Jeremiah 29:11

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper and not harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."

George Verwer

What we need are tasks in which we can see a combination of the "possible" and the "impossible". We want to be filled with faith and be realistic.

Billy Graham

The evangelistic harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men and of nations is always being decided.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the LORD has annointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.

George Verwer

I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is becasue they are not in the battle, not using their weapons, not advancing against the enemy.

A.W. Tozer

God knows everything about you and He loves you still.

John Lubbock

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Martin Luther

No one understands Scripture unless it is brought home to him, that is , unless he experiences it.

Exodus 6:6

..... I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

Psalm 46:10

Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.

William Shedd

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Mike Evans

Your perspecitve of yourself will determine the possibilities you pursue.

George Verwer

If only we could see the value of one's soul like God does.

Dan & Dave Davidson

The secret to falling in love with Jesus forever is to honor Him fearfully, keeping His promised faithfully.

George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Eleanor Roosevelt

He who loses money, loses much; he who loses a friend, loses much more; he who loses faith, loses all.

Eric Liddel

Obedience to God's Will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight. It is not willingness to know, but willingness to do God's Will that brings certainty.

Elizabeth Elliot

I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.

J. Hudson Taylor

The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is the right fruit found on it. Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.

1 Peter 4:13

Rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when His glory is revealed.

George Verwer

My greatest help in Christ is that moment by moment I can pass my distress over to him.

Oswald Chambers

All of God's people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose he has given them.

D. L. Moody

Give your life to God; he can do more with it than you can!

J. Hudson Taylor

J. Hudson Taylor, founder of China Inland Mission, in the closing months of his life said to a friend, "I am so weak. I can't read my Bible. I can't even pray. I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child and trust."

Joni Eareckson Tada

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

Elizabeth Elliot

The world cries for men who are strong: strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

John 7:17

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

Bruce Larson

We have a choice. We can carry the world on our shoulders, or we can say, "I give up, Lord; here's my life. I give you my world, the whole world."

Eric Liddel

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.

Luis Palau

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

J. Hudson Taylor

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

Corrie Ten Boom

The best learning I had came from teaching.

C. T. Studd

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Galations 5:1

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

John G. Lake

In those early centuries of Christianity, Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph.

Mary Slesslor

Christ never was in a hurry. There was no rushing forward, no anticipating, no fretting over what might be. Each day's duties were done as each day brought them, and the rest was left with God.

D. L. Moody

If I can get a man to think seriously about death for five minutes, I can get him saved.

John Henry Jowett

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable only, but to make us comforters.

Oswald Chambers

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love.

Charles H. Spurgeon

I do not know the future. But I do preach this, because I know it, that Christ will come.

Psalm 19:1-4

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.

Oswald J. Smith

We talk of the second coming; half the world has never heard of the first.

Frank Laubach

The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.

J. Hudson Taylor

Christ is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.

George Verwer

The Holy Spirit does not wait for all our cultural baggage to disappear before he can use us in a powerful way.

Elizabeth Elliot

Perspective makes all the difference in the world. If you catch even a glimpse of the divine design you will be humbled and awed at least.

William Cameron Townsend

The task of getting the Gospel in an adequate way to every ethnic person is tremedous. There is but one solution. I'm sure that it isn't man, money, surveys, not talk. They all have their place, but if the basis of all of it isn't fervent, believing prayer, they are in vain. And prayer should not only be the basis but it should permeate and vitalize the whole work.

Psalm 16:11

You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

Elizabeth Elliot

Life is full of things we can't do anything about, but which we are supposed to do something with.

-love has a price tag (excerpt)

Jon Simpson

Everything we do in the life that we pursue means nothing if it's not fixed on what's lasting and true.

(lyics)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where there is no vision, people perish.

David Livingstone

I will go anywhere as long as it is forward.

Bob Pierce

Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.

1 Chronicles 16:23-24

Sing to the Lord, all the earth; proclaim His salvation day after day. Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous deeds among all peoples.

George Verwer

God is seeking men and women of reckless faith today..... to be reckless in your faith does not mean to be unthinking, but the reverse - concentrated, single-minded in your concern that GOD should be glorified and souls won.

Elizabeth Elliot

Stay in the presence of God. Hold to His written Word, and hold yourself before it. You have God's unwavering attention.

Psalm 33:13-15

The Lord looks down from heaven and sees every person. From His throne He watches all who live on earth. He has made their hearts and understands everything they do.

Dave Davidson

World missions was on God's

mind from the beginning.

John Piper

Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God.

Samuel Zwemer

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

Roland Allen

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

Amy Carmichael

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

Dave Davidson

If you found a cure for cancer, wouldn't it be inconceivable to hide it from the rest of mankind? How much more inconceivable to keep silent the cure from the eternal wages of death.

