Mission Q&A - Advice for Preparing Missionaries | Called to Serve

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Serving a mission can be exciting and daunting. What are some things you wish you had known before your mission? What kind of advice would you give someone who is preparing to go on a mission? 🤨 Your questions we answer! 👊👊
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These times call for Saints like you. Many are called but you were chosen. We have armor from God.We need it! Especially the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.
There is a Crown in Heaven awaiting all who faithfully share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a soul is saved. ( "JESUS SAVES" below) 1 Thessalonians 2:19-20; Philippians 4:1. The Apostle Paul testified; Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek".
This praise resounds across the earth: "Jesus is Lord and only He saves".
2 Samuel 22:50 "Therefore I will praise you, O Lord, out of the countries, and I will praise your name."
JESUS SAVES
God the Son (Jesus Christ) has given us the gospel to share with the world.
Mark 16:15: "And He said unto them, Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."
How can anyone hear the "good" news? Romans 10:17 "Then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." (We receive the "word" in many ways. The "Word" is Jesus Christ!); John 1:1-5 The Spirit teaches through the Word.
Isaiah 7:14: "Therefore the LORD shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and call His name Immanuel." Hebrew: עִמָּנוּאֵל, "God with us" in human flesh but without sin. The Savior of the world was born to die for our sins! He did so 33 years later. His terrible ordeal; body mutilated; blood poured out, finally died (John 19:30; Luke 23:46 ) and was placed in a tomb and rose from the dead the 3rd day! "HE IS RISEN" Matthew 28:6.
Isaiah 53:5 "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all."--IT IS FOUNDED UPON GOD'S LOVE FOR MAN AND WOMAN HE CREATED.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."
All we are born in sin! And we will sin. It is in our nature.
"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me." John 14:6
BELIEVE
1 Corinthians 15:3 "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures."
"I am the way, the truth and the life: no one comes to the Father, but by me." (John 14.6)
"In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;" Ephesians 1: 7
"For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins." Matthew 26:28
Ephesians 2:8-9 "For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast."
Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sins and rescue us from eternal death. Because of Jesus's death on our behalf, all we have to do is believe in Him, trusting in His death and in the shedding of His blood as payment for our sins, as well as in His burial and resurrection from the dead the third day, and we will be saved! John 20:24-31; See also 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 above.
Romans 10:
9 If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, then you will be saved.
10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
13 For whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Salvation and forgiveness of sins is the blessing of anyone who believes in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. We receive the baptism of God the Holy Spirit immediately which seals us in Christ and that is permanent! Ephesians 1:13-14. Those who reject the free gift of salvation, see John 3:16 above, "perish", which means their sins are judged by God the Son and they suffer eternal separation from God and the family of God forever called the "second death". Revelation 21: 8
"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:1