Hello, I’m Joe Pursch, and this is a Transforming Moment. Have you ever had a near brush with death, maybe by just avoiding an accident or not getting on an airline flight that ended in disaster, or maybe even experiencing unexplained healing? Well, don’t discount the possibility that a merciful God gave you that experience to get your attention. He did so for some of the great saints of God over the ages. John Bunyan, for example, the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, was a soldier at the siege of Leicester England when he traded sentry duty with a friend, only to see that friend shot and killed by a sniper within minutes. The experience hastened Bunyan’s conversion to Christ. John Wesley was trapped in a burning house as a six year old boy and was saved at the last moment by a neighbor who climbed into the window and hauled little John from the flames. Wesley never forgot the experience, and eventually had a picture drawn of it that he kept till he died. (You can see it rendered above) At the bottom he had written the Bible verse ‘Is not this a brand plucked from the burning?” Wesley always felt God preserved his life so that he could complete a great work. Why do you think God preserved you? I’m Joe Pursch. For more, go to transforming moments.com.

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