Where adequate power is present almost any means will suffice, but where the power is absent not all the means in the world can secure the desired end. The Spirit of God may use a song, a sermon, a good deed, a text or the mystery and majesty of nature, but always the final work will be done by the pressure of the inliving Spirit upon the human heart. – A.W.Tozer
The best disciple-maker ever has to be Jesus. He got hold of 12 ordinary young men, told them to follow him and they spent years with him being taught and trained.
After Jesus had died, and risen again he subsequently appeared to them loads more times and taught them some more, helping them to understand who they were called to be in Christ and all they were called to do.
However, just before going ascending to heaven he told his disciples to “wait in the city until they were clothed with power.” He knew that no matter how well trained they were, no matter how strong their faith or their disciple-making skills, they needed more than what they had already received:
They needed the life-changing, supernatural power of the Holy Spirit.
If Jesus told those disciples that they needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit’s power, then surely the same holds true for us as well?
However you do it, whenever you do it, whoever you do it with. If you want to be transformed and see God do amazing things through you, then make sure you “wait in the city to be clothed with power from on high”
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. – Acts 1:8
For more on this you can check out the message I preached last Sunday on “God’s empowering” last Sunday.
