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that God would give life to his son and that he would have his son again in resurrection.
We need to believe in the Lord Jesus in the same way. We believe in God the Creator, who calls things not being as being. We also believe in Him as the life-giver, as the One who can raise the dead. He can create out of nothing, and He can give life to the dead.
We may apply this to the church life. You may feel that the situation in your local church is poor. Yes, it is very poor; in fact, it is nothing. You must say to the Lord, "Lord, come in to call things not being as being." Perhaps you may migrate to a certain locality and find that it is a place filled with death. That is the reason God sent you. You must believe in Him as the One who gives life to the dead.
In 1949 I was sent to Taiwan. I thought of that island as a backward region. I had been living and working in Shanghai, the largest city in the Far East, where the Lord's work was strong. A thousand saints were meeting together. We had seventeen homes for meetings and four publica tions. Suddenly I was removed from mainland China and sent to the little island of Taiwan. When I surveyed the situation, I was deeply dis appointed. I could not do anything and I did not