7 min
Early Influence of the Spirit Purpose Reminder Christian Mission
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- Christianity
Early advantage to be under a right teacher can make a huge difference in a young person's life.
Some years back, my elder brother was invited to my Campus Fellowship for a ministration. It was a great time with the Lord. But before he came up to preach, I had the privilege to bring the first word of exhortation.
While I was doing this, I noticed my brother gave his total concentration, looking at me with a kind of amazement on his face. But I did not understand why until we finished the entire Programme.
By the time we finished and he was about entering the car with his wife and children, he stopped and look straight to my eyes. Then he said to me, "I want to thank God for your life brother. How I wished I had this kind of opportunity to know and serve the Lord during my own undergraduate days, I won't be where I am today."
He looked and said something which I vowed to keep in my heart forever. He said, "You have an early advantage and if you continue like this, your future is already secured in God."
I want to talk to you about understanding the advantage of early influence of the Spirit.
Of course, I know some of us that will read this devotion are advanced in years. But God can still use us to step into this critical role of bringing young people under the early influence of the Holy Spirit.
Most people who are called to children, teenage and youth development ministries don't really know the weight of the assignment that has been committed to them.
I see today how some believers who are privileged to be in secular teaching profession don't understand that they have more than a career that simply fetches them monthly salary. They have a calling to plead to God that no child will pass through them who will not come under early influence of the Holy Spirit.
For many of us that are parents, we have nothing to boast about if we don't seek the Lord for help that our children will come under early influence of the Holy Spirit.
The most important impact we can make on the next generation is not just the great education we can give to them. It is making them to come under the early influence of the Holy Spirit.
Raising agents of God's wonders in every generation begins with this important matter the Lord is dealing with in this devotion. It begins with the labour to see our young people come under early influence of the Holy Spirit.
David said in Psalm 71:17 MSG, "You got me when I was an unformed youth, God, and taught me everything I know. Now I'm telling the world your wonders.
# PrayerBurden
Father, Give us burden, vision and the heart for raising young people early for Your Use!
# QuoteForLeaders
"The most important impact we can make on the next generation is not just the great education we can give to them. It is making them to come under the early influence of the Holy Spirit."
# ScriptureSpeak
Psalm 71:17
Early advantage to be under a right teacher can make a huge difference in a young person's life.
Some years back, my elder brother was invited to my Campus Fellowship for a ministration. It was a great time with the Lord. But before he came up to preach, I had the privilege to bring the first word of exhortation.
While I was doing this, I noticed my brother gave his total concentration, looking at me with a kind of amazement on his face. But I did not understand why until we finished the entire Programme.
By the time we finished and he was about entering the car with his wife and children, he stopped and look straight to my eyes. Then he said to me, "I want to thank God for your life brother. How I wished I had this kind of opportunity to know and serve the Lord during my own undergraduate days, I won't be where I am today."
He looked and said something which I vowed to keep in my heart forever. He said, "You have an early advantage and if you continue like this, your future is already secured in God."
I want to talk to you about understanding the advantage of early influence of the Spirit.
Of course, I know some of us that will read this devotion are advanced in years. But God can still use us to step into this critical role of bringing young people under the early influence of the Holy Spirit.
Most people who are called to children, teenage and youth development ministries don't really know the weight of the assignment that has been committed to them.
I see today how some believers who are privileged to be in secular teaching profession don't understand that they have more than a career that simply fetches them monthly salary. They have a calling to plead to God that no child will pass through them who will not come under early influence of the Holy Spirit.
For many of us that are parents, we have nothing to boast about if we don't seek the Lord for help that our children will come under early influence of the Holy Spirit.
The most important impact we can make on the next generation is not just the great education we can give to them. It is making them to come under the early influence of the Holy Spirit.
Raising agents of God's wonders in every generation begins with this important matter the Lord is dealing with in this devotion. It begins with the labour to see our young people come under early influence of the Holy Spirit.
David said in Psalm 71:17 MSG, "You got me when I was an unformed youth, God, and taught me everything I know. Now I'm telling the world your wonders.
# PrayerBurden
Father, Give us burden, vision and the heart for raising young people early for Your Use!
# QuoteForLeaders
"The most important impact we can make on the next generation is not just the great education we can give to them. It is making them to come under the early influence of the Holy Spirit."
# ScriptureSpeak
Psalm 71:17
7 min