THE Library_TUARG_1: True stories by children, for children—Part 1
(Compiled March 2021)
From Tiana (3)
I prayed for a bike seat and a helmet, because then I could go biking with my mommy. Sweet Jesus answered my prayers and supplied both. Then one day my mommy and I decided to go biking the next day, but it turned out to be very cold and rainy. I claimed the power of the keys and asked Jesus to blow the clouds away and give us a nice sunny day. In the afternoon we had a beautiful, sunny day and we went for a long bike ride and had a picnic outside. Thank You, Jesus, for the power of the keys. 
I love you, Tiana
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By Carolina (9)  
	We were traveling to visit my grandma and the car broke down at a gas station.  We started praying, singing and claiming the keys of Heaven!  My daddy witnessed to the owner and he fixed the car for us!  Thank You, Jesus!
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By Arthur (7)
	We went to Rio for a visit to my grandma after Christmas. We were worried that we would get sick because it’s colder where we live but hot in Rio. We claimed the keys of the Kingdom for our health and that we wouldn’t get sick, and no one did! Thank You, Jesus!
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Natalie (10), Helena (11), Lisa (9), Miguel (7) and Maryangela (13) 
	We wanted to go to the swimming pool, but as soon as we got there it started to rain real hard. We prayed and claimed the power of the keys for the sun to shine and for it to stop raining. The sun started to shine, but it was still raining. So we started singing praise songs, and it stopped raining after 5 minutes. It was so cool, because it was all sunny where we were swimming, but there were these dark clouds on the sides. We love you!
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From Eunice (10)
	Hi kids, I want to tell you about something that happened sometime ago. It was late afternoon and everyone was busy cooking, doing school and so on. Meanwhile my mom was doing school with the kids (Noel, Cherish and Jerry) when the Lord reminded her that it was praise time. But as she was doing school with the kids and they were doing so well, she just brushed away the check. Just one minute later the lights suddenly went out, and so my mom remembered how the Lord had reminded her about having praise time. We were soon all in the living room praising the Lord and loving Him with all our hearts. When we finished having praise time, we started to pray for the lights to come back, and when we said the first word of our prayer, the lights suddenly came back on. Praise the Lord! From then on we tried to do our best to be faithful to praise the Lord always!
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By Jen-Ai (10)
I’d like to tell you about the times of when I saw my two guardian angels. Both times happened in the evening.
The first one I saw was when I was seven, in Lebanon. I was sitting on the couch looking out the window. It was dark and there was a full moon. I saw the shape of a girl in the moon, wearing a long dress with flowers on it. She had long wavy hair down to her shoulders. I was so shocked. It was the first time that I had seen an angel.
The second time was when the adults and young people were having dance night. The music was pretty loud so it woke me up. Suddenly I saw a shadow of a manly figure from waist up. I was looking around to see what could have made that shadow. But there was no one there. He was looking at me. He had a band on his hair and curly hair. Suddenly I felt peace all over, and he stayed in the room till I felt asleep.
I hope you like my story. Keep sending in more stuff, because I really enjoy reading them!
Jen-Ai
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Charity (12)
Together with a friend, who we have been witnessing to for awhile, I decided to bake cookies one Saturday afternoon. We had already put in most of the ingredients and we were having lots of fun, but we couldn't find the baking powder. We kept looking in the same place, because it seemed like the only possible place it would be. We looked and looked while I prayed quietly, but nothing happened. Then I got a check to pray with my friend. I suggested it to her, and she gladly bowed her head. She prayed a really simple, sweet prayer, then she started looking in the same place and right away she pulled out the baking powder. With a big smile on her face she looked Heavenward and said, “Thank You, Jesus! You answered our prayer.”
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Boaz (4)
I want to tell you a testimony about when I was walking down the stairs and I fell down. I didn't bonk my chin, because the angels were holding my head up. I got a little bit scared, but I had been claiming the power of the keys, so my angels protected me. Claim the keys today, and your angels will protect you too!
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By Joshua
	One stormy day, Elizabeth and I went on a walk, but I didn't have an umbrella. Elizabeth had one, but it was tiny and we both couldn't fit under it. I just had my jacket on and my hood.
