John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.
I have chosen a strange title for this issue of the Daily-E-Votional. It deserves a bit of an explanation. I am not sure you have heard the expression, up fronter, but it denotes the person who is leading a meeting of any sort.
Contrary to what people would guess, I am a shy person by nature. It usually comes as a shock to me to be standing in front of a crowd, leading a service of some sort. With the first few words that come out of my mouth I realize that people are focusing their attention on me in anticipation of what I will be conveying. I am an UP FRONTER!
As I was meditating on this term the other morning, I thought of the opposite of the term. It struck me that the opposite of up is down and the opposite of front is back, so if I am not an up fronter, I would it would be down backer.
Satan loves nothing better than to have believers back down from their responsibility to step forward and speak the words of hope and deliverance to a world choked by sin and ignorance. God has called each of us to be an up fronter. It might be to a large crowd or only one other person. It does not matter, we are to speak for Him!
Blessings dear hearts. Draw near to God today, trust Him completely and be a blessing!
—-Pastor Cecil