This is a testimony of an amazing miracle God worked for my wife and myself. It began in 2017 and continues to this day!

My dear wife Becky was born with a condition called PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease). Her kidneys began to fail about 10 years ago, and by 2016, she was on dialysis. After about one year of this, her surgeon told me, “Your wife’s body is not built to live through long-term dialysis. Try to get her a new kidney ASAP!”

Now I was frightened. Our church began to ask the lord to give Becky a second chance at life. In desperation, I emailed the hundreds of people on my contact list to appeal to them for a kidney donation. Several offered but were disqualified because they were not a match. We waited and prayed…nothing. We prayed and waited some more…nothing!

Finally, some 3 to 4 months later, I received a reply from a 44-year-old woman named Lisa (not her real name). Lisa had been looking through her old e-mail and found my urgent appeal. She wanted to help! She wrote that this was the least she could do for me for what I had done for her 34 years before!

I was stunned and thrilled! Lisa had been a skinny, angry, antisocial young girl in my 6^th-grade class in 1984. She was bright enough to earn good grades, but beyond that, her daily behavior gave evidence that there was something terribly wrong happening in her life. Back then, we did not know as much about child abuse in the home, but the Lord’s Spirit within me urged me to reach out to bring her to the only One who could heal her inside.

After receiving permission from Lisa’s mother, I began to take her with me to church and to a Children’s Bible Club. When Lisa understood that God wanted to be for her the loving, caring father she never had, she threw her arms around Him and never let go!

I lost track of her over the years, but now, here she was, leaping back into our lives like Wonder Woman to rescue Becky from an early death!

She came to town carrying a bouquet of pink roses (which she did not know were my wife’s favorite!) Lisa was now a happy, well-adjusted, athletic woman who sang in her church choir and counseled young girls who had been abused like she had. God had truly made her into a “new creation”! She was tested and found to be a perfect match! Surgery was successful! Lisa returned home full of the joy that ministry brings, and my wife was filled with the joy of having a new lease on life!

Truly, the Bible says, “Ask and it shall be given to you…” (Mt. 7:7-8).

Truly, the Bible says, “For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever;
his faithfulness extends to all generations” (Ps. 100:5).

Truly, the Bible says, “Cast thy bread upon the waters…thou shalt find it after many days” (Ecclesiastes 11:1).

Now, every year at this time, we rejoice again in the miracle God did for us and encourage others to believe for their own miracle too. We cannot oblige God to do such things for us in any way, but that does not mean He is not willing sometimes to intervene in our lives in supernatural ways. For more evidence of the Lord’s willingness to do miracles, I invite you to visit the website for the new Christian movie “The Case for Miracles” by well-known Christian author Lee Strobel. The film should be coming out 12/15/25 to a theater near you. May God bless you with a life-changing testimony of your own to share at Thanksgiving!

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By the end of the Millennium, all the prophecies and covenants promised to Israel have been fulfilled. Jesus is reigning from Jerusalem. The Israelites – that remnant who were supernaturally protected for the last half of the Tribulation – are living in their land and have multiplied and prospered.

You and I have been blessed by those descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob whether we realize it or not. God’s Glorious and Amazing plan of redemption, the plan that was laid out long before you or I or even our great-great-great grandparents ever drew the first breath of life, is nearing completion.

As of this writing, these things have not come to pass, but if we are to believe God’s promises to Israel, then we know they will happen. God’s Word is not false, nor does it return void. God cannot lie.

“God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?” (Numbers 23:19).

In fact, if we believe the promises God made to us as followers and believers of Jesus Christ – that we are forgiven, redeemed, and have a gift of eternal life – how can we not believe all of God’s promises?

Pastor Charles Swann of Covenant Baptist Church says it well in his series on “The Future of Israel.”

“…if God says He will forgive you and then He doesn’t, or He says I will keep you secure and He doesn’t, or He says I will keep you from my wrath and He doesn’t, it doesn’t matter what He says anymore. Because if He’s not a truthful God and a trustworthy God and a faithful God, what assurance do we have of anything at all? What assurance do we have of any promises of God being kept at all?”¹

The question at the end is rhetorical because if we believe in God’s promises for our salvation, how can we not also believe in God’s promises to Israel? Yes, Israel sinned. Yes, Israel disobeyed God. Yes, Israel rejected God’s Own Son. But God never forgot His promises to Israel, and when God makes a promise, He will keep it.

Amir Tsarfati, in his book Israel and the Church: An Israeli Examines God’s Unfolding Plans for His Chosen People, addresses this.

“Israel, as a nation, was far from perfect. The people had a strong propensity for rebellion, idol worship, and ignoring the law of God. There are many Christians these days who will say that because of the nation’s imperfection, God has discarded them. Jesus Christ came to the Jews, but they didn’t want anything to do with Him. “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him” (John 1:11). The Jews rejected Him; therefore, He now rejects them. That’s it, case closed, the Jews have been kicked to the curb in favor of the church. Imagine if these Christians were to apply that same logic to themselves.

Any sin is rebellion against God. How many acts of rebellion and rejection of God’s lordship does it take to get booted out of the family? In the Garden, it took only one sin to separate us from God. I know I have plenty more than one sin to my credit since receiving Christ as my Savior. If sin can cause the Father to permanently reject His children, what percentage of the church could stand before God today?”²

We can allegorize, or make symbolic, any part of Scripture that we want, but Scripture tells us:

“Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name: ‘Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me’” (Jeremiah 31:35-36).

We have to understand and accept that if the promises made to us as Christians are true, then so are the promises made to Israel. One does not cancel out the other.

Is God done with Israel? Paul answers the question.

“I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God did not reject His people whom He foreknew” (Romans 11:1-2a).

Today, as I write these words, God is calling out to those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. If you haven’t already answered, please hear the knocking on the door.

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne” (Revelation 3:20-21).

God gave His covenants to Israel, and they were meant to be forever – for all eternity. Just as we now have faith in the promises made to us as Christians, Israel can have faith in God’s promises to them. Just as we know, one day we can “sit with Me on My throne,” Israel can know those promises made to them in the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants will all be fulfilled.

“Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful” (Hebrews 10:23).

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This article is an excerpt from Has God Cast Away Israel? by Susan Mouw, pub 11/2025.

¹ “The Future of Israel: An Introduction,” Pastor Charles Swann, March 22, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnsbB4V2s3I

² Israel and the Church: An Israeli Examines God’s Unfolding Plans for His Chosen People, Amir Tsarfati, April 6, 2021, Harvest House Publishers, pg 18-19