A Notebook Found After 25 Years — Every Miracle Was Already Checked Off | Dr. Todd Martin — Supernatural Prayer Stories
What if you found a notebook you hadn't opened in 25 years — and every single miracle you had desperately prayed for had been answered?
In this warm, thoughtful, and quietly powerful episode of Supernatural Prayer Stories, Rick Osborne sits down with his longtime friend Dr. Todd Martin — President of Trinity Western University, Canada's largest Christian university — for a conversation that is as much about faithfulness over a lifetime as it is about any single dramatic moment.
Todd is not a man of big emotional displays. He's a sociologist, a former pastor, a businessman, an academic — methodical, rational, and by his own admission, someone who in his first year of college wasn't sure he was getting a good return on his conviction. And yet it's precisely that kind of honest, clear-eyed faith that makes his stories so compelling.
Story One — Getting Off the Fence Nearly 50 years ago, Todd was standing on a lawn at a graduation ceremony in Southern California — surrounded by pageantry, music, and crowds — when the whole world faded away. In that strange isolation, he sensed God asking him one direct question: "When are you going to get off the fence?" No thunder. No tears. Just a quiet, unmistakable moment of reckoning. Todd's answer — a simple, determined "Here I am, God. I'm all in" — redirected everything. His career plans, his calling, his entire life trajectory shifted from that single afternoon. What he thought would be a business career became 25 years in pastoral ministry, then 25 years in Christian higher education, and counting.
Story Two — The Notebook Three months before this interview, Todd was packing up his home during a move and came across an old notebook. Inside was a page with two columns: Miracles Needed and Miracles Received. About 15 items — written during one of the most precarious seasons of his life, when he and his wife stepped away from pastoral ministry, moved to the American Midwest to be near family, built a successful finance career, and then felt God's unmistakable tug back to Canada to replant a church with no guaranteed income and no safety net. The "Miracles Received" column was filled in with different colored pens — written at different times, as each answer came. Church facility: yes. Church growth: yes, doubled in year one. Every single one checked off.
Also in this conversation:
* Why Rick calls Todd one of the most consistently gentle, loving people he's ever known — and what that kind of character actually looks like in leadership
* Todd's practical wisdom on journaling your prayers — why writing down specific requests and going back to find the answers builds faith in ways that vague, forgotten prayers never can
* A closing prayer drawn from John 15 — the vine and the branches — that is one of the most quietly powerful prayers in the show's history
* An introduction to Trinity Western University — 5,000 students from 80 countries, 8 faculties, a brand-new divinity school, and a mission to equip graduates to think truthfully, act justly, live faithfully
This is an episode for anyone who has ever wondered whether God is really keeping track. He is. And sometimes He lets you find the notebook.
🎓 Learn more about Trinity Western University: twu.ca [http://twu.ca] 📧 Contact Dr. Todd Martin directly: president@twu.ca [president@twu.ca]
🎙️ Supernatural Prayer Stories is part of the Face to Face with God broadcast with Rick Osborne — real stories of people who pray and expect God to show up.
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