Me:  What a beautiful day!

Prodigal:  I agree, we can walk while we share.

 

This is from the book  Great Women of the Christian Faith by Edith Deen

 

Mukti Mission had already opened when, in 1896, a terrible famine began, in which between ten and fourteen million people of the Central Provinces of India perished.  As the clamor for food increased, Pandita Ramabai traveled to famine-ridden sections, gathered up six hundred young widows and children, brought them back to Mukti, and housed them in temporary grass huts.  Her deep wells yielded copious amounts of water.  Her fruit trees bore plentifully.  Vegetables, grains and other foodstuffs were produced in abundance on her land.  Because of this, she made a second trip into famine regions and returned with several hundred additional girls and women.  Now she needed more workers, buildings, foods and equipment, and also an evangelistic program.

A period of great revival began at Mukti during the overcrowed days of famine.  A large group of girls gathered each day for prayer in Pandita Ramabai’s room.  Hundreds were converted and Pandita took groups of girls to the nearby Bheema River to be baptized.  During the revival, many confessed to stealing, lying, quarreling, fighting, and others renounced their former idolatry.

It was after a revival meeting that Pandita formally dedicated her mission to the work of the Lord, naming it Mukti, meaning “Salvation.”

 

God uses His people all over the world at different times to save his people in the worse of circumstances.  He is still doing that today.

 

Luke 4:18-19

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.  He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org