How many of you know the chorus, thank
you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord
for loving me?
Anybody?
A few.
It came straight from Ireland.
Maybe if you have a pencil and pen,
you'd like to write down the words and
you can use a lot of ditto marks
because it's a lot of repetition.
The first verse is thank you Jesus, thank
you Jesus, thank you Lord for loving me
and then you repeat that, different notes.
We introduced this at our assembly in San
Lorenzo a year ago and I think there's
hardly a worship meeting that goes by that
somebody doesn't start it spontaneously.
Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you
Lord for loving me, repeat.
The second verse is you went to Calvary,
there you died for me, thank you Lord
for loving me and you repeat that.
You went to Calvary, there you died for
me, thank you Lord for loving me and
then the third verse is you rose up
from the grave to me new life you
gave, thank you Lord for loving me.
Sing the three verses, three verses and then
you repeat the first verse again.
Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you
Jesus, thank you Lord for loving me.
Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you
Lord for loving me.
Let me stop there.
The only part of it, if you have
any trouble with this, this one, thank you
Jesus, three beats for the word Jesus, right?
Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord for loving
me.
You went to Calvary, sing it, there you
died for me, thank you Lord for loving
me.
You went to Calvary, there you died for
me, thank you Lord for loving me.
You rose up from the grave to me
new life you gave, thank you Lord for
loving me.
You rose up from the grave to me
new life you gave, thank you Lord for
loving me.
Repeat the first verse, thank you Jesus, thank
you Jesus, thank you Lord for loving me.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you.
That was
the dress rehearsal, here's the concert.
Really, sing it out and carry it away
with you and I think it'll bless you
during the week.
Rennie.
Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you
Lord for loving me.
Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you
Lord for loving me.
You went to Calvary, there you died for
me, thank you Lord for loving me.
You went to Calvary, there you died for
me, thank you Lord for loving me.
You rose up from the grave to me
new life you gave, thank you Lord for
loving me.
You rose up from the grave.
Thank you Jesus, thank you Lord.
Thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, thank you
Lord for loving me.
Praise God, that tells the whole story, doesn't
it?
2 Corinthians chapter 5.
Beginning at verse 11.
2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 11.
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we
persuade men that we are made manifest unto
God, and I trust also are made manifest
in your consciences.
For we commend not ourselves again unto you,
but give you occasion to glory on our
behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer
them with glory in appearance and not in
heart.
For whether we be beside ourselves, it is
to God, or whether we be sober, it
is for your cause.
For the love of Christ constraineth us.
I'm especially interested in verses 14 and 15.
For the love of Christ constraineth us, because
we thus judge, that if one died for
all, then were all dead.
And that he died for all that they
which live should not henceforth live unto themselves,
but unto him which died for them and
rose again.
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the
flesh.
Yea, though we have known Christ after the
flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no
more.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he's
a new creature.
All things are passed away.
Behold, all things are become new.
And all things are of God, who hath
reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and
hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
To it, that God was in Christ, reconciling
the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses
unto them, and hath committed unto us the
word of reconciliation.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as
though God did beseech you by us.
We pray you in Christ's stead, be ye
reconciled to God.
For he, God, hath made him, Christ, to
be sin for us, who knew no sin
that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him.
Back to verse fourteen.
For the love of Christ constraineth us, because
we thus judge, that if one died for
all, then were all dead.
But that he died for all, that they
which live should not henceforth live unto themselves,
but unto him which died for them, and
rose again.
I'd like to speak to you this afternoon
on the subject commitment to Christ.
And I'd like to start by reading to
you an excerpt that I got from a
man named James Stewart.
James Stewart is a preacher in Scotland, I
believe.
I think he's chaplain to the Queen in
Scotland.
I've read his books and have been blessed
by them.
And he said this, Once any man has
looked into Christ's eyes and felt the magnetism
of his way of life, he's never going
to be content with the secular ideals and
standards that may have seemed adequate before Christ
came.
Christ has spoiled him for anything else.
The old standards of values have become cinders,
ashes, dust.
Thank God for that.
That's so important, I'm going to read it
to you again.
I hope it comes across clearly to you
what he's saying.
He says, Once any man has looked into
Christ's eyes and felt the magnetism of his
way of life, he's never going to be
content with the secular ideals and standards that
may have seemed adequate before Christ came.
