Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of preparing oneself for a life dedicated to serving God's calling.
Paul Washer's quote highlights the significance of being spiritually prepared to take action in response to God's call. It suggests that dedicating one's life to Christ, even if it may lead to sacrifice, is a noble and meaningful pursuit. The 'field' symbolizes the areas where one serves or spreads their faith, encouraging believers to actively engage in their spiritual journey and mission.
In practice
In a sermon about dedicating one's life to faith and service.
We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.
There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.
Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand unanimous opinions of carnal men do not carry the authority of one jot or tittle of God's Word.
The evidence of conversion is not a decision card filled out, it's a life being lived out.
Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.
When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.
God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the field. I feel I would be betraying Him if I didn't.
Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.
We may not know when or how the Lord's answers will be given, but in His time and His way, I testify, His answers will come. For some answers we may have to wait until the hereafter. This may be true for some promises in our patriarchal blessings and for some blessings for family members. Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary.
Our Faith must be tested. God builds no ships but what He sends to sea.
My father has been faithful to the calling that God gave him: that is, to preach the Gospel... He has presented Christ to every person that God has put before him.
Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
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