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MISSIONARY D. GOODWIN |
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If you are willing and available and obedient, then God can do anything with you to the highest heights and raise you from the lowest lows. God can raise you up and use you. Even if your ministry focus changes, he can change it to take you to a different place. The only way India reaches out and how the people hear and really receive Jesus is by speaking healing; by signs and wonders and miracles following. There are over 300,000 idols, false gods in India. They will ask for a picture of Jesus and put his image up with the other idols on the mantle and pray to him too. But for them to forsake the idolatry, they must see tangible evidence of the realness of Christ, and the Living God. Every one has this power to produce signs, miracles and wonders. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead live s in each born again believer. This power is in our hands and in our mouths.
Proverbs 18:21 ¶ Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it
shall eat the fruit thereof. God wanted me to preach at a revival and heal the sick. Me? I am a teacher, a Bible college teacher for master students. I am not a preacher. 2011 is the year of change. a resetting of life and priorities. A time to get off your butt and out of your comfort zone. If you are comfortable right now, God will shake things up. If what he is asking seems impossible, then it is probably God calling you to it. We each are called either to:
God supplies provision according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. I am no longer in my comfort zone. I am working with hard corps people groups: Muslims, Buddhists, HIV Hindu children. I have been training others to do this. Now I get to do it. I was called at age 12, got a vision for it at age 20, and was provided open doors when my son was grown. Part of the delay was of my own making/choosing. It was my own busyness; got married, husband gone, raised a son, career, busy at church. I was so busy in church I had no time for God. Then I got sick from asthma. I died. My physician was a Christian. He called a pastor and they laid hands on me and God breathed life into me.I am whole! Now I jog three miles a day! Glory to Christ!I entered the mission filed in my late 30's. Now I am almost 58 and God is again changing my ministry and getting me out of my comfort zone. THERE IS NO REASON WHY YOU CANNOT SERVE JESUS. You won't win people by yelling, "Do you know Jesus?" If I did that they would depot me or shoot me. You SERVE people. They see your light even though you did not preach. If the Lord told me to pray for the sick I did. They watched my work ethic, they saw how helpful I am. They saw my good attitude, that I was always on time. Just be obedient. Obedience is better than sacrifice. King Saul lost his kingdom because he disobeyed. Do not hesitate. Just do it with a willing heart. Don't try to hide from God or trick Him like Jonah did. Don't you think God already knows? I did not like the hot weather and the bugs. But by the time I left I did not care about it but Jesus. Get on your knees everyday in prayer. Everyday be in God's Word. Put the Word in and the Word comes out. What you put into you heart will come out of your mouth. That is what gives you victory over satan. When Jesus was in the wilderness being temped, he responded to every attack with," It is written." God always has a plan. Primary will/permissive will. Wake up!BE BOLD! BE STRONG! Joshua 1:9 9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a
good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy
God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. Don't worry; God has got your back. My best friend has my front. (Your husband is your best friend.) God has your children, too. Jesus humbled himself and walked as a man. Your power comes from being established in prayer. It is a walk of faith. God is the God of order. He will only give you the vision and the first step. If you do not have a vision, ask and then write it down then pray over it everyday. Believe it and speak it. Keep it right in front of your face even though it is not happening yet. Whatever God called you to do, be passionate about it. Remember the film, Braveheart? The las scene he yelled with all his life, with all his passion," FREEDOM!" What is everyone of us were passionate about reaching the lost? Let people know that Jesus is alive and well and whatever their need is, He will provide. Do not sweat it. If God calls you, He will make a way. He will never leave you or forsake you or the people you minister to. Let me hear from the Lord, not me, not satan. Don't allow other things to become bigger than Jesus. Satan IS under our feet. What is preventing you from saying yes, Lord, YES, Lord, yes, LORD!? Get it under your feet.
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