Today I am simply going to share "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers in its entirety because this message is vitally important if we truly desire to fulfill what God has called each one of us to do!
All power is given unto Me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations. — Matthew 28:18-20
The basis of missionary appeals is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the heathen. We are apt to look upon Our Lord as One Who assists us in our enterprises for God. Our Lord puts Himself as the absolute sovereign supreme Lord over His disciples. He does not say the heathen will be lost if we do not go; He simply says — “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.” Go on the revelation of My sovereignty; teach and preach out of a living experience of Me.
“Then the eleven disciples went…into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them” (verse 16). If I want to know the universal sovereignty of Christ, I must know Him for myself, and how to get alone with Him; I must take time to worship the Being Whose Name I bear. “Come unto Me” — that is the place to meet Jesus. Are you weary and heavy laden? How many missionaries are!
We banish those marvellous words of the universal Sovereign of the world to the threshold of an after-meeting; they are the words of Jesus to His disciples. “Go ye therefore.…” “Go” simply means live. Acts 1:8 is the description of how to go. Jesus did not say — Go into Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, but, “Ye shall be witnesses unto Me” in all these places. He undertakes to establish the goings.
“If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you…” — that is the way to keep going in our personal lives. Where we are placed is a matter of indifference; God engineers the goings. “None of these things move me….” That is how to keep going till you’re gone
I LOVE that Jesus did NOT say that the heathen would be lost if we do not go"! He didn't give us a negative message at all! Jesus simply said to GO! When we go in HIS power, led by HIS Spirit, speaking HIS Words and doing HIS will, then we cannot fail and we WILL be more effective than we have ever been before! Let's trust God's perfect plan and stop putting so much stress on ourselves and what WE have to do! JUST BE! When we spend time in HIS presence on a daily basis, we will get to know HIM just as powerfully as Paul did, and THEN we will BE those powerful witnesses that show forth His presence, drawing all men to HIM! AMEN! Here is Hillsong Worship with "In God We Trust":
IN GOD WE
TRUST
Overwhelmed but I won’t
break
Through the battle I will say
Your grace will be enough
Your grace will be enough
Under fire but we won’t fall
We will never be alone
You’ll always be enough
You’ll always be enough
Now in God we trust
In His Name we hope
I know God will not be shaken
God is here with us
He’s already won
I know God will not be shaken
We will follow where You go
We will trust through the unknown
I know You go before
I know You go before
Lead my heart now in Your ways
For we’re carrying Your Name
Your promise never fails
Your promise never fails
You finish what You begun
Forever strong in Your love
Your Name is sure
And You will fight for us
Our hope forever secure
In You alone
