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"God wants us to be Living Tracts
with Dangerous Shadows!" |
Isaiah 61:1-2 - The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, because the LORD
has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted; to proclaim liberty to the captives, the opening of the prison
to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the
day of vengeance of our God.
I like to think of Isaiah 61 as the basic job description of all believers.
This is Christianity 101 - normal Christianity! God wants the glory of the Lord
to start to move in you and through you! How many of you would like to have
hospitals close down in your region because of the signs, wonders, and miracles
exploding in your church and everyday life?
I believe that God is saying in this hour that passing out tracts is too
limited and impersonal. Perhaps your sphere of evangelism is being part of a
weekly team that hits the streets of an impoverished section of town, armed and
ready with tracts. Maybe you mechanically pass out the Four Spiritual Laws to a
common passerby with a simple, "Jesus loves you." Beloved, this is
good, but it is only the beginning! God wants more for you! God desires all men
to be saved and wants to use you!
Becoming
a Living Tract
He wants you to be a living tract. He wants to use your mouths to speak His
words; your hands to stretch forth in signs and wonders; your feet to be
carriers of the Good News. Just as Jesus ministered to each person in the
Gospels in a unique way, God wants us to learn to hear His heart for each
individual and deliver the Gospel in a tailor-made package for them. For one
person, it might be buying them a cup of coffee, another might receive a word
of knowledge or prophecy, or God might want you to heal someone in the grocery
store. Whatever He says to do, we need to do it!
Jesus Christ had the keys to open up the gates of hell and set the captives
free. Now that He has redeemed us, He has put keys in our hands. We can touch
the broken-hearted by unlocking secret doors of past history and family secrets
to set them free.
You're It!
God wants to explode out from the box that we call church! He wants to catapult
you into the market place as His hands, His heart, and His feet. If you are
waiting for someone else to do it, God says "Guess what? You're it!"
Congratulations! You are His hand-picked brigade of fishermen! He wants to give
you fishing nets. He has been healing the holes in your nets so that you can
cast them into the dark seas of humanity. The Shekinah glory will spread as it
hits the water, and the fish will be drawn to it. When He is lifted up, all men
draw near. Now is the hour to go fishing!
Prayer: God release your Spirit. Teach us not only how to know your
message, but how to be your message. Break our hearts for the lost. Teach us to
cast our nets and use every opportunity to reel in the fish. Father, help us
not to hoard Your goodness, but to proclaim that this is the Year of the Lord
to all who want to hear the Good News!
Casting
a Dangerous Shadow
Acts 5:12 - ...people brought the sick into the streets and laid them
on the beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them
as they passed by. Crowds gathered also from the towns around
Is your shadow dangerous? In your arena of everyday life, do people get healed
and delivered because so much of the resurrection power, the glory of the Lord,
radiates through you? Is no one "safe" in your company because the
Lord breaks in suddenly with visitations of deliverance, salvation, and
healing?
Is YOUR
Name Known in Hell?
God wants people whose very name is known in hell because they wreak such havoc
on Satan's kingdom! We cannot bumble blindly through this world in mediocre
lukewarm lethargy! Peter carried so much authority that wherever his shadow
fell, people were instantly healed. Would you like to walk in that kind of
authority? It wasn't Peter's own power - rather it was the glory of the Lord in
Peter. Christ in you is the hope of glory!
When you walk into a restaurant, do you literally change the atmosphere because
you carry so much of the fire of God in you? Every place your hands and feet
touch should be invaded with the resurrection power of God. The Lord wants you
to minister outside the walls of the church in everyday life to a hurt and
dying world. Beloved, you are a carrier of His glory. We all need to be walking
flames of fire!
Prayer: Oh Lord, I want to cast a dangerous shadow! Teach me to walk
as a living flame so that all those around me are ignited with passion for You. So many are suffering today, and I just want to let You radiate through me so that all will be saved. Teach me
to be a carrier of Your glory.
by Jill Austin
Master Potter Ministries
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