INTRODUCTION
This Study Guide attempts and is designed to bring the supernatural reality of the Scriptures to ordinary life, where most people live today. It shows how God took two ordinary Romanian Christians, starting with a shepherd boy and a pastor's daughter, and built them step by step progressively into saints whose faith literally moved mountains of impossible circumstances out of their path. A shepherd boy and a pastor's daughter--thanks to this process--took their place along with Ruth, David, and Gideon who, though starting small, also achieved great things for God.
Scripture says, "trials...have come so your faith may be proved genuine."--I Peter 1:6-7. Not only can faith be proven genuine, but as evidenced in the account of Elijah and Aurica, faith can be built up to a point in otherwise ordinary individuals where God can use his earthly instruments in acts of great miracles and deliverance.
This Study Guide cannot promise that every reader will become an exactly replica of Gideon, David, or Deborah, for the author recognizes that every individual is unique in makeup and destiny; yet if our faith is built up, who knows what results will come of our efforts to believe God for greater things than we have known previously in our lives?