This sermon emphasizes the need for prayer partners and financial support to advance missions work, highlighting the open doors for ministry even in challenging environments like communist countries. It addresses the misconception that full theological training is necessary for missionary work and stresses the importance of spiritual power and commitment to world missions. The sermon also discusses the release of resources through prayer and the proclamation of the Word, encouraging believers to trust in God's provision and work together in unity for the advancement of the Gospel.

We need people to move in and possess the land. We need prayer partners who will pray and who will give. So the open doors, even in the communist world, some of you within 10-15 days will be in the communist world. By the way, you might remember that Poland really doesn't consider itself a communist country. There is a socialist country. Yugoslavia is not part of the Iron Curtain. They are an independent communist country. And I hope that you will just understand the differences you'll find from one country to another. I guess the power must be getting pretty heavy in here. There are endless open doors. There's not enough time to tell you about them. And here's a beautiful thing. Open doors even for the likes of you and I. Do you think you need full theological training to be a missionary? Don't you know the many who have been headed for the mission field, it was during their theological training, they decided not to go? No one even dares release the statistics on that. It's such an embarrassment. I remember even in Bible college, we always knew the freshman class was the only class that was on fire for Christ. The sophomores were beginning to leak, and the seniors, if it was a three-year place, well, sometimes we thought half the class was backslidden. I will tell you, many of our Bible colleges and our cemeteries, seminaries are in a sad, they are in a sad state of affairs. That is not being anti. We have people in all those institutions. We believe in them, but we believe that people, when they study the Word of God, should study it in a holy way, and should be filled with the Holy Spirit, and that everybody should be committed to the task of world missions, and that there should be reality in spiritual power. Was it Vance Havner who said the average church was so lukewarm you had to backslide to get into fellowship? What can we say of some of the statements of men like A.W. Tozer? Endless open doors, not only for evangelism, but open doors also to see the church stirred into action, to work with churches, to work with some of these pastors and ministers who've gone through this higher training, which isn't easy, especially to maintain your spiritual glow in the midst of it. We have a linking with these people. We have open doors. Let's join together and move forward before it's too late. And then number five, the fifth reason why we should consider going is because there are resources. Now, you may say, well, that sounds like a contradiction. You're just telling us about the lack of finance. Now you're telling us there are resources. The resources are there, but they must be released through prayer. I've written a leaflet. You'll probably find it on the literature table at the conference in Europe. Releasing finance through intercessory prayer. We can release finance. I know it's not easy. I was talking to one of the married women just the other day, and I was saying, you want to go with your husband on this next trip? She goes, what about the money? I said, look at God. He'll supply. He's got a cattle of a thousand hills. This dear OM wife looked at me, straight in the eye, said, whoosh, he hasn't given me any. Well, maybe you're not in the cattle business. God will supply. You have seen God supply. You have seen answers to prayer. Giving us some basic information doesn't eliminate the factor that if we don't pray and we don't battle and see miracles, the money's not going to come. Right now, as a movement, our back's against the wall. We don't have the money for the next month or a little basket. We have got to see breakthroughs every single day, and I can assure you, every single day, this is on my mind. Because we know Satan is the prince in the power of the air. Satan seems to have a high amount of control in the banking systems of the world. We need to know how to see resources released through prayer. But also, we see resources released through the proclamation of the word. People hear the word of God. God speaks to their heart, and they give, they respond. In Great Britain, many people have been selling possessions for world missions. We have an organization called Wellington Missionary Auctions. And people take their antiques and take their valuable possessions as the Spirit of God convicts them. You see that in Acts 2? They give them to this auction, they sell them, and the money goes in the world missions. They put tens of thousands, tens of thousands of dollars into world missions through selling things. I believe, together, we can see those resources released. So that should motivate us. By sharing, by living in, to some degree, in a pool system, by going the extra mile, using used clothing, saving on various different ways that we can save money, we can keep the support level as low for Americans as it is for nationals from other countries. We have already proven that, though a lot of people find it hard to believe. It's one of the areas where the Lord has given us some wisdom. It is getting harder. The resources are there. I mean, where can you go? What can you do in America today for $450 a month? And that includes your pocket money. I don't know if that's true at this time or in the first month in Europe, but throughout the year, that includes all of your needs. Of course, if there's an emergency need, you're supposed to pray and some more, but meanwhile, we're going to join together and try to help you in that situation, because we're committed to one another. We're a family. As one member suffers, we all suffer. And I just think it's so beautiful that we can live together on an equal basis. Of course, there's freedom and there's difference between individuals within OM, but that's not linked with necessary nationality. That's not linked with race or nationality. That's linked with different people of different size families and different lifestyles to varying degrees. We don't all live in the same size garage or house or whatever. There's freedom, and God is taking us into greater maturity in some of these areas. But basically, out in places like India, we live together on the same level as our Indian brothers and sisters, and have been doing it for a quarter of a century. The resources are there. Number six.