Called into His Presence

Ministry Wednesday: Called to be in God's Presence

We often think we are called to reach out to people without thinking about the presence of God.
We are tempted to be more focused on being in front of people to minister to them than on being in God's presence.

Meanwhile, ministry in itself is all about receiving from God to deliver to people. Delivery will be empty without receiving from God. That we ask God for utterance to speak as we ought doesn't mean we are dumb or ignorant, it only means we are mere vessels or pipes that convey spiritual matters between their divine source and their human recipients, without contaminating the content with personal inputs.

It means we are actually and primarily called to God's presence. It is there that we receive both content of the message and the mode of delivery. It is from there we receive our mandate and direction. It is there we contact the power to back up what's being said.

That's why apostle Paul went to Corinth not with excellence of speech or of wisdom but in weakness and in vulnerability, not making his speech of enticing words of men's wisdom but bathe in the power and the demonstration of the Spirit and power of God, so that their faith would not be in the wisdom of man but in the omnipotence of God. 1 Corinthians 2:1-4.

Such an operation that depends so largely on divine content does not happen by human abilities but by the grace of God.

That's why the early Apostles were careful not to permit people administration and management to derail their focus on prayer and the ministry of the word. They decided to give themselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word. If they ever lose the presence of God, they'd lose everything and the food being served would have no meaning.

The minister's ministry depends so much on the personal relationship cultivated with God and His Spirit through the Word and prayer in the closet.

It may be a physical closet but most importantly a heart closet, where spiritual sacrifices and prayer are offered from the altar of the temple within our bodies continually.

This is primarily what we are called to do. It is from here that ministry rises. We need seclusion and being alone with God, shut off from whatever distractions from our immediate or remote environment. We must learn to manage our fellowship with God within the environment and society we have found ourselves, if we desire an impacting ministry that leaves hearts burning and mind thinking.

Moses didn't go to meet with God on the mountain so that his face might shine, but the effect of the time with God showed off on His face. The apostles were unlearned and ignorant common men but people marveled at their impact and they took note of them as people who have been with Christ.

We are told that if we walk with Him in His light, we have fellowship one with the other and the blood of Christ cleanses us from all iniquities. The cleansing is an effect of the the Person we walk with. The book of Proverbs says, he who walks with the wise shall become wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed. Staying with God alone in seclusion adds quality to the life of God's servants who then comes out to impact on the people they are sent to.

Being alone with God, even in the multitude of people and activities isn't negotiable for the minister. A minister should even be more concerned about that than about being with people so that whatever little time spent with people can truly make a difference in their lives.

God has made this simple and easy by making our bodies His temple, indwell by the Spirit of God in real time.

The phenomenon starts with the conviction that the Holy Spirit dwells within us as individuals and that He prepares the ground and coordinates our fellowship with God, with Christ and with each other. It is the fellowship of the Holy Spirit through faith. Though He is invisible, our faith brings us to the reality.

Ministry isn't a show, it isn't basically a display or performance like that of an entertainer but a serious and sober delivery and transfer of encounters from the depths of God by grace.

We must never permit the gifts we have received to make spending time in God's presence secondary. Gifts don't guarantee relationship or fellowship. They are there without repentance, and they may make us look as if we are efficient or effective but we must never be deceived that God's primary desire is that we be His children and heirs which calls for fellowship and not just for ministry performance.

If we minister just by gifts, we can get a lot of superficial results but when we minister from the depths of relationship with God, we reach out to the depths of people's hearts. Depth only calls to depth. Ministering from encounters with God then has the potentials of delivering deep down, beyond the ephemeral excitements that accompany the display of gifts which may only entertain but not impact deeply.

Meanwhile, the world has perfected the art of distraction. We now dread being alone. We fear seclusion. We crave to socially feel and be felt. We are weary of concentration. Meditation now looks like being depressed and a time wasting burdensomeness. Thinking deeply is now scary both for the one to think and those watching him think. Meanwhile, God awaits His servants in the secret place. He longs for that fellowship by which He robs off on us His power and His glory. But to many of us, it's antisocial and too demanding.

