“LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?”

March 9, 2014

“Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Acts 9:1-2 (NKJV)

My friends most of us as we look over our life, have no physical signs that we have been in a war zone with Satan. So many circumstances, situations, lives lost of those we have loved or been acquainted with. But why us, why do we live to tell our stories, why was more grace and more time extended to us, in spite of us.

Paul had been a Pharisee. “He considered himself the most zealous, rigorous and careful of all Pharisees.” “As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a LIGHT shone around him from heaven.

Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”…… So he, trembling and astonished, said, “LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?” Acts 9:3-6 (NKJV) that is what we as Christians need to ask Christ each day of our life “LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?”

Verse 15 says The Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my CHOSEN INSTRUMENT to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.

When you read Paul’s letters, you realize God knew that he would be a faithful LEADER, and a SERVANT to all people at all times, that he would ENDURE no matter what situation he might find himself in, even if that meant losing his life.

Paul himself tells us in Phil.1:21(KJV) “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” My friends can God say the same about us? They are my CHOSEN INSTRUMENT they will proclaim My name to the world. I know they will ENDURE to the end, even if it means death.

God tells us “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever,” this is a warning to His Children who has heard His voice throughout their life, but today no longer recognizes His PRESENCE. Friends God needs Faithful witnesses for Him today while there is still time and grace as you bring Glory and Honor to His name

“Like a grapevine branch, we are not always producing fruit in our life. That would be unnatural. For a significant portion of a grapevine’s life is nothing but a dry, twisted stick, fruitless with no benefit to anyone. It is even useless for shade, worthless as timber, to all appearances it is only fit to be ripped from the ground, thrown in a heap and burned.”

“Yet those barren times are as vital in the life of the vine, as the season itself.” “If spring could tip-toe passed nature without stirring it from its winter slumber; if the sun could slip through the sky without dispelling the night; if rain could fall to the ground without bringing life to the desert, only then should you fear dry times, dark times, lean times.

Though you feel as useless as a fur coat in a heat-wave, the time will come when your warmth is treasured. For everything there is a season.”(Grantley Morris) Where I need you to focus on today is the fact that as a Child of God “a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession,…. 1Peter 2:9 (NIV)

WE HAVE BEEN FRUITLESS FOR TO LONG, YOUR WARMTH IS NOW TREASURED to finish God’s mandate here on earth as you spread the good news of the gospel. God’s grace have allowed each of us to have a DAMASCUS ROAD EXPERIENCE throughout our life.

And there are many reasons why God allowed us to travel this road, but now we are on the final stretch, as we enter the threshold of the PROMISE LAND, Christ is now looking for FAITHFUL INSTRUMENTS to serve Him until his soon appearing so today He pleads “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.” Rev 3:20 (KJV) so as you here that voice today ask Christ “LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?”

So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY