In Tune With God's Heart

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For this Missions Month in August you will have the opportunity to be in tune with God’s heart for the people of the world. Here are some quotes on this subject starting with the most famous verse in the Bible – John 3:16.

  1. For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16).
  2. In the vast plain of the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been. (Robert Moffat)
  3. World missions was on God’s mind from the beginning. (Dave Davidson)
  4. We talk of the Second Coming; half of the world has never heard of the first. (Oswald J. Smith)
  5. 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 Falconer)
  6. The command has been to “go”, but we have stayed : in body, gifts, prayer and influence. (Robert Savage)
  7. The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity. (Mike Stachura)
  8. “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, agonised 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 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)
  9. This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. (Jesus in Matt. 24:14)
  10. ♪ God sent His Son, they called Him Jesus.♫ (Bill Gaither) As the Father has sent Me, I am sending you. (Jesus in Jn. 20:21)
  11. The Lord said: “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” Isaiah said, “Here am I. Send me!” The Lord said: “Go and tell this people. (Isaiah in Isa. 6:8, 9)

Are you in tune with God’s heart for the people of the world? Then – “go and tell the people of the world”!