Humility And A New Beginning
In about 30 hours (as I write this) we will begin our sixth trip to Kenya East Africa. This is significant because it comes in August. August has always been a month in which God always seems to give Pam and I a new beginning of some sort.
With the tremendous shaking and poloarizing that is going on in the Body of Christ right now, it has made me more determined to do the following:
1. Search my heart and come before the Lord in genuine repentance. While no one, I repeat, no one is preaching, teaching or interpreting the Word of God with 100% accuaracy; yet when you deliberately disregard established Biblical teaching and begin to add experiences to your life and ministry just to either get a platform or increase your platform's influence you are headed for quicksand! God help me, help me, to get it right and to preach it right!
2. I am asking God to show me what I need to quit doing (ministry as well as personally) so I can stay focused and bring the greatest potential for the blessings of God on my life and family and ministry! Give me the grace to let go of the things I need to let go of so I can only embrace the things I need to embrace!
3. I am sincerely attempting to humble myself before the Lord…even in the areas of our successes! With all the success we have seen in many of our revivals and crusades this year it would be easy to get full of pride and think we are the next coming of a great and super ministry….But as long as I see lost people come and go from our services without being convicted to repentance and genuine change, there's really nothing to brag about! As long as I see people leave our services (even when I think the Glory of God is coming down) without making a fresh commitment to Christ, I must take responsibility and examine my heart and life and see if there is some wickedness in me that is keeping God from touching every person I come in contact with! For Good! As long as I see Christian people leave our services with the same sickness afflicting them as when they came, we have nothing to get full of pride about!
For everyone who does not believe God will heal sick people today, stay tuned.
I head the testimony last night of a man who got saved in Mobile Alabama. He's not been saved long enough to get religious; he simply believes God can do ANYTHING!
he was at work recently and was talking with his supervisor. His supervisor told him about his wife that was in Central America in the hospital; she had been in an automobile accident and had been in a a coma for 30 days. He told the man, "…we will pray right now and God will raise her up!" He grabbed the man's hand and prayed a simple prayer, with all the faith he had, and at the very moment he finished, the supervisors phone rang and it was a lady on the other in speaking in spanish telling his supervisor his wife simply just "woke up!" And this miracle CAN be verified!
I realized a couple of years ago, the degree of humility you walk in will determine the degree of anointing you receive from the Lord.
James 4:10 says: Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and He will lift you up.
1 Peter 5 tells us to humble ourselves under His mighty hand that He may exalt us in due time.
Many would say that's a simple spin of semantics! But I am at a place in my life, that I don't want to live the rest of my short days simple in sight of Jesus…I want Him to be able to put His hand on me with blessings and not chastisement and constant correction!
Do you want to simply live "in plain sight of Jesus" or do you want to live under His mighty hand?