BBD 07.29.08 Great and Mighty Things
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07.29.08
Great and Mighty Things
Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things,
which you do not know. - Jeremiah 33:3.
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or
think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the
church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. -
Ephesians 3:20-21.
Before Dawson Trotman became the founder of the Navigators he was a truck
driver. The verses above from Jeremiah and Ephesians were upon his heart
when he felt a great burden to pray. He and a friend who was a plumber met
together outside in the hills at five o'clock in the morning for 42 days to
pray and claim those promises. They at first prayed for the United States
and then with a map of the world began to pray for the countries of the
world. Little did Dawson know that God would use his life to touch the lives
of people in all the countries for which they were praying.
Billy Graham once said about Dawson Trotman: "I think Daws has personally
touched more lives than anybody I have ever known." Those verses in Jeremiah
and Ephesians are included in the early version of the Navigator's Topical
Memory System and the topic for those verses is "God's Answer." The topic
just prior to God's Answer is "Praying Alone" and the verses are Matthew 6:6
("But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your
door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who
sees in secret will reward you openly."), and Mark 1:35 ("Now in the
morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed
to a solitary place; and there He prayed.").
The Word of God changed Dawson Trotman's life leading him to a saving
knowledge of Jesus and then through His Word God trained and empowered
Dawson for the work that God had for him. While Dawson was driving a truck
he memorized a verse a day for three years. Those verses of Scripture
changed Dawson Trotman's life and the lives of countless others. Through
memorization of Scripture God changed my life and I was able hear more
clearly the still small voice of God speaking to me about His call upon my
life. He will do the same for you.
God says through the prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 33:3), "Call to Me, and I
will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not
know." What are the great and mighty things that you do not know that God
wants to show you for your life? You may be a truck driver, or a dishwasher,
or an executive, or a pastor, or have some other occupation but what great
and mighty things would God show you if you were to spend an extended time
in prayer? What impact would it have upon your life? What impact would it
have upon the lives of countless others? It changed Dawson Trotman's life
forever.
Why not begin to call upon God today in a deeper way than you ever have
before? Allow God to reveal to you the great and mighty things that you do
not know.
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