A young girl was offered a New Testament from the Gideons at school one day. At first, she refused. But when all of her friends took one, she took one, also. Taking the Testament home, she knew her father would not approve of the holy book. When she arrived home, she placed it on the kitchen table where she knew he would see it. When her father came home and saw the Testament on the table, he told her that the book was forbidden in his house. He then took the Testament outside and threw it up on the roof of the house.
Years later the girl married and left her father’s house. Within a year, she was pregnant and no longer was with her husband. She hoped her father would let her stay in his house. When she arrived at the house, no one was home. She sat down on the front porch to wait. Then the wind became stronger and a little book fell into her lap. Now worn and tattered, it was her New Testament that her father had thrown up on the roof years earlier. She opened it and began to read. Within a short time, she found that she needed this Jesus the book talked about. She then gave her life to Christ.
Shortly after, her family returned and her father allowed her to move into the house. That very night, the girl told her father about the little Testament and how it had fallen into her lap. Her father looked at the book and decided that since it had fallen from heaven that it was a gift from God. He began to read it over a period of time and eventually he accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior. And the rest of the family living there eventually did the same.
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