*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.