Have Spiritual Ambitions

Since we’re born, we’re drilled to have great ambitions in life. We teach our children to excel in studies, sports and extracurricular activities. In our career, we set big goals, make more money and spend rest of our lives going after it. This is not a bad thing. But is there all to it? Wake up, work, make more money and die?

As Christians we are not only to live high, moral and prosperous lives but we’re also to pursue great things for God. Personal ambition often gets in the way.

So what does it mean to have spiritual ambition? It means to grow in your personal walk and expand His Kingdom on earth. For example, we invest a lot of time, energy and resources to learn about our profession. Do we put the same effort to learn about God from His Word? We are often chimed to produce more in our career. How about producing more for God – sharing the Gospel with others to win souls? We train others at work but are we discipling anyone to Christ?

I consider it a dream to live and enjoy the comforts of America. My flesh never wants to leave and go back to confront the agony of millions who spend their entire lives never hearing the name of Jesus – once! Something inside of me cringes to know about the suffering of people and not do anything about it. Should we live in the luxury of this great nation and forget the crying, sighing and dying humanity in our world? God forbid!

This is why I keep going back to poverty, filth and misery in the slums of India, Nepal and China. This is why we go back to millions who are lost and undone, worshipping and sacrificing to blood-thirsty idols because they know not about our God. We build churches, schools and orphanage to ease the suffering of people both here and in eternity. This is why we have spiritual ambitions. What about you?

Albert Pine said, “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” This year, our goal is to reach 300,000 people with the Gospel! End of March, I will be in India and Nepal. We will touch over 7,000 people. We will train 1,500 pastors and leaders. We will host worship concerts touching 2,000 young people. And we will drill a Life Well in a village of 3,000 unsaved people and a little persecuted church there. Will you give us an opportunity to represent YOU in world missions?

Jesus said, “When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father” (John 15:8 NLT). Let’s work together to produce much fruit!

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