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Here's a timely Word 4 Today, from http://www.Anchorlife.com:-
Thought for the Day
March 18 & 19, 2006
Growing in Your Relationship with God
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Today
* Spiritual Secret
* Today's Read through the Bible Passage
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Spiritual Secret
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. (NIV) John
15:4
>From Hudson Taylor's "Spiritual Secret":
"Hudson Taylor did not start out to impact 'millions.'
He started out to love God, to honor Him, and to
share His love with individual sinners who needed to
desperately to know Him.
Jesus called Taylor (and us) to be 'faithful,' not 'successful.'"
"It was that love that as the days went on made it
such a keen distress to fail in the old ways and lose
the joy of His conscious presence. . . .he could not
be satisfied with anything less than the best, God's
best--the real and constant enjoyment of His
presence. To go without this was to live without
sunlight, to work without power."
"The life that was to be exceptionally fruitful had to
be rooted and grounded in God in no ordinary way."
[James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) was one of the
first missionaries to China and was the founder of the
China Inland Mission. His initial goal was to have 24
workers in China. He labored in China for 40 years. At
his death in 1905, there were 205 missionary stations
with 849 missionaries and 125,000 Chinese Christians
in the China Inland Mission.]
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I don't dispute that God's top priority prime directive - as in the 1st commandment - to love God with all our heart, soul, mind & strength - is faithfulness
I don't doubt either Hudson Taylor's or SElwyn Hughes' sincerity
What I most definitely have often discerned is that many lesser 'servants of God' misuse it - as an excuse for laziness &/or cowardice
Some even say that, if you are successful in evangelism & church growth, you must be unspiitual.worldly, dishonest, etc
Have YOU noticed that?
More vital: what is the BIBLE idea of faithfulness?
Does it exclude success?
Does it expect success?
See http://www.JOyceMeyer.org
& http://www.BennyHinn.org
& http://www.mcwe.org
Must go
God bless!
Ian
Thought for the Day
March 18 & 19, 2006
Growing in Your Relationship with God
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Today
* Spiritual Secret
* Today's Read through the Bible Passage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Spiritual Secret
Remain in me, and I will remain in you. (NIV) John
15:4
>From Hudson Taylor's "Spiritual Secret":
"Hudson Taylor did not start out to impact 'millions.'
He started out to love God, to honor Him, and to
share His love with individual sinners who needed to
desperately to know Him.
Jesus called Taylor (and us) to be 'faithful,' not 'successful.'"
"It was that love that as the days went on made it
such a keen distress to fail in the old ways and lose
the joy of His conscious presence. . . .he could not
be satisfied with anything less than the best, God's
best--the real and constant enjoyment of His
presence. To go without this was to live without
sunlight, to work without power."
"The life that was to be exceptionally fruitful had to
be rooted and grounded in God in no ordinary way."
[James Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) was one of the
first missionaries to China and was the founder of the
China Inland Mission. His initial goal was to have 24
workers in China. He labored in China for 40 years. At
his death in 1905, there were 205 missionary stations
with 849 missionaries and 125,000 Chinese Christians
in the China Inland Mission.]
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I don't dispute that God's top priority prime directive - as in the 1st commandment - to love God with all our heart, soul, mind & strength - is faithfulness
I don't doubt either Hudson Taylor's or SElwyn Hughes' sincerity
What I most definitely have often discerned is that many lesser 'servants of God' misuse it - as an excuse for laziness &/or cowardice
Some even say that, if you are successful in evangelism & church growth, you must be unspiitual.worldly, dishonest, etc
Have YOU noticed that?
More vital: what is the BIBLE idea of faithfulness?
Does it exclude success?
Does it expect success?
See http://www.JOyceMeyer.org
& http://www.BennyHinn.org
& http://www.mcwe.org
Must go
God bless!
Ian