	We were walking by the forest when it started to rain very hard, and my pants were getting soaked. We walked a little farther and then saw something leaning against one of the trees. It was an umbrella!
	 I told Elizabeth, and she answered: "Oh, it must be the Lord!"  We opened it and it was totally fine, not broken one bit! I didn't get a cold, because I had the umbrella. Thank You, Jesus! What a miracle! 
	So, if the Lord can take care of these little things, He can take care of the big things to!
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From Sharon (11)
This is a miracle that happened one day while we were visiting Australia. We were on a train going home. Since we could stop at either of two stations to go home, Mom asked Cherish (5) which one we should go to. Right away Cherish named the station, which was the nearest one. As we were walking home from the station, Mom saw a jar of peanut butter right in front of us on the sidewalk! We picked it up, and saw it was new and still sealed. Soon, to our surprise, we saw lots and lots of jars of peanut butter scattered all over the road and sidewalk! They had probably fallen off a delivery truck as it was passing. Many of the jars had been squashed, but there were still quite a few good ones too. We took as many as we could carry, which ended up being fourteen. Fourteen jars of peanut butter for free! Praise the Lord!
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By Kimberly Annette (6):
We were praying for the night. It was very hot and the power was going low. The fan was turning very slowly and looked like it was going to go off. So I prayed, “Lord, if the power goes off then it will be too hot. So in the power of the keys please help the fan to stay on.” A little while later someone came into our room and saw the fan working and said, “Why is the fan still on when all over the whole house the power is off?” I said, “It’s because I prayed in the power of the keys!” Wow! Thank You, Jesus!
Daddy was looking for his shoes because he was going to play basketball. I was sitting on the bed. Daddy came into the room and asked if I knew where his shoes were. I said, “Daddy, maybe you’re not finding them because you’re not praying in the power of the keys.” So Daddy prayed in the power of the keys and he found them right away underneath the school table.
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By Kaylee (10)
I started trying to learn to ride a two-wheel bike without training wheels when I was six years old. It was very difficult for me. I tried for three years off and on, but I still didn’t get it.
Then, when I was nine, my mom tried to teach me to ride my bike by giving me lessons for an hour every day. But I still couldn't grasp it. I couldn't get my balance. 
Finally, after two weeks of these lessons, we got desperate and called on the power of the keys for help in learning to ride my bike. 
That very day that we called on the power of the keys, Mom was able to let go of me for the first time, for a matter of seconds. And the very next day I learned how to ride the bike all on my own! Now I realize how fun it is to ride a bike! I’m so happy!
My mom said if I learned to ride my bike, she’d pray that the Lord would supply me with a bigger and nicer bike. And just about a week later she found a good one for a very cheap price, a pretty blue bike that I really like!
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By Adam (10), Francis (8), Benji (7) and David (5)
We had an amazing encounter when we went to the Chobe National Park in northern Botswana. Because we wanted to see some elephants, we had tried for some time to drive around and spot them. We saw only a few, and they would quickly hide in the bushes. 
But things changed when we prayed in the power of the keys of the Kingdom that the Lord would bring lots of elephants our way. It was getting dark, and time to go back to our lodge. On the way back we spotted a couple of elephants coming out of the forest in the distance. Daddy stopped the car and turned off the engine, and we watched them for a while as they crossed the road.
Suddenly elephants started coming from all sides, surrounding the car!!! We were all sitting stiff and amazed inside of the car, quietly praising the Lord. We didn’t dare move, as there were so many elephants, big and small, walking as close as half a meter from our car! Some of them were even sniffing at it with their long trunks, making deep growling noises. 
We managed to count 200 elephants, but there were even more crossing the road! Call it an amazing answer to prayer!!! The power of the keys surely worked that day!
After this encounter we were all so excited. Mommy laughed, "We just need a snake on the road to top it off." Sure enough, can you believe it? A few minutes later, right on the road there was a one-and-a-half-meter-long snake, the most common poisonous snake in Africa—a puff adder. Wow!
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By Ana Rosa (10)
I want to share with you how the Lord healed me.
