We should believe great things.
Founder of modern missionary movement, William Carey:
Was an impoverished English shoemaker.
Converted and became a Baptist lay preacher.
Wrote a book on missions.
(Most Christians thought missions was only for Apostles.)
(God would do it in his own good time.)
Carey preached a moving sermon before a group of pastors:
“Attempt great things for God,
Expect great things from God.”
One year later, 1793, Carey and his family sailed for India.
In five years he had translated the NT into Bengali.
By the end of his career he translated the whole Bible into
3 languages and founded a college that exists today.
Great difficulties:
No converts for 7 years.
His wife died of insanity.
A warehouse fire destroyed 30 years of translation work.
Through it all he never gave up the faith.
His secret for accomplishing great things?
“I can plod. I can persevere in any definite task. To this
I owe everything.”
What can we accomplish if we set our faith to it?
Also see “From Jerusalem to Iraian Jaya” by Ruth Tucker, p. 114.
[see also 1114]
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