OUR MILLION MILE JOURNEY
“Going before God on behalf of others”
What is God’s eternal purpose? “…all of the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord; they will bring glory to your name.” (Psalm 86:9) There will be ” people from every tribe and language and people and nation” worshiping before his throne. (Revelation 5:9) From scripture, we see that it is God’s desire to reach out into the world with His message of hope and love and salvation.
Wherever He leads us we will go!
God has given us an assignment. We are to go where He sends us, encouraging and proclaiming the decrees of heaven, preparing the ground for the seed of the word of God. (Luke 10:1-12) This blog is a record of that journey and encounters.
This is what God said …
1-2 “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.” Romans 12
TO OPEN THEIR EYES
“We all are skeptical of Christians with big dreams. We don’t now why exactly – perhaps we have met too many who pursued visions but whose personal lives were nightmares.”[1]
A Scripture verse is quoted from Acts 26:18. “To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” I like the contemporary way in which the Message states it. I’m sending you off to open the eyes of the outsiders so they can see the difference between dark and light, and choose light, see the difference between Satan and God, and choose God. I’m sending you off to present my offer of sins forgiven, and a place in the family, inviting them into the company of those who begin real living by believing in me.’
Wow! If ever a verse summed up the tug that has been on my heart for years, this is it. As I stand before God, I cannot help but wonder. What is a 67 year old man who has had three heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, a wife whose has had neurosurgery, no car, and a condominium which has been on the market over four years, plus no money to speak of, going to do.
I cannot help but think of Abraham and Sarah. Go ahead and ask a ninety something woman what she would think about having a child at her age.
Our God does not shrink from the impossible. It is out of our weaknesses that He is glorified.
For the skeptics I have written my dream:
- As a child I have heard God’s voice say I would be one of the greatest soul winners the world has ever known;
- A pressing desire not to be known so His name is exalted;
- To travel the world going where the Holy Spirit leads;
- Praying and encouraging those whose hearts are prepared by the Holy Spirit;
- And, to report what God is doing in the world.
God has given me a spirit of boldness. Fortunately he also gave me a wife who has a spirit of adventure. God is calling us at this time to start our million-mile journey.
[1] Revolution in World Missions, K.P. Yahannan, Foreward, Gospel for Asia.
