Prayer

In II Chronicles 7:14, God says, "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

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The following testimonials are from The Fuel and the Flame by Steve Shadrach.

Ludwig Von Zinzendorf

1700's while at University of Wittenberg to study law he looked at a painting of Christ dying on the cross with the inscription "All this I did for you, what are you going to do for Me?" He committed his life to world missions and started a 24-hour prayer meeting that lasted 120 years! His mission society "The Moravians" sent out more missionaries in the next 20 years than all Protestants or Anglicans in the previous 200 years.

John Wesley

1720 converted to Christ at Oxford University. He started a campus group called the "Holy Club" and dedicated his life to be a missionary to Native Americans but did not have a correct concept of salvation through faith. He went to America to preach but failed miserably. While on a ship ride back to England he met a "Moravian" missionary whose life and words impacted him to understand that justification came through faith. John started the Methodist movement and in his lifetime traveled 250,000 miles on horse, preached 40,000 sermons and gave away over 90% of his income!

William Carey

Known as "The Father of the Modern Missionary Movement" was greatly influenced by the Moravians and John Wesley. William was a self-educated, young man when he caught God's vision for the world. When he tried to convince a group of ministers to take the Great Commission seriously they said to him, "Young man, sit down. When God chooses to win the heathen, He will do it without your help or ours!" Well, he didn't take no for an answer. He ended up writing a small book on the need for world evangelization and ended up convincing a few of his friends to form a tiny missions agency to send him to India in 1792. In the next 25 years his little booklet inspired many other mission agencies to form. Carey spent his entire life preaching the Gospel in India, planting churches and translating Scriptures into 40 different languages. "Expect Great Things from God, Attempt Great Things for God."

Timothy Dwight

By the 1790's, American colleges had backslid into an atmosphere of blasphemy, drunkenness and attacks on the Christian faith. Small bands of Christians were forced to meet secretly to pray. Into this climate, Yale President Timothy Dwight, the grandson of Jonathan Edwards, began a series of lectures as an open forum on the Christian faith. Under his influence one half of the student body of Yale was converted.

Samuel Mills and the "Haystack Five"

William Carey's little book made its way in to the hands of 5 college students at Williams University in Massachusetts. On a rainy August day in 1806 these 5 students while reading Carey's little book decided to hide under a haystack and intercede for the world. When the rain stopped Samuel Mill's turned to his 4 friends and said, "If We Can We Will!" These 5 initiated the first student missionary movement in our nation and began the first 6 mission agencies in America.

Hudson Taylor

In 1865 a student by the name of Hudson Taylor in England decided to give his life away to preach the Gospel in main land China. He never asked anyone for financial help and he even began to dress like the Chinese people. He ended up forming the China Inland Mission and recruited other students from England to help him reach the Chinese. By 1949, before the CIM missionaries were kicked out by communist China, China Inland Missions had sent over 6,000 missionaries into China's interior. Taylor is known as "The Father of Faith Missions."

Lottie Moon

Was from a wealthy Virginia family during the time of the civil war. She was only 4'3" and at the age of 23 decided to go to China herself to reach the lost. She declined a marriage proposal from a seminary professor saying, "God had first claim on my life, and since the two conflicted, there could be no question about the result! Through Lottie's work in China thousands were saved and baptized. She was most known for mobilizing thousands of women in the States to pray, volunteer and give financially to foreign missions. During the Boxer Rebellion in 1911 Lottie gave away all her money and food to help the starving. She ended up starving herself and died on Christmas eve 1912. Because of her sacrifice the Southern Baptists each year at Christmas have raised over hundreds of millions of dollars to give to world missions in her name!

C.T. Studd and the Cambridge Seven

In the 1880's 7 wealthy and prominent students at Cambridge University were touched by the story of the China Inland Mission and decided to forsake all for the Gospel of Christ. C.T. Studd the leader of this group was the most famous cricket player in all of Europe at that time. He gave up all his fame, his fortune and dreams to preach the Gospel in China with his other 6 buddies. Their sacrifice hit the front page of newspapers and sparked the greatest missionary movement in Christian history called the "Student Volunteer Movement." The impact was amazing by the time the Cambridge 7 arrived in China in 1885 they had sign up 163 student missionaries. The number double in 1890 and reached 800 by the year 1900 representing 1/3 of the entire protestant missionary force at that time. CT Studd said, ""If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, nothing I sacrifice is too great for Him!"

Luther Wishard

In the late 19th century in America a recent college graduate named Luther Wishard heard about the "Haystack 5 Prayer Meeting" at Williams College 70 years earlier, this unlikely revolutionary realized that world missions was the missing ingredient in his life and message as a YMCA missionary. So Luther journeyed to Williams college to do business with God. Kneeling in the snow next to the statue of Samuel Mills of the Haystack 5 at Williams college he prayed, "I am willing to go anywhere at anytime to do anything for Jesus. Where water once flowed, let it flow again."

That day he surrendered his life totally to carry on the legacy of the Haystack 5. God used Luther to gather 251 college men from 89 universities to a retreat center called Mt. Hermon in MA. He and others challenged the students to cross-cultural missions. Of the 251, 100 committed themselves to the mission field of the world. They signed a declaration called the Mount Hermon 100 stating, "We are willing and desirous, God permitting, to become foreign missionaries." Out of that "Mt. Hermon 100" over the next forty years over 100,000 students were recruited to reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Their moto: "The Evangelization of the world…in this generation!"

Grace Wilder

The daughter of an American missionary, Grace Wilder grew up in India. Due to her father's health, the family returned home in 1876 to live and minister near Princeton University. A few years later Grace enrolled in nearby Mt. Holyoke College and promptly started a weekly Bible study for women. Before they could join, though, she required them to sign a "declaration" stating: "I hold myself willing and desirous to do the Lord's work wherever He may call me, even if it be to a foreign land." Thirty-four women signed it.

Grace and her younger brother, Robert, heard about the Mt. Hermon, Mass., Bible conference that evangelist D.L. Moody was hosting for over 250 college men in July of 1886. Grace encouraged her brother to go and to take an even more radical version of her declaration with him to ask men to sign. This one stated, "We the undersigned, declare ourselves willing and desirous, God permitting, to go to the unevangelized portions of the world." She stayed behind and prayed that 100 of the men would sign it, committing themselves to foreign missions. God answered, as exactly 100 men signed, thus launching the greatest student missions mobilization effort in history — the Student Volunteer Movement. Over the next 40 years, almost 100,000 students would sign this declaration and embrace the watchword: "The Evangelization of the World in This Generation!"

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