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That night a brother put something in his hand, and a sister in the Lord gave him £5 and a poem:"In nothing be anxious. <br />For see how tenderly the Lord is guiding thee, <br />does he not hold thy hands with love and understands? <br />Listening when thou dost plead... <br />supplying all thy need, in nothing be anxious."
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In 1951, James was invited to go to Co. Fermanagh for a long weekend, and the small assembly of two brothers and two sisters pressed him to come for a series of gospel meetings. He objected that it was a long journey and he couldn't work in Ballymoney and preach every night nine miles outside Enniskillen. Mr. Bobbie McClean said, "there's a bed here and a bite to eat and the Lord will take care for your future and your job." So he resigned and worked for six more weeks training a new man for his job.
A brother from Bushmills took James on his motorcycle to Currien, Co. Fermanagh, and he stayed a few days with him. The meetings started with thirteen on Sunday, and five on Monday, which was discouraging and tempted him to doubt. Praying earnestly for divine guidance he visited homes using Mr. McClean's car. When the meetings started, he had £7 and as he paid for petrol and oil, he was soon spending his last £1. On the Wednesday of the fourth week, he was leaving a home after praying with them when a young woman called and told him that she had gotten saved the previous Sunday after the meeting. James prayed with her and thanked God and when he got to the road, he sat in the car with a tear in his eye and thanked the Lord again. That night a brother put something in his hand, and a sister in the Lord gave him £5 and a poem:
So by the middle of the fourth week, James had seen a soul saved and his £7 was restored, which assured that he was in the right way. The next day he promised the Lord that if He wanted him to preach the gospel he would neither write, phone or ask for meetings, and for the next 66 years he has never been out of work or invitations to preach the gospel.