I just finished an amazing book that was talking about the bible called The book that transforms the nations. Written by Loren Cunningham, the book describes the tangible modern day evidence of what God said: “if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14, ESV). It contains many stories about how God would stir in a few key people that would study The Bible and preach it to others, and then the whole society around them would be transformed.
One of the amazing stories is about a little island in the pacific. The story starts with nine sailors that took over the HMS Bounty, a British ship, and settled on the Island of Pitcairn with a few other Polynesians they had abducted. They burned their ship to evade detection by the British, who were seeking to give them justice at the end of a hangman's noose. After starting out relatively well, they soon descended into a hell of their making. One of the men discovered how to make liquor, and soon had everyone drunk. Then there was lots of fighting, death and disease. Finally there was just one man alive from the original sailors, who became known as John Adams.
Then, in an act of sovereign intervention, Adams found a Bible in the chest of one of his shipmates. He started to study the book, and it wasn't long until he decided to follow Jesus. He then taught the word to the entire island, and everything changed. Later two British captains came to Pitcairn and said the culture on the Island was like a Golden Age. Since Adams had begun teaching them from the Bible, no young woman had been seduced. Theft was unknown. They lived in order and peace. That totally shows the power of God's word to change an island!
In the book you can also read many more stories, such as what happened in South Korea, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway and others, when people decided to obey God's word. Therefore I highly recommend the book title The Book That Transforms Nations by Loren Cunningham. Check out this link if you're interested in getting a copy of your own: The Book That Transforms Nations.
This is another reason why I'm so blessed and excited to be able to spend 9 months straight reading God's word in a very intense way, because I will be more equipped for what the Lord has in the future. Just to give you more of a taste of what I'm going to in about a month, here is a video made from the SBS program in Kona:
