David Brainerd the sold out Soul for the Task

David Brainerd (1718-1747) was a missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania. Born in Connecticut in 1718, he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-nine. Brainerd began his ministry with the Indians in April, 1743, at Kannameek, New York, and then ministered in Cross week sung and Cranberry (near Newark), New Jersey. These were the areas of his greatest successes.

His Diary and Journals is a brim with ministries and miracles that were akin to the Acts of the Apostles. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd ought to be read — and read often — by God's people. It will do something for you spiritually. You will be convicted, challenged, changed, and charged. It has had life-transforming effect upon many, motivating them to become missionaries, evangelists, preachers, people of prayer and power with God.

Brainerd's first journey to the Forks of the Delaware to reach that ferocious tribe resulted in a miracle of God that preserved his life and revered him among the Indians as a "Prophet of God." Encamped at the outskirts of the Indian settlement, Brainerd planned to enter the Indian community the next morning to preach to them the Gospel of Christ. Unknown to him, his every move was being watched by warriors who had been sent out to kill him.

But when the braves drew closer to Brainerd's tent, they saw the paleface on his knees. And as he prayed, suddenly a rattlesnake slipped to his side, lifted up its ugly head to strike, flicked its forked tongue almost in his face, and then without any apparent reason, glided swiftly away into the brushwood. "The Great Spirit is with the paleface!" the Indians said; and thus they accorded him a prophet's welcome. That incident in Brainerd's ministry illustrates more than the many Divine interventions of God in his life it also illustrates the importance and intensity of prayer in Brainerd's life.

Brainerd died in 1747 in the home of Jonathan Edwards. His ministry to the Indians was contemporary with Wesley, Whitefield and Edwards as they ministered to the English-speaking people during the period called in English and American history, the "Great Awakening." Brainerd's centuries-spanning influence for revival is positive proof God can and will use any vessel, no matter how fragile and frail, if it is only sold out to souls and the Savior!

The Inspiring Quotes of David Brainerd

1. "It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will."
2. "My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements. My soul desires to feel itself more of a pilgrim and a stranger here below, that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house."
3. "All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world."

 Dear friends in Christ like David Brainerd commit your life into His mighty hands He will glorify His name through you He will also make channel of blessing to many. God Bless you

With Regards

G. Paulraj