Beloved: grace, mercy and peace be yours without measure from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. Welcome to another week of the month of September 2023. I pray that God will find you highly useful in the week in leading many to experience the goodness of His Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
As we are shown in the bible, one of the reasons our Lord Jesus had many people coming to receive from Him was that those that benefited from His ministry kept on telling their friends and families and bringing them to Him. For example, Mark gives us this report about a time when He came home:
“Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”” Mark 2:3-5NIV)
Did you see that? The only reason that paralytic man had a chance of being healed by the Lord Jesus was that his people brought him to His house. But they did not just bring him to the Lord’s house, they also did all they could to get him to see Jesus. And the Lord referred to what they did as an act of faith. So, it was not the faith of the paralytic man that the Lord considered in healing him but the faith of those people that brought him.
Also, John tells us in his gospel of how Andrew, having met Jesus, immediately went to look for his brother, Simon, and brought him to the Lord. And when he came to Him, He gave him a new name. He called him ‘Peter’. So, the reason we now speak of the great Apostle Peter was that his brother brought him to the Lord Jesus to experience His salvation and goodness. (Cf: John 1:40-41)
Furthermore, John tells us of how Philip brought his friend Nathaniel to the Lord Jesus. And even though Nathaniel was initially sceptical about meeting the Lord, his friend convinced him to come and meet him first before jumping into any conclusions. When he came, however, and the Lord gave him some revelations about himself, he surrendered himself to His lordship from that day on and became one of his apostles. (Cf. John 1:43-51)
Now though the Lord is no longer physically present in this world, He is always present by His Spirit in every meeting of those who believe in Him. And He is always there to teach, heal, deliver and transform the lives of those who are there. If you, then, have been experiencing His goodness and transformation in your life in this assembly, you too should be bringing your friends, family members and neighbours to Him to experience these same things and not be selfish. (Cf. Matt 18:20)
See, you cannot tell how much the Lord is able to do for those that you bring to Him. You cannot tell how your bringing them to Him will change their lives, homes and future. Could Andrew tell that his brother, Peter, would be used by the Lord in the mighty way he was used, when he first brought him to Him? No! But by bringing him to Him, he opened the door for him to become a mighty instrument of praise in His hands.
In like manner, by bringing your friends, families and neighbours to the Lord, you may just be opening the door for them to become mighty instruments of praise in His hands. So, as you go this week, begin to consider those that you are going to bring to the Lord among the people around you. And I pray that God will make room for you to lead them to Him and also fill you with adequate wisdom and courage to do so, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Have a splendid week.
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