God's Fellows Workers in WH

As I was praying this past week for World Horizons, the Lord gave me a word from I Corinthians 3:9-15. It starts out in 3:9, "For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building." The Holy Spirit quickened several things to me.

First, we are God's fellow workers in that we are in this thing together with God. I believe there is a call in WH for this growing need for being fellow workers. This is to say that we as a movement take joint ownership of what God is doing, and that it becomes greater than our field, so that everyone in the movement becomes more aware of what God is doing in WH on a larger scale. We live in challenging times, but also times of unprecedented opportunities. These challenges we face require a greater sense of community and vision.

Secondly, in verse 10 Paul says that, "I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it." As a movement, there is a new phase being built. It is being built on the foundation of what has come before, but it is a new phase of building that God is calling us as His fellow workers to build with Him. The warning that Paul goes on to give is to be careful how we build this new phase. Paul emphasizes not only how we build it, but more importantly the kind of materials that we use to build it, whether it is wood, hay and stubble, or gold, silver, and precious stone.

Paul said in verse nine that we are not only the builders, but we are God's building. So, as we proceed with this new phase, God is calling us on a personal level as the building to first raise our personal spiritual level. We need to allow God to develop us into gold, silver, and precious stone; in order that we can be used in the challenges we will face as a movement reaching into very difficult places. God is calling us to build in ourselves and those with whom we work something that will stand the heat of time and the pressures of our rapidly changing world.

There are new demands that are coming on the missionary community, especially to unreached people groups, that places great demand on missionary staff. If we are to build something that will last, we have to believe God for and nurture people of character. The only way we are going to draw in the people we need is if we, as "God's fellow workers" across the movement, take care to improve ourselves, take ownership of the movement, and together seek to draw in people of like character, God's character, into the building of God. It is the character of the people in the movement that is going to enable us by God's grace and power to reach the full potential and destiny that God has for us in these last days.

May the Holy Spirit today renew your vision of the greatness of our God and what He desires to do in and through us for His glory.

Andy Clark