Yesterday we talked a little bit about fasting and praying, and today I wanted to encourage you by sharing with you an article that we have on our main Voice of the Martyrs website - http://www.persecution.com - on articles on prayer.
This is the first of five articles we will be highlighting in the coming days. It begins...
By Cheryl Odden
Samuel M. Zwemer, a missionary and Christian scholar on Islam, said: "The history of missions is the history of answered prayer…it is the key to the whole missionary problem. All human means are secondary." J. Oswald Sanders said: "[Prayer] is fundamental, not supplementary…. All progress can be clearly traced back to prevailing prayer."
VOM could diligently publish the addresses of Christians imprisoned in restricted nations and deliver Bibles inside those nations. Such efforts, however, are fruitless without prayer. Missions is answered prayer. VOM’s work is answered prayer. VOM’s work was petitioned years, perhaps even centuries ago by men and women who tarried on their knees for the persecuted church. One of these men was Pastor Richard Wurmbrand. Finish the article.
