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The Faithfulness of God in Opening Doors for the Gospel

“Praying at the same time for us as well, that God may open up to us a door for the word, so that we
may speak forth the mystery of Christ…” Colossians 4:3

On the mission fi eld you learn that God uses both the
leading of the Holy Spirit and adversity to open and close
doors. The Apostle Paul experienced this when they “were
trying to go into Bithynia and the Spirit of Jesus did not
permit them.” With that closed door, God opened the
door in Europe where Paul also experienced doors being
closed due to opposition.

God opened the door for George Whitefi eld to come to
America to proclaim the gospel during the Great Awak-
ening of the 1700’s. But when he returned to England he
was met with great opposition. He wrote in his Journal,
on December 10, 1738, “But I rejoice in this opposition,
it being a certain sign that a more eff ective door will be
opened since there are so many adversaries.”

The Yenisey River

and some responded to the gospel. The next night, in Irban,
a Russian man invited us into his house where we slept
on the fl oor. The fl oor was hard but the room was warm.
The next three days and nights found us in an abandoned
house near Torah-Hem. All the furniture was left behind
but there was no way to build a fi re as the chimney was
full of debris.

When passing through Irban, we felt led to go to the school
but a local member of the Russian militia tried to prevent us.
We told him we had already been approved by the principal
and were not in violation of Russian law, so we proceeded.
The Children of Seva He called in the militia’s district agent, a large Russian man,
who stood by and observed our presentation. After giving
At BKI we know it was through both the Spirit’s leading
and adversity that the Lord made our mission a reality.
As a mission, we learned you must trust the Lord to open
doors.

On one trip into Siberia alone, Bob Campanella recorded
forty-two answered prayers. The following is an example
of the Lord’s faithfulness.

In the fall of 2006, we began a boat trip up the Yenisey
River to Torah Hem, a village of 3,000 with no roads
leading in or out. The trip had been planned for two years
but just two weeks prior to departure the boat was sold.
The Lord answered our prayer and and provided another
boat just one day prior to departure.

The fi rst night we stayed in a fi shing cabin near Seva. It
was bitter cold but we were able to witness to villagers A Russian’s Hospitality
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