HIS ANSWER

SOUTH PUGET SOUND CHAPTER WOV DEVOTIONAL 10/23/09

WV Vision Statement
Our vision for every child, life in all its fullness. . .our prayer, for every heart, the will to make it so.
Statement of Faith
• We believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative Word of God.
• We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
• We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory.
• We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man, regeneration of the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
• We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
• We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
• We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ.


James 1:27 which reads, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” is a reminder to all of us.

Reading “Prayer at 14,000 Feet in the Andes” by Richard Stearns, President of World Vision, about the widow and her three children in Peru has a heart challenging climax when Rich Stearns realized that
“Eight thousand miles from my home in Seattle, 14,000 feet up in
the Andes Mountains, she had cried out to God for help, and He had
sent me. God had sent me to help her, He had sent me to comfort her in
her suffering and He had sent me to be Christ’s love to her. She had
prayed and I was God’s answer, I would be God’s miracle in her life.

And then the even bigger truth washed over me. I could see that all
across the world people were crying out in desperation to God for help
for comfort; widows, orphans, the sick, the disabled, the poor and the
exploited. These millions of prayers were being lifted up to God, and
we, each of us who claim to be His followers, were to be His answer.
We were the ones who would bring the ‘good news’ of Christ to the
poor, the sick, and the downtrodden. God had not turned His back
on the poor in their suffering. God had sent us. This was the good
news of the gospel—good news indeed for the poor.”

We are all challenged to be His "answers" to prayer as Rich Stearns describes. It is a call to each one of us as Christian Women of Vision. Our prayer is "the will to make it so" as we consider the footprint of our Chapter and where and to whom we will become answers.