The Prayer of Betty Stam

The following prayer captivated me many years ago when I first read it. I have prayed it, kept it, used it countless times since. It has become mine. And time will only continue to tell how God will keep answering this cry of my heart.

"Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee, to be Thine forever. Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Use me as Thou wilt. Send me where Thou wilt, and work out Thy whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever."

Written by Elizabeth Scott at the age of 18. She later traveled to China to meet her fiance, John Stam, a young missionary with the China Inland Mission in the early 1930's. In less than a year after their marriage, they were captured by Chinese Communists and beheaded in the streets of the village where they lived and ministered.