WE DON’T KNOW

“Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?  Then said I, Here am I; send me.”

Isaiah 6:8 KJV

As I watched Bill Gaither and the Speer Family singing “The King is Coming”, the thought came to me.  They don’t know how much they have encouraged me and inspired me by their service to Jesus.  We don’t know who God will encourage and inspire by our service to Jesus.  We just need to be faithful.

Sometimes I get discouraged because there are days that I visit almost one hundred websites to tell them about the devotions and to tell them Jesus loves them and sometimes I only receive two responses.  It is very discouraging and I feel like I am failing Jesus.  God spoke to me and reminded me of these verses.

“I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.  So then neither is he that planteth any thing,, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase” (1 Corinthians 3:6,7).  It is not us that give the increase.  We plant the seed but God gives the increase.  We just need to be faithful.

Pastors, please don’t be discouraged.  Keep preaching because you don’t know whose heart God is touching.  Many years ago, one of my pastors preached a sermon about bragging on Jesus.  Pastor Byron said “If you want to fly higher than a kite, start bragging on Jesus”.  That sermon was planted in my heart.

My pastor was so right.  Since I have been writing devotions and bragging on Jesus, I really do feel like I’m flying higher than a kite.  Again, Pastors, don’t let satan discourage you.  Keep preaching your sermons because you don’t know what God will do in the heart of someone with what you say in your sermon.

Joanne Lowe

August 27, 2016