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Dear Friend,

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It's Testimony Time

"It's testimony time!" I come from a tradition where it was commonplace in every service to hear several testimonies of God's grace in the believer's lives. This can be traced back a long way in church life, and we often quoted Psalm 107:2, "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy" (KJV, of course). Later I remember vividly the Pentecostal "Revivaltime" broadcasts with C.M. Ward as speaker, and in every broadcast I heard those words, "It's testimony time!"

To some of us teenagers, of course, testimony time was a welcome break from the routine of the meeting. I remember one young man who in the Sunday morning service got up and proclaimed "Saved, single and satisfied!" and then sat down. Of course, we thought that was hilarious! Decades later when I made enquiries about him, he was married with children and in the ministry!

In 1997 I was diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, a quite rare cancer now recognised as more deadly than melanoma. Melanoma patients, five years after treatment, have a 90% survival rate, while Merkel cell patients have only a 64% survival rate. Vivien prayed, I had the surgery removing a saliva gland, followed by six-monthly checkups, and just recently, after 14 years, the hospital specialists finally came around to agreeing I am free of the cancer and don't want to see me anymore. Thank you, Father! Interestingly, the young registrar who did the operation has since passed away from cancer himself.

Another cause for praise concerns our books at Amazon.com. Since 2008 we have used a Print on Demand method to produce books, especially to get them listed on Amazon.com, the world's largest bookseller. We have 10 books there at present, with another Spanish book being printed this month. In recent newsletters from the POD Publishers group, there has been a thread titled "Trouble in Paradise." This concerns Amazon's changing availability dates from "In Stock" to "2-3 weeks". For those whose living is dependent on selling books on Amazon, this is disastrous, as this "instant" generation want their product right away, not in 2-3 weeks time, and will go looking elsewhere to find something else. All sorts of conspiracy theories have been suggested why this change has been made, and all sorts of Plan B's suggested to get around it.

When I went to check out our 10 books on Amazon, guess what? "In Stock", "In Stock", "In Stock", time and time again. Who said God looks after His own? Glory! Thank you, Father. Our Plan B? "The battle is the Lord's."

All we need now is for you to tell your friends about out books and send them to Amazon or our website. Will you do that?

-- Peter Wade

Union with Christ

It is a wonderful mystery that we should now be one with Christ in the heavenlies. But so it is. We have passed from death unto life. We are in Him, and He is in us. Our life is hid with Him. He dwelleth in us by the Spirit. He made our sins His own, and was made a curse for us upon the tree; consequently our old man was crucified with Him--we died unto sin in Him our Substitute. But now He is alive again. He is risen from the dead. The One who was made sin for us, and bore the sentence of death in our stead, has been raised again from the dead by the glory of the Father. Our Head is raised far above all principality and power. "We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour." I believe we should always think of Christ seated in heavenly places, as our Head--as One $vho now appears in the presence of God for us.

We have no lower standing than union with Christ. It is not a work of attainment on our part; no, it is what Christ has done. He has redeemed us to Himself--to be His bride. It is unbelief to take any lower ground, and should be confessed as sin to God. This great truth received into the heart by faith takes us in spirit clean out of the world. The reason why so many, whom we hope after all are christians, are so cold and carnal, is because they do not believe this exceeding rich grace of God: they do not reckon themselves to have died unto sin in Christ crucified, and to be alive unto God as one with Christ risen. (Rom. 6.) They are not abiding in Christ.

When Adam said to Eve, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh," they were distinct persons as to identity, yet the husband could speak of the wife as one with him; and though Christ personally is in the heavenlies, and we are not, He speaks of us as "members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones." Faith receives this truth, because God declares it. The apostle Paul, speaking of husband and wife being one flesh, says, "This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church." (Eph. 5:30,32.) This is what grace has done. Nothing can alter it. It is for ever. "Because I live, ye shall live also," said Jesus. This is our present rest. A little while, and the Head and members will be together in eternal bliss ; for "when Christ who is our life shall appear, we also shall appear with Him in glory." Come, Lord Jesus. 0 come quickly!

-- Crumbs for the Lord's Little Ones, Anon. (1853)