Christ has spoiled him for anything else.
The old standards of values have become cinders,
ashes, dust.
Thank God for that.
That means before we come into relationship with
Christ, we have our own ambitions, we have
our own desires, we have our own way
of planning our lives.
Once we look into his eyes and feel
his magnetism, they all seem very worthless.
And that's what Paul is saying in 2
Corinthians 5.
He's looking at the cross of Christ and
he sees the Lord Jesus Christ dying for
him there on the cross, and he's saying,
I can never be the same again.
The love of Christ constrains me or as
David Livingston said, the love of Christ compels
me.
It compels you how, David Livingston?
Well, it brings me to this conclusion that
if he died for me, then I can
no longer live for myself.
I have to live for him who died
for me.
We talk about commitment.
We talk about surrender.
We talk about seeking first the kingdom of
God.
We talk about the victorious Christian life.
We talk about being filled with the spirit.
We talk about consecration.
I would like to see if I can
uncomplicate it this afternoon.
Sometimes it seems very ethereal to us.
Sometimes it seems very mystical and far off.
It should be very practical in our lives.
Actually, that whole matter of commitment to Christ
is just as much a work of the
Spirit of God as conversion is.
When the Spirit of God comes into our
lives and we begin to see things through
Christ's eyes, we're not men and women on
earth looking up into heaven.
We're men and women in the heavenlies looking
down on earth, and it makes a difference.
It makes a difference.
How does it happen to a person?
Well, first of all, I really believe that
a person sees a vision and he can
no longer live for himself.
I think this is God's will for all
of us.
The poet said, I have seen a vision
and for self I cannot live.
Life is worse than worthless unless all I
give.
That really is true.
It really is true.
He sees a vision and can no longer
live for himself.
And as James Stewart said so well, his
secular ideals and standards become cinders, ashes.
Dust.
I think that's beautiful.
In connection with that, a man comes to
the place, when I say a man, I
mean a woman too, when a person comes
to the place where he realizes that he
doesn't know what's best for him in life.
I can honestly say that for quite a
few years after I was saved, I had
my own plans for my life.
I know what I wanted to do.
And frankly, I didn't want the Lord to
interfere with those plans.
And I think that we talk to most
Christian people and they have their own ideas
as to what they want to do.
It's not necessarily what the Lord wants them
to do.
I think it's a wonderful thing when we
come to the place that Jeremiah spoke of.
He said, Oh Lord, I know that the
way of man is not in him.
It is not in man that walketh to
direct his steps.
This is a great revelation when it comes
flooding in upon us that we really don't
know what's best in our lives.
God knows what's best and God has options
that we don't know anything about.
God has wonderful pathways in his blueprint that
would never dawn on us in our wildest
imagination.
But we don't dare commit our lives to
him because we're afraid of a blessing.
I've often spoken of my friend George Verwer.
George Verwer was staying with us at Emmaus
one time.
He had a room up in the dormitory
while he was visiting.
And one time he was going through the
dormitory and one of the doors was open
and two fellows were in there praying.
And one of the fellows was agonizing before
the Lord.
He said, Lord, I can't do it.
You know, I can't do it.
And George was just passing by and he
stuck his head in the door and he
said, What's the matter?
Are you afraid of the blessing?
I guess the fellow thought it was a
voice from heaven.
But it was in a way too, wasn't
it?
And I often think of that, you know,
when we resist the will of God, when
we resist the plan of God in our
lives, we're just afraid of a blessing.
That's all.
Because his way is best.
So it's a wonderful thing to come to
that place in life where I can say,
Lord, I don't know what's best for my
life.
I always thought I did.
But I don't know what's best.
So I'm willing to turn my life over
to you and just let you choose for
me, no matter what it might be.
Hard, isn't it?
Hard.
I think I trusted the Lord when I
was about 18 years of age.
I turned my life over to him for
salvation.
But I was brought up by an immigrant
family and they had very strong ambitions for
us that were kind of drilled into us.
And I don't think it was at least
seven years later that I dared to get
down on my knees and say, Lord, my
life is yours.
You bought it, the cross.
Do anything you want with it.
It meant a complete change in my life.
But I'd like to testify to the glory
of God tonight.
