“Mission is finding those whose hearts are right with Him and placing them where they can make a difference for Him.” Henry Blackaby
One of the great dangers in living the Christian life occurs when we become activity centred instead of God centred. For God’s ways are not always our ways.
In Acts chapter 8 we read of a great persecution breaking out against the church in Jerusalem resulting in many of the Christians being scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Philip found himself in a city in Samaria where he proclaimed Jesus with amazing results.
“Crowds listened intently to Philip because they were eager to hear his message and see …
Policemen in a certain town were called to a house where people were found to be stealing possessions from that house. Surprisingly, the policemen stayed on the footpath outside of the house and began to sing about the authority that had been given to them to arrest lawbreakers. As they declared their authority to one another, the robbers completed the task at hand of robbing the house of all its possessions and departed the scene.
I will never forget the lady who came to me one day to talk about some difficulties she was having with her son. It soon emerged that the bigger problem she was having, was that of accepting herself and realising she was a person of great value. The breakthrough came when I told her how special she was because she was unconditionally loved by God, and was of great value because God created her, and that He would never make “junk”, and even more He sent Jesus to die for her.