Topic: The Impossible Mission [David Wilkerson Devotional 19 December  2024]

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The Impossible Mission

David Wilkerson (1931-2011)

December 19, 2024

“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10, NKJV).

Christ said, “I came into this world for one reason: to reach and save lost souls.” Yet this was not only Jesus’s mission; he made it our mission also: “And he said to them, “And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature’” (Mark 16:15). 

Jesus was speaking to a small band of believers, about 120 people who had gathered in the upper room. What an impossible task he laid before them! “Go to foreign nations, live with the people, and study their languages. Lay hands on the sick, cast out devils, and proclaim the good news. Go to the very seat of Satan and preach the power and victory of the risen Savior.” 

We must realize that Jesus was talking to ordinary, insignificant, uneducated men and women. He was placing the very future of his church on their shoulders, and they must have been overwhelmed. 

Can you imagine the conversation that must have occurred once their Master ascended to heaven? “Did I hear him right? How could we start a worldwide revolution? We are penniless, and the Romans are beating and killing us. If we are treated this way here in Jerusalem, how will we be treated when we witness and preach in Rome?” 

Another might have said, “How does our Lord expect us to go into all the world with the gospel when we don’t even have enough money to go to Jericho? How do we learn languages when we haven’t been educated? This is all impossible.”

It was indeed an impossible mission, yet our challenge today is just as daunting! 

If all who read this message would allow the Holy Spirit to make this word real to them, seeking him for his burden and guidance, there is no telling what kind of harvest the Spirit might reap. The truth is that the greatest works for eternity are done not in mass crusades but with one saint reaching one lost soul. 

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