Today, I've had a wonderful life.
If he could have let me just choose
every step of the way, I couldn't have
chosen it as well as he's chosen it
for me.
And that's the testimony of any person who
has said, let the Lord choose for him.
So that's the next thing, is that we
come to realize that.
We come to realize that all our old
ambitions are cinders, ashes, and dust.
We realize we don't know what's best in
life.
And then we turn our lives over to
the Lord without any strings attached.
It's kind of a, I call it a
crisis act of commitment.
And there has to be a first time
in life when this happens.
With some of you, I don't doubt that
it happened at the time of your conversion.
I think it did with the Apostle Paul,
didn't it?
Lord, who art thou?
Who art thou, Lord?
What wilt thou have me to do?
Who art thou, Lord?
He got the person of Christ straight.
What wilt thou have me to do?
He turned his life over to him in
dedication and consecration and commitment.
And what a wonderful life it was, huh?
We're talking about him in 1985.
And what happens when you do that?
Well, you realize that it's the only reasonable
thing that a person can do.
There's nothing more sane, sensible, reasonable than that
the creature should turn his life over to
the Lord to control it.
But it's tough.
It's hard.
Our aide, Laidlaw, said that there's a lack
of sincerity in committing the eternal soul to
the Lord for salvation and not daring to
commit our lives to him for service.
We dare to trust him to save us
from eternal hell and to take us to
heaven, but we hesitate to let him control
our lives here and now.
Isn't that true?
We do.
We dare to trust him to save us
from hell and to take us home to
heaven, but we don't dare to trust him
to control our lives here and now.
And Lady Powerscourt said it seems an insult
to that love which gave all for us
to say that we love and yet stop
to calculate about giving all to him.
In other words, it was quite reasonable for
him to give all for us, but we
stop and calculate about our giving all to
him when our all is only two mites
anyway.
His all is heaven, earth, eternity, himself, she
said.
Better not to love at all.
Better to be cold than to be lukewarm.
The sacrifices of God demand, the sacrifice of
Christ demands that we turn our lives over
to him.
O Christ, thy bleeding hands and feet, thy
sacrifice for me.
Each wound, each tear demands my life, a
sacrifice for thee.
I don't believe any man or woman has
ever made history for God without coming to
that crisis in his life when for the
first time he got down on his knees
and turned his life over to the Lord
for whatever the Lord might have in store
for him.
I like to read the act of consecration
of Betty Scott Stamm.
She was at the time a student in
Moody Bible Institute.
It was before she married John Stamm, actually,
and she said, Lord, I give up my
own purposes and plans, all my own desires,
hopes, ambitions, and accept thy will for my
life.
I give myself, my life, my all, utterly
to thee, to thee thine forever.
I hand over to thy keeping all of
my friendships, my love, all the people whom
I love are to take second fight in
my heart.
Fill me and seal me with thy Holy
Spirit.
Work out thy will in my life at
any cost, now and forever.
For to me to live is Christ and
to die is gain.
And some of you have read the book,
The Triumph of John and Betty Stamm.
Goes back partly to that night when she
got down on her knees and prayed that
prayer and wrote it in the front of
her Bible.
Have you ever done that?
I think of others who've done the same
thing.
William Borden of Yale.
Lord Jesus, I take hands off as far
as my life is concerned.
I put thee on the throne of my
heart.
Change.
Cleanse.
Use me as thou shalt choose.
I take the full power of thy Holy
Spirit.
I thank thee.
Amen.
William Borden of Yale.
Made history of God.
Some of you have read the book, Borden
of Yale.
I believe it goes back to the moment
when for the first time he spoke those
words in the ear of God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Prince of Preachers.
He said, In that day when I surrendered
myself to my Savior, I gave him my
body, my soul, my spirit.
I gave him all I had and all
I shall have for time and eternity.
I gave him all my talents, my powers,
my faculties, my eyes, my ears, my limbs,
my emotions, my judgment, my whole manhood and
all that could come of it.
And A.T. Pearson said of him later,
of all the mind he had and all
the chance God gave him, he made the
best of the most.
I like the story of when Spurgeon was
going with a young lady in England.
He was in his, oh 19 or 20,
preaching in London and filling the biggest auditoriums
in London.
