Acts 11:20
But some of them were men
from Cyprus and Cyrene who, when they had come to Antioch, spoke to the Hellenists,
preaching the LORD Jesus.
We are not turned into spiritual mediums
but into spiritual messengers; the message must be part of ourselves… The
natural heart will do any amount of serving, but it takes the heart broken by
conviction of sin and baptized by the Holy Ghost and crumpled into the purpose
of God before the life becomes the sacrament of its message…
A preacher is one who has realized the
call of God and is determined to use his every power to proclaim God’s truth…God
takes us out of our own ideas for our lives, and we are “battered into shape
and use” as were the disciples after Pentecost… Pentecost made them the
incarnation of what they preached… Let God have perfect liberty when you speak.
Excerpts from Oswald Chambers
Daily Devotional Bible, Reading 184 (7/3)
From My
Utmost for His Highest
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