“I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go,
and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done
what I have promised you.”
In 1789, fourteen-year-old John Marrant became a
Christian through the preaching of Methodist evangelist George Whitefield. His
family disapproved of his new faith and John left his home in Charleston, South
Carolina and headed west. After only a few weeks on his own, he was seized by
some Cherokee Indians and was condemned to death. "The executioner showed
me a basket of turpentine wood stuck full of small skewers" recorded John
in his diary. "He told me I was to be stripped naked and laid down in the
basket, and these sharp pegs were to be stuck into me, then set on fire, and
when they burnt my body, I was to be thrown into the flame, which was to finish
my execution."
John immediately burst into prayer and the bewildered
Indians called for their chief. John then began reading Isaiah 53 from his
little Bible and then he preached the gospel. Many of the Indians were
converted that day including the chief. John stayed with the tribe for the next
two years and taught them how to follow the Lord.
No matter where you go, the Lord will be with you to
watch over you.
Dear Lord, we want to thank You for Your promise that You
will never leave us. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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