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Who Will Go?

Somewhere along the way in your spiritual journey, the Lord wants you to invest what you have received. What do you have to invest? I don’t have the slightest idea. He has given you something to invest, and He wants your investment to multiply ten times ten.

I would encourage every one of you to ask the Lord; “what do I have to invest; and where is the best place to invest it”?  Strange as it may seem, most of us do not know where we are most gifted; we think, this is my greatest gift or this is my greatest talent! Ask the people around what they think your greatest gift and talent is and it might surprise you what they tell you.

A scripture in Hebrews Ch 5:14:  But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

If you read from Hebrews 5:11 to verse 14 it is speaking to people that never grew up spiritually; they never used the gifts God gave them. Recognize what God has given you and use it.

I do this spiritual growth series because I am interested in your spiritual growth. Even more, I want you to bear a lot of fruit in other people. I want your spiritual life to affect the world around you. I know that the Holy Spirit is speaking to some of you; it is time to speak; and time to act.

The Lord is asking; “Who will go; who will I send!”

The difficult part is He doesn’t always tell us where to go or what to say until we say; Lord; here I am send me, I will be your hands and feet, I will be your voice in the wilderness.     

I Will Send My Word To Heal Them

We are made in Gods image! What an awesome thing to think about. One of the ways that we are made in His image is we have speech. The spoken word is powerful; it can create wonderful things and it can destroy. Jesus is the living Word! He was sent to save us; heal us and to set us free from the bondage of sin.

What are you doing with your words?

In our spiritual journey something wonderful should be happening; we should be changing for the better; not only that we should be changing the world around us for the better. The power to do that is in our words and actions.

Are your words bringing healing?

If they are not, then you need to pay more attention to what you are saying and how you are saying it. I am reminded of what Jesus spoke when they were going to stone the woman caught in adultery; He said; “You without sin cast the first stone” that one sentence changed everything for everyone involved. That is the same power we have in our words

How many times have you spoken quickly and then thought; I should not have said that. Did you learn anything or are you going to keep right on doing it? The peace in our homes; in our churches; our relationships is often lost because we have not learned to weigh carefully the words we speak.

We are called to follow in His footsteps; His words were to heal; our words are to heal; not to fan the fire. You might say; “Yes but what about their words that hurt me so much”. We are not responsible for what someone else is saying; we are responsible for what we say.  

He Sends His Word

The Lord said I will send my Word to heal them.  Who is The Lord sending this Word to?

 You and I!

On our spiritual journey, we must become well acquainted with the living word He sends. Why? Because this is the word you and I are to act on for the benefit of others. When we become spiritual men and women, we are to become ministers of the living word. The word does not come from us, it comes from God and we are to speak it and act on it for the benefit of others.

When we receive the word from God and do not speak it or act upon it we are in effect burying the treasure or covering the light with a basket.

James 1:22-25

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves.  For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his ^??natural face ^?in a mirror;  for once he has looked at himself and gone away, ^?he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was.  But one who looks intently at the perfect law, ^?the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but ^??an effectual doer, this man will be ^?blessed in ^?what he does.

You that have the Holy Spirit have no excuse; the Lord has opened our eyes and our ears; we can now hear and understand what God is saying to us. He expects us to share with others what He has freely revealed to us. We are not to bury it but invest it in the lives of others that are in need.

Acts 1:8

         but you will receive power ^?when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be ^?My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and ^?Samaria, and even to ^?the remotest part of the earth.”

We have been given the power from the Holy Spirit to witness through the gifts of the Holy Spirit to the world around us. I believe that if we want to grow and mature as spiritual men and women it is very important for us to use everything God has given us to do that work

Becoming Active Spiritually

Now we ^?have received, not the spirit of ^?the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.

In order for spiritual growth to occur, we must become active in spiritual things. In the scripture above, we are to combine spiritual thoughts with spiritual words; speaking is action. We are to listen spiritually to the thoughts coming from God and do what He tells us to do. This may be more then just speaking. We may be required to do something; to be His hands and feet as well as His voice. The Lord is not requiring most of us to go to Africa or China. For the most part He is asking us to speak to one person, to reach out and touch one life.

This happened a while back; I saw a woman that was having a difficult time in church. The Holy Spirit put the thought in my mind I was to pray for her. After the service, I asked her if I could pray for her and she said yes. I asked her name and I prayed for her for healing. A couple of days went by and again the Holy Spirit told me to get acquainted with her husband. I saw him on the street and I spoke to him and asked his name and he told me. He told me the family was having some serious health problems and they were leaving in a few days. I mentioned that we were praying for his family and he thanked me. The next morning when I woke up the Holy Spirit put the thought in my mind to give him my book Out of Confusion; to sign the book for him and his wife and to write; “Expect a miracle”.

I know that some wonderful things are going to happen in this family. I don’t have to do the miracle. God will, all I had to do was listen, speak, and do. The rest is up to God. I will continue to pray for this family as long as they are in my thoughts and heart.

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are very much a part of this type of ministry; the word of knowledge of what to do; the wisdom of how to do it; the discernment to recognize the thoughts that come from God. As we use these wonderful gifts, we bring into the world the power and authority of God and miracles and healing happens.

Anybody could have done these things and become a blessing. This should become a natural part of our spiritual journey.