#HudsonTaylor

[theperezhilton]

Tomorrow is uncertain but today is #MancrushMonday! @HudsonTaylor

[orobzr]

83/100 of #the100daysproject “The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.” ― J. Hudson Taylor “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭28:19‬ ‭NIV‬‬ #christianillustration #lovingmybible #christianfaith #Christianity #LovingGod #knowinggod #onlyjesuscansave #bibleverse #biblequotes #hudsontaylor #christianmisionary https://www.instagram.com/p/B9k-uB_nBcY/?igshid=aupdsj9crzmt

[msjrstanley]

. Who would’ve though it was pure gold I wanna be there when it’s set in stone. . . . . . #life #stanleigh #lyrics #oldsoul #hudsontaylor #dreamer https://www.instagram.com/p/B0OsHJNCkvh/?igshid=5om06zvr523t

[normansrareguitars]

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Wow!!! #FlatTopFriday with @hudtaymusic and they’re back with their band! #HudsonTaylor is playing our 1957 @gibsonguitar J-185N, 1974 #Gibson F-5 #Mandolin, 1966 @gibsonguitar EB-2 #Bass, #DotNeck #ES335 #GibsonGuitar and a @guildguitars F-112 #12String here at #NormansRareGuitars! **MUST WATCH FULL VIDEO ON OUR @YOUTUBE CHANNEL, link on our bio. What do you guys think? 🎥@manalophoto (at Norman's Rare Guitars) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo2VsltnRwK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=41ujcuedmhx5

[trulyinchrist]

If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me. John 12:26 #motivationalquotes #quotestagram #bibleverses #hudsontaylor #missionaryquotes #quotes #motivation https://www.instagram.com/p/CYeqWSvr8Cp/?utm_medium=tumblr

[joeycork]

Day 5: @hudtaymusic & @moxiemuso the highlights of the final day on #indie18 ! #indiemusic #indie #hudsontaylor #moxiemuso #noworkaugust (at Indiependance Festival)

[oyelapalabra]

[yseultb-blog]

Such a good night. . . . . . . . I'm never doing it again. #Death #WorkNightOut #Leopardstown #TheyTrynaKillMe #HudsonTaylor #ChickieNuggies #Napples #Gin #Vodka #Jager #ThroughASTRAW #ByeDignity #MyFeetHurt #CarryMySuitcase #ONEofusisHighMaintainanceAF #WeStillLoveYou #BottomLine #JoeyWasALegend (at Clayton Hotel Leopardstown)

[pompahdah-blog]

“I’d rather live with the pain than die feeling nothing at all. So come on, let it in ‘cause you can’t feel love till you jump right in. So whenever it hits me I’m ready to feel it again.” #feelitagain #hudsontaylor #lyrics #song #music #calligraphy #handwriting #handlettering #handwrittenlyrics

[cliggomusic]

Listen to Hudson Taylor for free: https://music.cliggo.com/artist/2837561-Hudson_Taylor

[vanessa8bmth]

This video.

[ciaraoc88]

✨✨ Happiness ✨✨ @bobbyray992 #love #boyfriend #couple #happy #hudsontaylor #music #spiegeltent #wexford #drinks #halloween #romance ❤️

[redeemedbymygoel]

Waiting on the Lord and Trusting His Sovereignty in Trials

“What it meant to pay the money over that night and secure the premises may be better imagined than described. Then he had not been mistaken after all! His work in Shanghai was not finished. Prayer was being answered and the guidance given for which he had longed and waited.”

~pg 66, Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret

Twenty weeks have passed by in the internship and we are done with our first semester! Summer is all about prepping for camp and there’s one more semester to go in the fall and God has been faithful every step of the way! We started reading the biography of Hudson Taylor, and the excerpt above reflects perfectly one huge theme of this internship- the goodness of the Lord to provide in times of waiting! Hudson Taylor was looking for housing to stay in to evangelize to the Chinese, having gone there rather poor and refusing to take pay for being a doctor, the Lord provided a home for him in the best timing! In our internship calls, we talked of how “waiting on the Lord means resting in God and His timing” and indeed is that something the Lord has taught me in the internship. From fundraising to God’s gracious timing on plane tickets and even more graciousness in canceling and re-booking flights God has had His hand over each event and prevailed in glory with the way He provides to quench every potential worry! The very crux of the internship- desiring to adopt/ foster and praying about mission for the last 2.5 years, seemingly seeing this as impossible due to singleness and rejections from jobs abroad, to seeing God put it all together so quickly and solidified by the Word centered-ness of the internship could not have been more of a testimony to how the Lord answers prayers, not necessarily in ways we think he’ll answer but in His timing. 

“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good for those who are called according to his purpose.” ~ Romans 8:28 (ESV)

Only in His timing and will are things more glorious than we can imagine. In it all, life still has twists though...

“He must give up his house, remove his belongings to Shanghai and be careful not transgress in future... Those young inquirers- Chang, Sung and the others- what was to become of them? Were they not his own children in the faith? How could he leave them with no help and so little knowledge in the things of God? Yet the Lord had permitted it. The work was His. He would not fail them nor forsake them.”

~ pg 70, Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret

The words above encourage immensely in trusting the Lord in His sovereignty! Hudson Taylor had a heart to evangelize to the Chinese, was provided housing, but then met difficulties a time later when he was kicked out of a certain area that was not “within British allowance” (even though other European countries had occupancy there). He had barely had a lot of time to grow the church to maturity there yet the Lord had permitted it. Taylor trusted that God would work and continued on! It reminds me of when Paul and his brothers in Acts were prevented by the Spirit to go to certain areas and how they meekly followed God’s leading. 

Greatly, the internship was also part of the theme of the grace of God’s sovereignty. God is sovereign in trusting that even though Mitchell aged out that God has a plan for His glory in that. God is sovereign in trusting that although all of a sudden the teaching laws of my district changed where I am forbidden to teacher without a licence. God is sovereign over the extremely tough circumstances I face study for two content exams on education (which I have no background in). He is sovereign that whether I pass and have to go through a 4 year process to get a license (which begs to question a difficult decision to apply to jobs abroad) or that if I fail God will provide a new job or a grace period. God is sovereign over my unsaved family’s lives and my next prayerfully opportune trip to visit my grandpa in Taiwan, which just approved of gay marriage. God is the sovereign over my life so what do I have to fear of all these things? 

“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?... No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” ~ Romans 8:31-32, 37-39

There are so many unknowns in the future but I am so incredible excited to trust and wait on the Lord through each and every minute of it! I confess that I was met with anxieties the first week where it seemed like everything was hitting hard, but praise God for His grace and wake up call to give these things to Him for He will provide and be faithful to the end. On these promises did the joy come through the anxieties because He reminded me:

“And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?” ~ Matthew 6:27

The Good Lord is right. Worry did nothing for me. So I choose to trust Him and I’m so excited for the day He provides and being able to as a beloved child say that I trusted my Father in it all and He came through. I will treasure being able to a cherished “brethren” to the Lord say that Christ, who adopted me into His family, worked it out for me for good on the basis of His blood alone. I will cherish being able to say, my kinsman-redeemer who is the bridegroom for the church, of who I am a part of a betrothal to Him for, has valiantly provided for and came through for His bride. 

[xiakaile]

Nicht großen Glauben brauchen wir, sondern Glauben an einen großen Gott. ~Hudson Taylor . . in fünf Tagen werde ich im Lande sein, in dem Hudson Taylor genau das erlebt hat. Gott ist unglaublich groß und unglaublich gut ♡ . #hudsontaylor #china #sunflowersummer

[tinyjerkface]

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