“DOING”—
“DOING”—What We Know Is Required of Us
What are we praying for today? Is this the same prayer we brought forth yesterday? How much of our day did we give to these prayer requests? Are these (our prayer requests) an on-going, ever-present prayer request we lift to the LORD? What are we “doing” that gives some “legs, some action” to our lifted prayers? Should we be “going to the world around us” AS we are praying for those individuals IN the world around us? Should others see the ways God loves as we utter from our lips—“God loves you”? Can the world of the lost see God’s love and the imperative reason they need to trust in God’s Amazing Grace IF we don’t love our neighbor with our actions as well as with the words we speak? Can the people surrounding us see the Light of the world in us IF they look at our lives and see only the same darkness of the world that resides within them?
If we are to reach the lost, then there are some actions we need to take—beginning right now!
1st—We need to be down upon our knees, lifting these lost souls up in prayer—daily & often, throughout the day.
2nd—We need to behave, to believe, to “be” going throughout our day as children of the Light, and we are not to be children of the darkness as we once were—before we knew Jesus.
3rd—We need to embrace the persecution that will come as we live out Acts 1: 8. We need to do as the early believers, on the day when they saw the testimony of Stephen as he was stoned to death.
“And on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.
Some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.
But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison.
Therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the Word.”
(Acts 8: 1b-4)
Did we catch that?
We need to embrace the persecution that will come as we live out Acts 1: 8.
If we are down upon our knees, lifting up those who are trapped in their lostness, then we will arise in the power of God and be more equipped to walk throughout our day, “walking” as children of God, of the Light of the world. Let us embrace whatever ridicule, turmoil, or persecution that may come; Let us live with a testimony of God upon our lips and through our actions!
4th—We need to be reading, studying, meditating—digging deep into God’s Word every single day & throughout the day. How can we share Jesus without knowing more and more and more and more about the Savior?!! Warren Wiersbe said, “The remedy for discouragement is the Word of God.” Just as the Israelites crossed over the Jordan and stepped into the Promised Land—to suddenly come face-to face with their first battle: the battle of Jericho, we too can be ready for our daily battles because we have received “encouragement” from our heavenly Father through the study of His Word.
God calls each of us to carry the gospel into the world.
Where we live.
Where we work.
Where we play.
Where we talk and visit.
Where we worship.
Where we study.
Where we hike.
Where we mourn.
Where we hurt.
Where we love.
Where we walk.
Where we vacation, where we choose to rest & relax.
Wherever we are—that is where we are to carry the “gospel message,” the “Good News” of Jesus, into the world.
As the former Saul, the persecutor of Christians, but now “PAUL the Apostle of Jesus Christ” wrote within his letter to the believers living in Rome—
“Brethren, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God for them is for their salvation.”
(Romans 10: 1)
Our task—to go into the world, preaching the gospel, sharing with all we encounter about the Savior of the world, the Light who shines within the darkness and reveals God to the hearts of those lost and without God.
“For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son,
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”
(Colossians 1: 13-14)
What are we to be “DOING” as we walk through this earthly life we have been given?
We are to carry the Gospel to the lost who surround us, so they too can come to know the Light of the world.
May we today, especially this day, seriously begin—DOING What We Know Is Required of Us—to be witnesses in our Jerusalem, in our Judea, in our Samaria, and in what uttermost parts of the world God allows us and sends us to go—because each moment of every day, people are dying, separated from the LORD!