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Him and He reaches the world. You are not out to reach the world.
You live to please the Lord. When you please the Lord He will
reach the world.

That’s why my life is so exciting now. It wasn’t always this way.
When I was young I prayed, “Deliver me.” As He opened my eyes
more I say, “Keep me.” But now I don’t care if He delivers or keeps.
Now I say, “Father, glorify thy name.” My wife has muscular
dystrophy. It’s missionary muscular dystrophy. I have congestive
heart failure. It’s missionary congestive heart failure. It’s all about
missions. It’s all about others. It’s not about us.
Some people have missionary singleness. Some people have
missionary cancer. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the north wind or
the south wind. Sometimes when Jesus lives in you He’ll go to the
hospital. That’s exciting! What is He up to?

In Acts 16 it was the same. They tried to go north and the Spirit
closed the door. They tried to go south and the Spirit closed the
door. Then they got a dream to go to Macedonia and when they got
to Macedonia they found Lydia and God opened her heart. And then
a demon possessed woman came and the town came against Paul
and Silas and they met him. He didn’t send out prayer letters saying,
“Pray for me.” He said, “This is wonderful! What is God up to?”
Then they dragged him across the street and then they put him in a
dungeon and in the dungeon they were sang praises to the Lord.
Then God gave an earthquake and then the jailor said, “What must
I do to be saved?” It’s all redemptive. Therefore, it’s exciting. I
wake up excited. “What is God going to do today?” If He wants to
have missionary forgetfulness, He can have it (I have dementia).

Jesus in His first body allowed Himself to get weary and He sat
down by a well and along came the Samaritan woman. He’s now in
His new body and maybe we’ll get weary. It’s okay. It’s
redemptive. He knows where the Ethiopian is. So, off goes Philip.
He knows where the Samaritan woman is. He knows where the tax
gatherer is. He knows where Zaccheus’ tree is. He knows who is