The Greatest Prayer You Can Learn To Pray

J.D. Graeer:

In my more sober moments, I thank God that He often chooses others besides me to do His most powerful work, because otherwise I don’t think my flesh could handle it… If God always did His best work in a way that “increased” my stature personally, then the self-centeredness of my own heart would probably never be revealed. I would never be able to separate “thy kingdom come” from “my kingdom come.” I would never cease to be Satan and start to be a Son of God.

Let me encourage you… especially you brother pastors…. not to bemoan the fact that God chooses someone else, besides you, to do His work. It is, perhaps, one of His greatest graces to you… because probably the greatest prayer we can ever learn to pray is “He must increase, but I must decrease.” The most powerful preachers “ever born to women,” as Jesus said of John the Baptist, are those who realize they are simply a dispensable messenger pointing to a glorious King.

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