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Lord what wilt thou have me to do?
Acts 9:6
A If you asked six different people that question, you'd probably get six different answers. But God has only one answer: obedience. Doing what God tells you to do, when Hetells you to do it. Mordecai Ham preached "one of the most unsuccessful crusades of his career" in North Carolina, earlyin the century. After weeks of preaching, only one tenyear-old boy gave his life to Christ. The evangelist wascompletely discouraged. What he didn't know, however, was thatthe boy, Billy Graham, would someday preach to more people and win more souls than any evangelist on record. If bringing Billy Graham to Christ was the only thing Ham everaccomplished, he was a great success.
It was an obscure Sunday School teacher who led D. L. Moody to Christ when he was a boy. Years later it was said of Moody,"He took two continents and shook them for God." When my father died, my mother raised three children alone. She took us to the house of God faithfully, and drilled the Scriptures into us. For her it was a, lonely, difficult, and often discouraging path. But her two sons grew up to become ministers of the gospel who have taken the principles she taught them and reached multitudes with the love of Jesus.
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So the only question that really matters today is, "Lord what wilt Thou have me to do?" Think about it.

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WHAT IS SUCCESS?
Lord what wilt thou have me to do? Acts 9:6 A If you asked six different people that question, you'd probably get six different answers. But God has only one answer: obedience. Doing what God tells you to do, when Hetells you to do it. Mordecai Ham preached "one of the most unsuccessful crusades of his career" in North Carolina, earlyin the century. After weeks of preaching, only one tenyear-old boy gave his life to Christ. The evangelist wascompletely discouraged. What he didn't know, however, was thatthe boy, Billy Graham, would someday preach to more people and win more souls than any evangelist on record. If bringing Billy Graham to Christ was the only thing Ham everaccomplished, he was a great success. It was an obscure Sunday School teacher who led D. L. Moody to Christ when he was a boy. Years later it was said of Moody,"He took two continents and shook them for God." When my father died, my mother raised three children alone. She took us to the house of God faithfully, and drilled the Scriptures into us. For her it was a, lonely, difficult, and often discouraging path. But her two sons grew up to become ministers of the gospel who have taken the principles she taught them and reached multitudes with the love of Jesus. *** So the only question that really matters today is, "Lord what wilt Thou have me to do?" Think about it.