The View from the Vicarage - Jan 2010

About a year ago, you may remember Magdeline Makola, a nurse in Scotland, was locked in the boot of her own car for 10 days without food or water and deprived of her basic needs. Her captor had threatened to kill her if she didn’t give him the PIN number to her bank account. Magdeline miraculously survived this harrowing ordeal and was rescued by the police but suffered ongoing anger and hatred towards her abductor until one day she read ‘The Word 4U 2Day’.

She said: ‘... I had an ongoing anger and hatred towards him. I have to say I was miserable, but I kept on reading The Word 4U 2Day which has dramatically changed my life. I started realising how blessed I am. When I started reading ‘Let it go’ I felt the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling in me, and felt that what he had done to me was the work of the devil and he’d failed. A lot of people cannot understand how I can forgive somebody who has treated me badly. But the more you forgive, the more you receive the showers of blessing, and the healing process is amazing.’

‘The Word for Today’ (‘The Word 4U 2Day’ is the version for teenagers) is a booklet of short thoughts for the day, published quarterly and copies are available free to pick up in All Saints, Wing and SS Peter and Paul, Wingrave (or get in touch with me), or you can view them online at www.ucb.co.uk They are published by UCB (United Christian Broadcasters) which, from 1st December last year, began broadcasting God’s Word nationally on digital radio. Magdeline discovered that God and His Word are the most powerful thing in this world.
So can you.

Shalom

Revd Derek Witchell
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