Ministry Wednesday: Consider Him who had Sent

Ministry Wednesday: Consider Him who had Sent

Judges 6
14 And the LORD looked upon him(Gideon), and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?

The preaching of the gospel and the work of the ministry should be seen not as a part time hobby or a volunteer occupation. It isn't an extra curricula activity fit only for retirees. It isn't something done when there's nothing else to do.

Rather it is what we are sent to do. It is something committed to us as a responsibility to carry out. It is a thing that requires obedience, it is a command. No wonder, Paul, the apostle said, woe be him, if he preached not the gospel.

The consciousness that we are sent must consistently be in our mentality as ministers of God. And even more importantly, that we have been sent by God.

This should give us a sense of accountability as we go about with what we have been called to do. We must move with the mentality that God expects us to accomplish certain things for Him in the project of the salvation of mankind and bringing people to the knowledge of the truth within the time we have here.

We should have that sense of urgency that we don't have all the time in eternity to reach our world with the gospel for which we were created and sent.

We must also have the confidence that comes with the sense of being sent. It isn't a personal initiative. It isn't something we do just because we feel we can do it or because it looks good to be done. We were sent and we didn't send ourselves.

We must also go with the mindset that it is the highest authority ever who had sent us, an authority that isn't subservient to any other. An authority backed with omnipotence and divine sovereignty.

That's why He told Gideon, go in this your strength, go and win the war and bring deliverance, since I am the one who had sent you.

He didn't send us without power and necessary might. He had sent us, backing us up with every authority available. He sat down to count the cost, He understood the terrain and the challenges every commission would have before sending us and He had made adequate and necessary provisions to assure success.

We are the ones who must walk in the consciousness of the fact that we have been sent, with the boldness and the confidence that we have been sent by God.

He is telling us to go and get the job done without fear because it is He who had sent us.

We'll face all sorts of challenges, difficulties, oppositions, threats, necessities but we should always consider the One who has sent us, His faithfulness, His love, His omnipotent power and His authority.

Faith rises as a result, releasing the power allocated and activating the process designed to meet every need for the accomplishment of the will of Him who has sent us.

Because we are sent by Him, we represent Him in that for which He has sent us and we are received or rejected on His behalf as receiving or rejecting Him. We don't take such personal, He can defend Himself.

So servant of God, go in this might, go and do the incredible through God, live the life, preach the word, deliver the message, do all He has sent you to do, don't be afraid, He has sent you and He won't be unfaithful. He has sent us and nothing is strong enough to send us back, we should never let anything send us back.

Good morning.

John 15
16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.