Failure and Success: I Refuse to Compete
Good morning fellow ministers and brethren.
I feel it may interest some of us if I share a Prayer by A W Tozer.
This prayer actually encapsulates the attitude or core value that I had been guided to develop over the years with regards to divine calling, giftings and/or stewardship.
What we usually refer to as “my ministry” or “my commission” will be better administered in line with the Mind of the Sovereign Giver of the Grace(s) if we align our understanding to Divine Stewardship!
If we do this, we will never add nor try to subtract from our divine mandate(s). If we put in remembrance always, the Judgement Seat Of Christ (2Cor 5: 10) and eternity, we will not compete nor attempt to alter our service in order to be on a comparative level with other men! We will not build schools because others did, we will not go on TV because someone else did, we will not change the pattern of our service delivery just to enlarge our ministry and thereby alter the boundaries of our heavenly ordained mandate! Apostle Paul exclaimed, “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision!”
I am convinced and affirm that Success in Ministry is doing EXACTLY what you have been ordained, commissioned and anointed to do by The Master!
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Failure and Success:
I Refuse to Compete
Theme: The Price of Neglect
—1st Corinthians 3:7-8
A. W. Tozer
PRAYER:
Dear LORD, I refuse henceforth to compete with any of Thy servants.
They have congregations larger than mine. So be it.
I rejoice in their success. They have greater gifts. Very well. That is not in their power nor in mine.
I am humbly grateful for their greater gifts and my smaller ones. I only Pray that I would use to Thy Glory such modest gifts as I possess.
I will not compare myself with any, nor try to build up my self-esteem by noting where I would excel one or another in Thy Holy work.
I herewith make a blanket disavowal of all intrinsic worth. I am but an unprofitable servant.
I gladly go to the foot of the class and own myself the least of Thy people.
If I err in my self-judgment and actually underestimate myself I do not want to know it.
I purpose to Pray for others and to rejoice in their prosperity as if it were my own. And indeed, it is my own if it is Thine own, for what is Thine is mine, and while one plants and another waters it is Thou alone that giveth the increase.
For Thy Honour alone I Pray in JESUS CHRIST Glorious Name, AMEN!!!
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Remain blessed.
Our goal is God
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