Geronimo And Lois Martin Succesfully Translated The Bible
For The Navajo Indians Because They Plodded
And Worked For Jesus Daily For 42 Years
Geronimo and Lois Martin pictured above successfully translated the entire bible into the Navajo language. Geronimo was born blind but as a young man he got saved, believing in our Lord Jesus. He understood the power of the bible to change lives and he had a lifelong dream of the Navajo Indians having God's Word in their language. Even though Geronimo was blind, he allowed his wife Lois to help him achieve his goal of translating every word of the bible into the Navajo language.
In 1944, Geronimo and his wife Lois started to translate the bible for the Navajo Indians. Geronimo would read an English Braille bible and translate it into Navajo, while Lois wrote it down. After 12 years, the New Testament was translated into Navajo. The result was thousands of Navajo Indians getting saved for Jesus. Many Navajo Indians then asked Geronimo and Lois to translate the Old Testament into Navajo. Geronimo and Lois set out again in 1968 to translate the Old Testament into Navajo which they finished in 1984, the same year Geronimo Martin died at age 67. One year later Lois witnessed the complete publication of the Navajo bible.
In 2022 I received a blessed email from the baby girl in the picture above who is the daughter of Geronimo and Lois Martin. She told me that she appreciated that I wrote about the Navajo Indians and her parents (Geronimo and Lois Martin) who translated the bible into the Navajo language. Let's witness Jesus everywhere to Indians and people from every nation. Jesus said at John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
Note That Several Other Blessed People Assisted Geronimo And Lois Martin
In Translating The Bible Into The Navajo Language
Click This Link https://indianbible.org/pdfs/2008_spring.pdf
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Learn how Harry Ironside, Gordon and Thelma Fraser, Scott Franklin, missionary Ruth Grant who wrote a concordance in the Navajo language, and Faye Edgerton who was a translator of both the Navajo and Apache new testaments assisted Geronimo and Lois Martin in translating the bible into the Navajo language. Geronimo and Lois Martin were humble and would have wanted every persons name mentioned that was responsible for translating the bible into the Navajo language. Geronimo and Lois Martin and their friends were truly blessed people. Their translation of the Navajo bible will bless thousands of Indians to get saved and learn about the Lord Jesus.
Geronimo And Lois Martin Successfully Translated The Bible For The Navajos
Because They Never Quit And Kept Plodding Daily For 42 Years
Remember Little Is Much When God Is In It
Plod means to work little by little each day toward a goal never quitting. Remember little is much when God is in it. When anyone keeps plodding daily for Jesus while they overcome the troubles of this world, eventually they will achieve their dreams and many souls will be saved for our Lord Jesus. Jesus said at John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Geronimo and Lois Martin had to overcome many setbacks while they translated the bible for the Navajos. But they kept on plodding determined to finish their goal. Lois Martin remembers an unexpected problem. We had just finished the book of Job, which took about 3 months to translate into Navajo, and we were going to Tucson, Arizona. We had the handwritten manuscript of the book of Job, at least 100 pages in a suitcase tied on top of the car with other luggage. The rope must have loosened and the suitcase fell off. I walked over the entire area but never found it. Smiling serenely, Lois said "We learned Job's tribulations by doing the book of Job over again." In all, it took the Martins 42 years to complete the entire translation of the Navajo bible.
Because Geronimo And Lois Martin Kept Plodding For Jesus
Thousands Of Navajo Indians Are Saved With Joy For Jesus
After Geronimo and Lois Martin completed the translation of the Navajo bible, thousands of Navajo's became christians and love the Word of God. Pictured above the Navajo bible is called Diyin God Bizaad that means The Holy God, His Word. Currently Navajo Pastor Sampson Yazzie uses the Navajo bible to teach Navajo Indians about Jesus and save their souls.
Learn A Lesson From The Postage Stamp
Like Geronimo and Lois Martin
Keep Plodding And Working Daily For Jesus To Save Souls
Consider the postage stamp
It's usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there
Brother Bob is going to be like the postage stamp and continue to tell people everywhere how to be saved with the Lord Jesus and eventually multitudes will get saved for Jesus all over this earth. What a blessed reunion it will be when Brother Bob sees all the people in heaven that got saved by reading preachbrotherbob. Only what we do for Jesus on this earth matters. Now here's how to get saved. Get saved, repent, decide to stop sinning, confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died on the cross for you, was buried, and rose again.
The Bible Promises Rewards If You Keep Plodding Daily For Jesus
Note the following bible scriptures that promise rewards for plodding by witnessing Jesus everywhere while we bless poor widows and orphans. Galatians 6:9 says And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. And because 1 Corinthians 15:57 says But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ, let''s obey 1 Corinthians 15:58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Be like the following bible plodders who achieved their dreams because they never quit working for Jesus. Remember quitters never win and winners never quit. Noah plodded and preached 120 years even though no one got saved outside of his family, and eventually finished an ark that saved mankind (1 Peter 3:20 and 2 Peter 2:5). Joseph plodded and diligently collected grain for 7 years to save the people from a famine (Genesis 41:53-57). Moses trudged through the wilderness with the children of God for 40 years and successfully led them to the promised land (Acts 7:36). Nehemiah worked 52 days to successfully repair the walls of Jerusalem brick by brick (Nehemiah 6:15). Four scrawny lepers plodded and each took a step of faith against a strong enemy and got the victory for all of Israel (2 Kings 7:1-20).
And let's remember the greatest plodder of all time who is the Lord Jesus Christ to overcome any trouble. Jesus inched his way up Calvary to die for our sins, each step more painful than the last. And because Jesus faithfully plodded and died for all our sins, now we can daily look to the cross of Calvary to overcome the troubles of this world. Hebrews 12:2 tells us how to overcome problems saying Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him that endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. Tell the devil daily I am crucified with Jesus Christ and that Jesus destroyed all my problems at the cross of Calvary (Hebrews 2:14).
More Scriptures About Rewards And Blessings When We Plod For Jesus
To be a successful plodder for Jesus one must abide and live daily for Jesus. Every day stay in the Word of God, fellowship at a local church, and keep praying daily. If you keep plodding and abiding daily with Jesus, the bible promises that you can ask for anything from Jesus and you will receive it. Jesus said at John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. In other words if you abide with Jesus daily, you'll ask for the right things to bless Jesus, and Jesus will give them to you.
To sum it all up, be a blessed plodder for Jesus like Geronimo and Lois Martin. Believe God one task at a time, one day at a time, trusting in God's power to change the world for Jesus through a series of obedient steps. Plod daily for Jesus, keeping your eyes on the goal to win souls everywhere for Jesus, resisting all temptations that lead to sinful detours. Remember Paul's advice from Philippians 3:13. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Geronimo and Lois Martin have both died. But their completed Navajo bible will last for ever and continue to save thousands of Navajo Indians for Jesus. Isaiah 40:8 says The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. 1 Peter 1:24 says For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever: And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Psalm 119:89 says For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. Jesus said at Mark 13:31 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. Psalm 12:6 says The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever. Keep plodding for Jesus every day. Only what we do for Jesus will last for ever in the kingdom of God.
I pray that this bible study about Geronimo and Lois Martin blesses multitudes all over this earth with great joy, peace, and strength. Feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob Malkin, 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 746-7071. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.
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