Courage to Conquer by Lester Sumrall

Author:Lester Sumrall
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Pastoral Resources, Christian Ministry, Ministry, Christian Life, General, Religion, Clergy, Pastoral Theology
ISBN: 9780892748679
Publisher: Sumrall Publishing
Published: 1992-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Part III God Will Take Care of You

17

God Will Take Care of Your Daily Needs

December 19, 1931, was the night I received my vision of the millions dying worldwide without Jesus — the vision I have already described in which the Lord showed me that I was responsible to take His Gospel to the nations.

That same night, far away in London, England, the general superintendent of the British Assemblies of God, Howard Carter, was praying. The Holy Spirit began speaking, and the message so moved him that he wrote it down:

"I have found a companion for thee: I have called a worker to stand beside thee. He hath heard my call, he respondeth, and he joineth thee in the work to which I have called thee.

"I have called him, although thou hast not seen him. He is called and chosen and shall join thee. Behold, he cometh—he cometh from afar. He cometh to help thee to carry thy burden and be a strength at thy side, and thou shalt find pleasure in his service at thy side, and thou shalt delight in his fellowship.

"He shall come at the time appointed and shall not tarry. At a time thou thinkest not shall he appear, even when thou art engaged in My work."

What did this Word from God mean ?

The next morning, Carter read it at a staff meeting of the Hampstead Bible Institute where he was president.

"Oh, you are going to get married," said one professor. "God is going to bring you a pretty woman from some far country."

Carter shook his head. No, the message said "he cometh," "he cometh from afar," "he cometh to help thee." The prophecy didn't say anything about a woman. Carter knew that God was going to send a man to travel with him.

Eighteen months passed. Each day, Carter expected the promised helper to arrive. Then, he received an invitation to speak at a camp meeting in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, in the United States.

At first, he declined—feeling it was a waste of time to travel so far for such a short meeting. He wrote his regrets, then received a transatlantic cablegram from Arkansas, asking if he was coming. Apparently his letter had not yet arrived. The wording of the cablegram moved him. He cabled back, "Ignore letter, am accepting." His missionary secretary in London suggested that he should extend his trip to visit the missionaries in the Far East before returning home.

Feeling that the missionaries needed to be visited, Carter decided to seek divine guidance in the matter. Locking himself in a local church sanctuary for several hours, he sought the Lord's will. In his solitude, he felt God speaking to him:

"Go thou for the journey and clothe thee for the path which thou shalt take, for I am sending thee, and I will go with thee. Thou hast waited for Me, and thou hast done well, for thy waiting has been thy wisdom, and thou hast been shown the path and I will give thee grace to tread it.

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