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"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" — John Keith Falconer

"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" — Hudson Taylor [ video ]

"God isn't looking for people of great faith, but for individuals ready to follow Him" — Hudson Taylor

"The Great Commission¹ is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed" — Hudson Taylor

"If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China" — Hudson Taylor

"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him." — Hudson Taylor, missionary to China [ video ]

"Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God" — William Carey, who is called the father of modern missions [ more info ]

"To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map." — William Carey, pioneer missionary to India

"Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?" — William Carey

"The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become." — Henry Martyn, missionary to India and Persia

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose" — Jim Elliot, missionary martyr who lost his life in the late 1950's trying to reach the Auca Indians of Ecuador [ info on video ]

"We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it" — P.F. Bresee, founder of the Church of the Nazarene

"In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been" — Robert Moffat, who inspired David Livingstone

"If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?" — David Livingstone

"Sympathy is no substitute for action." — David Livingstone, missionary to Africa

"Can't you do just a little bit more?" — J.G. Morrison pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries

"Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us." — Keith Wright

"The Bible is not the basis of missions; missions is the basis of the Bible" — Ralph Winter, missiologist
On the importance of mission education: "God cannot lead you on the basis of information you do not have" — Ralph Winter, missiologist

"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell." — 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." — C.T. Studd

"Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible." — C.T. Studd

"No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once." — Oswald J. Smith [ more on Oswald Smith ]

"Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist." — Oswald J. Smith

"The mission of the church is missions" — Oswald J. Smith

"We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first." — Oswald J. Smith

"This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!" — Keith Green

"There is nothing in the world or the Church — except the church's disobedience — to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility." — Robert Speer, leader in Student Volunteer Movement

"If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king" — Jordan Grooms (variations of this also credited to G. K. Chesterson, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

"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." — Dave Davidson

"World missions was on God's mind from the beginning." — 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?" — Dave Davidson

"Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart" — Bob Pierce, World Vision founder

"No reserves. No retreats. No regrets" — William Borden

"If ten men are carrying a log — nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end — and you want to help, which end will you lift on?" — William Borden, as he reflected on the numbers of Christian workers in the U.S. as compared to those among unreached peoples in China

"The reason some folks don't believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn't worth propagating." — unknown
When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages." To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here."

"Someone asked Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we — who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not — can be saved." — Charles Spurgeon

"The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" — Carl F. H. Henry

"The evangelization of the world waits not on the readiness of God but on the obedience of Christians." -- Bill M. Sullivan

"Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop." — Kurt von Schleicher [ Apple pickers' parable ]

"Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God." — John Piper

"To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him." — John Piper

"God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose." — John Piper

"Go, send, or disobey." — John Piper

"All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church." — John Piper

"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." — Amy Carmichael, missionary to India

"Only as the church fulfills her missionary obligation does she justify her existence." — Unknown

"As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both." — J. L. Ewen

"Since God is a missionary God, God's people are a missionary people." — Eddy Ho

"God was the first ever missionary when in Genesis 3:8 he went out in search of two sinners who had rebelled against Him in order to bring them back into fellowship with Him." -- Eddy Ho

"The command has been to 'go,' but we have stayed — in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth ... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland." — Robert Savage, Latin American Mission

"People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." — Nate Saint, missionary martyr [ devotional thoughts ]

"We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God." — John Stott

"Believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story." — K.P. Yohannan, founder of Gospel for Asia Bible Society

"Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ." — Francis Xavier, missionary to India, the Philippines, and Japan

"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." — Mike Stachura

"The true greatness of any church in not how many it seats but how many it sends!" — Unknown

"'Not called!' did you say?
'Not heard the call,' I think you should say.
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face — whose mercy you have professed to obey — and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world. — William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army

"It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not." — Peter Taylor Forsyth

"If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere." — Edward Lawlor, Nazarene General Superintendent

"Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is — where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge." — Robert C. Shannon

"People who don't believe in missions have not read the New Testament. Right from the beginning Jesus said the field is the world. The early church took Him at His word and went East, West, North and South." — J. Howard Edington

"It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions." — John R. Mott

"In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer." — Dick Eastman, president of Every Home for Christ (formerly World Literature Crusade)

"What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?" — Eleanor Roat, missions mobilizer

"We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer." — Wesley Duewel, head of OMS International

"Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions" — Roderick Davis

"Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love" — Roland Allen

"I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ." — Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

"If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers" — Nina Gunter

"If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence." — David Bosch

"Missions is not the 'ministry of choice' for a few hyperactive Christians in the church. Missions is the purpose of the church." — Unknown

