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The life of James O. Fraser exemplified a life of resting faith. Throughout his Christian experience he simply trusted and obeyed God, even when he did not understand how or why God was leading him in a specific direction. In his ministry, particularly during the first several years among the Lisu people of China, Fraser learned what the prayer of faith truly was. Just casually praying and expecting and answer will not produce and eternal results. The prayer of faith is an enduring intercession in which one toils for an answer, and yet waits in a confident expectation that God is working. This type of life is a daily journey, as it was for Fraser. “For the prayer of faith, we must have the assurance that we are in the right place, doing the right work.” This requires complete surrender to the will of God. “… Nor will we ever have a faith worth calling faith unless we press forward in the footsteps of Him who said, ‘Follow Me.’” The prayer and life of faith necessitates daily ministry and hard work.
Our burden for Fraser Fellowship is found in 1 Peter 1:7 which states, “That the trial of your faith, being much more precious that of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and glory and honor at the appearing of Jesus Christ.” My prayer and desire is that each member of Fraser Fellowship becomes an intercessor, fully yielded to God’s will for his life, and in close, abiding fellowship with Jesus Christ on a daily basis. Not only must Fraser be an interceding fellowship, it must be a ministering team. One of James Fraser’s goals in life was to find “God’s balance between prayer and work.” In prayer, we win the battle on our knees. We must than go in confidence and Holy Spirit dependence to win the battle in ministry. We, the members of Fraser Fellowship, are a team of young people, believing God to do a supernatural work in and through us as we intercede and minister.
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 Baptist College of Ministry has been established as a school for training focused young people for work in the ministry. That focus- that drive must never be lost. Our burden is that the Fraser Fellowship would translate the cause and focus of BCM into every student that becomes a part of the Fraser team. The goal of Fraser must be one that seeks to see each of its members through to complete victory in every area.
{mospagebreak}James O. Fraser realized the truth that “there is no such thing as a spiritual victory if it is not in the present tense.” Even in our years in college, we as students must realize the necessity of having victory in our daily lives now. O ur burden for Fraser Fellowship is that every member and the fellowship as a whole would experience daily victory as we simply claim the promises of God’s Word. I am burdened for an atmosphere of transparency to be created as the reality of Christ’s life is genuinely seen in our own lives.
Following Fraser’s example, we must be a fellowship marked by total abandonment to the cause of Christ. Putting aside all personal ambitions, desires, and wants, no sacrifice can be counted too great to make for Christ. As a fellowship, we must challenge each other to that end- practically, as we face the daily challenges and decisions of college life- and spiritually, as we spend time in prayer and minister as a fellowship- and finally, as we live with an eternal vision ever before us.
{mospagebreak}Just a vessel- this was James Fraser. Although a truly “gifted” man, Fraser learned he was useless for Christ. Useless, that is, until he claimed the victory that is available at the foot of the Cross- the victory that is available for all who will take it. My burden for Fraser is that every member learn Christ’s life through Christ’s death; that each student be walking in personal victory day by day, serving the Lord fervently in ministry, learning intercession, seeing souls saved, and walking in victory themselves. As Fraser discovered, so must we- life in the flesh is no life worth living! I pray that every student come into to the point where they are fully convinced of their own inability and are driven to the cross in a desperation like none other. Only when we are “dead” to ourselves can the Lord breathe that Breath of Life into our soul and use us as vessels to accomplish His work.
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