How to be Pro-Active with Jesus

The task may be large, but there is always something I can do! If we think too much about the magnitude of needs and problems, we shall easily become discouraged and feel powerless.

When we set small achievable objectives, we are able to move ahead and see something happen.

1 Make sure that the short-term objective fits into a major vision.
The vision will seem beyond us, but if the short-term goal fits within it, then we shall know we are on the right track. Whatever we do will have meaning and significance.

2 Build on your intimacy with God.
The Father has the same character as Jesus. Whoever has “seen” Jesus has “seen”the Father, and Jesus would always model his attitude, words and actions on those of God the Father (Read John chapters 14 and 15). God is love. (Read I John 4).

3 Pray for the things that God promises or commands.
In Luke 10: 1-20 we read that he tells us to pray that the Father will send more people to speak his word and to do his works. Jesus also says that those who pray for other workers will also be “doing the stuff” themselves. He gives us divine authority over spiritual opposition.

4 Know how to recognise your mission field.
Later it might be somewhere else, but, at the moment, it is probably near where you are. It may include immediate family, relatives, friends. It may include your place of work, or your physical neighbourhood.

5 Expect people to go where you are going in your relationship with Jesus, but do not “push’ them to go faster than they can.
Jesus the Man sought to be like his Father in Heaven. He encouraged his disciples to become like him. They, in turn, were to make disciples and to “teach them all that I have commanded you.” (Matthew 28: 16-20).

6 Model that people can grow more in their relationship with God, by you seeking continually to grow.

Lindsay Johnstone

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