It takes money to finance missionary work, so many church leaders dedicate a week or two each year to discussing and educating their congregations on this endeavor, and to ask them to give. However, before they go about doing this they would be better served if they would ask themselves a couple of very basic questions. The first is this: which comes first, money or prayer, and the second is whether missions increases a church’s faith, or whether strengthened faith increases a desire to support missions? This is the subject of our study today. I read Paul's words in Philippians 4 in which he was thanking the church for its gifts to him as he traveled and spread the gospel. He made it clear that God supplies the church, and the missionary’s needs through the faithful, and that it isn’t the faithful who make these efforts possible for God. “God will supply every need of yours according to his riches”.