🌷Sharing Gods Secrets – Bro.Bakht Singh🌷

Theme of the Month: The Secrets of God’s choice
Sat, 17 September

“O my Lord, I am not eloquent… but I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue, and the Lord said unto him; who hath made man’s mouth?… have not the I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say”. (Exo. 4:10-12).

I would like to tell you my own experiences, for I count it a great and wonderful thing that my Lord has chosen me. I want others also to realize how simple are the means by which He calls and speaks to us, lest they have failed to hear when they are called by Him.

Soon after my conversion in the year 1930 in Winnipeg, Canada, I went to a service one Sunday morning. After the meeting I was standing outside, when a man came up and shook my hand. I can still feel his strong grip as he said to me: ‘Brother, why don’t you go and preach in India?’. I replied: ‘Brother, I am an engineer. I have spent so many years studying engineering; and to make things worse I stutter and stammer and am so nervous that I can not stand before even a small group of people. When I see them, my knees begin to shake. How can a stammering and stuttering man ever be a preacher?’ He said nothing more, but for two full years those words were brought before me again and again. I could feel the hand-grip, with the same words ringing in my heart: ‘ why don’t you? Why don’t you?’

I told the Lord: ‘Lord, I promise that I will give all my money. By this means I can employ so many preachers; but please, please do not make me a preacher!’ But God said to me: ‘ I do not want your money. I want you!’. But for two full years these words came to me again and again. It is a mystery indeed why our God should ever choose us. It is because He has a right over us. He is my creator and the mighty God, and He knows that when we yield ourselves to Him, and obey and follow Him, we shall no more fully and completely the power by which He works in and through us.