How Can We Support Our Missionaries? - Jenny

How can we support our missionaries? This is a good question to think about. When we ask missionaries what we can do to help support them they will often reply by saying 'through prayer'. Many times we will throw a couple of dollars into an envelope marked with the person's name and put it in the offering plate and think that we have done our duty for the week. We have made ourselves feel better by giving whatever change we may have had leftover from the weekend.

I would say, Christian, that there is another question we need to think about: Are you giving with a willing heart? The Bible says In 2 Corinthians 9:7, “Every man according as he hath purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or out of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.” See Christian, God wants a cheerful giver, not one that has to force himself to give money because it is in the Bible that we need to do so. Often times we think that because we have worked hard for the money we have earned we deserve to do what we want with it without recognizing that it is God who has enabled us to do our job and has even provided the job. Christian, do you have so little faith in your Lord that you do not believe that He will take care of you like He says he will? Philippians 4:19 says, “But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

The missionary depends on the financial support of other believers. If we do not help them who will? As believers we need to take on the responsibility of caring for those who are seeking to further the gospel. The Lord has promised to take care of your needs. Will you not help to take care of the needs of others?