ADs February Devotional

How’s Your Aim? 

 

   Never has the old proverb, “If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time” been better illustrated than a phone message I just received.   I had 8 voice mails waiting from me when I landed in Miami after being in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) for 2 weeks.   An unidentified number left me this message, “Hi baby Jean, it’s momma Sam.  Bye.”  I wasn’t entirely sure who baby Jean or momma Sam were but I was convinced that that loving exchange wasn’t meant for me!  Momma Sam randomly threw her loving comment into cyberspace hoping it would connect.   It didn’t!  Momma’s love needed better direction.   So does our prayers.

   My time in TCI illuminated this reality.  The two-week course I taught was on Evangelism Today.  We learned techniques for sharing our faith.   We were inspired to share our faith.   We had two outreaches into the neighbor sharing our faith.   Still, the most powerful night was when the class members identified one person in their lives allowing the Holy Spirit to guide them in creating a strategy for reaching them. After their “reports”, we interceded for their friends, claiming victory over every hindrance to their surrender to God’s Grace.   Powerful, directed, insightful, an yes, anointed!   Two things left an indelible impression on my spirit.  We must pray for those we hope to reach.   Those prayers must be directed by the Holy Spirit.   Take better aim and let’s see what God will do!  "For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God's people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers." Ephesians 1:15-16 (NIV)