"The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian." — James S. Stewart

"The average pastor views his church as a local church with a missions program; while he ought to realize that if he is in fact pastoring a church, it is to be a global church with a missions purpose." — Unknown

"The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world." — A. B. Simpson [ missionary hymns by Simpson ]

"Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work." — A.B. Simpson

"The will of God — nothing less, nothing more, nothing else." — F. E. Marsh (also attributed to Bobby Richardson)

"If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small." — Pat Morley

"If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self-surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together." — Arthur T. Pierson

"The history of missions is the history of answered prayer." — Samuel Zwemer

"'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.' You are not even a Christian until you have honestly faced your responsibility in regard to the carrying of the Gospel to the ends of the earth." — J. Stuart Holden

"A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation." — Ted Engstrom, World Vision

"To stay here and disobey God — I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed." — Amanda Berry Smith

"I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!" — Isobel Kuhn, missionary to China and Thailand

"I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest." — Scottish missionay James Gilmour on why he went to Mongolia

"God is a God of missions. He wills missions. He commands missions. He demands missions. He made missions possible through His Son. He made missions actual in sending the Holy Spirit." — George W. Peters

"The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet." — Unknown

"The Church must send or the church will end." — Mendell Taylor

ITS ONLY YOU LORD

The Lord bless you
    and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you
    and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you
    and give you peace.”’

Just One Ball

Some Christ's commands

50 Commands of Christ - Summary List

1. Repent—Matthew 4:17, Luke 13:3

2. Let not your heart be troubled—John 14:27,

John 16:33, Matthew 6:25-26, Philippians 4:6-7

3. Follow me—Matthew 4:19

4. Rejoice—Matthew 5:12, (Also 2 Corinthians 6:10,

12:10, James 1:2-4)

5. Let your light shine—Matthew 5:16

6. Honor God’s law—Matthew 5:17-19

7. Be reconciled—Matthew 5:24-25

8. Do not commit adultery—Matthew 5:27-30

9. Keep your word—Matthew 5:33-37

10. Go the second mile—Matthew 5:38-42

11. Love your enemies—Matthew 5:44

12. Be perfect—Matthew 5:48

13. Practice secret disciplines (giving, praying,

fasting)—Matthew 6:1-18

14. Lay up treasures in heaven—Matthew 6:19-21

15. Seek first the kingdom of God—Matthew 6:33

16. Judge not—Matthew 7:1-2

17. Do not throw your pearls to pigs—Matthew 7:6

18. Ask, seek, and knock—Matthew 7:7-8

19. Do unto others—Matthew 7:12

20. Choose the narrow way—Matthew 7:13-14

21. Beware of false prophets—Matthew 7:15

22. Pray for those who spread the word—Matthew

9:37-38

23. Be as shrewd as serpents—Matthew 10:16.

(Also Romans 16:19)

24. Fear God. Do not fear man— Matthew 10:28

(Also Luke 12:4-5)

25. Listen to God’s voice—Matthew 11:15, 13:9,

13:43, Mark 4:23, Luke 14:35, 1 Kings 19:11-13

26.Take my yoke—Matthew 11:29

27. Honor your parents—Matthew 15:4

28. Beware of false teaching—Matthew 16:6, 11-12

29. Deny yourself—Luke 9:23 (Also Matthew 10:38

and Mark 8:34)

30. Do not despise little ones—Matthew 18:10

31. Go to Christians who offend you—Matthew

18:15 (Also Galatians 6:1)

32. Forgive offenders—Matthew 18:21-22 (Also

Proverbs 19:11)

33. Beware of covetousness—Luke 12:15

34. Honor marriage—Matthew 19:6, 19:9

35. Lead by being a servant—Matthew 20:26-28

36. Make the church a house of prayer for all

nations—Mark 11:17

37. Pray in faith—Matthew 21:21-22, John 15:7

38. Bring in the poor—Luke 14:12-14

39. Render unto Caesar—Matthew 22:19-21

40. Love the Lord—Matthew 22:37-38

41. Love your neighbor—Matthew 22:39

42. Be born again—John 3:7

43. Await my return—Matthew 24:42-44

44. Celebrate the Lord’s supper—Matthew 26:26-

27

45. Watch and pray—Matthew 26:41

46. Keep my commandments—John 14:15

47. Feed my sheep—John 21:15-16

48. Make and baptize disciples—Matthew 28:19

49. Teach disciples to obey—Matthew 28:20

50. Receive God’s power—Luke 24:49

Life giving tips

Start doing these things now and never stop:

1.  Fight hard for the things that make you feel alive. – The longer you have to wait for something, the more you will appreciate it when it finally arrives.  The harder you have to fight for something, the more it will be worth to you once you achieve it.  And the more pain you have to endure on your journey, the sweeter the arrival at your destination.  Most great things don’t come easy, but they are worth waiting for and fighting for. 

