In 1858, a Sunday School teacher named Mr. Kimball led a Boston shoe clerk to give his life to Jesus Christ. The clerk, Dwight L. Moody, became an evangelist. In England in 1879, he awakened evangelistic zeal in the heart of Frederick B. Meyer, the pastor of a small church.
F. B. Meyer, preaching to an American college campus, brought to Christ a student named J. Wilbur Chapman. Chapman, who worked with the YMCA, employed a former baseball player named Billy Sunday, to do evangelistic work.
Billy Sunday held a revival in Charlotte, NC. A group of local men were so enthusiastic about the revival that, afterward, they planned another evangelistic campaign and brought in a preacher named Mordecai Hamm. During Hamm's revival, a young man named Billy Graham heard the gospel and yielded his life to Christ.
Only eternity will reveal the tremendous impact of that one Sunday School teacher, Mr. Kimball, who invested his life in the lives of others.
When you feel as though you are only one person and wondering what only one person can do, or you feel worthless and unimportant - STOP!!! One person, doing what God has called them to do, can make a huge difference! You may the first person in a chain of God-given events that produces the next Billy Graham.
No one is unimportant to God. The person who led Billy Graham to Jesus Christ is just as important in God's kingdom as Billy Graham himself.
God loves you and has a special plan for your life. Starting today, ask God to use you for His Glory and to do His will. He will amaze you with what He will do in your life! But more importantly, He will amaze you with what He can do to change the whole world through just one person who is fully committed to Him.
- david langerfeld
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