One day while doing a handstand I fell backwards and hit my back against the edge of the stairs.  I got hurt so badly I couldn’t even talk to call someone to help me. Thank God, Suzy came to help me, and was able to get more help. It was very painful and I couldn’t move. We prayed with my mom and they anointed me with oil, claiming the power of the keys. By a miracle, that night I was able to walk. On top of it, by the next day I was fully healed and able to go on a faith trip.
Thank God for answering prayer! 
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By Paula (7)
My sister, Ani, and I prayed for a bigger cage for our parakeet so that we could get him a friend. Then one day I wrote a letter to a TV program for children and sent a picture of us with the bird. And guess, what? We were chosen as the winners and got a beautiful cage as a reward!  Now we have three parakeets: Paradise, Heaven, and Bluie. We hope that they will have parakeet chicks soon!  Thank You, Jesus! 
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By Natalie Anne (10)
	I got a baby rabbit and called him Flopsy. We built him a hutch, but the first night in it, Flopsy escaped! We couldn't find him anywhere in our big garden. We called on the power of the keys and prayed he would turn up that day. Then about 10 minutes after we prayed, we saw him running through our vegetable garden, so we were able to catch him. 
	We fixed the hutch so that he wouldn't escape again. Thank You, Jesus, for the power of the keys!
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By Jessica (10)
	One day while we were practicing our Christmas songs my mom asked us to pray so that she could have some flour, beans, and fuel donated to us. All of us got together and started quoting Scriptures and calling on the power of the keys of the Kingdom, and sure enough, all our prayers started being answered right there and then! 
	The manager of the flour company donated a whole big bag of flour for my dad to make some delicious bread. The manager of the bean company donated three 20-kilo bags of beans, and the manager of the gas company said he would help whenever we need fuel. Praise the Lord--three answers to prayer all at one time! 
	Another time I went out witnessing with my mom, and two brothers Alfred (13) and Yury (9). We prayed that we could win ten souls, and in a couple of minutes all ten souls were won, and one real special guy said he really wanted to come to our Bible studies. All in the power of the keys!  

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By Dash (6) and Luba (8)
	Once in our village it flooded. Everybody's houses and gardens were flooded. We prayed with the power of the keys and Jesus answered. Our place was not flooded. We were thankful for His protection.  The barn of one of our friends got flooded, so she kept her cows in our barn instead. We got milk straight from the cow. The chickens would run all around our property. It was so funny!
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By Valentina (7)
"Let’s put up a tent," my dad said.
So we tried to get a tent up, but we couldn't get it up. Then I remembered that we should’ve prayed. 
"Dad, let's pray,” I said. “We forgot to do that."
	So we prayed, and even though we didn’t have the instructions for putting up the tent, Jesus heard our prayer and helped us get it up. 
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By Patrick (3½)
	One evening we were getting hungry, so we prayed and claimed the power of the keys for our meal. Then we went to the closest McDonalds. They told my mommy that the boss wasn’t there and that they couldn’t help us. But just as my mommy was going to tell me that, the boss walked in and said that he forgot his keys and had to come back from far away. 
We were able to talk to him and he agreed to give us the food, but then he quickly left. I didn’t even have a chance to give him a tract. I prayed and in few minutes he came back and said that he forgot the keys again, so I was able to give him the tract. Later we heard the workers say that it was the boss’ birthday. What a present! The power of the keys really works!
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By Nicky (8)
	We were going witnessing at a certain place. It was so crowded, but we needed a parking spot right there. So my mom prayed and claimed the power of the keys to provide a parking space, and right away we found one right by the front door! Wow! 
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By Cathy (5) and Amanda (4)
	We got a hamster for Christmas and we named him Hammy, and we love him so much! One day, our youngest sister, Dina (2), accidentally stepped on him. Hammy looked really hurt and we thought he was going to die. We were so sad. But we prayed for him and claimed the power of the keys, and the next morning, he was healed! Thank You, Jesus!
	Another time, there were aphids on a tree in our garden and the poor tree was dying. We claimed the power of the keys for our tree to get healed, and then the ants came to eat up all the aphids. And now the tree is strong and healthy!
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