TODAY’S PROPHETIC NUMBERS

February 24, 2025 – 02/24/2025
2 – A Faithful Witness & Being Set Apart
24 – Perfect Government Made Manifest

KINGDOM SERVANT

A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility, correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will. – 2 Timothy 2:24-26 NKJV 

In the summer of 2000, our church team did an outreach in Cleburne we called the “Not Quite as Hot as Hell Street Outreach.” It was well above 100 degrees, and we were cooking hotdogs and hamburgers over a huge outdoor grill in a parking lot.

I had invited local pastors from every church in the area to help us lead people to Jesus and then plug them into the body of Christ. Since our church was not based in Cleburne, I thought it was a good idea to get the local churches involved.

Three pastors showed up that day and none of them were there to help. It became immediately apparent they were really there to check out what we were doing. I explained we were rounding up hundreds of people and expecting a lot of people to be saved after the concert. One of the pastors asked me a question, and he was dead serious—emphasis on the word “dead.”

“If we help you pray with these people,” he said, wiping sweat from his brow, “who’s going to get the credit?” I looked back at him stunned and said, “Jesus, I hope.”

This is a perfect illustration of the lack of kingdom mentality, even among pastors. Before you go out in ministry, missions, or outreach of any kind, ask yourself, “Who is going to get the credit?” Make sure the answer is not you but Jesus.

“…or is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” – Acts 4:12

Declaration:  God wants the glory, but He wants to give me the credit when I serve in His Kingdom. People should always see the family resemblance. I have because I love Him. The Father loves it when I look and act like Him.

From My Book:  Good Overcomes Evil