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Equipped and Ready ...42 days and counting

How many times have you heard that command of Jesus to spread the Gospel everywhere, take the good news to the ends of the earth? Probably all of us have heard it many times by now. But how seriously have we taken it? The idea that any of us, or all of us are called to be a witness to the good news of Jesus, to be the ones who take that good news wherever we go so that it really goes to the ends of the earth

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We are 42 days from heading to The Czech Republic on a 16-day missions trip.  I continue to think about what it means to be equipped by God.  Equipped to do His will.   People like you and me, made of the most ordinary clay, working for Him.  I don’t know that I ever really thought about the word “equipped” until becoming a Christian.  Big word in the Christian world.  Equipping people…for marriage, for ministry, for parenting, for spreading the Gospel, for life.  Equipped by God to do His will, and live in the way He wants us to live.

But how do you know you are “equipped.”   Is there a certificate, a ribbon, an award, an alarm that sounds when you are filled up and ready?   Is it just the person with the master of divinity that God is looking for to carry forth His word, His message of hope and love?   For those of us who never had the chance to go to Bible school or seminary, or maybe the chance was there but we were looking the other way, how does God use us?  Are we what he is looking for?  Are we equipped?

The bible says Peter and John were "unschooled, ordinary men."  Nothing special, not scholars, not heroes, not extraordinary.  They were ordinary…. really?   The Apostles were ordinary.  So I guess that makes it okay that we are ordinary?  God uses ordinary men (and women) to do extraordinary things.  That is something to give thought to.

 

So as the 9 of us ordinary people on the Czech Team, respond to the work of the Holy Spirit and heed the call, we pray that the people we come in contact with are impacted by what God is doing in us and through us.  We pray people we meet will wonder why they felt the breath of God as we silently pray for them as we pass.

As the Czech Republic is 42 days away, we hear the call and hear His voice “This is the way, walk in it.” So we do.

When We are Called song by Davis Haas

Shine with the joy and the love of the Lord!

We are called to be light for the kingdom,

to live in the freedom of the city of God!

We are called to act with justice.

We are called to love tenderly.

We are called to serve one another, to walk humbly with God.

Come! Open your heart!

Show your mercy to all those in fear!

We are called to be hope for the hopeless,

so all hatred and blindness will be no more!

Sing! Sing a new song!

Sing of that great day when all will be one!

God will reign and we'll walk with each other as sisters

and brothers united in love!

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