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Strange
Instructions TGIF Today God Is First Volume 2, by Os Hillman 02-05-2008 "And this is love: that we walk in
obedience to his commands" (2 John 6).
A distinguished Indian evangelist named Sadhu Chellappa was on a
mission trip to a village north of Madras, when in the middle of the night
he suddenly sensed God speaking to him: "Leave this house quickly and
run away!"
Not exactly a convenient thing to do. But Chellappa was accustomed to
accepting even strange instructions from the Lord without debate, so he
dressed quickly and ran into the darkness.
After a while, he was in open country. As he passed beneath a large
tree, he felt God tell him, "Stay here and start to preach!"
Now, even for an experienced evangelist, this was puzzling--because there
was no one to be seen. Why did God want him to preach to an empty field in
the middle of the night? But he stopped under the tree and began to preach
the gospel.
Finally, he reached the point at which he called on his unseen
listeners to give their lives to Jesus. He was surprised to hear a voice
from the top of the tree and see a man climb down, crying. The man
tearfully gave his life to Jesus. When Chellappa asked why he was in a
tree out in the middle of nowhere, the man admitted, "I came out here
to hang myself."
How is your obedience quotient? God calls us to be obedient to that
small voice inside that can direct us to sometimes do strange things.
Jesus was obedient in ALL things. "For just as through the
disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through
the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous" (Rom
5:19). God can do exceedingly great things through one man or woman who is
willing to be obedient to God's voice. Ask for His grace today to be
obedient to His voice.
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an excerpt from TGIF Today God Is First Volume 2 by Os Hillman
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