Week 26:
Being a Missionary for God
God wants me to meet with Him. Its more than me preaching for Him. Its more than me being a missionary for Him. He wants to meet with me. He wants to reveal Himself to me. He wants to talk with me. He wants to come in and work in this being of mine!
A lady called me from the border of Mexico today. She was weeping and said, "God has called us here. God has really blessed us, but oh, we want to be great soul winners." And she went on. I said, "My dear, look the first commandment. Is not, Thou shalt be a soul winner. The first commandment is, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind, and strength." There are lots of missionaries that don't love God. There are lots of missionaries that should have returned from the field six months after they got there. They're doing the thing mechanically. And its hard to endure that kind of burden when they are doing it mechanically. But when they do it under the anointing of God. When they do it with the love of God... Oh, it is so different.
Can you imagine the procession accompanying the ark of the Lord? They had harps, and psalteries, and timbrels , and cornets and they're having a great time. And suddenly, death came. You wonder that David was afraid? And he said, "How shall the ark of the Lord come unto me?"
Do you ever wonder if you've gotten insensitive to what Gods trying to say to you? Do you ever wonder when a certain thing has happened that somewhere in your nervousness, you put your hand up to steady the ark, and somehow the sensitivity went, and the compassion you had went, and the concern you had went... All this man did was try to steady the ark of God. Oh mercy, how were trying to steady the ark of God these days. We don't just want to steady it. We want to do some new thing.
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