THE KEY TO MISSIONARY DEVOTION
For His name's sake they went forth. John 1:7

Lord has told us how love to Him is to manifest itself. "Lovest thou Me?" "Feed My sheep" - identify yourself with My interests in other people, not, identify Me with your interests in other people. 1Corinthians 8:4-8 gives the character of this love, it is the love ofGod expressing itself. The test of my love for Jesus is the practical one, all the rest is sentimental jargon. Loyalty to Jesus Christ is the supernatural work of Redemption wrought in me by the Holy Ghost Who sheds abroad the love of God in my heart, and that love works efficaciously through me in contact with everyone I meet. I remain loyal to His Name although every common-sense fact gives the lie to Him, and declares that He has no more power than a morning mist.The key to missionary devotion means being attached to nothing and noone saving Our Lord Himself, not being detached from things externally. Our Lord was amazingly in and out among ordinary things; His detachment was on the inside towards God. External detachment is often an indication of a secret vital attachment to the things we keep away from externally. The loyalty of a missionary is to keep his soul concentratedly open to the nature of the Lord Jesus Christ. The men and women Our Lordsends out on His enterprises are the ordinary human stuff, plusdominating devotion to Himself wrought by the Holy Ghost.

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PRAYER: THE GREATER WORK
And greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father. John 14:12

Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work. We think of prayer as a common-sense exercise of our higher powers in order to prepare us for God's work. In the teaching ofJesus Christ prayer is the working of the miracle of Redemption in me which produces the miracle of Redemption in others by the power ofGod. The way fruit remains is by prayer, but remember it is prayer based on the agony of Redemption, not on my agony. Only a child gets prayer answered; a wise man does not. Prayer is the battle; it is a matter of indifference where you are. Whichever way God engineers circumstances, the duty is to pray. Never allow the thought - "I am of no use where I am;" because you certainly can be of no use where you are not. Wherever God has dumped you down in circumstances pray, cry out to Him all the time. "Whatsoever ye ask in My name, that will I do." We won't pray unless we get thrills, that is the intensest form of spiritual selfishness. We have to labour along the line of God's direction, and He says pray. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will sendforth labourers into His harvest."There is nothing thrilling about a labouring man's work, but it isthe labouring man who makes the conceptions of the genius possible; and it is the labouring saint who makes the conceptions of his Master possible. Yo u labour at prayer and results happen all the time fromHis standpoint. What an astonishment it will be to find, when theveil is lifted, the souls that have been reaped by you, simplybecause you had been in the habit of taking your orders from JesusChrist.

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Ephesians 4:29-32

The Missionary Message Is NOT.....

And He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. John 2:2


The key to the missionary message is the propitiation of ChristJesus. Take any phase of Christ's work - the healing phase, thesaving and sanctifying phase; there is nothing limitless about those."The Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world! " - that is limitless. The missionary message is the limitless significance of Jesus Christ as the propitiation for our sins, and a missionary isone who is soaked in that revelation.The key to the missionary message is the remissionary aspect ofChrist's life, not His kindness and His goodness, and His revealing of the Fatherhood of God; the great limitless significance is that He is the propitiation for our sins. The missionary message is not patriotic, it is irrespective of nations and of individuals, it is for the whole world. When the Holy Ghost comes in He does not consider my predilections, He brings me into union with the Lord Jesus. A missionary is one who is wedded to the charter of his Lord andMaster, he has not to proclaim his own point of view, but to proclaimthe Lamb of God. It is easier to belong to a coterie which tells whatJesus Christ has done for me, easier to become a devotee to Divine healing, or to a special type of sanctification, or to the baptism ofthe Holy Ghost. Paul did no t say - "Woe is unto me, if I do notpreach what Christ has done for me," but - "Woe is unto me, if Ipreach not the gospel." This is the Gospel - "The Lamb of God, whichtaketh away the sin of the world!"

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