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Whenever I get blue and discouraged in ministry

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and down in the dumps by feeling I'm

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preaching to the walls and feeling my ministry

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isn't having the impact it should and souls

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aren't being reached like they could, I go

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take a walk with John Sung.

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I get out his 600-page diary and

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I reread it once again and take a

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stroll through its pages to see a man

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who poured out his life for Christ like

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a drink offering dying at the tender age

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of 42.

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I walk along with Sung as I carry

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his sandals and see his sacrificial life of

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prayer where praying five hours at a time

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was not unusual for him.

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As I walk beside him, I observe how

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he read 11 chapters of the Bible every

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day to the day he died and I

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stand amazed at his consecrated preaching that had

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such power from on high and see how

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God used that surrendered man to shake China

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in revival and to save 200,000 souls.

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I cross the cold rivers and trek the

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mountain ravines with him in his itinerant ministry

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and as I spend time with him, I

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am shamed by my lack but encouraged to

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be more on fire for God and his

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glory as I take a walk with John

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Sung and witness his tireless life of ministry

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spent for the Lord and pretty soon the

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blood begins to run in my veins again

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coursing with a freshness and renewed vigor and

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I'm ready to go all out for God

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no matter the cost and be poured out

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for the Lord Jesus like a drink offering.

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I cannot walk in the shadow of Sung

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without catching a spark of his holy flame

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for God.

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John Sung lived to save souls at the

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sacrifice of all else.

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He was away from his family 11 months

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of the year and was away preaching every

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time his wife gave birth.

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He bled from a wound from piles that

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troubled him all his life having to wash

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his own underwear every day as he was

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in constant pain but his personal suffering paled

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in comparison to how God used him.

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As I walk with John Sung, my heart

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is stirred within me and I want to

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be more like Jesus whom Sung served and

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after walking a time with Sung, I have

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the courage and strength and determination to go

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preach again a gospel few want to hear

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about a bloody cross and a blood-stained

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savior from sin who demands repentance and a

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life of discipleship from all followers of him.

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I'll keep preaching the gospel of the cross

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until my lips go silent in death, my

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body goes down to the grave, and my

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soul ascends up to glory to be with

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my one true and faithful friend, Jesus of

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Nazareth.