Quote of the Week

I love this quote for so many reasons.  The first truth in this is that those ministering cross-culturally depend on those back home who are praying for them.  There are countless stories of people being led to pray for a missionary and later finding out that at the exact moment they were praying, that person had been in a place of great need.  The second truth is that prayer is the missionary's means of expressing their dependence on God for strength as well as to move in the hearts of those they are trying to reach. Hudson Taylor expressed this thought when he said, "brother, if you enter that province, you must go forward on your knees."  So when there is fruit and when the worker is able to persevere, those are answers to prayer.  A third, and I think exciting aspect, is that sometimes the missionary going is an answer to prayer.  In Acts 10 we see the story of Cornelius and Peter.  We still see instances like this today, when God sends a believer into the path of someone who is hungry for truth.  To me all these truths are a great reminder that we are called to join God in His mission, not accomplish it all on our own. 

"The history of missions if the history of answered prayers." - Samuel Zwemer