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this twentieth century.

All those groups came safely into China and the Lord led them into the same
little town where they started to gather again. They were praising God there
and then slowly they established themselves.

The land was very rich in China. They came into a mountain area which was
an isolated area. There wasn't much population there, but it had very rich soil,
so they started to farm and the Lord blessed them mightily.

Quite soon they built very simple houses - mostly mud houses with dirt floor,
earthen walls and with some poles for the roof, covered with straw. These were
very simple dwellings. But in those dwellings the people gathered for prayers
daily. They were mighty prayers. Our people believed in prayers. Prayer was
the secret of the apostolic success. As I read in my old fashioned Russian Bible
the apostles were in the Word and prayer daily...

My wife and I were born in China. We grew up there. When the time came that
I came to the Lord in China I was at those prayer meetings. Those were mighty
prayers when the young people would gather with older brethren, with
grandmothers and grandfathers in a room, in a simple hut. Heaven came
down and the Holy Spirit came down and talked to the young people, to
rebuke them, comfort them, and reveal secrets of the heart. The Lord would
bless and miracles would take place in those prayer times, because God loves
the praises of His people and their prayers.

We experienced revival in China because the Lord started to send this simple
group of forty families. He started to send them into different villages. There
were quite a few Slavic villages, because many Russians and Ukrainians had
run away from Russia just before the revolution and the big wars of 1914 and
1915...

There were many other movements of the Lord. He moved His people from
Russia, but I'll just share one, just one incidence and we'll go on to the Word
of God and so we can conclude and share a message.

There was one brother who was living across the Ural mountains, probably
about 1500 kilometers away from Kiev, which is central Ukraine. His village
was towards the east. He went ministering to the people there in his village.
This man was a man of prayer. The Lord was with him and the Lord was