*DAILY DEW 22ND/DECEMBER/2021* *FINANCING MISSIONS* (III) _Key Bible Text:_ *And because of the proof which this service of yours brings, many will give glory to God for your loyalty to the gospel of Christ, which you profess, and for your generosity in sharing with them and everyone else.* (2 Corinthians 9:13 (GNB)) _Bible Insight:_ A lot of people have an idea that when George Mueller died, George Mueller’s God died (too). God is not dead. Elijah’s God still lives today. He can work the necessary miracle. “Said I not unto thee, that, if thou would believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? All things are possible to him that believeth.” Every year for 50 years, we have held a missionary convention. It used to last for one week. Then, for several years, four weeks and five Sundays. After giving the people a vision of missions, morning, afternoon and night, we take up a faith-promise offering. Our people indicate the amount they will contribute during the next twelve months. Does it work? Let me give you two examples. Park Street Church, Boston, asked me to hold an evangelistic campaign. I did so. The auditorium was crowded, with many standing on the steps, and score upon scores, mostly young people, found Christ. Dr. Harold Ockenga, the Pastor, asked me to come into his office. “Dr Smith,” he said, “this church has never had a missionary convention in the one hundred and thirty-five years of its history. We understand that you hold one every year. Would you be willing to come to Park Street and hold one for us?” I asked Dr. Ockenga how much his church was, at that time, contributing to missions. His answer was, $3,200 a year. Next year I took a group of missionaries and held a convention in Park Street Church. I went back every year for six years. Last year Park Street gave over $300,000 to missions. _MEDITATION:_ *And God is able to give you more than you need, so that you will always have all you need for yourselves and more than enough for every good cause.* (2 Corinthians 9:8 (GNB)) (Culled from The Challenge of Missions by Oswald J. Smith) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Wednesday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Supernatural_Supplies_Month* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#HTP2021_Loading* *#GuestMessage* *#Hello_December* ❤ Links To Visit: Register for *HTP2021:* https://bit.ly/HTP2021_Registration *Podcast:* https://anchor.fm/daily-dew-devotional *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *DDDblog* http://dailydewdevotion.blogspot.com/2021/12/financing-missions-iii.html *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg *WhatsApp Group:* http://bit.ly/The_David_Generation Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 21ST/DECEMBER/2021* *FINANCING MISSIONS* (II) _Key Bible Text:_ *Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.* (Galatians 6:2, 10 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ How do we get it? Perhaps if I were to tell you how we do NOT get it, it would help. We do not raise it by means of suppers, bazaars, concerts, rummage sales, or oyster stews. Not because I am against these methods, but because they will not work. What does a business man do when he runs across a method that will not work? He scraps it, does he not? Now listen. I am responsible, humanly speaking, for the personal support of three hundred and fifty missionaries. Every month of my life I have to get more than $25,000, or humanly speaking, they will starve. How many of you business men carry as heavy a responsibility? What would you do if you had to get $25,000 every month, and if three hundred and fifty workers were dependant upon it? May I pause long enough to say that never once has God failed. Whether I am at home or on some foreign field, or holding evangelistic campaigns in Great Britain or Austria, the money comes in and allowances go out. _MEDITATION:_ *"Now tell me if you ever knew a rummage sale to produce $25,000. If not, then what good is it? Do you blame me for scrapping a method that will not produce what I need? I have never known it to happen. Well then, what do I do? I turn to another method, of course, a method that will bring in the amount needed"* -- Oswald J. Smith (Culled from The Challenge of Missions by Oswald J. Smith) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Tuesday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Supernatural_Supplies_Month* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#HTP2021_Loading* *#GuestMessage* *#Hello_December* ❤ Links To Visit: Register for *HTP2021:* https://bit.ly/HTP2021_Registration *Podcast:* https://anchor.fm/daily-dew-devotional *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *DDDblog* http://dailydewdevotion.blogspot.com/2021/12/financing-missions-ii.html *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg *WhatsApp Group:* http://bit.ly/The_David_Generation Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 20TH/DECEMBER/2021* *FINANCING MISSIONS* _Key Bible Text:_ *And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.* (Habakkuk 2:2 (KJV)) _Bible Insight:_ HOW IS IT DONE? Everywhere I go I am asked the question, “How do you get such offerings? Where does the money come from? You must have a church of millionaires.” That is what the editor of Canada’s Roman Catholic paper thought when he saw the report in the daily press. He wrote and asked me if it were so, and when I replied in the negative, he was astonished. He wrote a long article in his Roman Catholic publication, stating that one Protestant church, led, as he said, by a zealous pastor, gave more to missions than all the Catholic churches from Ontario to the Coast put together. “We,” he said, “are the true custodians of the Faith, and yet we allow one Protestant church to outdo us. Shame on us.” His thought, of course, was to stir up the Catholics to do more. No, we have no millionaires. As a matter of fact, we do not have any real wealth in our church. Our gifts come from a multitude of ordinary people. At one time an official of the Foreign Mission Board of a large denomination asked me for the secret, and wanted to know why the giving of his denomination had decreased. “Dr. So-and-So,” I said, “you have put missions in the budget and you appeal to the people for a dead, cold budget and then you divide the money as you see fit. It will never do. World-wide evangelism is too important to be put in a budget. You will have to pull it out of the budget and put it up on the platform where the people can see it. You will have to go back to the great missionary rallies of the days of the Student Volunteer Movement, when multitudes of young men and women where inspired to go. People will never give to a budget. They must have inspiration.” He admitted that I was right. _MEDITATION:_ *World-wide evangelism is too important to be put in a budget. You will have to pull it out of the budget and put it up on the platform where the people can see it."