But we should rather learn to enjoy it though. The exuberance and the extroverted expressions of life must never be used or become reason to obscure the demands of sobriety and deep reflections where God meets with us.

When He comes calling, may He find us not bring afraid and hiding like Adam, but to always meet ready and hungry hearts, longing for Him as the deer that pants after the waters.

We are called into His presence, shall we boldly come into the holiest of all please, so that our emergency will be with the demonstration of power and of the Holy Spirit.

Peace to you.

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It's a great day!

Who do you work for?

Motivation Monday: Who do you work for?

Simplistically, we were born, raised and trained to work to be financially independent and not necessarily to be dependable.

King Solomon said, he who labors, labors for himself because his mouth craves it.

Most of us are driven by our appetites either for fame, for food or for flesh. The roads are filled to their length this morning of people going to work, driven by their appetites. Competitions for what people deem as scarce resources will be stiff and dangerous for same reason.

Whatever drives us determines how much momentum we can have.

If it is our mouths, once it is satisfied, the momentum drops and we may not be able to go too far.

It may be fame, meaning once we gather, we don't have much margin of loss, otherwise we lose the collateral for our popularity.

It may be the flesh, with its propensity for short shelf life and immediate decadence.

But when we understand that we are God's employees created and sent to join Him in advancing His plan and purposes for His creation, nothing drops our momentum and motivation.

That's why the scriptures say, whatever we do, we must do as unto the Lord.

We are enjoined, as leaders, to lead as those who have a Leader in heaven, and as followers to serve as serving Christ.

Colossians 3
22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God:

23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

24 Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Colossians 4
1 Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.

So, who do you work for? It might not look like it, but we actually work for God to further His purposes on the earth. Every legitimate and conscientious labor must be to further God's cause. It may not be a religious cause but definitely, something good God has proposed to benefit life's cause.

Ephesians 4
28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Stealing isn't work. Many steal using their jobs and offices, that isn't work. It adds nothing to nobody. The thief is being instructed to stop stealing, but then, we are all to learn from the instructions.

To work with our hands that which is good, that we may have to give to those who have needs.

We work to meet needs, not just our own but even of others. This should be a great motivation for us all. We work to meet other people's needs.

We are not just born, raised and trained to be financially independent but also to be dependable and faithful to others. We are God's employees to meet the needs of mankind starting from our own little corners.

We join hands with God to answer people's prayers. This is our work and so long there's a need around us, we are motivated to do something to meet such. In so doing, working with God in His employ.

Don't just do what you do for the sake of doing something or serving self, you were created to meet certain needs either by your vocation or by the proceeds you get from there as one working together with God.

Let this spur you on today and from the Lord you shall receive a reward that's everlasting.

Peace to you.

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It's a great week. Good Morning to you!

Relationship Friday: Dealing with Doubts

Relationship Friday: Dealing with Doubts

It's not really too easy for a person to change. I believe people can change. Change is a possibility. That influence is a reality makes change a possibility. But we have to agree that change in character isn't like the flip of a coin. People don't change easily.

What has that got to do with trust or doubt in marriage? It has got everything to do with it. It is expected that you know whoever you are giving such intimate and intricate relationship commitment to.

Marriage is life impacting to put it mildly. Marital decisions are never to be taken lightly or uninformed. They need considering every detail one can get before making commitments. It's like playing with fire and it can burn badly if handled without utmost care.

Premarital behavioural assessment is important beyond being swept into marital commitment by the euphoria of sensuality that may lack substance. You have to know what you are getting into.

Just as people don't change easily, so also people aren't known that easily. But people can be known. People can be known because it's not that easy to pretend or to put up an act for too long. With patience, people can be known, even if not totally, but to a large extent.

Doubts help in scrutinizing. Trust is earned. You can't discover too much without having a level of doubts that prompt questions. And those doubts come, but we often feel guilty having them and so not managing them properly.