2.  Walk comfortably in your own shoes. – If you don’t follow the path others want you to follow they might become irritated.  Don’t worry about it.  Let them be.  It’s their problem, not yours.  So many people seem to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but have no clue how to lead their own.  So focus on your inner callings and keep paving your own path.  Remember that it is more useful to be aware of a single strength or weakness in yourself than to be aware of a thousand strengths and weaknesses in others. 

3.  Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. – Be a defender of honesty and truth so that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.  Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the achievements and lessons of today.  Give so much time to your own self-improvement that you have no time to criticize others.  Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism part of your religion.  Live in the faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is you. 

4.  Work through down days. – After each difficulty you faced in the past was overcome, you became stronger and more able to meet the ones you face today.  Likewise, the difficulties you face today are preparing you for the challenges of tomorrow.  As this process of growth takes place remember that there are no mistakes.  The events you bring upon yourself as you journey forward, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary steps in order to learn what you need to know to reach the places you’ve chosen to go.

5.  Keep making the best of it. – Everything you go through grows you.  Sometimes you think doing something is a total waste of time, and then it ends up being one of the best things you ever did.  Don’t judge the day before it unfolds.  Amazing things can and do happen when you least expect them.  Let each day be a scavenger hunt in which you must find at least one of these things: a sincere laugh, an act of kindness, a realization, or a lesson that will lead you closer to your dreams. 

how to live happy and productive

Word of Encouragement:

Theme: The Road To Lasting Happiness and Productive Living

In this world there are so much happenings that have nothing to support our happiness and productivity such as unemployment, sicknesses, favoritism, insults, dismissals, divorces, delayed marriage, death of beloved ones, lower positions, having lower salaries, etc. Therefore it is practically difficult to ignore physical needs and challenges and easy to spiritual things but you can live a happy and productive life by choosing to live happy. A negative mind will never give you a positive and happy life. Life is better when you are happy, but life is best when other people are happy because of you. be inspired, give peace and share your smile with everyone.

Despite of living in this world full of deep challenges choose to live R²PG lifestyle:

R – Read, study, meditate and act

·the word of God day and night  (Joshua 1:8, Psalms 1:1-3)

 Many people think happiness and productive life come from having money, car, house, job, wife, husband or other worldly possessions. But the lasting one is purely by obeying God's Word, reading and studying it day and night and living by it. Don’t just read the word of God but submit to it so that it can sharp your thinking, talking and acting

R – Rejoice

·always (Philippians 4:4, 3:1, 2:17-18, Romans 5:3, Matthew 5:11-12)

Life starts inside out. Our inner self should not be influenced by what we can see or surrounded by. We should reach a point of saying that no matter what can happen to me Jesus Christ is with me in all things and He will see me through. If your altitude is not centered on the word of God, you will be negative at about yourself, others and everything. Stay near to Christ and to His word and you will be seeing things from His perspective. Have right perspective towards life

P – Pray

·without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17, Colossians 4:2, Philippians 4:6, Luke 18:1-8, Ephesians 6:18)

Prayer is the way to communicate to God our Father like we do to our earthly Fathers. Therefore we need to have a prayerful altitude at all the time. We can only do this when we choose to rely totally on God for all our needs. It is impossible humanly speaking living in this world without having things to be worried about but lets convert all the worries into prayers. If you want to continue living happily and productively, continue praying more and more. Read the word in order to have words to pray about or telling God

G – Give thanks

·in everything (Ephesians 5:20, 1 Thessalonians 5:18)

Living in this world of competitions and comparisons, it is more difficult to give thanks to God and to others. Our happiness and victory come from thanking God about all things coming into our ways whether good or bad. We should realize that the more we thank God, the more He will convert bad circumstances surround us for our good. Every morning pray God to give you different eyes to be seeing more to thankful for. Reading and praying give us opportunity to thank God and appreciate what He is doing in our lives. Never compare yourself with others but with God. Run towards becoming more and more Christ like not any of the human beings

In conclusion: Iam encouraging you in the power of the Holy Spirit to start and continue: Reading the word of God day and night, Rejoicing always in the Lord, Praying without ceasing and giving thanks to God about all things happening in your way.

Prepared by

Lazarous Chongo

Missionary / Whole Life Coach

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