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No matter who you are, you have a part in this process. Let me encourage you
to pray for the churches that are looking for pastors. Pray for the schools that need presidents and/or faculty members, the mission boards that need directors, and the Christian organizations that need leaders to step into places of public responsibility. Pray for those whom God will call to fill unique positions in His kingdom plan. Pray for the new officers who will be stepping into the shoes of former office holders. Pray that God’s people will endorse and embrace God’s appointments. Humanly speaking, the future of the church hangs on its qualified leadership. Pray that we will have
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The summit of Mt. Pisgah reaches a height of 4,500 feet. That’s almost a mile.
What’s wrong with me, Lord?
eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21–22, NIV).
“Since then no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face” (verse 10).
“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known” (1 Corinthians 13:12).
On the other hand, the apostle can pray that “the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe” (Ephesians 1:18–19). He can ask the Lord “that you may be filled with the
knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects” (Colossians 1:9–10). He can say on a personal level, “I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord . . . that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death” (Philippians 3:8,10). And he can write of Moses,
Jude 9 contains one of the stranger accounts in the Bible concerning this event. Jude writes, “But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against
him a railing judgment, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you.’” Apparently the devil had his own plans for Moses’ body, but God said, “Nope. His body is mine just as much as is his soul, and I’m burying the corpse where no one will ever find it. End of story.”
The secret of fulfillment in life is involvement.
The secret of reality in life is humility.
The secret of happiness in life is perspective.
Here is the man who led the Exodus, witnessed the parting of the Red Sea, led a congregation of two million through a trackless wilderness, sustained himself on “the bread of angels” for years on end, followed a towering pillar of cloud by day, and sat beneath the fire of God hovering over the camp at night. “He was mighty in word and deed,” declares Stephen.
Moses considered “the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he was looking to the reward.” The original text suggests that Moses looked away from everything else and fixed his full attention on one thing: the reward God offers to people of faith.
