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Tara Dulin's picture

I quiet myself: “I am here, Lord. I watch for You. I wait for You. I listen for You. What is it You want to show me today? What is it You want to speak to me today?”

My Lord responds: “Together we will subdue the earth. I have given you all power and authority over every evil thing. I returned to My Father and sent My Holy Spirit that you could be baptized by My power and My fire. It’s not in your strength, but by the power of My Holy Spirit that you will do even greater things than I did on earth.”

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Compel them

Dale Cresap's picture

Is everyone in your church relatively nice, respectable, and well-off? Does this fill you with alarm and concern? I repeatedly taught that the Kingdom was for the needy and oppressed. When the invited guests refused to come to my wedding banquet I had my servants go far and wide to compel the poor and lame to come in. When you fellowship do you find yourself surrounded by such people? If not then you may well think that something is wrong. There is an abundant supply of such people in the world and I am keenly interested in having the banquet hall full at my wedding feast. Go and get them. 

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sow seed

Dale Cresap's picture

Are you familiar with the parable of the sower and the seed? There are different outcomes for the seed sown in different areas, but the parable implies that all of the seed is good. The difference is in the conditions it finds for growth. The seed represents the word, full of divine life and potential for growth. The sower could have found good soil and planted all the seed there, but the story says that the seed fell in all types of soil. Has your garden ever grown in ways you didn’t expect? You can’t always tell good soil from bad by a casual examination. This is all the more true in the story. I give you an unlimited supply of seed. Sow it everywhere. 

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dying to give life

Dale Cresap's picture

I said that except a grain of wheat dies, it abides alone, but if it dies in the earth it brings forth much fruit. You can see the obvious way in which I was referring to myself, but can you also see that the illustration I used about a seed being consumed in the process of producing a plant is a universal principle? In that case can you see that it applies to you as well? Not in the unique way that it applied to me, but do you see any effective and fruitful gospel works that occur without sacrifice? I call you to lay down your life and pick up your cross and follow me. Your obedience in dying to yourself is a necessary part of the fruitful ministry I have for you.

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