And one night he went around in the
coach to pick up his girl and his
girlfriend and to bring her to the meeting.
And they drove to the meeting and when
Spurgeon got to the meeting the crowd outside
waiting to get into the auditorium.
Spurgeon's mind was filled with the gospel message
he was going to deliver.
And he got out of the coach and
ran into the auditorium.
And he got up on the platform and
he started to, and he realized he had
left her sitting in the coach.
And he looked out over the audience and
she wasn't anywhere to be seen.
So after the meeting was over and after
he had dealt with the inquirers he made
his way out to her house.
Her mother and father answered the door.
He said he would like to see her.
They said she doesn't want to see you.
She was upstairs pouting.
But he insisted.
And she came down and she said to
him, look, I'm sorry for what has happened,
but we must get something straight.
If you and I are going to be
married, you will have to take second place
in my life.
Jesus Christ must always have first place in
my life.
And later after that great ministry had finished,
Mrs. Spurgeon said that God taught her a
very wonderful lesson that night.
That there was someone who had first place
in Charles's life and it was not she.
It was Jesus.
And she was grateful for it.
I'd like to say to you sisters who
are here today, if you have a husband
or if you have a boyfriend who puts
Christ first in life, you have the right
kind of a man.
And I'd like to say to the brothers
here today too, if you have a wife
or if you have a girlfriend and Christ
is in first place and you play the
second fiddle, that's the right kind.
Spurgeon said it takes more grace than I
can ever tell to play second fiddle well.
But that's what we're called to do, isn't
it?
Play second fiddle well with Jesus in the
first place.
So I would suggest to you today that
in this matter of commitment, we have to
begin there.
And it's a struggle, a struggle to get
down on our knees and cry our hearts
out to the Lord.
Lord Jesus, I want you to have first
place in my life.
I want to do your will.
I'm willing to put all of my ambitions
and all the things I thought were best
for my life and I'm just going to
wait until you tell me what's best.
Crisis of commitment.
But that crisis has to become a process.
It isn't enough just to do it once.
It has to be repeated daily.
There has to be a daily recommitment of
ourselves to the Lord.
I believe that every day of our lives
we should be down on our knees there
in the morning and say Lord Jesus, I
commit myself to you for the next 24
hour period.
Not the next week, month, year.
The next 24 hour period.
It's great to live in day tight compartments,
isn't it?
Life by the inch is a cinch.
Life by the yard is hard.
And I think that the Lord wants us
to do this.
To dedicate ourselves afresh to the Savior every
morning and to ask Him to live His
life through us.
I like the poem that says, I want
my life so cleared of self that my
dear Lord may come and set up His
own furnishings and make my heart His home.
And since I know what this requires, each
morning while it's still, I slip into that
secret room and leave with Him my will.
He always takes it graciously, presenting me with
His.
I'm ready then to meet the day in
any task there is.
And this is how the Lord controls my
interests, my ills.
Because we meet at break of day for
an exchange of wills.
Now I said I'd like to complicate it.
We talk about being filled with the Spirit.
I think this is a great deal of
what it means to be filled with the
Spirit.
To come before the Lord day by day
for that exchange of wills.
To meet in our daily quiet time and
say, Lord Jesus, I give you my will
for this day and I take your will
for my life.
It's wonderful, isn't it?
I tell you that's the life that counts
for God.
But of course that's not all.
Because we still have to spend time in
the Word of God and in prayer.
There's no use of thinking about a Spirit
-filled life if we're not in the Word
and if we're not spending time in prayer.
Somebody suggested to me recently that all the
temptations of the Lord Jesus in the wilderness
were shortcuts.
And he said, watch out for the shortcuts
in life.
And I thought, that's right.
Everybody would like to swallow a few holiness
pills and get it quickly, you know?
Everybody would like to have an altar experience
where you come up at the end of
the meeting and you believe the promise and
you receive the filling.
And that's common in evangelical circles today.
It makes it sound as if commitment to
Christ and being filled with the Spirit was
a once-for-all experience.
But it isn't.
It's a day-by-day experience.
And I deny that anybody can be filled
with the Spirit through having an altar experience
and going away and not opening the Bible
during the week.
Well, I think any one of us can
do it.
Are you with me so far?
