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To mark our twenty-fifth year, we asked readers to tell us how The Word Among Us has helped them on their spiritual journey. Many readers spoke about how this magazine has helped them meet the Lord in prayer, or helped bring them a deeper understanding of Scripture, or given them a renewed and inspired perspective on their lives. We also received a number of letters from readers telling us about how words of encouragement or hope from our magazine helped them in specific situations. Below are two of those letters. Along with all the others we received, both of these stories are testimonies to how the Holy Spirit can speak and work powerfully whenever we turn to him in prayer and immerse ourselves in Scripture.
A Call to Serve
by Emily Maegler*
Serve me.These were the words I “heard” deep in my heart one evening five years ago as I was walking into my bedroom. Of course, I didn’t really hear them, but they were there loud and clear in my spirit just the same. So loud and clear, in fact, that they stopped me dead in my tracks. I waited for more, but nothing else came. The only thing I could think of was to walk over to my nightstand and pick up my current issue of The Word Among Us. I hadn’t read the day’s meditation because I always read it before going to bed at night.
When I sat down to read, I was stunned. The whole meditation was focused on our call to serve the Lord and his people—just as I…
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