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4 Testimonies No. 163 December 13, 2009 Manmin N ews “Lord, Help My Son” Six years ago, I went to Manmin N ews Canada to study. It was not easy for me to adjust to life in God Answered through the foreign country. There were no extra schooling institutions No. 163 December 13, 2009 or tutoring academies like in the Power of the Shepherd Korea. And so I always sat in front of the computer and fell Deaconess Mugunghwa Kim (1-4 Parish, 2-5 Women’s Mission) into worldly culture. Even though I attended church, I was always more It was March of 1991, when I worked as a middle able to sleep after receiving the handkerchief prayer interested in playing computer games. And during my “Daniel Prayer Meetings” Show the school teacher. I had been very busy and tired (Acts 19:11-12), or the Senior Pastor’s prayer. Now, breaks from school, other than when I was eating, I because it was the beginning of the new semester. it’s been a while since he had a fever or couldn’t spent most of my time playing games. I spent much On one particular day, I had laid my baby down by sleep. I’d like to confess that all of this is by the more time on games than praying and reading the Bible. my side and was feeding him with his bottle. Before grace of God and the blessing of meeting the true Even though I knew that playing games was no good for Power of United Prayer! I knew it, I was nodding off to sleep. When I woke shepherd. my life of faith, I continued to become more and more up, my baby had turned black, and he was twisting One day in November of 2005, I left home after addicted to it. his entire body. What in the world was happening?! making sure Myungsung was asleep. But when I “Twenty-four Years of Prayer through Rain or Snow Celebrates Its 400th Anniversary” This was 100 days after the birth of my first son, came back, Myungsung’s mouth was covered with Myungsung (20, of 1st grade autistic mental blood, and he was trembling in great pain. When “Lord, Lord, Lord!!” title “Daniel” came from the name retardation). I opened his mouth I saw that his two front teeth I Was Freed from My The prayer of the congregation of Prophet Daniel who prayed Since that time on, everything in my life changed. were almost pulled out. The hospital recommended resonates through the entire to God and received his answer Myungsung had to be hospitalized for over six that he wear a brace and receive treatment until his Online Gaming Addiction sanctuary. The Two Continuous after 21 days of prayer during a months in a year. He almost lived in the emergency teeth were firmly fixed in place. But on our way and Became the President of Special Daniel Prayer Meetings spiritual battle (Daniel 10:12-14). room, growing ever older, year by year. I remember back home, he lost the brace and couldn’t find it. I were held under the auspice of This is why the church has set wishfully thinking every December, “If only couldn’t help but shed tears when I thought the Student’s Sunday School the Manmin Prayer Center with 21 days as 1 period of prayer to this year would just disappear from my that my autistic son might lose his its leader, President Boknim receive answers like Daniel did. memory…” with my eyes full of teeth, too. The only treatment was Dohoon Hong (3rd grade, middle school mission of Lee, from last November 2 to This was the 400th Daniel Prayer tears. for him to wear the brace, but Student’s Sunday School, Gimhae Manmin Church) December 13, 2009. Meeting, and this time we offered One day in 1997, when I knew well that this was There are members who pray two continuous Special Daniel I lived in Muan Gun, impossible for my son. holding their hands and humbly Prayer Meetings. Jeonnam Province, on So I went to the Senior In 2008, when I was in the second year of middle bowing their heads before God, In May of 1986, when Pastor our way back from Pastor and received his school, Deaconess Angela Yoosun Choi of Manmin and there are members who pray Jaerock Lee was ordained as a the hospital, near prayer with my son. Central Church came over to Canada to study language. fervently, shaking their bodies pastor, God had him leave the the entrance to our Myungsung recovered, She was the guidance teacher of the Students’ Sunday back and forth while kneeling church for 3 weeks and only apartment, I spotted and his teeth were fixed School of Calgary Manmin Church. She showed a lot of down on the narrow pews. From communicate with God from a dropped leaflet with without ever going care and love for us. She talked much about the Senior three/four-year-old children who the very start of his ministry as information about a to back to the hospital Pastor and what he said to the students. And she gave came to pray following their a pastor. At that time, his wife, Revival Meeting of again. easy-to-understand explanations about the Bible. I liked patents, to the elderly members President Boknim Lee, gathered her, and wanted to follow whatever she did. One day, she Last November 30: three thousand members crying out in prayer while attending The Two Continuous Special Manmin Central Church. I On October 10, 2009, with gray hair, all attendees pray with 100 other members every Daniel Prayer Meetings being held in the main sanctuary and the second sanctuary of Manmin Central Church. came to know that the Muan on the the eve of the church came over and sweetly said, eagerly. night after daily work and prayed. Manmin Church was in Haeje anniversary, Myungsung “You can quit playing games if you love God. How The Daniel Prayer Meetings are This was the beginning of the change; up to this 400th Daniel sanctuary, servants and workers life.” Myeon. I immediately strapped swallowed a short-necked clam about discontinuing playing games to go to a better held every night from 9 p.m. to Daniel Prayer Meetings. Prayer Meeting. of the church, missionaries, for Senior Deaconess Hyunsook my son into our car and visited the while eating seafood noodle. When heaven?” 11:40 p.m. (11 p.m. on the The reason that this Daniel All members have cried out the country and its people, and for Cho, 48, (President of United church, and this is when I began a life of faith. he had an X-ray taken at the emergency room “What else can I do if I don’t play games?” weekends). Beginning in Prayer Meeting has significant in prayer with President Boknim the prosperity of their own souls, Women’s Mission) confesses, I could listen to Senior Pastor Dr. Jaerock Lee’s of The Korea University Guro Hospital, we saw “How about reading the Bible or listening to Dr. 1986, the meetings have meaning is that the members have Lee for the church, the salvation and received countless answers “The Daniel Prayer Meeting messages and receive his prayers through satellite the clamshell spread wide open at the bottom of Jaerock Lee’s sermons and reading his books with me?” been going on for 24 prayed for the kingdom of God of souls, the ministry of Dr. from above. The prayer meetings has made me what I am today. TV at Muan Manmin Church, which is a branch his neck. The hospital said that he should receive Since it was Deaconess Choi’s recommendation, I years now. The and His righteousness without Jaerock Lee, construction of the have served as a life force to Because I was able to cry out to church of Manmin Central Church. As I heard the surgery. I received the Senior Pastor’s prayer for decided to try. She kindly planted God’s love and faith accomplishing national and global God in prayer every night, I could messages and received his prayer, I felt truly alive. I the sick with my son through ARS (Automatic into my heart. My soul seemed to be renewed day by day. evangelism for the last 24 years. become a church worker, and all At first, it wasn’t easy to stop playing games. But as I Especially, since the year of my family members are running previously thought my son’s life was wretched, but Response System) via cell phone and had him pray. Unless I pray, I feel empty Q: What would you like read the Bible, listened to the sermons, and prayed, God 2000, the Daniel Prayer Meetings toward New Jerusalem. The more this thought disappeared as I came to know about drink Muan Sweet Water. Suddenly, he coughed in one corner of my heart, and to say to all the members heaven and New Jerusalem, which is the best place out the short-necked clam. The doctors and nurses gave me the grace with which I could quit. Deaconess offered up during Dr. Jaerock I understand the word of God, the I can’t feel happiness and joy. worldwide that participate in Choi read the Bible and Senior Pastor’s books with me Lee’s 12 overseas crusades held more I realize the significance of in heaven. I became so happy when I thought of my in the emergency room said surprisingly, “This is It was only by God’s grace and and taught me how to pray.