Oswald Chambers

Loyalty to the call of Our Lord means not merely that we keep the letter of His command, but that we keep in contact with HIS nature (who HE really is).

Bob Pierce

So many suffer so much while so few sacrifice so little.

Thomas Edison

If we did all the things we were capable of doing we would literally astonish ourselves.

Henrietta Mears

There is no magic in small plans. When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of His will for my life.

2 Chronicles 16:9

For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.

Nina Gunter

If you take missions out of the bible,

you won't have anything left but the covers.

Eleanor Roat

What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?

Bill Hybels

Evangelism should be as natural as breathing.

Jim Elliot

Wherever you are, be all there. Live life to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.

Chuck Swindoll

Rise and shine friend, everyone you meet today is on Heaven’s Most Wanted list.

Andy Stanley

Don’t allow fear of the unknown to cause you to miss out on what God wants to do through you. Worse than failure is living with the regret of never having stepped out in faith to pursue your vision.

Psalm 31:24

Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the Lord.

Jason Mandryk

Real people need specific help yet, at a global strategic level, it's good research and information that will make mission possible. The Gospel cannot be reduced to an exercise in numbers- it's about relationships.

Brian Wooten

It takes a heart of a hero to lay down your life.

"Heart of a Hero" (lyrics)

Joe Dominguez

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

D.L. Moody

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

George Verwer

My life is full of unanswered prayer. Not even 50 percent of my prayers have been answered over the years, not yet atleast.

I refuse to be discouraged by this.

Chris Tomlin

For greater things have yet to come. And greater things are still to be done in this city.

"God of this City" (lyrics)

John Piper

God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in HIM. This is the motor that drives my ministry as a pastor. It affects everything I do.

Josh McDowell

Our purpose is connected to how God sees us and how we are to see ourselves. It is vital to our sense of identity that we understand our purpose in life.

J. Hudson Taylor

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instruments afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

Randy Alcorn

I learned years ago that I have to say no to the great majority of things I’m asked to do, so I’m available to say yes to those few God wants me to do.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has left houses OR brothers OR sisters OR father Or mother OR children OR fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

Brian Doerksen

Jesus, hope of the nations. Jesus, comfort for all who mourn. You are the source of Heaven's hope on earth. Jesus, light in the darkness.

"Hope of the Nations" (lyrics)

Dave Davidson

In our lifetime, wouldn't it be sad if we spent more time washing dishes or swatting flies or mowing the yard or watching television than praying for world missions?

George Verwer

We seem to have a strange idea of Christian service. We will buy books, travel miles to hear a speaker on blessings, pay large sums to hear a group singing the latest Christian songs- but we forget that we are soldiers.

Stephen Tavani

There's much more to your salvation . . . Can you hear the Savior calling as He ascended through the air? Go forth into every nation. Take the message everywhere.

''Answer the Call" (lyrics)

David Livingston

"The end of the [geographical] exploration is the beginning of the [missionary] enterprise."

Robert McQuilkin

The big mystery is why those who are charged with rescuing the lost have spent two thousand years doing other things, good things, perhaps, but have failed to send and be sent until all have heard the liberating word of life in Jesus Christ.  

Psalm 146:5-6

How blessed is he whose help is in the GOD of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his GOD, the one who made heaven and earth who made the sea and all that is in there, the one who keeps faith forever.

Rich Mullins

But the new Jerusalem won't be so easy to build,
There's many bellies to fill and many hearts to free,
Got to set them free.

"Other Side of the World" (lyrics)

John Keith Falconer

I have but one candle of life to burn,

and I would rather burn it out

in a land filled with darkness

than in a land flooded with light.
 

George Verwer

Grace without discipline will lead to disgrace.

Mother Teresa

Unless a life is lived for others,

it is not worthwhile.

Oswald Chambers

Missionary enterprise, to be Christian, must be based on the passion of obedience, not on the pathos of pity...Jesus Christ pays no attention whatever to our sentiment.  In the New Testament the emphasis is not on the needs of men, but on the command of Christ, "Go ye".

J. Hudson Taylor

If I had 1,000 lives

I'd give them all for China

Paul

Even though I am a free man with no master, I have become a slave to all people to bring many to Christ.  

When I was with the Jews, I lived like a Jew to bring the Jews to Christ. 

When I was with those who follow the Jewish law, I too lived under that law. Even though I am not subject to the law, I did this so I could bring to Christ those who are under the law.  

When I am with the Gentiles who do not follow the Jewish law, I too live apart from that law so I can bring them to Christ. But I do not ignore the law of God; I obey the law of Christ.

When I am with those who are weak, I share their weakness, for I want to bring the weak to Christ. 

Yes, I try to find common ground with everyone, doing everything I can to save some. I do everything to spread the Good News and share in its blessings.

Billy Graham

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

D.L. Moody

It can be done; it ought to be done; it must be done.

