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Brief
Summary KWASIZABANTU
MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE – 2001 REV
FRIEDEL STEGEN “OUR
CALLING AS PREACHERS” JEREMIAH
2:13 There
are so many opportunities to win souls for the Lord.
May we have an ear to hear what the Lord says and be effective in winning
souls. Two examples of that: Example
1: William
Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, was approached by the prison authorities concerning
a criminal in prison who was serving a 15 years sentence.
Nobody had been able to help him and the time of his release was close at
hand. Booth prayed about it and then felt led
to go to him on the day of his release and invite him to his home for a meal. The man did not come at lunch time but Booth asked
his wife to prepare a supper as for a king. The
man arrived for supper and afterwards Booth invited him to stay for the night. The next morning at breakfast table, Booth's small
daughter of 5 years old came and sat ons his lap. Booth
whispered something into her ear and she slipped off his lap and went to the criminal,
stretching out her arms to him and gave him a kiss on his cheek. That caused the hardened criminal to break down,
he wept and gave his life to the Lord. Example
2: As
a boy, president George Washington went to school with Peter Miller and Michael Whitman. After
they left school, Peter Miller became a preacher in a town 112 kilometres away from
Washington. Michael Whitman hated the Gospel
and started hating Peter as well. He
persecuted him and did everything in his power to bring him to naught: he broke into his house, was very destructive and
eventually stole and destroyed things all over the village, and then committed a murder. As a result he was condemned to death. When
Miller heard about that, he walked the 112 kilometres to Washington by foot and asked to
see the president. He pleaded with the
president to release Michael Whitman. The
President said: “I cannot do this for your friend, Peter”. Miller
replied: “He is not my friend, but he’s become my worst enemy who tried to
destroy me”, and related Michael’s whole life to him. The President responded in
a soft voice: “As friend of yours I would not be able to help you, but because he is
your enemy, I will set him free”. Michael became a true Christian. There
are things we can go and do when we go home. Peter lived according to: “Love your
enemies, do good to those who hate you, do good to those who treat you badly”. Jeremiah
2:13 God
directed these words at His people, those of whom we read in v.2. God reminds us of the
time He took us out of Egypt, when we first met Him. v.3:
They were precious to Him and He was jealous for them – He intervened whenever they
were touched. v.8:
But something happened somewhere along the line: they forsook God and even the priests
didn’t ask anymore: “Where is the Lord?” – they were not dependant on
God but could do things in their own way. v.9:
The result. God will do that, so that they will come to their senses. v.13:
Am I still drinking living water? Or have I
become guilty of hewing my own cistern, broken and cracked? The danger is there that we
are blessed, but we pour that water into the cistern of our way of thinking and our
tradition, our way of understanding, our own convictions, the way I am used to, was taught
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