James Fraser was only 22 years old when he abandoned a promising engineering career and went to China. At first sight of the Lisu tribespeople of Yunnan province he felt an immediate affection for them. For the rest of his life, he traveled on horseback over rugged mountains, laboring to bring the Lisu the good news of Christ.
Fraser learned the importance of the prayer of faith and realized much time had been wasted through ineffective praying, believing God would answer instead of knowing that he had answered already and therefore receiving the answer when the prayer was offered. With this revelation Fraser asked in faith for hundreds of Lisu families to give their lives to Christ. When the transaction was done, he rose with the deep restful conviction that he had already received the answer. Some years later when the Lisu started coming to faith, Fraser remarked that some may now say that his prayer had finally been answered but that this was incorrect. He had received the answer to his prayer the day he had prayed on January 12, 1915. As God taught him about prayer and faith, he shared these truths with his prayer partners in England.
Read Fraser’s amazing story in Behind the Ranges.
