If You Won't...Someone Else Will

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I was dreaming I saw a huge map of Africa and then the next thing was Africa became washed in the precious precious blood of Jesus. From south the north and west to east and I heard a voice cry. That voice was something extra ordinary I'm sure it was the voice of the Holy Spirit. And he cried Africa shall be saved, was like a thunder. I woke up. I said oh that was wonderful, the Holy Spirit was in the bedroom. I've read the anointing of the spirit of God. And then my German brain began to tick again. I thought my ministry has no impact in this tiny little country of Lesotho. And now I hear God say Africa shall be saved. There's something wrong I must have eaten bad bananas last night But I had that dream four consecutive nights. And after night number four I said to my wife, honey I think God is trying to tell me something. The mission ward of the _______ to which I belonged, came to investigate the whole situation. And I thought they were pleased that I was doing so well, but then he took me aside and he said, You cannot go on doing this. The printing press, all my evangelistic developments. They wanted to stop and I was just to be a missionary like the other missionaries. They didn't want anyone to fry an extra sausage. You had to stick to the rules, be like everybody else. And now I was pregnant, kind of pregnant with that vision of bringing the gospel of salvation to the whole continent of Africa. So I was now somehow in a dead end road. I didn't want to offend my German superiors but I didn't want to offend God. And then I decided to go and hire a room in a hotel. Right there at the border of Lesotho. And I thought I'm going to pray here until God has spoken to me. I fell on my knees at the bed right there and I said Lord for the sake of peace please allow me to agree with my German brothers. And I prayed and I prayed and I prayed and I prayed. And then the Lord spoke words that made me shake like a leaf in the wind. He said to me if you drop the vision I gave you of a blood washed Africa, I have to drop you and give it to someone else to bring it about. I shook, physically, I shook like a leaf. I jumped up, I hadn't been longer than one hour in that hotel room. It was a very short fast. I paid my bill and jumped into the car. I drove home and I said Anni, Anni, Anni. God had spoken, where's my typewriter? I'm going to write a letter to ... and I'm going to resign. Oh and she said can't you please sleep one night over it? I said no, no, I can't. I can't sleep any night because God said he's going to drop me if I drop that vision. So I wrote my resignation and a peace, a deep peace came into my heart and I've never looked back. Those very men who tried to prevent it later on congratulated me for not having obeyed them. So that is the blessed outcome. So here's the principal that I want you to grasp tonight. If you won't do what God's calling you to do he'll find somebody else who will. But my friend if God has to pass you over and if he has to find someone else, then the one who's going to be the loser is you. A good example of this is Esau. Esau was the first born son in his family. He should have been his father's heir. He should have been the one to carry on the family name. He should have been the one through whom God would fulfill that great promise that he had made to Abraham. But Genesis 25:34 says that Esau despised his birthright. And so God passed over Esau. Because Esau was so flippant with that birthright, you know what he did? He gave it to Esau's younger brother Jacob. Jacob inherited the destiny that should have been Esau's And Jacob ended up becoming one of Israel's greatest patriarchs My friend if you're going to despise the gift that God's put in your life, don't worry, God will give it to someone else. Eli is another good example of this. Eli was the high priest in Israel. His family had been called and anointed by God to the very prestigious position of serving in the high priestly office. First Samuel 2:12 says that Eli's two sons had no regard for that calling on their lives. They desecrated the tabernacle with sexual perversion. In fact they literally stole offerings that people brought to the Lord. They blasphemed the very name of the God they were supposed to be serving They were spoiled brats who had a sense of entitlement. They thought they were indispensible because their daddy was the high priest. And they were born into a powerful privileged family. But my friend God tore the priestly calling away from them. He took it away from Eli's family and he gave it to a little boy named Samuel who ended up leading the nation in their stead. My friend if you don't want to honor the calling that's on your life, don't worry. God will find somebody else who will. Saul is another good example of this. God chose Saul to be Israel's first king. But Saul disobeyed the lord, he hardened his heart time and time again. Saul's children and grand children were supposed to be the ones sitting on the throne. But because of Saul's rebellion God cut his family off. And instead he anointed a young man named David. And it was through David that ultimately the Messiah was to be born. My friend if you're not going to obey the call and the will of God, don't worry, he'll look for someone else who will. The purposes of God will not fail. It's the one who chooses to disobey who is going to suffer. God's plan will still come to pass even if he has to raise someone else up to fulfill it. John the Baptist gave a sobering warning to the Jewish leadership of his day. He knew that since they were a part of God's chosen people, they had a sense of superiority and indispensability. But in Matthew 3:9 John says don't suppose that you can save yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say to you, from these stones God is able to raise up children to Abraham. My friend God is able to raise up the next world changer over night. He can take someone from the gutter like Esther who was a nobody, and put her in the palace and he needs nobody's permission to do it. And Mordecai said Esther God's purposes will come to pass one way or another, with or without you. But then his warning became even more severe. Mordecai went on to say Esther if you keep silent now relief and deliverance will arise from the Jews from somewhere else. But then he said you and your father's house will perish. My friend God's purposes are like a freight train that cannot be stopped. And the most dangerous place in the world to stand is on the track in the way of those purposes. So either get on the train or get out of the way because God's purposes will prevail with or without you. My friend we have been placed in this world for a purpose and that purpose is to propel God's Kingdom forward. And this is more than a preference or a privilege, it's a divine responsibility and a duty which we will be held eternally accountable. We talked about this in our very first lesson you probably remember the illustration with the rocket ship. Propelling God's Kingdom forward is not a side issue. It's the reason you were saved. It's reason that you were born. My friend you have come into the kingdom for such a time as this. God will not allow anyone to thwart him or his plans, no. He puts people out of the way and puts people in the way. But those who are willing to go that way. I felt God could, overnight, raise anyone, anyone. Anyone else to do that job. But I was so keen to go with Him and see nations shaken for Jesus. Before we had the big tent which sat thirty four thousand people, we had one that was sitting about ten thousand people. And it was the so called ten thousand seater and we moved around South Africa, southern Africa at that time. And so I came to the ____ and while we were in midst of our gospel crusade, I heard that a very famous African Evangelist was just about fifty kilometers away. I knew his name and I was thrilled that he was so close. So the next day I drove all the way to that other tent and it was not the man there I had expected. Not that great African Evangelist but one of his deputies, but we talked. And he said the big men of God in 1972 decided to drop his crusade ministry on a large scale. I listened and listened and listened and suddenly I remembered it was 1972 that God gave me the vision of a blood washed Africa. That shook me to the core. In those days I had not even known that great man, but the Lord unbeknown to me already put in a replacement. He has replacements and they are all top choices, they are all top choices. They may be number two or number three, but when God gets hold of a man or a woman, he enables them to fulfill that task. And I humbly submit that that was the case in my own life. The moral of the story is if I were you, I would not procrastinate and I would not just postpone it. I would jump and I would do as God has told me to do. It's in any case the highest calling possible on earth. It's the highest form of human living on earth. That's what it is. And to have the honor to be called by God is more than being the president of the mightiest nation on earth
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Channel: Daniel Kolenda
Views: 305,073
Rating: 4.9504714 out of 5
Keywords: God (Deity), Jesus Christ (Deity), Holy Spirit (Deity), God's Will, God's purposes, Daniel Kolenda, Reinhard Bonnke, LIVE Before You Die, Evangelism (Quotation Subject), Evangelist (Profession), Gospel (Quotation Subject)
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Length: 13min 16sec (796 seconds)
Published: Mon Sep 28 2015
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