Tuesday, March 9 – Day 21

Seeking His Glory in Evangelizing All Peoples
Seek God…to display His love and power by answered prayer.

Christianity is a supernatural walk. We live in a body of flesh that is opposed to God, and everything God calls us to do or tells us we cannot do is the opposite of what the flesh calls us to do or tells us not to do. So we need the power of God through the ministry of the Holy Spirit to overcome the power of the flesh.

In other words, we need to depend upon God for the capacity to live a supernatural life: a life that is lived above the natural.

• It is a life that loves someone who hasn’t treated us right.
• It is a life that does not retaliate when someone wrongs us.
• It is a life that rejoices in God’s plan in the midst of tribulation.
• It is a life that doesn’t have anxiety about an uncertain future because it trusts God.

I believe prayer is one of the significant ways we show our dependence upon God. When we pray, and God answers our prayers with strength to defy the flesh, the unbelieving world sees that and realizes that we are different and wants to know why we are different and asks (I Peter 3:15). Supernatural lives are the greatest human tool we have for evangelism.

How can we sell something to others when we haven’t demonstrated that it works for us? And supernatural lives come from dependence upon God for the ability to live that kind of life. And that dependence is expressed in our prayers as we ask Him for the strength to do the biblical thing or not to do the unbiblical thing. The ability to live such a supernatural life in the ordinary circumstances of life is not a spectacular miracle like the paralytic being healed in Luke 5:26, but it is none-the-less miraculous every time we walk according to the Spirit and do not do the deeds of the flesh. And it’s miraculous because it’s the power of God working in us in the same way it was the power of God which healed the paralytic.

Through prayer working in our lives may we “call” the unbeliever’s attention to God’s gift! It’s the most authentic form of evangelism.

T.F.
Cedar Valley Bible