Some weeks back, Weng Yan aka Beeboo shared the passage below with the cell. She took it from Bobbie Houston's blog. It was such an encouragement to me at that time and hope it would encourage you as well.
- I love the thought of us ALL being WORLD CHANGERS!!
- I love the thought that God considered us ALL unique & special enough to plant us at such a crazy/wonderful time in history.
- I love the thought that in doing so, He would have invested unique gift and measure within ALL of us so that we could fulfil that planting.
- I love that He is no respector of persons and invites us all.
- I love that He will use any willing heart that is, well willing.
- I love that we don't have to impress Him.
- I love that we can come as we are.
- I love that He specialises in people who think they are pathetic, but really aren't.
- I love that He is gentle and patient and persistent in shaping us into what He knows we can become.
- I love that He is not freaked out at the state of the world.
- I love that He is calm.
- I love that He has a plan.
- I love that He considers us capable to carry His heart and make a difference.
- I love that He can take the likes of you and I and make us ALL WORLD CHANGERS IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
- I love that no one is excluded and that we each have an individually distinct world to focus on friends, family, workmates, street, church, community and all those beautiful strangers who so often slide across our paths unseen, unnoticed.
So agree with me as I write this on a wintery afternoon in Sydney... there's a world to love, a world to influence, a world to pray for. Don't diminish your part, don't stress over how it will all pan out and don't wonder how and where to find the will of God.
Rest in His love, rest in His providence, rest in His promise, be faithful with what is important and non-negotiable in His Word, find a need, make a stand, put your hand up, stay at your post and trust me, the rest will take care of itself.
So why DO NOT DISTURB, WORLD CHANGER AT REST?
Because all world changers need reminders... rest in His grace, rest in His enabling, rest in His Spirit, rest that He is well able to complete what He has begun.
"Not by might, not by power, but by my Spirit," says our God. Our strength can carry us so far, but His Strength will carry us all the way.. and then BEYOND what we could ever hope or imagine.
Praying that each and every one of us will learn the art of 'labouring from a place of REST".
