MY TESTIMONY
of my Lord’s awesome care for my family and me.
Psa 91:9 If you make the LORD your refuge, if you make the Most High your shelter,
Psa 91:10 no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home.
Psa 91:11 For He will order His angels to protect you wherever you go.
Psa 91:10 no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home.
Psa 91:11 For He will order His angels to protect you wherever you go.
I’m thinking about this promise in my life: the miraculous times of His protection here on mission in the Philippines.
I pray that I have made My LORD, The Most High my life. I try to count on Him alone for everything. Although I’m not perfect in this, it is my daily desire.
VERSE 11 RINGS OUT FOR ME. I know His angels have protected me, my family, and my mission companions countless times that I know of and who could know the protections that I don’t know of. Like, traveling to San Jose and back without incident.
So today, I began to think of times my Lord’s angels have saved me and my mission companions from accident and even death.
These are not in order but as I remember.
1. The Lord took me, Pastor Alagos and Edna through about a dozen men armed with hatchets and machetes which had gathered to ambush and behead us. We traveled through the center of them, and they seemed to be frozen and did not reach out to hurt us.
2. We launched a church with a heavily armed police escort to protect us from the violence of men who killed others before when they tried to start a church there. There was no incident. That church is now called Victory Christian Church and is doing well. I believe our Lord’s angels are on full-time duty there to this day.
3. I incorrectly opened my car radiator and boiling water exploded all over me. I received NOT ONE BURN!
4. Pastor Alagos and wife Edna were traveling home from a mission late one night during a typhoon. Their motorcycle stalled just before a washed out bridge. Had the motorcycle not stalled they would not see the washed out bridge and gone into the raging water. The motorcycle ran fine after that to get them home safe.
5. For two years, weekly, we traveled home late at night as much as 200 kilometers during heavy rains, high winds, and typhoons and always we arrived home safe.
6. Traveling long distances, soaked from the rain and wind we did not get sick.
7. We crossed many rivers with fast water wading and also on motorcycle safely.
8. While traveling at night weekly for almost two years, avoiding dogs, carabao, cows, bulls, drunk drivers and drunk men in the middle of the road, we always with only close calls arrive home safely.
9. A dog viscously bit my hand and left no wounds or marks. There was only thick saliva left on my hand.
10. Our home has been protected through every typhoon.
11. In almost five years in the mission field, we have had no major illness. We are exposed to mosquito diseases of dengue, chikungunya, malaria and also tuberculous and typhoid fever, and yet we are well.
12. At age 67 years old, I’m in good health and strong mentally and physically. Thank you Lord!
1. The Lord took me, Pastor Alagos and Edna through about a dozen men armed with hatchets and machetes which had gathered to ambush and behead us. We traveled through the center of them, and they seemed to be frozen and did not reach out to hurt us.
2. We launched a church with a heavily armed police escort to protect us from the violence of men who killed others before when they tried to start a church there. There was no incident. That church is now called Victory Christian Church and is doing well. I believe our Lord’s angels are on full-time duty there to this day.
3. I incorrectly opened my car radiator and boiling water exploded all over me. I received NOT ONE BURN!
4. Pastor Alagos and wife Edna were traveling home from a mission late one night during a typhoon. Their motorcycle stalled just before a washed out bridge. Had the motorcycle not stalled they would not see the washed out bridge and gone into the raging water. The motorcycle ran fine after that to get them home safe.
5. For two years, weekly, we traveled home late at night as much as 200 kilometers during heavy rains, high winds, and typhoons and always we arrived home safe.
6. Traveling long distances, soaked from the rain and wind we did not get sick.
7. We crossed many rivers with fast water wading and also on motorcycle safely.
8. While traveling at night weekly for almost two years, avoiding dogs, carabao, cows, bulls, drunk drivers and drunk men in the middle of the road, we always with only close calls arrive home safely.
9. A dog viscously bit my hand and left no wounds or marks. There was only thick saliva left on my hand.
10. Our home has been protected through every typhoon.
11. In almost five years in the mission field, we have had no major illness. We are exposed to mosquito diseases of dengue, chikungunya, malaria and also tuberculous and typhoid fever, and yet we are well.
12. At age 67 years old, I’m in good health and strong mentally and physically. Thank you Lord!
P.S. We are tithers and also give generously to those in need. I say this not to brag or be prideful but as an encouragement of how faithful God is when we trust Him.
Ephesians 3:20 "Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,"
1. Even though I was two years unemployed in the USA and went to zero dollars with no income in sight, we have never gone hungry or been homeless.
2. Our mission work and personal lives are generously blessed in the Philippines. God always provides for each mission and personal need. I should be even bolder in what our Lord can accomplish in sharing the Gospel and helping the helpless.
2. Our mission work and personal lives are generously blessed in the Philippines. God always provides for each mission and personal need. I should be even bolder in what our Lord can accomplish in sharing the Gospel and helping the helpless.
OUR GOD’S PROMISES ARE TRUSTWORTHY. HE IS EVER FAITHFUL.
It is much better to count on Him rather than myself or others.
Your partmer in ministry,
Steve Bragg
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