Expansion and Outreach into Other Fields

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It was now that we began to put faith into action, as in Hebrews 11. It was quite simple. We were four of us with Daisy Kingdon, a Congo
missionary on furlough, and our new recruit. We did not rush into beseeching prayer but sat together and said to God in plain words, “What are You up to?” We were not there to express our own viewpoint or concern about our desperate condition, but to discover what His purpose
was in it.

Back came the answer to my mind. I have always found God’s answers to be by the mind of Christ being in action in my mind (1 Cor. 2:16). That
answer was, “What was the commission I gave C.T. Studd when he first sailed for Africa in 1913?”

We remembered that God had said to him that this “trip” he was taking to the heart of Africa was not merely for that region, but for any
unevangelized parts of the world! And Studd had added as he wrote this to his wife: “To human reason it sounds ridiculous; but faith laughs at
impossibilities and cries, ‘It shall be done!’”

That word coming to my mind challenged us to the same faith. So now we were in a corner! And how do you believe when in a tight spot? The
solution was obviously to see how the men of the Bible acted out faith in their crises. So we turned to Joshua, feeling rather like modern Joshuas following our Moses-founder. We were such a small mission—in the one Congo field, with such a huge tide, “Worldwide Evangelization Crusade.”

There in Joshua, chapter one, the Spirit gave us the answer, which is still the answer today. God had given Joshua certain instructions about going in and possessing the Promised Land. But how? The conversation with God ended at verse 9. When we got to verses 10 and 11, the light shone in—and it has never gone out.