Tomorrow morning, you're going to get up, you're
going to have your quiet time with the
Lord, and you're going to exchange wills with
Him.
You with me?
Can you do that?
I say, yeah, but what happens then?
What happens then?
You go forth through the day and you
carry on your work whatever it might be.
Just carry on your work, whatever it might
be.
You've committed yourself to Him and oftentimes it's
going to be routine, mundane work.
I often think of the blessed Lord Jesus
in those years in the carpenter's shop in
Nazareth.
And He said, there's a world perishing around
me, and here I am in a dinky
carpenter's shop in Nazareth.
He didn't say that.
His life was in the hands of God
the Father.
And He was happy there to be making
yokes for the glory of God.
Somebody said if there had been a sign
over his shop in Nazareth it probably would
have said, my yokes fit well.
It probably would have too.
But you know, any honorable work can be
done for the glory of God.
I think it's a problem especially among young
people.
I suppose it was with me too.
They're always looking for greener pastures.
You always think that there's some work that's
all gloria in excelsis, cloud number nine, you
know, moonlight and roses.
I don't know any work that doesn't have
its drawbacks, do you?
And I'd like to say even in Christian
service, much of my work in Christian service
has been day by day plodding, writing alone,
disciplining myself to make the hours count for
Christ, moments of loneliness perhaps along the way.
It hasn't all been cloud number nine, but
it can all be done for the glory
of God.
I haven't said anything yet that you couldn't
do.
You go and you exchange your will with
the Lord at the beginning of the day.
You go forth and you do whatever work
is laid before you to do.
You kill yourself with work and then you
pray yourself alive again.
And I think that's true.
I think that's a healthy Christian life where
you kill yourself with work and pray yourself
alive again.
But then I think this is an important
thing.
Whatever happens during the day you accept it
as the will of God for you.
This is what gives poise and peace during
the day.
Look, you committed your life to the Lord
at the beginning of the day, didn't you?
Without reservations you said, Lord, I want your
will for today.
And then something quite unexpected and maybe seemingly
unfavorable happens during the day.
I'm not speaking about sin.
I might be speaking about an accident or
something like that.
You accept that as part of the will
of God.
You committed your life to the Lord.
He allowed this to happen.
It's part of His will for the day.
That gives tremendous peace in a world of
tumult.
I think that's what the peace of Christ
is.
Let the peace of Christ rule in your
hearts.
To be able to go through life and
see His hand in what happens.
Ill that God blesses is our good.
An unblessed good is ill.
And all is right that seems most wrong
if it be His good will.
And you can afford to have that attitude
if you've turned your life over to the
Lord at the beginning of the day.
Occasionally there will be mountain peak experiences.
I think it's lovely the way the Lord
works.
You go along and as I say it
might be routine, it might be mundane.
You thought it was going to be all
moonlight and roses and it turns out to
be dirty dishes and dirty diapers.
You know, that sort of thing.
But the Lord knows.
He knows our hearts and He knows when
we tend to become fed up with it
and He just drops a little handful of
encouragement along the way.
I can testify that's been my experience in
life in the service of the Lord.
I have seldom seen immediate results from my
ministry.
I know some people do.
Praise God.
Billy Graham does.
I know some people do, but I've seldom
seen immediate results from my ministry.
But in the most unexpected ways and in
the most unexpected times, the Lord knows how
to send a letter along just when I
need it.
I remember a woman came to me in
San Jose and she said, Bill, do you
remember years ago when we were meeting in
that shack, a structure that looked more like
a shack than a chapel?
And she said, you spoke one night.
She said, that's the night I got assurance
of salvation.
Well, I didn't know anything about it.
Years later.
And so we have to be willing to
do that, to go along faithfully for the
Lord day by day.
The Lord will drop these encouragements and along
the way, the Lord will drop these little
indications that you're in His will.
How?
Well, the gears will mesh.
The gears will mesh in life.
You know what it is when they don't
mesh.
You know when everything goes wrong.
Well, it's wonderful to see the gears mesh.
It's wonderful to see your life sparkling with
the supernatural.
It's nice to know that you're radioactive with
the Holy Spirit of God.
And it's a wonderful thing to know that
God is working in and through you.
And the wonderful thing, He does it without
promoting conceit or pride in you.
