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The following devotionals are from Jerry Savelle Ministries. This specific devotional is by Carolyn Savelle - Jerry's wife. There is a tremendous amount of helpful information. Please read and enjoy. You can go online at http://www.jerrysavelle.org/.
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WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, the Pentecostal church I attended committed one Sunday each month to evangelism. Missionaries from around the world came to speak, and I was always enthralled with the slides they showed of the work they were doing. Their testimonies, which were the most exciting things I’d heard at my young age, had a great influence on me.
My exposure to these wonderful men and women of God who had given their lives in service to Him on the foreign field gave birth to a dream in my heart: I knew even as a child I was called to be a missionary!
I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues when I was eight years old. I remember speaking in my heavenly language all night long. When my parents later recounted that night to me, they said I told them I’d seen angels. I described them in detail and even showed my parents where the angels had appeared in my room.
One bright, sunny morning my sister and I were playing church beneath the big, beautiful oak tree that stood outside our bedroom window. My sister was the song leader, I was the preacher and our congregation was a neatly lined-up row of dolls. I remember the scene as vividly as if it happened only yesterday.
Suddenly, as I was about to begin preaching, I saw a little boy peddling his bicycle past our house. A new family had moved in three doors down the street the previous day. They’d just unloaded the boy’s bicycle from the truck, and he was checking out the neighborhood. As he sped past, I turned to my sister and said, “There goes the boy I will marry one day.”
That boy’s name was Jerry Savelle, and the words I spoke that morning certainly came to pass. On July 15 of this year, we will celebrate 50 years of marriage. Oh, the plans of God and the faith of children!
There were, however, a few snags along the way. The night before our wedding, I told Jerry I had made a vow to God that the man I married would be saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, and would preach the gospel. I also told him that my husband would go to Africa with me as a missionary.
Jerry looked at me with his big brown eyes and told me emphatically, “That’s not me. I’m going to spend the rest of my life on a racetrack.”
“But you don’t know the power of intercessory prayer,” I responded.
Jerry surrendered to the plan of God for his life in February of 1969; by 1978, he had made his first ministry trip to Africa. I have the privilege of telling you that the mission outreaches of Jerry Savelle Ministries International now go around the world.
Our ministry in Africa is farreaching. We regularly minister to pastors in Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan and Congo. We love seeing people come to the Lord; however, our greater vision is mass discipleship.
Our discipleship commitment is to equip pastors with the materials they need to mature in the Word. In turn, they teach the Bible truths they’ve learned to their congregations, enabling them to live the victorious lives God has designed for all believers. JSMI’s two Bible school curricula, Basic Bible Principles and Faith Energizers, are not only distributed in Africa, but in other countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Germany, India, Marshall Islands, Nepal, Norway, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Ukraine and, most recently, Ireland.
The journey of my life has truly been an adventure in faith—one I would not exchange for anything in this world. All I can say is, “Thank you, Jesus. I love You so much and thank You with all my heart for causing Your Word to come to pass in my life and in Jerry’s.”
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WHEN I WAS A LITTLE GIRL, the Pentecostal church I attended committed one Sunday each month to evangelism. Missionaries from around the world came to speak, and I was always enthralled with the slides they showed of the work they were doing. Their testimonies, which were the most exciting things I’d heard at my young age, had a great influence on me.
My exposure to these wonderful men and women of God who had given their lives in service to Him on the foreign field gave birth to a dream in my heart: I knew even as a child I was called to be a missionary!
I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues when I was eight years old. I remember speaking in my heavenly language all night long. When my parents later recounted that night to me, they said I told them I’d seen angels. I described them in detail and even showed my parents where the angels had appeared in my room.
One bright, sunny morning my sister and I were playing church beneath the big, beautiful oak tree that stood outside our bedroom window. My sister was the song leader, I was the preacher and our congregation was a neatly lined-up row of dolls. I remember the scene as vividly as if it happened only yesterday.
Suddenly, as I was about to begin preaching, I saw a little boy peddling his bicycle past our house. A new family had moved in three doors down the street the previous day. They’d just unloaded the boy’s bicycle from the truck, and he was checking out the neighborhood. As he sped past, I turned to my sister and said, “There goes the boy I will marry one day.”
That boy’s name was Jerry Savelle, and the words I spoke that morning certainly came to pass. On July 15 of this year, we will celebrate 50 years of marriage. Oh, the plans of God and the faith of children!
There were, however, a few snags along the way. The night before our wedding, I told Jerry I had made a vow to God that the man I married would be saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, and would preach the gospel. I also told him that my husband would go to Africa with me as a missionary.
Jerry looked at me with his big brown eyes and told me emphatically, “That’s not me. I’m going to spend the rest of my life on a racetrack.”
“But you don’t know the power of intercessory prayer,” I responded.
Jerry surrendered to the plan of God for his life in February of 1969; by 1978, he had made his first ministry trip to Africa. I have the privilege of telling you that the mission outreaches of Jerry Savelle Ministries International now go around the world.
Our ministry in Africa is farreaching. We regularly minister to pastors in Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan and Congo. We love seeing people come to the Lord; however, our greater vision is mass discipleship.
Our discipleship commitment is to equip pastors with the materials they need to mature in the Word. In turn, they teach the Bible truths they’ve learned to their congregations, enabling them to live the victorious lives God has designed for all believers. JSMI’s two Bible school curricula, Basic Bible Principles and Faith Energizers, are not only distributed in Africa, but in other countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Germany, India, Marshall Islands, Nepal, Norway, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Ukraine and, most recently, Ireland.
The journey of my life has truly been an adventure in faith—one I would not exchange for anything in this world. All I can say is, “Thank you, Jesus. I love You so much and thank You with all my heart for causing Your Word to come to pass in my life and in Jerry’s.”