had only been saved for a few weeks;
and I fell to my knees with my face
to the floor crying, “Lord, I will, but I
don’t know how.” Not until I accepted
God’s call did He give me my first
sermon. The Lord wanted me to
preach what He gave me, not things I
had heard from others.
If I had looked to myself when
God called me, I would have made
all kinds of excuses—“I don’t know
how...I don’t have money to go to
theological school...I don’t have what
it takes to be a preacher.” God is God;
and all He needs is a willing, obedient
and trusting heart.
The time we have left on Earth is
very short, so you must yield yourself
to God and let Him use you to finish
bringing in the harvest of lost souls.
God is the Master Potter, and He can
do marvelous works with yielded clay.
But now, O LORD, thou art our
father; we are the clay, and thou
our potter; and we all are the
work of thy hand (Isaiah 64:8).
When God called Noah to build an
ark to save his family from the great
Flood that was to come upon the
Earth, he had probably never heard
of or seen an ark let alone built one.
He could easily have looked to himself
and said he didn’t know how to
accomplish such a feat, but he didn’t;
he looked to God. The Lord isn’t
looking for experience; He is looking
for yielded vessels. Are you ready and
willing to do whatever God wants you
to?
Noah accepted the call from God
to build an ark, and God gave Noah
the knowledge of how to do it. By
faith Noah, being warned of God
of things not seen as yet, moved
with fear, prepared an ark to the
saving of his house (Hebrews 11:7).
Would you have told God He needed
to look for someone else?
Never Look to Yourself
LOOK
Some of you are always so busy
looking at what you don’t have that
you don’t see what you do have. You
may think, “Lord, when I get this one
thing, I will work for you.” But if you
aren’t willing to work with what you
already have, you won’t be willing to
work when you receive more because
you are looking too much to yourself
instead of looking to God and trusting
Him to work through you. You are
clay that is resisting the work of the
Potter’s hands.
Trust God, not self.
God doesn’t want you to take
pride and joy in what you have or
what you have done; He wants you
to trust Him and glorify Him for what
He has done. But God hath chosen
the foolish things of the world
to confound the wise; and God
hath chosen the weak things of
the world to confound the things
which are mighty; And base things
of the world, and things which are
despised, hath God chosen, yea,
and things which are not, to bring
to nought things that are: That no
flesh should glory in his presence
(I Corinthians 1:27–29).
You have to believe that God can
do anything. Jesus said, All things
are possible to him that believeth
(Mark 9:23). God can make what
you have great when you depend
on Him. Jesus said, I am the vine,
ye are the branches: He that
abideth in me, and I in him, the
same bringeth forth much fruit:
for without me ye can do nothing
(John 15:5). God wants His work
to be recognized in such a way that
people will have to admit that no one
else could have done it but Him.
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