Holy Spirit Gives Prophetic Insight
At a meeting with native believers in Borneo, Tom Hamblin and his companions witnessed the amazing expression of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, when a nursing mother, who had never been to school all her life, prophesied in perfect English. The following year, the prophecy she received from the Lord that night; came to pass.
Following excerpt from 22% into Under Their Very Eyes the astonishing life of Tom Hamblin by Deborah Meroff
Defying his rather brutal and lack-filled childhood in Reading, England, Tom Hamblin became a Christian as a teenager and soon left for missions in the Far East, where together with his wife, Edna, they led a most amazing and courage-filled life as Christian missionaries to Asia and later on as Bible Smugglers to the Arab world.
The excerpt below is from the book, Under Their Very Eyes: The Astonishing Life of Tom Hamblin, Bible Courier to Arab Nations, in which Deborah Meroff attempts to chronicle Tom and Edna's amazing life story. It is a riveting read!
"I also led teams and individuals into the interior to contribute medical care, and to catch the excitement of what was going on. On one occasion I took three earnest and well-educated Chinese men. With them was a personal friend and pastor from the UK. We were visiting a village one evening when everyone gathered to worship the Lord. The atmosphere was rich and powerful, pregnant with the sense of the divine among us. These people knew more of God than we did, and they didn’t even have an alphabet or Scriptures in their own language. We had even observed children blessed with spiritual gifts, praying for the sick and seeing them healed.
Suddenly a woman who had a baby at her breast started to speak in a language that was completely unknown to this tribe. We knew what it was, because it was perfect English. The woman’s face was aglow as she prophesied that God was going to do a new thing in this country and bring in a new administration to rule. At that time its government was almost completely dominated by Islam.
I shall never forget the shock this lady’s words gave to my companions. They were astounded that the tribal people present did not know what she said. We asked the leaders how she could speak such perfect English. Had she ever had an education?
They shook their heads, as nonplussed as we were. The whole message had to be translated from English into the tribal dialect. When it was finally understood by the assembly, everyone lifted their voices in praise and glory to God.
Unsurprisingly, the following year, a new Christian native party was voted in and the Muslim government lost control. A decade of changes was ushered in.
The excerpt below is from the book, Under Their Very Eyes: The Astonishing Life of Tom Hamblin, Bible Courier to Arab Nations, in which Deborah Meroff attempts to chronicle Tom and Edna's amazing life story. It is a riveting read!
"I also led teams and individuals into the interior to contribute medical care, and to catch the excitement of what was going on. On one occasion I took three earnest and well-educated Chinese men. With them was a personal friend and pastor from the UK. We were visiting a village one evening when everyone gathered to worship the Lord. The atmosphere was rich and powerful, pregnant with the sense of the divine among us. These people knew more of God than we did, and they didn’t even have an alphabet or Scriptures in their own language. We had even observed children blessed with spiritual gifts, praying for the sick and seeing them healed.
Suddenly a woman who had a baby at her breast started to speak in a language that was completely unknown to this tribe. We knew what it was, because it was perfect English. The woman’s face was aglow as she prophesied that God was going to do a new thing in this country and bring in a new administration to rule. At that time its government was almost completely dominated by Islam.
I shall never forget the shock this lady’s words gave to my companions. They were astounded that the tribal people present did not know what she said. We asked the leaders how she could speak such perfect English. Had she ever had an education?
They shook their heads, as nonplussed as we were. The whole message had to be translated from English into the tribal dialect. When it was finally understood by the assembly, everyone lifted their voices in praise and glory to God.
Unsurprisingly, the following year, a new Christian native party was voted in and the Muslim government lost control. A decade of changes was ushered in.
Under Their Very Eyes the astonishing life of Tom Hamblin
by Deborah Meroff
| Genre: | Missionary biography |
| Subject: | Tom Hamblin |
| Publisher: | Monarch Books |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Location: | Oxford |
| Library: | Physical collection at walkingtogether.life |
| Purchase: | https://www.amazon.com/Under-Their-Very-... |
Scripture Testimony Index stories in this book
After a decade of missionary work in Singapore, the Lord reveals to Tom and Edna Hamblin, through identical prophesies and the scriptures, what He will have them do next.
Tom and Edna Hamblin, a Christian couple, pray for an unbelieving woman and she is healed. That marked a turning point in her family; she eventually raised all of her children as Christians.
Tom Hamblin is convicted of his unforgiveness, there and then he forgives. As a result, he experienced an instant special anointing in his preaching and teaching.
At a meeting with native believers in Borneo, Tom Hamblin and his companions witnessed the amazing expression of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, when a nursing mother, who had never been to school all her life, prophesied in perfect English. The following year, the prophecy she received from the Lord that night; came to pass.
It was Tom's practice to sow the seed of God's word in strangers by randomly handing them Bibles. And having shiped his grain across the sea, a great return came when one day, he was met a grateful stranger at a restaurant in the U.A.E., who had become a Christian by reading the Bible Tom handed him at a petrol station in Oman.
A believer visits his unbelieving cancer ridden friend at the hospital to pray for him and was met with fierce resistance by his friend. But as he made to leave, an Arabian in the same ward who also had cancer, having over heard their conversation called out to the believer to pray for him and he did. On the believer's next visit to the hospital, both men were gone but only one survived and left him an amazing note.
When Tom Hamlin's evangelism at an Arabian village was cut short because he got stung by a scorpion and needed to get urgent medical care, a young boy who was his interpreter in that village, insisted on carrying on with the work to other villages who were in need of the gospel. And all alone, the 13 year old set out to do the Master's bidding.
The government of Sudan is openly suppressing Christians and any attempt at promoting christianity is met with unyielding opposition. Bibles are getting confiscated and christians are pressured to convert to Islam or leave.
When a team of 8 Christians in the city of Malakal set up meetings and book exhibitions, they were attack by a group of radicalized Moslems who accused them of insulting Islam. They were arrested and upon their release, still went on to hold the meetings with many people coming to Christ.
For refusing to deny Jesus Christ, Vincent was flogged and imprisoned in the worst of places where he had to endure a very squalid living condition. But none of these was enough to break his resolve, instead he cheerfully accepted his fate and determined to continue preaching the gospel; even in prison.
Ali, who was a popular Somali Muslim, was confronted with the truth of the gospel by David, who also gave him the Injil to study. Soon after he started to read the rather 'disturbing' Injil, Jesus appeared to him in dream; an experience that led Ali to put all his faith in Jesus.
After his conversion to Christianity from Islam, David dedicated his life to the Lord; establishing evangelistic ministries among the Somalis in Yemen and Ethiopia. At a great personal risk David soldiered on with the Master's work, until his betrayal by his own sister, who gave him up to be heinously martyred.
Ahmed was a devout Muslim and lecturer, when in 1989 at Mecca, the Lord appeared to him in a vision and said to him "Where you are there is no life.’ This led Achmed on a search for truth and he found Jesus - and stuck with Him; even while he was threatened with the consequence of apostasy.
A woman who was possessed with evil spirits was prayed for by a man who spoke in an unknown language. Her deliverance was complete and she went on to become an evangelist sharing the testimony of her deliverance.
A man who had unclean spirit is discerned, he is prayed for and delivered. Thereafter he is filled with the Holy Spirit.