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How I Know God Answers Prayer - Rosalind Goforth
How I know god answers prayer
How I Know
God Answers Prayer
The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time
by
Rosalind Goforth
Mrs. Jonathan Goforth
Missionary in China since 1888
They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness.
—Psalm 145:7
Go... and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee.
—Mark 5:19
Scripture Testimony Edition
Walking Together Press
Estes Park · Jenta Mangoro
© 2023 Walking Together Press
Published in 2023 by
Walking Together Press
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Jenta Mangoro, Jos, Plateau Nigeria
https://walkingtogether.press
eBook ISBN: 978-1-961568-17-4
How I Know God Answers Prayer is in the public domain
Originally published in 1921 by The Sunday School Times Company, Philadelphia
Text from the 1921 edition
Scripture Testimony Index content © 2023 Walking Together Press, all rights reserved
Cover and interior design by D. Thaine Norris
About the Scripture Testimony Edition
Rosalind Goforth, with her husband Jonathan, were Presbyterian missionaries in China from 1888 to 1935. During the course of this nearly fifty years of ministry they experienced God’s direct involvement through the miraculous transformation of souls, through His generous and timely provision for their needs, and through dramatic deliverance from disease, from persecution, and from violence during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. All of these things were the direct result of prayer and trust. They even got a peek into God’s ways in their lives when they would learn of the correlation between a great need and someone on the other side of the world being strongly compelled to pray. This book is a collection of the Goforth’s personal testimonies of answered prayer, and powerfully attests to the reality of God and the truth of Hi s Word.
The Scripture Testimony Index is an extensive research project by the story enthusiasts at Walking Together Press using artificial intelligence and data science to develop a New-Testament-driven subject index across a large body of missionary biographies and personal narratives. Data science reveals trends and patterns in information. In analyzing the database of these books programmatically; beautiful, bright threads emerge—threads of prayer, provision, deliverance, specific leading, healing, transformation, revival, and miraculous conversion. The end result is an index of short story excerpts organized by subject and Bible verse that empirically demonstrate the truth of the Scriptures, and which is freely available on our website at https://walkingtogether.life. Another result that bubbled to the surface of this research was the discovery of dozens of great books that are long out of print and in danger of being forgotten. The Scripture Testimony Collection is a set of these books that we so enthusiastically recommend, that we have made the effort to republish them.
Walking Together Press has enhanced this classic title, How I Know God Answers Prayer, by adding twenty-seven Scripture Testimony boxes in the text identifying Biblical topics and verses that are demonstrated by a specific portion of the narrative. An extensive Scripture Testimony Index has been added at the end containing short summaries of how each Scriptural topic is illustrated, making it easier to locate specific stories.
Foreword
IT seems fitting that this little book of personal testimonies to answered prayer should have a brief introductory word as to how they came to be written. The question has been asked by some who read many of these testimonies as they appeared in the pages of The Sunday School Times: How could you write such personal and sacred incidents in your life?
I could not have written them but for a very clear, God-given l eading.
The story is as follows: When in Canada on our first furloughs I was frequently amazed at the incredulity expressed when definite testimony was given to an answer to prayer. Sometimes this was shown by an expressive shrug of the shoulders, sometimes by a sudden silence or turning of the topic of conversation, and sometimes more openly by the query: How do you know that it might not have happened so, anyway?
Gradually the impression deepened: If they will not believe one, two, or a dozen testimonies, will they believe the combined testimonies of one whole life?
The more I thought of what it would mean to record the sacred incidents connected with answers to prayer the more I shrank from the publicity, and from undertaking the task. There were dozens of answers far too sacred for the public eye, which were known only to a few, others known only to God. But if the record were to carry weight with those who did not believe in the supernatural element in prayer, many personal and scarcely less sacred incidents must of necessity be made public.
Again and again I laid the matter aside as impossible. But I know now that the thing was of God. As months, even years, passed, the impelling sense that the record of answers to prayer must be written gave me no rest.
It was at the close of the 1908-10 furlough—during which, as a family, we had been blessed with many and, to our weak faith, wonderful answers to prayer—that my oldest son urged me to put down in some definite form the answers to prayer of my life, and extracted from me a solemn promise that I would do so.
But months passed after returning to China, and the record had not been touched. Then came a sudden and serious illness which threatened my life, when the doctor told me I must not delay in getting my affairs in order.
It was then that an overwhelming sense of regret took possession of me that I had not set down the prayer testimonies, and solemnly I covenanted with the Lord that if he would raise me up they should be written.
There was no more question of what others might think; the one thought was to obey. The Lord raised me up; and although he had to deal with me very sternly once more before I really set myself to the task, the testimonies that are given here were written at last—most of them in odd moments of time during strenuous missionary journeys among the heathen.
Thus it will be seen that these incidents of answered prayer are not given as being more wonderful, or more worthy of record, than multitudes the world over could testify to; but they are written and sent out simply and only because I had to write them or disobey God.
Rosalind Goforth.
Contents
About the Scripture Testimony Edition
Foreword
I. Getting Things From God
II. Early Lessons in the Life of Faith
III. Go Forward on Your Knees
IV. A God-Given Field
V. Our Deliverance from the Boxers (1900)
VI. Proving God’s Faithfulness
VII. The Story of One Furlough
VIII. Our God of the Impossible
IX. To His Praise!
X. Victory Found
Scripture Testimony Index
How I Know God Answers Prayer
I
Getting Things From God
Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? ...Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.
—The Lord Jesus Christ.
THE pages of this little book deal almost wholly with just one phase of prayer—petition. The record is almost entirely a personal testimony of what petition to my Heavenly Father has meant in meeting the everyday crises of m y life.
A prominent Christian worker, who read some of these testimonies in The Sunday School Times, said to the writer: To emphasize getting things from God, as you do, is to make prayer too material.
To me this seems far from true. God is my Father, I am his child. As truly as I delight to be sought for by my child when he is cold or hungry, ill, or in need of protection, so is it with my Heavenly Father.
Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between a child and his parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.
Perhaps, however, the most blessed element in this asking and getting from God lies in the strengthening of faith which comes when a definite request has been granted. What more helpful and inspiring than a ringing testimony of what God has done?
As I have recalled the past in writing these incidents, one of the most precious memories is that of an evening when a number of friends had gathered in our home. The conversation turned on answered prayer. For more than two hours we vied with one another in recounting personal incidents of God’s wonderful work; and the inspiration of that evening still abides.
A Christian minister once said to me: Is it possible that the great God of the universe, the Maker and Ruler of mankind, could or would, as you would make out, take interest in such a trifle as the trimming of a hat! To me it is preposterous!
Yet did not our Lord Jesus Christ say: The very hairs of your head are all numbered
; and not one sparrow is forgotten before God
; and again, "Your heavenly Father knoweth what ye have need of before ye ask him"?
It is true that There is nothing too great for God’s power
; and it is just as true that There is nothing too small for his love!
If we believe God’s Word we must believe, as Dan Crawford has tersely and beautifully expressed it, that The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.
Yes, he
"Who clears the grounding berg
And guides the grinding floe,
He hears the cry of the little kit fox
And the lemming of the snow!"
No more wonderful testimony, perhaps, has ever been given of God’s willingness to help in every emergency of life, than that which Mary Slessor gave, when asked to tell what prayer had meant to her. My life,
she wrote, "is one long daily, hourly record of answered prayer. For physical health, for mental overstrain, for