Go!
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There is something about the word Go! Ready, set, go! on your mark, get set, go! The word “go” has several meanings. Some of the meanings are: to move on a course; to take a certain course or follow a certain procedure; to be guided, governed, or regulated; to travel to a place.
God uses the word go throughout the Bible. Let’s look at some of the ways God used it and how can we apply it today!
1 The Lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others. 3 I will bless those who bless you and curse those who treat you with contempt. All the families on earth will be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram departed as the Lord had instructed, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
Sometimes We’re Called to Leave and Go to a New Place!
Sometimes We’re Called to Leave and Go to a New Place!
Abraham had to leave His family and their traditions in order to go to a place where God could give Abraham His vision. God’s vision for Abraham. He couldn’t do that if He did not get him to leave familiar surroundings. Many times it’s not spiritual things that hold us back. Sometimes it’s comfortably things that stop us from going. Because Abraham went he became the father of faith and it was counted as righteousness for his sake. Sometimes we gotta leave and go to a new place.
11 Now the Angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak (terebinth) at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon was beating wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
12 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, The Lord is with you, you mighty man of [fearless] courage.
13 And Gideon said to him, O sir, if the Lord is with us, why is all this befallen us? And where are all His wondrous works of which our fathers told us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.
14 The Lord turned to him and said, Go in this your might, and you shall save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?
15 Gideon said to Him, Oh Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Behold, my clan is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.
16 The Lord said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall smite the Midianites as one man.
We Go Because God is With Us!
We Go Because God is With Us!
This might that Gideon had was not his personal might but the power of the Almighty God! This God that did great things for Gideon is the same God that is with us today in 2024! So we go because we can trust Him to do the impossible!
22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, 24 and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it.
25 Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. 26 When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear.
27 But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.”
28 “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.”
29 “Come,” he said.
Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30 But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!”
31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”
God’s Go Doesn’t Always Come When Things are Calm!
God’s Go Doesn’t Always Come When Things are Calm!
There is no perfect time to go and do things for God. In fact there is never the perfect time do to anything in life.
16 But Jesus said to him, A man was once giving a great supper and invited many;
17 And at the hour for the supper he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, Come, for all is now ready.
18 But they all alike began to make excuses and to beg off. The first said to him, I have bought a piece of land, and I have to go out and see it; I beg you, have me excused.
19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine and put my approval on them; I beg you, have me excused.
20 And another said, I have married a wife, and because of this I am unable to come.
21 So the servant came and reported these [answers] to his master. Then the master of the house said in wrath to his servant, Go quickly into the great streets and the small streets of the city and bring in here the poor and the disabled and the blind and the lame.
22 And the servant [returning] said, Sir, what you have commanded me to do has been done, and yet there is room.
23 Then the master said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges and urge and constrain [them] to yield and come in, so that my house may be filled.
We’re to Go Everywhere to Spread the Gospel!
We’re to Go Everywhere to Spread the Gospel!
The Great Commission is not just for those on the mission field in foreign countries. It’s for all of us. We all know people that no one else can reach but us. It could be fellow workers, neighbors, people we see around town. Everywhere you and I go there are people who might not look like the type we would hang with but they need to be “invited” to the feast that we will have when we all see Jesus. God the Father is planning it and we all want everyone to be there!