The Great Provider

"If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' tell him, 'The Lord needs it.'" (Luke 19:31)

It’s easy to have a fear of not having enough. When we look at our limited resources and so many needs, it’s hard to see it from an eternal perspective. Where we see a shortage, Jesus sees the resources necessary for His will to be accomplished. 

In this verse, Jesus is giving instructions to the disciples on how to find the colt that would carry Him into Jerusalem for the Passover. In Jesus’ ministry, the resources followed the ministry, not the other way around. So He asked His disciples to have faith. Imagine what it would have been like for these God-fearing disciples to go into town and take a donkey that didn’t belong to them. But their obedience showed that they trusted the Savior to provide the resources for the ministry. 

When Jesus calls us to serve, we need to be willing to trust Him for the resources. If we require all the elements to be in place before we obey, we will say no to so many opportunities that Jesus wants us to pursue. If we choose to step out in faith, we may look foolish and risky, but Jesus will be glorified as He accomplishes things through us with His resources.

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ... But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”  

(Matthew 6:25-26, 33-34) 

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"Missions is primarily intentional cross-cultural evangelism beyond the immediate outreach of the local church. Its aim is to bring the unreached to saving faith in Jesus Christ, to disciple them and to incorporate them into the fellowship of an existing or newly-planted local assembly of believers." --Dr. Frank Allen, missionary and mission pastor

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Is Missions Worship?

Is missions a campaign to save lost souls, or first and foremost a call to worship God.

God desires worship from His creatures, and He will have it from all His people from all the nations. And we have the incredible privilege of being the vehicles of grace and the gospel to bringing a world of worshippers into that eternal praise of God. This is the mission.

Early on Genesis 11, there was only one people, one culture and one language that existed on the earth. Although they had been instructed by God to “go and multiply and fill the earth”, they congregated and settled down in the comfortable plain of Shinar instead. The people became wholly devoted to “making a name for themselves” (11:4).

There was no praise for God among this people of Babel, and God judged them. Part of the judgment is that He confused their one language into what are more than 6,704 languages spoken in the world today; and split their single culture into the 24,000 people groups that are now scattered across the earth.

And then in Genesis 12 He revealed a redemptive strategy beginning with Abraham, where He would gather again a single people for His name; and He is steadily doing it people group by people group, and nation by nation through His representative missionaries.

This is amazing to me; that God redeemed us “in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles” (Galatians 3:13-14). What an awesome privilege that God actually uses us for the reconciliation of the nations with Him (2 Cor. 5:20). Therefore our passion for lost souls should only be surpassed by our passion for the Lamb of God.

We are eager for new opportunities to present the Gospel in the still unreached territories of the earth. We want to be busy going and sending missionaries to deliver the redemption of God to His people throughout the nations. The people get a blessing – Salvation; but we’re going primarily for Jesus.

The privilege of carrying the mews of our Savior Jesus Christ to the nations is a motivation that will keep missionaries on the front lines when persecution heats up. In the end, God will once again have One People gathered out from every one of the world’s peoples (Revelation 5:9).

And God’s cause; the worship of all peoples, will be a glorious victory!

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Worship of King Jesus is the end and ultimate aim; mission is God’s method to get his chosen people gathered for worship. Mission, therefore is a deliberate act of obedient worship to God.
This is the purpose of “To Every Tribe.” --Count Nicholas Zinzendorf (1700-1769); Founder of the Moravians

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Pray for the Unreached Baraua of India

Population: 400
World Popl: 400
Main Language: Hindi
Main Religion: Hinduism
Bible: Complete
Status: Least-Reached
Christ-Followers: Few, less than 2%

                       Asia International Mission is an IRS approved 501(c)(3) non-profit ministry.

                        All gifts are tax-deductible and 100% of donations are used as designated