FINDING YOUR FIRE by Nicky Cruz
Recent studies have predicted that by the year 2020 Islam
will be the primary religion in Norway and all Scandinavian countries. If that
is correct, we can expect to see it as the state religion in Norway within the
next few years. That’s what has happened in every other country where Muslims
developed a foothold.
It saddens me to see how little impact Christians have been
making in Europe. We’ve been all but powerless in effectively reaching the
lost—not only in European countries but in the United States. We pray for God
to expand our territory, to help the Body of Christ grow and flourish, yet so
few denominations are seeing that happen. Most are shrinking, and some are
dying out altogether.
What will it take for God to finally grab hold and bring
about the transformation that we need—the transformation we pray for? When will
we finally rise up and make a serious dent in Satan’s foothold on the world?
The answer is so simple it feels strange to have to say it:
We must trust in God for great miracles! We must rise together with contrite
hearts and bold faith, asking God to make us mighty warriors for the kingdom.
Like the young people who work with us—our Twelve Disciples—we must open our
hearts and lives to God and allow Him to instill His passion for souls within
us, to develop in our hearts a soul obsession. To break us, to use us, to
empower us for service!
When you look at our small band of young people, these
twelve unlikely heroes, these bruised and battered kids who own little more
than a few sets of clothes and a raging fire of passion in their hearts, and
you see how mightily God is using them on the front lines of battle, you begin
to get just a small glimpse of what God can do with even the smallest ounce of
faith. You see what it was that caused the early church to explode in numbers,
drawing thousands to the faith from only a handful of disciples. You understand
what it was that attracted people to the message—the message of Jesus. And you
see how much God can accomplish with so very little.
“God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to
shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame
the things which are mighty” (1 Corinthians 1:27, NKJV).
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