The responsibility of gods is to take care of their
followers. That care or lack thereof
speaks volumes about a given god. King
David spoke of the God of Israel in this way, “Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loads us with benefits, the God of our
salvation” (Psalm 68:19; 103:2; 116:12)!
He also said, “I have been young,
and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants
begging bread” (Psalm 37:25).
God has some responsibility here! So do we!
It’s called a covenant relationship [each has a part to play]. Jesus was getting at man’s part when He said,
“But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord’ and
do not the thing which I say” (Luke 6:46)?
Jesus was mystified that folk didn’t understand God is after a
relationship.
Was not the importance of relationship the issue when Jesus
underscored the difference between Mary and Martha? This was when Mary was sitting at the feet of
Jesus and Martha was scurrying about the business of entertaining Jesus and the
group with Him. After appealing to Jesus
to chide Mary in to helping her, Jesus gave Martha a shocking reply, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and
troubled about many things. But one
thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken
away from her” (Luke 10:42).
So—You Have to Wait
on God!
If Mary waited on Jesus, is it too much for us to wait on
God? Part of that waiting may be an
issue of timing, clarification of objective, or purification of motive. All the while you’re keeping company with the
great King of the Universe, is that so bad?
Consider this. A
primary factor issuing in the great Argentine Revival of the latter half of the
1900’s was five people waiting on God for five evenings, 8 p.m. to
midnight. A missionary, one of the five,
said they were to say nothing, do nothing, and only wait on God. After the end of the first session, the small
group was quizzed, “Did you hear anything from God?” The wife of the one couple said, “I think God
said for me to strike the table.” The
lady refused to do it. The same scene
played out for four additional nights with the same message and the same
unwillingness of the lady to strike the table.
The missionary said, “Well, we will all strike the table.” So they did, but nothing happened until the
lady to whom the message had been repeatedly given, struck the table. God said, “Now that you have demonstrated faithfulness
and obedience, I have a people and can do what I want to do.”
An Argentine
Connection
From that, God spoke to an obscure evangelist in Washington
State and told him to get on a plane to Argentina and there pray for the
healing of Juan Peron. The evangelist
did just that, praying a healing prayer first for an intermediary of Juan
Peron’s, then for Peron himself. That opened the way for the evangelist to have
made available the largest soccer stadium in Argentina. There thousands upon thousands were healed
and waves of revival swept across the nation.
It even touched America through the evangelist, Steve Hill, who had gone
to Argentina to see what was going on.
Steve Hill would then be the evangelist who was used in the mighty
revival at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida.
Why not gather
four of your friends to wait on God, say—for five nights, 8 p.m. to midnight,
and perhaps become the catalyst bringing mighty change to your state, region or
nation? Why Not?
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