When doubts are cleared by sound knowledge, you can be sure of what you are getting into. When doubts are confirmed, we know we should steer clear. But when people don't give room for doubts, the doubts don't get clarified and they walk on into trouble.

Trust comes by knowledge, just as faith comes by hearing. When we know who people are, we can make the decision to trust them and then make commitments if they are found trustworthy, they will hardly change, except for major influential impacts.

This must be the process that should lead into marital commitment. Many a times, people overlook the red flags. They doubt their doubts and refuse to see what is obvious and fall into trouble.

A marriage built on trust that came from knowledge has the tendency of being solid. The knowledge must be of both strengths and weaknesses. Of course, we can't have absolute knowledge of another person, we don't even have such knowledge of self, but we can know the fundamentals and see if it's what we can handle.

With that, doubts are minimised in marriage. Doubts in marriage are caused either by inadequate foreknowledge, major influence that can create change or personal insecurities.

The impact of doubts that have no basis can be devastating on a marriage. Trust can be so powerful too. Doubts create more reasons to doubt. Most people who feel doubted lose the impetus to disprove it and may see that as a license to freely do what they are being suspected of. Most people who feel trusted want to maintain that trust and may strive to become more trustworthy even when they struggle with things.

People who exercise doubts in marriage expose themselves to being doubted too. Most people won't trust someone who had shown distrust and doubts in them.

Relationships are sustained by trust. That's why we should strive also to envisage areas where we may be doubted and do our best to allay such fears in our spouses.

When we permit questionable and compromising situations, we put pressure on our spouses' ability to trust and cast doubts on their hearts even when they know us not to have such characters.

And we need not use lame excuses in trying to deal with doubts and suspicions when we are not ready to be truthful in dealing with the situation.

It means, those who would want to really keep their marriages healthy must trade truths all the time. They must understand that certain things are poisons to their marriages and those should not ever be done, no, not even in secret. Otherwise, any trust given is undeserved.

Trust is necessary for behaviors behind the scene. We only trust that unseen intentions are in our favor and not against us. We trust, being confident that behaviors we don't see or understand are not contrary to our interests. It is when those intentions and behaviors are what we think they are that trust is deserved. And each person knows if he or she is trustworthy or not, what we should do is to make sure we are, by being watchful of our intentions and behaviors behind the scenes.

We want our marriages to work and so we should not be throwing doubts everywhere like fiery darts. We should not be creating suspicious scenes too that engender doubts and fears. We should be more open and more communicating. What you aren't saying, shouldn't be coming out of the mouth or seen in any non verbal communication.

What we didn't doubt before marriage can cause trouble if we start doubting in marriage.

And if those doubts are quite founded, then ask questions and seek clarifications to restore trust and confidence.

And when you are being asked about such things, be truthful and open, don't wave it off. Deal with the doubts.

Let's make our marriages whole and healthy.

Have a glorious weekend.

Helpers of Faith

Ministry Wednesday: Helpers of Faith

2 Corinthians 1
24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.

1 Corinthians 3
5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

As ministers, we have our job cut out for us. We trade the word and the message from God to earn faith towards God in those we are sent to. We are helpers of people's faith, by us they believe in God.

We are sent for men and women to be confirmed and established in faith towards God knowing that without faith, it is absolutely impossible to please God. Hebrews 11:6. Unbelief, worry and doubt in God displease Him.

The propagation of the knowledge of God's love and of His grace is meant to trigger faith in the hearer. Faith comes by hearing.

When our words communicate grace, people are able to see what's behind the curtain of the physical senses and relate properly with them, living here on the earth in consistency with those unseen realities.

God has sent us to get people to full persuasion that He who had made those promises is also able to perform them. Romans 4:20/21

We have been sent to speak the good news of Christ in His teachings and deeds, confirmed by His work on the cross and followed up by His High Priesthood position today, by which He is able to save them to the uttermost, who come to God through Him, seeing He lives on forever, making Intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25

The process of ministry is described so well in Romans 10:11-15. It begins with God's promise to save whosoever calls upon Him. But then, nobody would call on someone they had not believed. Calling on God or depending on Him for intervention is an act of faith based on what is believed. The quality of such a call or dependence is determined by the quality of knowledge the caller has and has believed.

