What To Do After A Special Meeting 4
Matthew 5:16
Imagine for a moment that you are an employer and one of your employees is running late without reason. He then runs through the door panting and his excuse is that he was in an almost fatal fight with a grizzly bear along the way. ‘Really? A bear?’ you might ask. This is because you’re probably wondering that if indeed this person has just been in a bear fight like they claimed to have been, they wouldn’t have walked in looking completely unscathed . Their clothes would have been stained with blood and damaged beyond recognition. Worse, they may have even died. This analogy should you see that when you’ve experienced the power of God in such a powerful way, the impact must show.
What a time we had at the Christ Life Camp 2023! Miracles in abundance, testimonies of healing, hearts aligned with the will of God and lives changed and transformed. The power of God met every person at the point of their need. None left the same way. However, the question now is, how can you sustain what you have received?
This has been dealt with extensively at morning devotion all through this week. We discussed firstly on the importance of recognition. This was the mistake of Saul.
1 Samuel 10:14-16
New King James Version
14 Then Saul’s uncle said to him and his servant, “Where did you go?” So he said, “To look for the donkeys. When we saw that they were nowhere to be found, we went to Samuel.”
15 And Saul’s uncle said, “Tell me, please, what Samuel said to you.”
16 So Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found.” But about the matter of the kingdom, he did not tell him what Samuel had said.”
The pretext narrates to us of Saul’s experience with the power of God and how he had just prophesied and this was uncommon in that day! But when his uncle inquired of him his whereabouts, he didn’t deem it fit to mention it. This shouldn’t be the testimony of the believer. At the camp meeting, graces were received and multiplied! Mantles of the Fathers were handed over to many. We must recognize this to walk in them effectively.
Next, we discussed the importance of being filled with the Spirit as it pertains to this topic.
Ephesians 5:18
New King James Version
18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit
It is important to note that the Greek for ‘be filled with the Holy Spirit’ as used here transliterates to ‘being filled’. This implies a continuum. A constant. An instruction to stay full of the Spirit as a believer is a strategy to sustain what you’ve received at such camp meetings.
Remembrance was what was discussed next. While it is important that we press for more in God, it is more important that we put ourselves in remembrance of the instructions and prophecies received by insisting on them in the place of prayer and meditating on them to be sure to do them.
Then, we discussed on accountability as a way to sustain which you’ve received. God’s plan for revival for the believer is not that your devotional fervour waxes and wanes but that it is always vibrant. This can be achieved with the structures set up for your growth in your local assembly.
Finally, you must understand that all you’ve received is not to be buried but to be put to use. You must take action and do!
Matthew 5:16
New King James Version
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
All that has been deposited in you is not just for you but for your world to see. You are a city set on a hill, a lamp that cannot be hidden under a bushel. You were created in Christ for good works. Let your world know that you’ve encountered Jesus!
Matthew 25:18-19
New King James Version
18 But he who had received one went and dug in the ground, and hid his Lord’s money.
19 After a long time the Lord of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
Matthew 25:24-26
New King James Version
24 Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
25 And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’
26 “But his Lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed.
From the parable above the master went as far as to call the servant wicked and lazy. Meaning that if you don’t do what the Lord has instructed with what he has given you, you can be deemed wicked and lazy. You may just be depriving the world of what God deposited in you for them. He gave all those graces and gifts for you to yield results. And in order for you to do that you cannot afford to let them lie dormant, get up and do as the Lord has instructed !
Resist the temptation to under compensate after camp meeting. Now is the time to take action. Do!
Prayer Point:
Lord I am grateful for the graces multiplied at camp meeting and the graces imparted. I declare that I take action, I run with every prophecy and put to use every gift.