BBD 03.23.21 Enlarge Your Tent (Classic)
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Classic from 2002
The Burning Bush Devotional
23 March 2021
Enlarge Your Tent
Enlarge
the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your
dwellings; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. For
you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will
inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited. - Isaiah 54:2-3.
Long
before William Carey (Born in Paulerspury, England in 1761.) became the founder
of modern day missions and missionary to India he was a promoter of evangelism.
While still a cobbler Carey put up a homemade map of the world above his
workbench and talked openly of world evangelism. Carey wrote a book
entitled “An Enquiry Into the Obligations of
Christians” and soon afterwards preached a long
remembered sermon from Isaiah 54:2-3. Carey ended his sermon with his motto: “Attempt great things for God! Expect great things from
God!” Finally,
as a result of Carey’s efforts a Baptist society was born with the purpose
of “the propagation of the gospel among the
heathen, according to the recommendations of Carey’s Equiry.” Carey was sent
out as the societies’ first missionary.
Lottie
Moon continued to enlarge the tent of overseas missions in the 1800s. She was
born in 1840 and grew up with her mother reading the Bible to her. Because
there was not a church in their area Lottie led the services every Sunday for
her family, and neighbors. When Lottie was 33 years old, she heard a sermon
from John 4:35 about
how the harvest fields were, “white unto
harvest.” Lottie committed her life to being a
missionary to China and for forty years she worked there in the midst of
disease, poverty and the storms of war. When a famine came upon China, she gave
her food and her last dollar to help those starving. She died on Christmas Eve
1912. Lottie said, “I would that I had a thousand lives that I might give
them to the women of China.” As a
result of her passionate service the Southern Baptist Lottie Moon Christmas
Offering for foreign missions (Now International Missions) has raised millions
to support thousands of missionaries across the world.
Even
though we may never go to India or China to serve as missionaries are, we not
also called to enlarge our tent by reaching out to the fields of souls that
are “white unto harvest?” What great things have you attempted for God? What great things
are you expecting from God?
Begin
where you are. Carey and Moon both began to passionately serve where they lived
and then God enlarged their tents and sent them forth to even greater harvest
fields. Place your life in the hands of God and allow Him through you to touch
hearts and lives across this world.
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