May The LAMB That Was Slain Receive The Reward Of His Suffering

Perhaps you’ve heard of Count Nicolas Ludwig Von Zinzindorf. A German born in 1700 to a very wealthy family.  He came to Christ while he was still a young man and he went on to found a Christian community called “Hernhut” which means the Lord’s watch. He eventually became part of the Moravian Church movement best known for its unquenchable missionary zeal.

In 1727~ they started a ’round the clock’ prayer watch. For 100 unbroken years, various ones in a community of 300 people covenanted to pray. Every hour of every day was covered in prayer.  They prayed for the nations.

Sixty-five years later, with the prayer watch still unbroken, the little community had sent out 300 missionaries to the unreached people of the West Indies, Greenland, Turkey, Lapland, and North America!

As he stood there, as it were, watching his Savior suffer and bleed, he said to himself, “I have loved him for a long time, but I have never actually done anything for him. From now on I will do whatever he leads me to do.” For the rest of his life, the blood of Jesus had a central place in his life and ministry. The story goes that when the first two young Moravian missionaries boarded the ship in Copenhagen to sail to the West Indies, perhaps never to return, (20 out of the first 29 missionaries died in those first years) they lifted their hands as if in sacred pledge and called out to their friends on shore saying “MAY THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN RECEIVE THE REWARD OF HIS SUFFERING!”

They knew that Jesus had purchased, with the price of His own blood, souls from every nation, tribe and tongue and they were going out to gather some of them into His fold!  THEY GOT IT!  They understood that the blood of Jesus was shed NOT just to purchase them, BUT the worldwide church of God including those sheep that are not yet in the fold- people from every tribe, every language group, every culture and every ethnic cluster!