The story of Esther is a remarkable story of how God orchestrated individual events to prevent the genocide of His people during the time of Persian rule in the late 5th century BC. Suddenly she becomes the centre-piece. Will she take the momentous decision risking her own life?
Our sufficiency when it comes to the work of Jesus Christ must be from God at work in us. We must have a “both-and” mentality: we are poor in ourselves, but we are infinitely rich in God!
What do you think is the fundamental attitude of a man or woman of God?
Evangelism has never been so exciting. It is one thing to be excited about seeing fruit in evangelism. It is another to see how fruit has come about through God’s intervention.
These truths indicate that God has always been working far ahead of the one who seeks to evangelize someone or some group. Such might be like Abraham trying to evangelize Melchizedek, not realizing that the latter had a prior revelation from God!
God was saying to me, “Doug, can you trust me as Sovereign Love? Even without knowing the answers and without having everything figured out? Can you just trust me as God who reigns over every circumstance in your life and who is Love?”