Things that are stirring my heart…
My faith has been challenged lately the more I read the Bible and the more I’ve been reading stories of missionaries, martyrs and people of wild faith in Jesus who live in full surrender to God. This quote has stirred me deeply: “Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone.” - Hudson Taylor, missionary to China. Hudson Taylor knew that going off to another country would require him to have full faith and dependency on God. He also knew he needed greater opportunities to exercise his spiritual muscles and to grow deeper in his dependency on God before going. So he started praying about specific things, going to God alone about them (and not to others) to see if he really could solely trust the Lord alone. His story is pretty incredible. My spirit has been stirring within me as I seek the Lord. I want wild, fully surrendered faith in the Lord. But as I’ve been seeking Him, He has also been revealing areas that I hold too tightly in my need to control. He wants ...
