Since the end of World War II, Billy Graham has met every United States president and countless world leaders, most of whom sought him out for friendship or advice.
if we would have followed the footsteps
of an ordinary man who had one day been
dramatically changed by an extraordinary
God would we believe those steps would
journey from the rolling fields of North
Carolina to the steps of the White House
and beyond
I’ll just felt God was speaking to me
and he said I want to use you and I said
Lord I’ll go where you want me to go and
I’ll be what you want me to be I’m yours
Christ belongs to O be he belongs to the
whole world his gospel is for everyone
whoever you are to one the great
evangelist of our nation’s history his
Crusades are legendary sighs his crowds
were magnificent throughout the years
because of the message and because of
the messenger that’s the beauty and the
greatness in the thrill of God’s love
can a person that a person in my
position wants to know while preaching
to millions around the world Billy
Graham found himself being called upon
many times as God’s ambassador to world
leaders
the Ministry of Billy Graham is friend
and counselor to US presidents
remains to this day unprecedented in
1950 Billy was asked to visit the White
House for the first time to meet with
then President Harry s Truman
soon after every US president since
World War two found occasion and reason
to call on the advice and friendship of
Billy Graham we need to pray for our
president and for those in authority as
the scriptures of told us he faces
tremendous responsibilities Lyndon
Johnson wrote in a personal letter to
Billy Graham my mind went back to those
lonely occasions at the White House when
your friendship helped to sustain a
president in an hour of trial no one
will ever know how you helped to lighten
my load or how much warmth you brought
into our house but I know
the reason world leaders have sought his
advice is precisely because he doesn’t
try to tell them what they should do
tomorrow but he does try to show them a
way of thinking about the problem that
adds a new dimension to their thinking
throughout the world governmental
leaders have been asking the tough
spiritual questions of Billy Graham
looking for answers his ministry as an
evangelist bringing the gospel of Jesus
Christ has worked to shape the destiny
of Nations at the end of these meetings
with these communist officials they
would be sitting there in stone silence
listening to every word that my father
said and when my father finished
speaking
they was ill but dr. Graham we have also
wondered if there was a God talk to us
more about how we can know God so I
think he was one of the forces that kept
a window open to the human spirit during
these oppressive years eight years ago
one of the Lord’s great ambassadors the
Reverend Billy Graham went to Eastern
Europe and the Soviet Union and upon
returning spoke of a movement there
toward more religious freedom
and perhaps he saw it before many of us
because it takes a man of God to sense
the early movement at the end of God and
the same thing with these Chinese
leaders that we saw in Russia they begin
to ask my father spiritual questions
these are the kind of questions that
were asked by top Chinese officials and
Chinese leaders Reverend William Billy
Graham’s untiring evangelism has spread
the word of God to every corner of the
globe and made him one of the most
inspirational spiritual leaders of the
20th century I think it’s true him that
I found myself praying even more than a
daily basis to give me the wisdom to
make decisions that would serve God and
be pleasing to him Billy Graham the man
the preacher the humble farmer’s son who
helped change the world is a spiritual
gift to all of us this unique person
that comes across the pages of history
who is this Jesus Christ he’s had many
opportunities over the years to do other
things that he turned down because God
had called him to a higher calling
and that was to be an ambassador of the
Lord Jesus Christ and to take the gospel
to literally the ends of the earth
I love you Billy Graham and I looked forward to meeting you in Heaven. A selfless, sacrificial and obedient man in the hand of a great God.