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Key Bible Verse: I assure you, if you have faith and don't doubt, you can do things like this and much more (Matthew 21:21). Bonus Reading: Matthew 21:18-22

President Museveni asked Bob to help organize a prayer breakfast for Uganda. People of every tribe, religion, and station attended. Speakers admitted the hate they'd held for others, and told how much they'd been changed by God.

Back in his office, Museveni asked Bob how he viewed the situation in South Africa. Bob replied that the country was heading in the right direction after releasing Nelson Mandela from prison. Museveni agreed. "I'm now chairman of the Organization of African Unity," he said. "I want to send a delegation to South Africa to say that love and reconciliation are the answer to the bloodshed predicted for their country. What do you think?"

"That sounds like a great idea," said Bob.

"Can you go? We need a white in the delegation to demonstrate our point."

Bob went and met with Mandela, de Klerk, Buthelezi, and other leaders. He read 1 Corinthians 13, the Bible's love chapter. Christians from Kenya, Zambia, and Uganda spoke of how forgiveness was critical to South Africa's success. This message proved pivotal in that nation's bloodless transition from white to majority rule.

Bob Hunter's little group is still meeting to pray for Africa. And mountains keep moving!

—Luis Palau in It's a God Thing

My Response: What "mountain" have I witnessed being moved in response to prayer?

Thought to Apply: Our prayers lay the track down which God's power, like a mighty locomotive, can come.—WATCHMAN NEE (Chinese pastor)

Adapted from It's a God Thing (Doubleday, 2001) by permission.

Copyright © 2005 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity.

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