But no one would believe what he hasn't heard. You have to hear first before you can believe. If we don't know that God exists or we have no report from Him, we won't have the opportunity to believe. If we make it up without hearing, we form dumb idols for ourselves and build on superstitions that don't have effect even if called upon. Isaiah said, who has believed our reports. Faith requires reports to believe.

That's why Jesus warned us to take heed how and what we hear, because when we have heard, there's a pressure put upon our faith faculty to believe and we can only give back what we have heard.

Yet, no one can hear any report except there be a reporter. It is when someone speaks that another hears. We don't expect people to believe what we have in our minds above what we say with out mouths. Someone must say it clearly to grant us the opportunity to hear, to believe and to act based on the information.

Yet, when it comes to God's word that produces the God kind of faith, messengers have to be sent. How shall they speak, except they are sent?

We are sent and that's why we are called ministers of God. We are sent to speak the truth of Christ in God. We are sent to speak of what God has done, what He is doing, what He can do and what He has laid in store for us in eternity.

He who comes to God must have been told that He is and that He rewards those who diligently seek Him.

We are to make the world see that, with God all things are possible. We are to help the people see the Kingdom of God where everything works supernaturally.

We are sent to build boldness and conviction in what God can do and in His unseen reality. We are sent not to deny the physical laws of nature but to let the world know that they don't stop God from doing whatever He would do on in the physical. We must let the world know that He that's from above is above all. We are not sent to make man believe in his weaknesses and imperfections again, but to help him believe in God's ability to create His will even through the weaknesses and the imperfections of mankind.

We are sent to make the world know that the physical world is a temporal arrangement but that an eternal arrangement has been made for us through Christ Jesus. Such a conviction is meant to help us make right assessments and choices concerning the things of this world.

We are not sent to tell the world that God is handicapped in helping them even today. If God isn't above the physical and the natural, what's the assurance that He can save from eternal destruction?

We aren't sent to preach faith in the physical and natural laws, such a job has been given to the academia, but to us we are sent to help people's faith in what the eyes and the other physical senses can't reach.

We are sent to help people explore their human capacity to believe and to apply that towards God who had wired us like that for the purpose of reaching Him by it.

If this is what we have been sent to do, then we have to be careful that we don't join them who overthrow the faith of people towards God. Read 2 Timothy 2:17-18 within its context.

We should not join them who teach that God does nothing for mankind anymore except to take them to heaven. We should not join those who still ask these days if God can furnish a table in the wilderness, limiting the Holy One of Israel. Psalm 78:19&41

Rather we must be good ministers of God, nourished up in the word of faith and of good doctrine 1 Tim 4:6

We must never permit corrupt communication to proceed out of our mouths but those that are capable of ministering grace to the hearer and not defeat and hopelessness in God. Our words must inspire understanding of God's will and the things He has provided and ready to do to cause faith in people.

We need not cook up fictions to drive home divine truth, we have enough promises and principles in God's word and in Christ to drive our narratives of faith. And to those who had walked with God, experiences of walking with the Holy Spirit daily furnishes testimonies of daily visitation and intervention.

Let's look again at the things we preach and teach and make sure that they are such that can trigger the kind of faith that calls upon God for His eternal salvation and His intervention in the troubles of this life. These are the possibilities available in God to everyone who believes in Him.

God is still alive, strong and He is still delivering people from their sins and troubles...and He won't deny Himself, He remains faithful and true! We must represent Him well and so help people's faith in Him. This is our job as ministers of God...

Let's do it!

Good morning servants of God!

Motivation Monday: The Need for Innovation

Motivation Monday: The Need for Innovation

Man was created into a big problem. The gap between the conditions of his creation and the possibilities and potentials in his world created a great natural need for solution. He has to travel from what was to what is possible that God had made for him.

