Kariuki The Kikuyu

I can never forget Kariuki, the Kikuyu maniac who ran across the hills of Kikuyuland for 17 years, practically nude and demented, clutching rubbish in his arms, running from one village to another, putting it down and desperately gathering more objects in his deranged preoccupation with debris and worthless rubble.

A young Christian believer reached out to him in the kind of love that sends you to the top. He conceived a way to entice Kariuki into his pickup, in order to bring him to the crusade.

Out on the crusade field, among thousands of people, the believer stood beside Kariuki  who was still clutching his armful of rubbish. We were entirely unaware of them being in the crowd as we taught about God’s love that day.

Of all the great miracles that we have witnessed across the world-and we may have seen as many or more than any couple has ever been privileged to see-practically all of them have taken place out on the field, amidst the people, without us knowing anything about the need or the miracle until it had already occurred.
Kariuki was one of them.

The Miracle of Seed Power

Our God is in His word, like life is in seed. When the seed is planted in people, it produces of its kind.
The healing seed of God’s healing promises, heals people.
The miracle seed of His miracle promises, produces miracles in people.
The saving seeds of God’s love-plan produce salvation in people.
That day we taught about God’s love-plan and about how He values people. After the teaching, as we preayed for the multitude, the Spirit of the Lord came upon Kariuki in a way which I cannot explain. In a moment of time, the tormenting evil spirits left him and he was well and normal.

The believer realized that Kariuki was really healed, and brought him ot the platform to tell the multitude what had happened.His tattered clothes did not cover his nudity. His hair was long, matted and full of fleas. His beard was long. His body emitted a terrible odor.But I could see that this man had been visited by the Lord.
The Transforming Power of Love I took him by the shoulders and said, “Kariuki, you just look beautiful.” That lifted him and helped avoid embarrassment or his indecent appearance before the people.
I said, “Kariuki, you are my brother. My Father and your Father is the same. We are one.” I pulled him to me and embraced him, then I looked at him again.

I said, “Kariuki, I am so proud of you. My Father created you. He has a plan for you that nobody in the world can carry out as well as you can. You are going to go places.” Then I embraced him again.
Then he talked to the people and gave the most intriguing report of how he had lived in tormented compulsion to run from village to village, gathering debris. He was amazed at the miracle he had received and thanked everyone for their prayers and for their love.

I told some of the pastors to provide him a hot bath, to get his hair and beard trimmed, to buy him clothes and a beautiful necktie, to get him a Bible and to bring him back.

The Miracle on Display

The next day, Kariuki was sitting on the platform. You would have thought he was one of the ministers. In fact, he never failed to sit next to Daisy on the platform during the rest of the crusade. He always had a happy expression on his face and was always anxious to tell anyone about his miracle.

In each meeting, I would ask Kariuki to publicly read, for me, the scripture lesson which would be the basis for my teaching. He had learned to read, prior to his insanity, so his lecture was a beautiful witness of God’s love for people

Winners Around the World

Around the world, millions of human lives are wasting in the dirt-sitting, waiting, withering, dying:
Not growing, but groveling;
Not producing, but procrastinating;
Not building, but wilting;
Not self-sustaining, but self-condemning;
Not attaining, but complaining.

The noble and beautiful desire of our lives is to salvage human beings, to give them self-discover, to teach them self-development, to help the in self-discipline, to inspire them for self-fulfillment and to  motivate in them self-esteem.

Our desire is God’s desire; it is to show people His love, to tell them the price He paid for the, to inform them of their value to Him, to show them the way to find Him.
Our desire is to lift people…
By new faith in God,
By new faith in themselves,
By new meaning in life,
By new dreams to inspire them,
By new ideals to live by,
By new purposes to accomplish.

We know that is God’ desire, so we are committed to success in order to fulfill His dream as His co-workers. Even when we must perspire to press through the profusion of prejudiced resistance to reach our goals with God, we do not quit-we are winners.

From "The Power of Positive Desire" by Dr. T.L. Osborn. order it here
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