George Verwer

God's unity is in the midst of great diversity.

Martin Luther

How soon 

not now 

becomes

never.

John Piper

There will be no big world vision

without a big God.

Mary Slessor

[kneeling] 

Lord, the task is impossible for me but not for Thee.

Lead the way and I will follow.

[rising]

Why should I fear?

I am on a royal mission.

I am in the service of the King of kings.

James

Isn't it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense? 

James 2:17 The Message

Steve Moore

Uploading is the most revolutionary form of collaboration in the world...Far too many mission organizations are operating with a download paradigm in an upload world.  

While You Were Micro-Sleeping

J. Hudson Taylor

Since the days of Pentecost,has the whole church ever put aside every other work and waited upon Him for ten days,that the Spirit's power might be manifested? We give too much attention to method and machinery and resources, and too little to the source of power.

Keith Green

If you don't go,

you need a specific calling from God

to stay home. 

Has God definitely told you not to "go" somewhere

outside your country to preach the Gospel?

If He hasn't, then you'd better start praying WHERE to go,

instead of IF you should go - for again, you're already called!

George Verwer

Unanswered prayer 

is one of the great altars upon which 

God makes true men and women. 

Loren Cunningham

If everyone exercises their rights to the exclusion of God's plans for us, a tragedy of cataclysmic proportions will occur.  Millions of people will live their lives in guilt and despair and will die to face judgment for their sins eternally in hell.  

Amy Carmichael

I wish thy way.

And when in me myself should rise,

and long for something otherwise,

Then Lord, take sword and spear

And slay.

Kenneth L. Pike

The price that one pays for

refusing to act on the

truth as one sees it,

is to be led to believe untruth

to avoid guilt.

Jesus

You will receive power 

when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. 

And you will be my witnesses,

telling people about me everywhere—

in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, 

and to the ends of the earth.

John Wesley

Do all the good you can,

in all the ways you can,

to all the souls you can,

in every place you can,

at all the times you can,

with all the zeal you can,

as long as ever you can.

David Livingstone

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

George Verwer

It is because people are not growing

that they are not going

to the ends of the earth. 

Before God can thrust you out,

He wants to build you up.

Drops from a Leaking Tap

Elisabeth Elliot

Do you know what most
"struggling" is? 

Delayed obedience.

Oswald J. Smith

No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.

Ralph Winter

Evangelism in word, 

if supported by 

'demonstration' in deed, 

is actually

 empowered evangelism.

Jesus

Peace be with you. 

As the Father has sent me, so

I am sending you.

John 20:21

George Barna

The visionary who is serving God ceases to live for personal ambition, but rather for God's ambitions. 

Amy Carmichael

Can we follow the Savior far,

who have no wound or scar?

Adoniram Judson

[to Judson] “Do you think the prospects bright 

for the speedy conversion of the heathen?”

[Judson] “As bright as the promises of God.”  

  

A History of Christianity in Asia by Samuel Moffett

Brother Andrew

You can still go to any place in the Muslim world and preach Christ.
Any place.
 I want to challenge the whole world with that statement.

Christianity Today June 2007

William Cameron Townsend

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue.

It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.

Keith Green

This generation of Christians

is responsible for

this generation of souls
on the earth.

Jesus

This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.

Luke 24:46-48

Steve Moore

Which risk are you going to choose: the risk that comes with doing something, or the far greater hazard of doing nothing?

THE DREAM CYCLE: Leveraging the Power of Personal Growth

William Carey

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

George Verwer

God can use anyone who loves Jesus.

Ron Sider

If the church is to be biblical, it should make concern for the poor one of its central concerns.

From an interview with Jeff Goins

David Brainerd

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen.  I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

Ralph Winter

Make no mistake.

God honors those who seek His work above their worries.

Perspectives on the World Christian Movement

Jesus

Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.

 Mark 16:15

Erwin McManus

To live outside God's will puts us in danger, 

but to live in His will makes us dangerous.

Jim Elliot

He is no fool who 
gives what he cannot keep
to gain what he cannot lose.  

C.T. Studd

Some wish to live within the sound of church or chapel bell;

I want to run a Rescue Shop within a yard of hell.

Steve Moore

God-inspired dreams are not placed in your heart as a taunt.  If your dream is truly God given, you can reach it.

THE DREAM CYCLE: Leveraging the Power of Personal Growth

Ralph Winter

Most of all, think of missions as a cause, not a career. Concern yourself with the cause of missions, and your career will take care of itself.

 

Mission Frontiers JAN-FEB 2007

St. Augustine

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

Jesus

Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 28:19 NLT

William Carey

Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.

Francis Xavier

Tell the students to

give up their small ambitions 

and come eastward to

preach the gospel of Christ.

George Verwer

Evangelize or fossilize!