It still follows the fundamental principle and purpose of man's creation and the nature of divine infrastructure within which he was created.

God created the plant life in seed form, rain hadn't fallen and the earth needed man to till it, according to Genesis chapter 2.

What this means is that the potential of the earth needs man to be actualized. God created everything man would need in seed form, thereby creating a problem for man to solve. The development of the world was created in potential form, man must innovate to free it and maximise that potential to fulfilment.

We also saw that, when God created man, He blessed Him, and told them to be fruitful, to multiply, to fill the earth up again and to subdue it for his dominion. Genesis 1.

That blessing is the empowerment to bring man to a place where he'll make the universe what God had intended, which He began to create with the creation of man.

So, man was made a solution provider. He was made to use what he had to create what is yet to be. He should improvise and innovate to overcome his environmental challenges. He will live less than what God had planned for him if he fails to innovate.

This is the primary work God has for man on the earth. When we speak of work, it should have a background of problem solving, no matter what area of human existence such work is to be done.

Even if we speak of commerce, it must be to trade in innovations. We must move away from where Adam and Eve left us and invest time in research and development to create better environment and societies for ourselves, this is where businesses that will break boundaries and forge new frontiers are created.

Within the conflicts, the troubles and the problems within which we subsist lies greatness. These things we view as negative tell us what is possible that we are yet to see or experience.

A wise man once said, thirst is a sign that water exists. The problem is a sign that the solution is possible and available. But we must think without the box of what we have seen before. We must have the faith for the impossible, we must have the faith for the invisible.

These are not just religious parlance taught from church doctrines, rather, they are the essence of our being here while we and the earth remain.

We need not cut corners, but we may need to break taboos and redefine cultures to find solutions to our basic problems. We may need to break the rigidity of traditions and conservatism and to review whatever modernism that cover the truth of what can be that are not yet.

We must study what has been discovered and understand them so they can become tools for unraveling what we need that are yet hidden which we must search out diligently.

This is work. When we run our businesses to provide solutions with new methods and perspectives we set pace within the industry.

Nations must own their technologies and innovations otherwise they remain subservient to those who own theirs. They must develop their resources to solve their moral, social, economic and political problems in order to move into what God has laid in store while this generation lasts.

Businesses and startups must ride on the back of new technologies in every sector otherwise they'll be left behind.
We must think. Envisage problems, and seek the solutions to sell. The future must be seen today and the wise must position self not to be punished. King Solomon said, the wise man foresees evil ahead and hides, but the simple goes on and is punished. The power of foresight is what makes leaders in different sectors. They see, they discover the keys and they sell it.

A friend of Job said, there is a spirit in man, the inspiration of the almighty gives him understanding. That's the way innovation comes. Inspiration by the Spirit of God will shed light on the mind of the thinking man, to communicate what's on the eternal program to be released in its time. When a heart connects with that inspiration, new ways and things to move the earth on its eternal course are birthed.

Think about it... And let it guide the work we do. So many areas of challenges are waiting for apostles to break their grounds, not just preaching apostles but apostles in those areas where man still seek solutions.

This is the work we are called to do, let's do it in our own little spaces.

It's a great week... Let's go solve some problems, shed some light in darkness and birth things from the mind of God for mankind!

Good day to you!

Relationship Friday: Communicating Love

Relationship Friday: Communicating Love

Communication and Love are two big words, with each capable of filling many books if we are to keep expatiating. Today, we are combining the two because of their unique relationship.

Love is powered by communication. Any relationship that takes communication for granted will be handicapped and can easily be destroyed. Every relationship that would produce its fruits must pay attention to communication and make sure it is kept healthy, effective and efficient.

The complexities of communication these days make it even more imperative. We are in a world where you need to read deeper to understand writers, if there's a generation where you need to read in between the lines like never before, it is ours. We are in a generation where silence is laden with meanings. It is a world where verbal and non verbal communications would conflict and you are bound to follow the verbal even if the body language is screaming something else, since you can't tender a body language in the court of law? We are in a world where diplomatic language and political correctness hold sway in our communications and lots of people with sinister motives use these to manipulate the non assuming. What about subliminal communications? There are subliminal communications that the receivers can't control, all to manipulate the recipients in favor of the originator.

