Your people shall be volunteers
In the day of Your power. Psalms 110:3
One mark of revival,
during which God comes to His people in power, is that God’s people are
compelled to offer their lives for His service. Many churches lack people who
are willing to get involved in carrying out God’s redemptive work. The mission
fields are crying out for Christians to go and share the gospel with those
who’ve never heard it. What we need is not more pleas for volunteers, but an
outpouring of the power of God. When God comes among His people in power, there
is never a shortage of volunteers or resources for His work!
When Christians today
are asked what aspects of the Christian life are most important to them,
missions is not usually ranked as a priority. This is because we have lost
track of why God called us in the first place. We were not saved from our sin
simply so that we would qualify for heaven. God delivered us so we would have a
relationship with Him through which He could carry out His mission to redeem a
lost world.
Only the power of God
can free us from our natural self-centeredness and reorient us toward the mission of God. There is no need to pray that God
would come in power. That is the only way He ever comes. We need hearts that
are so responsive to Him that He will choose to demonstrate His power through
us. Is your heart so filled with love for God that you are watching for the
first opportunity to say with Isaiah, “Here am I. Send me!”?
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