OUR NEED TO RISE UP AND TAKE ACTION (3)
Recently, about eighteen areas on this globe have contacted me by either writing to me or calling me. These areas are Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Western Europe, Russia, Poland, Africa, Central America, South America, Puerto Rico, the islands in the Caribbean Sea, and the United States. This shows how the Lord’s recovery has spread within the thirty-two years that I have been in the United States. When the Lord’s recovery was brought into the English language, it spread to all the major continents. Thirty-two years ago I never thought that such a thing would happen. But if I had stayed in Taiwan and would not have taken action, what would have happened? If all of us in the Lord’s recovery would rise up to take action, the world would be turned upside down (cf. Acts 17:6, KJV). We are so limited, but He is not limited. We are not serving ourselves. We are surely not worthy of being served. We are serving Him. We made a great resolution with Him for His sake, not for our sake. We are taking the way of the vital groups not for ourselves but for His sake, for Him.
Since you have repented, you have confessed, and you have fellowshipped and still remain in the fellowship, you are qualified to go. You should simply take action by faith. Dear saints, today your action means a lot. If you are still hesitating, still lingering, still considering, still feeling that you are not qualified, you are wrong. Just take action. The only thing is this: when you take action, you should not do anything by trusting in yourself.
You should not think that I can do something in the Lord but you cannot. This is wrong. All of you can do something in the Lord. You should just take action. The result depends upon His blessing. Throughout the years this has been my loving prayer: “Lord, I trust in Your mercy. I trust in Your blessing. I trust in Your presence. I trust in Your word. I trust in Your Spirit. I don’t have any trust at all in myself, in anything else, or in anyone else.” We all need to pray such a prayer. Many of us have received much equipping in the years that we have been in the Lord’s recovery. If we remain simple and single toward the Lord and take action in Him, He can work through us. If I had not taken action to come to the United States thirty-two years ago, that would have been a great loss. I am saying this to encourage us all to take action.
When we take action, we should not forget that the main thing is to contact people. We must have an interest in people. We must love people and like to talk to people. Whether or not you know how to talk does not matter…. Do not forget that you do not need to talk too much. Just say a few sentences concerning Christ. You must sow the seed of Christ through your contact. This seed will grow. Now is the time for you all to take action. The more that you do, the more you will learn. What I have received through the years was mostly gained by doing and learning. (Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1993, vol. 2, “The Training and Practice of the Vital Groups”, ch. 10, pp. 342-343)
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