ODM DAILY For 21st November 2024
TOPIC: TEMPLE GAIRDNER: I CHOOSE TO BE FAITHFUL; NOT FAMOUS!
CLICK HERE TO READ BASIC SCRIPTURE 21 November 2024 Prayers and Declarations
In the late 19th century, a former student of Oxford University became the Lord Chancellor of England. One of his classmates became Britain’s Foreign Secretary. A third gained an international reputation as an author. A fourth classmate, named Temple Gairdner, was perhaps the most gifted of his classmates but did not achieve fame and influence. Why? He accepted Jesus as his Savior and lived as a missionary in obscure and dangerous places. Gairdner could have become as well known as his fellow students, but when he decided to become a missionary, he wrote to his sister, “I have found ambition dreadfully difficult to cope with. It seems so natural, especially with one’s upbringing and education, to look forward to making a mark and a name, and so awfully hard to resign oneself to living and dying tucked away in some corner.” A songwriter says: “Let us then be true and faithful, Trusting, serving, every day; Just one glimpse of Him in glory, Will the toils of life repay.” Wow! Also, I remember how I abandoned being a renowned “medicine-manufacturing-Pharmacist” to becoming a minister of the gospel full-time and a prophetic writer! Remember Saul! From being a murderer, he became the Apostle to the Gentiles (Acts 9). Peter left being a fisher of fishes to becoming a fisher of men! Paul said: “God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ” (Vs. 14 of today’s scripture). God does not reward FAME; He rewards FAITHFULNESS! Learn from Temple Gairdner!
GIVE OUT THE 2025 EDITION OF “OUR DAILY MANNA,” AND “WAR AGAINST HAMAN-20” BOOKLETS AS CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR GIFTS! ODM DAILY For 21st November 2024
PRAYER POINTS: Take Song 3: When the morning comes…
- Thank God and pray as led now.
- LORD, obstruct any ambition that obstructs Your will
and purpose in my life in Jesus name. - Lord, I AM DUST! USE ME FOR YOUR GLORY!
I choose to be FAITHFUL to You; not FAMOUS to men. - I reject any fame that will make me unfaithful to God
now in Jesus name. - LOOSE SPECIAL FAVOUR UPON YOUR
FAMILY TODAY! Thank God for answered prayers. - Pray about any other issue(s) affecting your peace. ODM DAILY For 21st November 2024
HYMN
1 Trials dark on ev’ry hand,
and we cannot understand
All the ways that God would lead us
to that blessed Promised Land;
But He’ll guide us with His eye,
and we’ll follow till we die;
We will understand it better by and by.
Chorus:
By and by, when the morning comes,
When the saints of God are gathered home,
We will tell the story how we’ve overcome;
We will understand it better by and by.
2 Oft our cherished plans have failed,
disappointments have prevailed,
And we’ve wandered in the darkness,
heavyhearted and alone;
But we’re trusting in the Lord,
and according to His Word,
We will understand it better by and by. [Chorus]
3 Temptations, hidden snares
often take us unawares,
And our hearts are made to bleed
for some thoughtless word or deed,
And we wonder why the test
when we try to do our best,
But we’ll understand it better by and by. [Chorus]
