READ:
ROMANS 1:17-24
Are you
tired of calling yourself a Christian when you are struggling to make a
meaningful impact in your own life, your family and your community? A
prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian, and a powerless Christian is
defeated Christian. A defeated Christian struggles to bring glory to the name
of the Most High God. If you feel defeated, take heart from the following
examples:
At one man’s request, God withheld rain over Israel for three and half years. Another man asked God to bring the sun to a standstill for more than 23 hours until his people had won a battle, and God complied. Another man joined his Lord in walking on water. Following the sacrifice of one man, God vowed never to destroy this world with water again. People lined the streets with their sick, praying and fasting for one man to pass there so that they may be healed by his shadow falling on them. One man went to Nineveh to preach, and turned the whole city to Christ.
These heroes of faith are being celebrated in the hall of fame where it matters most: in heaven. I would like to be celebrated there too. I want to impact the earth for God. I have resolved not to live an ordinary life. How about you? Where do you stand? Do you realise that we should be doing greater works than the apostles and even Jesus did? Why do we struggle to do what they did when we are supposed to have 2000 years’ more experience than they had?
The reason is that our authority only matches the measure of responsibility we take on. Jesus has commanded us to go and preach to the whole world. That is the responsibility. However, we prefer to do other things. This is why the authority is not being released. If you really want to stand out in your generation, become a die-hard evangelist today. All the authority and the miracle-working power that you have been fasting and praying over night just be released to you. The choice is yours!
At one man’s request, God withheld rain over Israel for three and half years. Another man asked God to bring the sun to a standstill for more than 23 hours until his people had won a battle, and God complied. Another man joined his Lord in walking on water. Following the sacrifice of one man, God vowed never to destroy this world with water again. People lined the streets with their sick, praying and fasting for one man to pass there so that they may be healed by his shadow falling on them. One man went to Nineveh to preach, and turned the whole city to Christ.
These heroes of faith are being celebrated in the hall of fame where it matters most: in heaven. I would like to be celebrated there too. I want to impact the earth for God. I have resolved not to live an ordinary life. How about you? Where do you stand? Do you realise that we should be doing greater works than the apostles and even Jesus did? Why do we struggle to do what they did when we are supposed to have 2000 years’ more experience than they had?
The reason is that our authority only matches the measure of responsibility we take on. Jesus has commanded us to go and preach to the whole world. That is the responsibility. However, we prefer to do other things. This is why the authority is not being released. If you really want to stand out in your generation, become a die-hard evangelist today. All the authority and the miracle-working power that you have been fasting and praying over night just be released to you. The choice is yours!
MEMORIZE:
1 CORINTHIANS 1:24 –But to them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ
the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