* -- Oswald J. Smith (Culled from The Challenge of Missions by Oswald J. Smith) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Monday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Supernatural_Supplies_Month* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#HTP2021_Loading* *#GuestMessage* *#Hello_December* ❤ Links To Visit: Register for *HTP2021:* https://bit.ly/HTP2021_Registration *Podcast:* https://anchor.fm/daily-dew-devotional *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *DDDblog* http://dailydewdevotion.blogspot.com/2021/12/financing-missions.html *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg *WhatsApp Group:* http://bit.ly/The_David_Generation Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 19TH/DECEMBER/2021* *WELCOME TO MISSIONS* (VII) _Key Bible Text:_ *My dear friends, I was doing my best to write to you about the salvation we share in common, when I felt the need of writing at once to encourage you to fight on for the faith which once and for all God has given to his people.* (Jude 1:3 (GNB)) _Bible Insight:_ Suppose I were to gather together a little group of women, a dozen or more, and suppose I were to say to those women, “Now you are to become a Women’s Missionary Society, and your work will be the work of evangelizing the world. That is all you have to do, just evangelize the World.” What then would I be saying to everyone else and to all the other organizations in the church? I would be saying, “This is not the most important work of the church. It is only a side issue, just one of the many departments of church work. Let these women look after it. They can take care of the evangelization of the world; and the rest of us – those of us who are men – we will do something really worthy of our manhood.” No, my friends! Every man in my church is a member of the Women’s Missionary Society. And I see to it, as far as possible, that every one of the 120 members of my choir accepts his or her responsibility; that each one of my elders, managers and deacons, more than two hundred, shoulders the burden; that every usher, every Sunday School teacher and officer and every boy or girl, contributes to missions. We do not have the parents give for the children. We teach the children to give for themselves. From the time they are seven years of age, they are taught to give systematically. Then when they grow up we have no trouble with them. They have learned how to give. Last year our Sunday School gave $211,000 to Missions. Our Elders gave $90,000 and our Choir $36,000. This work is far too important to hand over to any one organization. It belongs to the whole church, and when everyone catches the vision and everyone does something, then our goal is reached and our budget met. _MEDITATION:_ *Our motto is, "Every Christian a missionary.” It is the work of the whole church. "* -- Oswald J. Smith (Culled from The Challenge of Missions by Oswald J. Smith) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Sunday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Supernatural_Supplies_Month* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#HTP2021_Loading* *#GuestMessage* *#Hello_December* ❤ Links To Visit: Register for *HTP2021:* https://bit.ly/HTP2021_Registration *Podcast:* https://anchor.fm/daily-dew-devotional *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *DDDblog* http://dailydewdevotion.blogspot.com/2021/12/welcome-to-missions-vii.html *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg *WhatsApp Group:* http://bit.ly/The_David_Generation Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...

*DAILY DEW 18TH/DECEMBER/2021* *WELCOME TO MISSIONS* (VI) _Key Bible Text:_ *And of making all people see how God's secret plan is to be put into effect. God, who is the Creator of all things, kept his secret hidden through all the past ages, in order that at the present time, by means of the church, the angelic rulers and powers in the heavenly world might learn of his wisdom in all its different forms.* (Ephesians 3:9-10(GNB)) _Bible Insight:_ But now for the sequel. They became so interested, so aroused, so awakened, that they came in ever-increasing numbers. Souls were saved and in a very short time every seat was taken. Before long thy had caught the vision and they began to give, to give as they had never given before, and in a few weeks, without having to say hardly anything about the local obligations, every debt was paid, every bill met, and from that day to this we have not known the meaning of the word “debt” in connection with our work. We discovered that when we put first things first, God works. The trouble with the average church is that the cart is put before the horse and then the pastor is told to get up on the seat and drive, and of course he finds the going hard. If only we would reverse the order and accept God’s plan, we would get somewhere and the going would be easy. Seek first the extension of God’s kingdom world-wide, and all things will be added. God’s programme never fails. CHURCH The third word I want to emphasize is the word “Church.” “The supreme task of the church is the evangelization of the world.” When I think of the church I think of the whole church, and not merely of a department or an organization in the church. For instance, we do not have any Women’s Missionary Society in The Peoples Church. We never have had such an organization and we never will. Not because I am against such a society. I thank God for every Women’s Missionary Society. Sometimes the only missionary light that shines is the light that shines from a Women’s Missionary Society. But I can show you in two minutes why it would be impossible for us to have such an organization. _MEDITATION:_ *“The first work of the whole church is to give the Gospel to the whole world"* -- Oswald J. Smith (Culled from The Challenge of Missions by Oswald J. Smith) *#David_Joshua_Egbochuo* *#Saturday_wisdomforliving* *#Becoming_More_Like_Jesus* *#Supernatural_Supplies_Month* *#Daily_Dew_Devotional* *#HTP2021_Loading* *#GuestMessage* *#Hello_December* ❤ Links To Visit: Register for *HTP2021:* https://bit.ly/HTP2021_Registration *Podcast:* https://anchor.fm/daily-dew-devotional *FB Pages* https://www.facebook.com/DavidJoshuaEgbochuo/ https://www.facebook.com/thedavidgen/ https://www.facebook.com/THEREVIVALCORPS/ *DDDblog* http://dailydewdevotion.blogspot.com/2021/12/welcome-to-missions-vi.html *Telegram Group:* https://t.me/joinchat/NzXQlVc9Hx7LfaRSnh9fHg *WhatsApp Group:* http://bit.ly/The_David_Generation Feel Free to Share with Friends. God bless you...