We are not saved only to be instruments for God, but to be His sons
and daughters. He does not turn us into spiritual agents but into
spiritual messengers, and the message must be a part of us. The Son of
God was His own message— “The words that I speak to you are spirit, and
they are life” (John 6:63).
As His disciples, our lives must be a holy example of the reality of
our message. Even the natural heart of the unsaved will serve if called
upon to do so, but it takes a heart broken by conviction of sin,
baptized by the Holy Spirit, and crushed into submission to God’s
purpose to make a person’s life a holy example of God’s message.
There is a difference between giving a testimony and preaching. A
preacher is someone who has received the call of God and is determined
to use all his energy to proclaim God’s truth. God takes us beyond our
own aspirations and ideas for our lives, and molds and shapes us for His
purpose, just as He worked in the disciples’ lives after Pentecost. The
purpose of Pentecost was not to teach the disciples something, but to
make them the incarnation of what they preached so that they would
literally become God’s message in the flesh. “. . . you shall be
witnesses to Me . . .” (Acts 1:8).
Allow God to have complete liberty in your life when you speak.
Before God’s message can liberate other people, His liberation must
first be real in you. Gather your material carefully, and then allow God
to “set your words on fire” for His glory.
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