Luke 9:23 ‘And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.’

DAILY READING; • Matthew 25; 31-46; Numbers 32-34; Job 2

General William booth was the founder of the Salvation army. The Salvation Army is a Christian international charitable organization that has a worldwide membership of over 1.7 million people. It has a mission to bring salvation to the poor, destitute, and hungry by meeting both their physical and spiritual needs. It is present in 131 countries around the world.

During William Booth’s childhood, his father could not afford his school fees and so at 13 years old, William was apprenticed to a pawnbroker.
Two years into his apprenticeship Booth became converted. He then began to prepare himself to be a preacher by reading extensively and trained himself in writing and in speech. He soon became a Methodist local preacher and began evangelizing to the poor in Nottingham and doing open-air evangelizing in the streets.
In 1851, Booth joined the Methodist Reform Church and on his 23rd birthday became a full-time preacher in the Church. However, though he became a prominent Methodist evangelist, he was unhappy that the denomination did not give him the freedom to do evangelistic campaigns. After his request to be freed for evangelism full-time was refused, Booth resigned from his position and became an independent evangelist. All that mattered to William Booth was obeying God and he was willing to lay down everything to follow Christ.
In 1865 he founded the Salvation Army, which is a Christian movement with a quasi-military structure. The army spread from London, England, to many parts of the world. Today, it is known for being one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid. The organization has had amazing positive impact around the world and recently William Booth was named among the 100 Greatest Britons in history. .

Indeed William Booth gave his all to God and God worked through him to achieve great success in the Salvation Army.
To be able to impact the world around us, we must be willing to obey God at all costs and let Him be Lord of our entire lives. When the apostles encountered Jesus, they forsook all and followed Him. When Paul encountered Him, he counted all things dung, that he may win Christ.
However, the ability to lay it all down comes from being deeply impacted by God’s Word. When we spend time in fellowship with God through His Word, we will be influenced to willing lay down everything to follow Christ.
If today, you are struggling with obeying God in certain areas, it is only because you have not yet been fully impacted by God’s Word. When you spend quality time meditating in the Word daily, the light of God will so flood your life that nothing else would matter but obeying God’s will.
Through meditation, the Word goes into our hearts and dispels every hardness of heart and infuses us with the desire and willingness to obey God. This is how God takes us over and begins to control us.
Indeed when you let God have all of you, He will work through you to accomplish miracles, signs and wonders. This is how men like William Booth made great impacts in their generation. Indeed when Christ fully takes over our lives, He will begin to do mighty works through us. This is how our lives will make great impact on earth, and through our ministry men and women will be drawn into God’s kingdom.

PRAYER
Lord, please help me to return to the place of sitting at Your feet, learning from Your Word until You fully take me over. Indeed through Your power I shall go forth and do exploits that will draw men and women into Your kingdom, in Jesus Name. .

QUOTE
The price you pay to discover anything in God’s word is nothing ever to be compared to the prize of the discovery- WORDBITE 222.