Because you remember a man can do nothing
except to be given to Him from above.
And all you are is a vessel anyway.
All you are is just an instrument in
His hand.
And I want to tell you, if you
commit your life to the Lord at the
beginning of the day, go forth and do
the work that's laid out for you to
do.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it
with all your might.
Persevere, applaud.
God's plan for your life will emerge.
Say how?
I don't know how, but I know it'll
emerge.
And I know that when you come to
the crossroads and you know which one you
have to take, He'll tell you.
He'll never let you down.
If you are really committed to the Lord
and you want His will supremely, God will
show you His will for your life.
It's mysterious.
It's a path that no fowl knoweth.
The vulture's eye has never seen it.
But I tell you, it's clear to the
eye of faith.
When you need God's guidance, you will get
it.
Some have spoken to me about guidance here
at the conference, and I've told them what
I often tell myself.
I'm praying for God's will and no guidance
comes.
God's guidance is to stay where you are.
Isn't that hard?
Darkness about going is light about staying.
I get before the Lord and say, Lord,
do you know how foolish I am?
If you only give me one indication of
your will, I might miss it.
Confirm the guidance in the mouths of two
or three witnesses.
He does it.
The Lord accommodates Himself to my weakness.
And He gives me two or three indications
of His will, and I don't miss it
when it's that clear.
And I want to tell you, God will
never, never forsake you in the time that
you need it.
But you're going to need endurance.
They say there's no one with endurance like
the man who sells insurance.
Well, I tell you, the Christian needs it,
too, in the Christian life.
John Stott, describing the coronation of the Queen
in England, takes us to Westminster Abbey, where
the ceremony takes place.
And he says that one of the most
moving moments in the ceremony of coronation is
just before the crown is placed on the
Queen's head.
The Archbishop of Canterbury goes out into the
abbey there, and he calls four times toward
each direction of the compass.
He faces north, east, south, and west.
And he calls out four times, Sirs, I
present unto you the undoubted Queen of this
realm.
Are you willing to do her homage?
And not until a great affirmative shout has
thundered down the nave of Westminster Abbey is
the crown placed upon the Queen's head.
But you know the spiritual parallel, don't you?
Sirs, I present to you the Lord Jesus
Christ, your undoubted Lord and Savior.
Are you willing to do him homage?
Are you willing to turn the control of
your life over to him?
This is something that everyone who professes to
be a follower of the Lord Jesus must
answer.
Does he hear your affirmative answer this afternoon?
One of the martyrs of Ecuador was a
young fellow named Pete Fleming.
Some of you may have known him or
known some of his relatives.
He had a favorite hymn in the InterVarsity
hymn book, and it's really been a favorite
of mine ever since I've come across it.
It says this, Lord, in the fullness of
my might, I would for thee be strong,
while runneth o'er each dear delight, to
thee would soar my song.
I would not give the world my heart,
and then thy service prove.
I would not feel my strength depart, and
then profess thy love.
I would not with swift-winged zeal on
the world's errands go, then labor up the
heavenly hill with wearied feet and slow.
O not for thee my weak desires, my
poorer baser part.
O not for thee my fading fires, the
ashes of my heart.
O choose me in my golden time.
That's youth.
O choose me in my golden time, in
my dear joys have part.
For thee the glory of my prime, the
fullness of my heart.
In closing, I'd like to suggest a little
prayer that we might all pray as you
bow your head.
I don't ask you to repeat it after
me, but I believe this is what the
Lord is waiting to hear from us today.
Lord Jesus, I have already turned my life
over to you for salvation.
Now I turn it over to you for
service.
I give up all my own plans and
ambitions and accept your will for my life.
This means anywhere, anything, anytime.
I give you my soul, my life, my
all.
You have bled and died for me.
Henceforth I will live for thee.
How can I do less than give you
my best and live for you completely after
all you've done for me?
Lord Jesus, we would make this our prayer
this afternoon.
We pray that some might even now be
doing business with you in great waters and
that some might be for the first time
seeing that all worldly ambitions are cinders, ashes,
and dust coming to you and turning over
to you that which belongs to you anyway,
that which was purchased at the cross of
Calvary and asking for your will supremely.
We ask it in Jesus' name and for
his sake.
Amen.