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wasn’t constant; it just appeared whenever I was heading in the wrong direction.
    Because of many experiences like this, my faith grew quickly.

CHAPTER THREE
“GO TO THE WEST AND SOUTH”
    Every day from morning to late evening I read the Word of God. When I had to work in the fields I wrapped my Bible inside my clothing and took every opportunity to sit down and read. At night-time I took my Bible with me to bed and laid it on my chest.
    In the beginning, reading my Bible wasn’t easy because I had only received three years of education. Furthermore, my Bible was in the traditional Chinese script, while I had learned to read simplified characters. I found a dictionary and painstakingly looked up one character at a time as I advanced through the Bible.
    Finally I finished reading through the whole Bible, so I started to memorize one chapter per day. After 28 days I had memorized the whole Gospel of Matthew. I quickly read through the three other Gospels before proceeding to the Book of Acts and started to memorize it.
    One morning at around 9 a.m. I was reading the first chapter of Acts. I started meditating on the verse in Acts 1:8, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
    I wasn’t sure who the Holy Spirit was. I ran and asked mymother. She couldn’t explain. She simply said, “I’ve already told you all I can remember. Why don’t you pray and ask God for the Holy Spirit just like you prayed for your Bible?” My mother was illiterate and so she had a shallow knowledge of the Bible. She had learned only to recite a few verses she’d heard from other believers.
    This was a defining moment in my life. I had a desire for God’s presence and power, and now I realized how important it is to know God’s written Word.
    I prayed to the Lord, “I need the power of the Holy Spirit. I am willing to be your witness.” After the prayer God’s spirit of joy fell upon me. A deep revelation of God’s love and presence flooded my being. I’d never enjoyed singing before but many new songs of worship flowed from my lips. They were words I had never learned before. Later I wrote them down. These songs are still sung in the Chinese house churches to this day.
    I began to wait on the Lord for his guidance, and a wonderful thing happened. One night around 10 p.m. – before my parents had gone to bed – I had just completed a time of prayer and had memorized Acts chapter 12. As I lay down on my bed I suddenly felt someone tap my shoulder and heard a voice tell me, “Yun, I am going to send you to the west and south to be my witness.”
    Thinking it was my mother speaking, I jumped out of my bed and went to my parents’ room. I asked her, “Did you call my name? Who tapped me on my shoulder?”
    My mother said, “Neither of us called for you. Go back to sleep.” I prayed again and climbed into bed.
    Thirty minutes after again lying down I heard a clear voice that urged me, “Yun, you shall go to the west and to the south to proclaim the gospel. You shall be my witness and will testify on behalf of my name.”
    Immediately I got up and told my mother what had happened. She told me to go back to sleep and asked me not to be so excited. She was concerned I was losing my mind again!
    I knelt down and prayed to the Lord, “Jesus, if you’re speaking to me, then I am listening. If you’re calling me to preach your good news, then I’m willing to obey your call on my life.”
    Around four o’clock the next morning I received a dream from the Lord. I saw the same loving old man who had given me the bread in my previous vision. As he walked towards me he looked into my eyes and said, “You should face the west and south to proclaim the gospel and be the Lord’s witness.”
    In my dream I also saw a large meeting with a multitude of people. The old man radiated great authority before the crowd. He