Daily Dew Devotional

*DAILY DEW 23RD/DECEMBER/2021* *THE NECCESITY OF MISSIONS* _Key Bible Text:_ *"Mortal man", he said, "I am making you a lookout for the nation of Israel. You will pass on to them the warnings I give you. If I announce that someone evil is going to die but you do not warn him to change his ways so that he can save his life, he will die, still a sinner, but I will hold you responsible for his death."* (Ezekiel 3: 17-18(GNB))  _Bible Insight:_ THERE is a legend told concerning the return of Jesus to Heaven. Meeting Gabriel, He stated that He had completed His divinely appointed task.  “And what is your plan?” inquired Gabriel. “How is the Gospel to be spread? Did you leave a strong organization on earth with well defined plans?” “No,” answered the Saviour. “I left no organization, only a small company of disciples, mostly of very humble birth. They are to tell the World.” “But suppose they fail you.” Persisted Gabriel, “what plan have you then?” “I have no ...

*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 twelv...

*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...

*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 ...

*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 u...

*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 w...