The One who created you and redeemed you has called you into His service. Now, expect Him to empower you and do wonderful things through you.
11) You do not know which sermons of yours (and which visitations, counseling, witnessing, notes of encouragement or gifts) will bear the most fruit and be most used of the Holy Spirit.
I love this little reminder from Ecclesiastes 11:6: “In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, either this or that, or whether both alike will be good.”
12) You do not know what God can do with your pitiful sermon.
But it’s fun to find out!
After all …
You walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7).
Unless you are willing to give the Lord your best effort and then leave the results with Him, you will not last in this work. If you require that the fruit for your labors must always be visible and measurable, one of two things will happen, both of them bad: You will either lose heart and quit, or you will become a manipulator of congregations.
You will walk by faith or you will become a statistic (Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17).
You will not know until you get to Heaven how God has used you.
You will be rewarded at the resurrection of the righteous (Luke 14:14). What we have to ask ourselves is: Can I wait that long? Can I believe that strong? Can I sing that song?
Say this to yourself repeatedly until its promise becomes part of the very marrow of your bones: “God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love that you have shown toward His name in having ministered to the saints, and in still ministering” (Hebrews 6:10).
Go forward by faith, friend. “Let us not grow weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we don’t quit” (Galatians 6:9).
