Daring Dependence: A 31-Day Journey with Those Who Found Their Strength in God (A Missions Devotional) (Daring Devotion Series)

For thirty-one days, walk with those who walked with God.
How could God use me? I am only a programmer. I am only an engineer. I am only a housewife. I am only a student. I am only...just the kind of person God might use—someone who needs God's strength and knows it.
God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things for Him. How did a shoemaker from rural England influence Tahiti, an island he never even visited? How did a an artist with heart problems launch a gospel work in the scorching heat of northern Africa? How did a schoolteacher start an evangelistic educational movement for women across India?
In this 31-day devotional book, catch a glimpse of what God did through everyday believers like William Carey, Lilias Trotter, Samuel Zwemer, Ann Judson, Oswald Chambers, Gladys Aylward, and many more who followed God in missions across the world. None were superheroes. All found their strength through dependence on God.
Endorsements:
“Conrad’s first book—Daring Devotion—was a gift to God's people. Can I suggest that Daring Dependence is an even greater gift? These glimpses into the lives of gospel servants, in a wide range of circumstances, illustrate God's true faithfulness to those who depend upon Him. Men and women of various nationalities, backgrounds, and ministries show us what it means to depend upon God in weakness. Insightful comments and reflection questions ending each day's reading effectively guide us to a daring dependence upon Christ. Daring Dependence is a powerful tool of encouragement for all those laboring in God's harvest.”
—Forrest McPhail, missionary to Cambodia and regional director for Asia, Australia, and Oceania, Gospel Fellowship Association Missions
“The world suffers from an annoying surplus of social media influencers who choreograph adventures to serve their vapid aim of winning themselves more followers. A Christian's adventures are better because the mission is better: to follow Jesus and win Him more followers. Conrad’s enthralling snapshots and well-aimed reflections foment in me the kind of dependent daring I need more of each day.”
—David Hosaflook, missionary to Albania, author, and founder and executive director of the Institute for Albanian and Protestant Studies
"Encouraging and convicting! Powerful missionary stories with applications for my daily life. These men and women were not great and mighty people but dependent people, trusting in the same great and mighty God we serve today."
—Hannah Bender, missionary nurse and director of educational services, Medical Missions Outreach
“In some ways, this missions devotional could serve as a history of Anglo-American missions of the past two centuries. Beginning with William Carey, that iconic missional figure of the late eighteenth-century, it takes the reader on a month-long journey of the way that ‘great things’ (to cite Carey) have been attempted for God by men and women who were flat-out dependent on our glorious Lord. Informative, stirring, challenging, it is a needed reflection—not only for anyone thinking of being a vocational missionary, but also for those who wish to support such in prayer, fasting, and finances."
—Michael A. G. Haykin, author and professor of church history, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary