Down MEMORY Lane – THEN SAID I – HERE AM I – SEND ME LORD: Ministerial EARLY Days – The Humble Beginnings – 90’s!

“. . . 8 Also I heard the VOICE of the Lord, saying, Whom Shall I Send, and WHO WILL GO FOR US? Then said I, HERE AM I; SEND ME. 9 And he said, GO, and tell this people . . .” Isaiah 6:1-9.

“Go, STAND and SPEAK in the TEMPLE to the people ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LIFE” Acts 5:20.

Two wisdom statement that was made years ago in my journey of saying YES to God, that I read from a teaching magazine in my library of FAITH, is of two incredible women of great devotion to God’s calling upon their respective life’s with their husbands of gracious memories. The statement is relevant to me today as it was when I first read them and store the magazine in my library. And that has MADE me value history as layers that must be properly LAID because of the EFFECT that define for tomorrow and years untold. These statements makes up my framework of the down memory lane in life and grace to the glory of God in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

“The relevance of HISTORY can only be determined by the INSTRUCTIONS we draw out from it to INFORM the DECISIONS of the PRESENT and to FASHION out NEW PATHS for our TOMORROW”.

  **Archbishop Mama Margaret Benson-IDAHOSA – (Archbishop, Church of God Mission International, Benin city, Nigeria).

“YESTERDAY was our TEACHER, TODAY is our  FRIEND and TOMORROW is our OPPORTUNITY”

** Dr Daisy OSBORN – (Osborn Foundation International, USA) of Blessed Memory.

Undeniable humble beginnings that have become a global insights and foresights in every respect.  Never a day of regret to the answer of the HEAVENLY mandate for the earthly affairs as His ambassador and representative under heaven, for the cause of humanity, in Christ Jesus stead. To say YES LORD TO YOUR WILL YES AGO, WORTH IT IN EVERY MEASURE FOR THEN, TODAY AND TOMORROW.

For we are not FOOLS, who choose and prioritise the call to take the CROSS daily and follow Him to the taking of the CROWN as would have been preferred by some. This have always been my ANSWER to those who question the Ministerial Call of the cross to their preferred crown for my Engineering field.

“For I am not ASHAMED of the GOSPEL of Christ: for it is the POWER of God unto SALVATION to EVERY one that BELIEVETH; to the JEW first, and also to the GREEK. 17 For therein is the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God REVEALED from faith to faith: as it is written, The JUST shall LIVE by FAITH” Romans 1:16-17.

It’s worth REFLECTING now and always – for it keeps one focus from various distractions that abounds today. Thank you, LORD God, for the PRIVILEGE to be CALLED to SERVE in everyway in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.

SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.

MORE SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:

“Yea, so have I strived to PREACH THE GOSPEL, not where Christ was named, lest I should BUILD upon another man’s FOUNDATION: 21 but as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that have not heard shall understand” Romans 15:20-21.

“And herein do I EXERCISE myself, to have always a CONSCIENCE void of offence TOWARD God, and TOWARD men” Acts 24:16.

“HOLDING the MYSTERY OF THE FAITH in a PURE CONSCIENCE” 1 Timothy 3:9.

“Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, SET A MAN OVER THE CONGREGATION, 17 which may GO OUT before them, and which may GO IN before them, and which may LEAD them out, and which may BRING them in; that the CONGREGATION of the Lord be not as SHEEP which have no SHEPHERD” Numbers 27:16-17.

“And I will GIVE you PASTORS according to mine heart, which shall FEED you with KNOWLEDGE and UNDERSTANDING” Jeremiah 3:15.

“My heart is INDITING a good matter: I SPEAK of the things which I have MADE touching the king: MY TONGUE IS THE PEN OF A READY WRITER” Psalms 45:1.

“Beside those things that are without, that which COMETH upon me DAILY, the CARE of ALL the churches” 2 Corinthians 11:28.

“. . . 4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 not that we are SUFFICIENT of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our SUFFICIENCY is of God; 6 who also hath MADE us ABLE MINISTERS of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life” 2 Corinthians 3:1-6.

“In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. 3 And one cried unto another, and said,Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 4 And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 and he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, WHOM SHALL I SEND, AND WHO WILL GO FOR US? THEN SAID I, HERE AM I; SEND ME. 9 And he said, GO, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not” Isaiah 6:1-9.

REV CHUKIE MORSI