God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn’t just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world.

Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man’s business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don’t presume you will have it tomorrow, and don’t waste it today.

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

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

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.