A Nugget from New Life Network
Scripture for the Day (March 30, 2017)
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. (Mark 16:15)
We are on the road again! My wife and I are in the ministry truck headed for Dallas, TX to minister at the Evolv Impact 2017 conference. We will be delivering the Sunday morning message at the church service so pray that many souls will be touched and many chains broken.
I was recently reading the life story of John Wesley which was very enlightening. His father was an Anglican Priest and John had been taught the Word of God since he could read. His mother had all of their children memorize scriptures. John was himself ordained as an Anglican Priest in his twenties, even though he did not have a personal relationship with God.
On a ship from England to Savannah, GA, in the middle of a storm, John met some Moravian missionaries who did have a personal relationship with God. They were the only ones not freaking out. That changed his life forever and through those friendships John was later transformed at a meeting at Aldersgate where he came to know God in a very personal way.
John was on fire for God after Aldersgate and the Anglican church did not know what to do with him so they just shut all their doors to him (just like religion). He was still an Anglican Priest but had no place to preach. Now, John could have gotten bitter at this point and quit but he did just the opposite. He looked at it as a promotion and said this:
“I look upon all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.” (John Wesley’s Journal, June 11, 1739)
John Wesley was no longer enslaved to the four walls of a church or the restrictions of a particular sect or denomination. He was free to preach to the world and that is what he did. He set out on horseback and preached over 40,000 sermons to whoever would listen. He is widely recognized as the founder of the Methodist church and his fire and zeal for God is considered the forerunner of the Charismatic and Pentecostal movements.
I would hope that when my wife and I go home to be with the Lord people might say something like this about us. “I knew that couple and they went from home to home, town to town, church to church, business to business, prison to prison, and country to country telling people about the goodness of God.” If they can say that about us, then I know that the Lord will say, “Well done thy good and faithful servants.”
God is good and it’s worth every mile we travel and every person we preach to! It’s worth it all!!!
