surprise Gifts Eva Juliuson

      Ministering to Jesus Christy Phillippe

      Miracle at the Cromwell Crown Hotel

      Harry Heintz as told to Peggy Frezon

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE

      IS CAPTURED BY GRACE?

      Someone has written that grace is a five-letter word that is often spelled J-E-S-U-S…. He was the once-and-for-all perfect human image of grace, of love, of truth. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ (John 1:1, 14, 17).

      In the Greek tongue of Paul’s day, the word for grace was charis. It carried the connotation of graciousness or favor. But the term evolved in the Greek world until it meant the actual gift, the concrete expression of kindness. Grace happens. As Paul explained it, The free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many (Romans 5:15).

      Grace happens, and it acts. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8).

      Such grace can come only from God. It is the gift unsought, unmerited, unlimited. For no matter what we have done, no matter the depth of our transgression, the darkness of our hearts—grace overrules them all. God pursues us relentlessly, He will not give us up, and once He has captured us, He won’t let us go.

      In the following pages, you’ll find stories of people who have been pursued by God, captured by His grace—and are now sharing that grace with the world. When grace happens in our lives, it cannot be contained. It must spill into the lives of those around us. As you read, may you find yourself captured by grace and transformed into a grace giver.

      Grace does not wait till there is

      something to attract it nor till

      a good reason is found in the

      sinner for its flowing to him.

      HORATIUS BONAR

      Grace Givers Know How

      Much They’ve Been Forgiven

      But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with

      which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made

      us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).

      EPHESIANS 2:4-5

      Even the selfish, calculating Prodigal cannot withstand the sight of his running, weeping father surrendering his high position to meet him at the edge of disgrace. In that moment grace takes him captive, and he sees what his rebellious soul has not until now allowed him to see: the beauty of his father’s love, the absolute value of his acceptance, the sweet joys of loyalty and obedience. As far as his conscience goes, no one need tell him the depth of the pain he has brought to his home. He knows it now not simply with his mind but in the furthest depths of his heart. The heart is broken, yet his soul is mended. Such is the supernatural event of grace.

      Humanity is never so beautiful

      as when praying for forgiveness,

      or else forgiving one another.

      JEAN PAUL RICHTER

      His Grace Is Sufficient

      DAVID JEREMIAH

      On the morning of Sunday, November 8, 1987, Irishman Gordon Wilson and his twenty-eight-year-old daughter, Marie, went to watch a parade in the town of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. As they stood beside a brick wall waiting for units of British soldiers and police to come marching by, an IRA terrorist bomb exploded behind them.

      A half-dozen people were killed instantly by the blast, and Gordon and his daughter were buried several feet deep beneath a pile of bricks. Gordon could feel injuries to his shoulder and arm, but was unable to move. Then he felt someone touch his fingers.

      Is that you, Dad? Marie whispered. Yes, Marie, her father answered. He heard the muffled sounds of people screaming from pain, and then the much clearer sound of Marie’s screams. He squeezed her hand tightly, repeatedly asking her if she was all right. Between her screams of pain, she repeatedly assured her father that she was okay.

      Daddy, I love you very much, were the last words Gordon Wilson heard his daughter say. Four hours later, after they were finally rescued, she died in a hospital from massive brain and spinal injuries.

      Later that evening, a BBC reporter asked to speak with Gordon. After he described what had happened, the reporter asked him, How do you feel about the guys who planted the bomb?

      His words were stunning. I bear them no ill will, Gordon replied. I bear them no grudge. Bitter talk is not going to bring Marie Wilson back to life. I shall pray tonight and every night that God will forgive them. Some speculate that it was that statement that soothed paramilitary groups incensed by the bombing, thereby preventing a bloody retaliatory attack.

      In the ensuing months, many people asked Gordon, who eventually became a senator in the Republic of Ireland, how he could forgive such a murderous act of hatred.

      I was hurt, Gordon said. "I had just lost my daughter. but I wasn’t angry. Marie’s last words to me—words of love—had put me on a plane of love. I received God’s grace, through the strength of His love for me, to forgive" (italics added). For years after the tragedy that took his daughter’s life and almost his own, Gordon Wilson worked tirelessly for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland until his own death.

      Gordon Wilson had experienced God’s grace, His all-pervading love and forgiveness. When that grace touches our lives, we feel forgiven and free at the core of our being, and we find the grace to forgive others. And that kind of grace and forgiveness can bring peace where there is strife, healing where there is despair. That kind of grace can change our lives and the lives of those around us—even those who hurt us—forever. b

      Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.

      And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us

      and given Himself for us, an offering and

      a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

      EPHESIANS 5:1-2

      To excuse what can really produce

      good excuses is not Christian charity;

      it is only fairness. To be a Christian

      means to forgive the inexcusable,

      because God has forgiven

      the inexcusable in you.

      C. S. LEWIS

      I Simply Let Go

      KAREN O’ CONNOR

      It is better to forgive too much than to condemn too much.

      ANONYMOUS

      Ithought about her. I dreamed about her. I saw her in every woman I met. Some even had her name, Cathy. Others had her deep-set blue eyes or curly dark hair. Even the slightest resemblance turned my stomach into a knot.

      Weeks, months, years passed. Was I never to be free of this woman who had pursued my husband, Jack, then married him following our divorce? My resentment, guilt, and anger were draining me, and I went

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