Episode 425 - Show Notes
- This week I read an article by a pastor who was getting ready to go to India to do missionary work. He said that he had been praying what he called a “frightening” prayer: “Lord, do things I’m not used to.” That strikes me as an excellent prayer for all of us. It’s easy to pray for our own agenda to come to pass: “Lord, make all my dreams come true.” But you move into a different realm when you say, “Lord, I want to move beyond the normal, the ordinary, and the expected. My agenda represents my own understanding of the future, but you may have other things in mind. So please do things I am not used to.”
- God will take situations that seem bad and use them for his good. A scattered, persecuted church doesn’t seem good at all, but the result was the scattered church preached the gospel wherever they went and the God’s church and his kingdom expanded.
- Today I believe God is at work in your life and mine. Let’s work with God. Let’s surrender to his plans. Let’s go with God even when we don’t understand and even when he does things we are not used to. In the end, God’s will and his plan are fulfilled.
- Would you be willing to pray this prayer? “Lord, do things I’m not used to.”
Acts 8:4 - “Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.”
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