Verse of the Day 5/24

Through the Bible - 2 Kings 7-9, Matthew 13:1-30

 

Good morning,

Last week we considered such things as answering God's call and "getting in the game".   If we are Christians we are called that we might answer and get in the game.  Though we might not be great evangelists and lead throngs to Christ, we are commissioned to go in the power that Christ provides us.  For today's verse we'll go to Matthew 11 and the great commission which all starts with the word go.

 

Matt 28: 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.   NKJV

Whether we are pastors, elders, small group leaders, Bible study leaders, teachers, friends and neighbors we are called to go.  It may be next door and it may be on the other side of the world.  Your ministry may involve one person, who knows where it will go from there.

I know I've shared this before but it has been on my mind for several days.  Its the story of Edward Kimble?  You're not familiar with him?

"He was a Sunday School teacher and shoe salesman who was deeply concern for a coworker named Dwight. One day, he mustered up the courage to talk to Dwight about his faith in Jesus Christ, and Dwight converted to Christianity on the spot. Dwight later became known as D. L. Moody, the greatest evangelist of his time. We don't know much about Edward Kimble, but we have heard quite a bit about D. L. Moody.

But the story doesn't end there. Years later, when Moody was preaching, a pastor named Frederick Meyer was deeply stirred. As a result of hearing Moody preach, he went into preaching himself. A college student named Wilbur Chapman became a follower of Christ as a result of listening to Meyer's preaching, and he later employed a young ball player to help him with his outreaches. That young boy's name was Billy Sunday. Billy Sunday, who became one of the most well-known evangelists of his day, went to Charlotte, North Carolina and preached. Afterward a group of businessmen asked Sunday if he would return, but when he was unable to, they found another lesser-known evangelist named Mordecai Hamm. On one of the last nights of Mordecai Hamm's evangelistic crusade, a tall, lanky dairy farmer came walking up the aisle. Most people just knew him as Billy Frank. Today we know him as Billy Graham.

Kimble reached Moody, who touched Meyer, who reached Chapman, who helped Sunday, who reached the businessmen in Charlotte, who invited Mordecai Hamm, who then reached Billy Graham. It all started with the simple witness of Edward Kimble, an unsung hero.'   Greg Laurie - A New Beginning     Read more:Honor unsung heroes, be onehttp://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=79012#ixzz1NGV06lBD

Are you still on the bench or are you in the game? You may say, but I'm not a home run hitter, many a game has been won with a singles hitter that starts the big rally.   It starts with a single, a conversation, a kind deed, a witness, or a testimony who knows where it will lead?

 

In Christ,
Mike

 

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Eph 1:7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace  NIV

Matt 28:16-20

 

The Great Commission
(Mark 16:14-18; Luke 24:36-49; John 20:19-23; Acts 1:6-8)

 

16 Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. 17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him; but some doubted.

 

18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.  19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
NKJV