A few years ago, a girl we’ll
call Emmi lived in a country
closed to the Gospel. She would often go outside
her humble country home, unbeknown to her parents, and she would look up into the evening sky and
ask herself, “I wonder who made all those stars? Do
they have names?” Little did she know that someone on another continent, halfway around the world, was praying for
the children of that country, asking that somehow those children could
learn about the Savior who loves and cares about them.
With her questions still in the back of her mind, Emmi later graduated from college and began taking English lessons from a young
American woman who was a Christian. She led her to Jesus, and
Emmi began to have her questions answered. She also encouraged her to attend Wheaton College but knew it was very expensive. One day, she took Emmi to meet Mark, another English
teacher who graduated from Morrison Academy. When the girls
mentioned Wheaton, he replied, “My parents live in Wheaton,
were missionaries, and speak your language fluently. You can
live with them, and they will help you learn more English while
you attend school.”
Within a short time, Emmi arrived at Wheaton. While working on her postgraduate degree, she was able to go to many
American churches to announce that due to someone’s prayers—
someone she probably would never meet—she now knows who
made the stars and named them. Praise him for a faithful prayer
warrior who may never know their simple prayer was answered.
Millions more “Emmis” live in countries where it is not safe
to say the name of Jesus. Many more can see the hand of God
working but have no idea whose hand it is or how to respond to the
emptiness they are experiencing.
It doesn’t take an army to reach these dear ones that Jesus desires as his own. It only takes one. One who will be faithful to take
the time to let their hearts be broken for those who have no chance of
hearing of Jesus unless God intervenes. God is faithful to those prayers.
He has come to many in dreams or v