Besides, interpretations may not depend on speakers again, it is what the society calls it that it is and not what the interpretation used to be. There are words that don't mean what they meant anymore. Language is evolving even if our languages remain what they had always been.

This is impacting on marriages and relationships at a very significant rate. And to keep your love and home you must learn how to hear, how to respond, how to master silence, how to interpret both verbal and non verbal communications and respond or react adequately. You must master the language of your spouse and that of the relationship. You must learn to ask powerful questions that can drive conversations without animosity. All towards enthroning love and peace in your marriage.

Communication is the art of passing and receiving information, effectiveness in communication however is in doing it in such a way as to empower the recipients to respond and react intelligently.

To a manipulator, successful communication is that which diabolically boxes the recipient into a corner where response is bound to be in his or her favor using every tactic in the box.

Jesus Christ said, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. He said, a good man, out of the good treasures of the heart, he brings forth good things and so is an evil person. He said a bad person can't speak good things until such is made good on the inside.

Love communication begins with a heart of love. Though we often are carried away by the endearing words but we must learn to listen with the heart. Heart must communicate with heart.

Lessons in communication tells us that we must say what we mean and mean what we say. We must learn to make our words our bond. We are ensnared by the words of our mouth, so we must say what we mean. Don't say yes, when you mean to say no.

We must hear properly. We must not hear what the other person isn't saying. And if we aren't sure, then we use the power of questions to seek clarity. Sometimes we may have to verbalise a non verbal chat. We may have to question some body languages to clarify issues.

Assumptions, suspicions and superstitions are the three demons of ineffective communication. Don't leave room for them. Don't let your spouse start assuming or suspecting your moves. Why let the other person read meanings when you can tell the meaning?

Try always to avoid assumptions and suspicions rather ask questions and confront issues for clarification.

When information isn't adequately given, either in content or in timing, the recipient has no way of reacting correctly even with the best intentions. The reaction of the recipient is handicapped and can be dangerous and troublesome. You don't expect your spouse to care for a sore you didn't declare expecting him or her to find out by the Spirit. That's not fair.

I understand that we always hear what we had already heard. We hardly hear what we haven't heard before except we deliberately listen. That's why if 10 people hear the same thing, the feedback may show 10 different hearings and none may actually tally with the things said.
That the power of listening. We hear but we may not listen and so our minds repeat what has been stored. When we listen, we engage our minds to capture what is being said and so the mind engages the ear to hear on its behalf so we can intelligently store, process and react to what's been said.

Make sure you listen to your spouse. We are often so distracted these days. Mobile phones, TV, hurriedness to meet up with appointments, tiredness after work, etc eat into our listening concentration. They also don't permit us say to one another all the good things in our hearts. We need to manage that better to strengthen our relationships.

We should therefore engage repetitions and feedbacks adequately. Saying the same things over and over has a way of making things stick but repetition should be used responsibly, it shouldn't be used negatively to inflame conflicts. There are issues that need no repetitions. Once they are mentioned, they should never be mentioned again to save love. Forcing some issues will bring strife and not love.

Nagging doesn't work any good. Yet, it's also a way of using repetitions to drive home points. Usually the points is driven into the wrong part of the mind of the other person to instigate hatred and not love. It should be avoided.

In all, always seek to write the vision plainly so that your spouse can read and react to it as expected. When we talk about things, we find solutions and progress. Let's engage it.

The most powerful three word sentence in any language is 'I love you', say it often and mean it from your heart... If your mouth is held up, use your eyes, if you can't use the eyes, use your body... Whatever happens, tell the one you call wife or husband... I love you...

Can you please close this page now and at least send a message to your spouse? Copy this, paste and send now...

I love you...

Thank you. God bless your relationship with His unconditional and unfailing love.

Happy Weekend!

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.