READ: ACTS
12:5-7
Oftentimes,
I sit down and compare the good old days with the present era. Each time I do,
I get alarmed by the disparity in the level of fervency and commitment between
that time and now. In those days, Christians were committed to evangelism. Much
attention was given to corporate and personal evangelism. Souls were won to the
Lord with zeal and they were faithfully disciplined. Today, I recall with
nostalgia the type of passion which we had for souls. Oh, how I long for the
good old days! In those days, you would not feel comfortable if you reviewed
your day and discovered that you had not witnessed to at least one person that
day. I remember very well a group that we called “Fishers of men.” We vowed not
to sleep if we had not won a soul for Jesus on any day. If we got on our beds
to sleep and we suddenly remembered that we had not won a soul for Jesus, we
would get up, go back unto the streets and evangelise who ever we saw. We did
this regularly. We need to go back to this. If we can go back to that time,
certain things will also begin to happen. We will begin to get good results. We
will begin to get divine visitations as they got in the early Church. In Acts
12:5-7, Peter was in prison and was to be killed the following day. An angel
visited him. You may say that this could happen in those days. However, it ha
been happening to me since I got born again. It is a question of your
relationship with the Almighty God. It all depends on the side you present to
Him. If you present yourself to Him as crooked, He will appear to you crooked.
If you present yourself to Him as straight, He would appear to you straight. If
you show Him that you really need Him, He will bring Himself close to you. I
remember one occasion when my family and I wanted to return to church in the
evening. We went home and I decided to pray in bed. We had been told not to
come late so, actually, I knew I could not sleep. I however dozed off. When it
was time to start going to the church, I felt a hand touch my thighs and
pressed it until I woke up. I thought it was my wife who had woken me up. I
went downstairs and I found my wife and children fast asleep. The doors were
locked. So, who woke me up? In those days we never set alarms. We just told the
Almighty God when we wanted to wake up and, on the dot of time, He would wake
us up.
MEMORIZE:
MARK 1:17 –Then Jesus said to them, Come after Me, and I will make you become
fishers of men.
