Doing God’s work in any fashion takes a great deal of faith and commitment. I remember how reticent I felt the first time I was asked to share my faith to college students I did not know on a beach in Southern California some 35 years ago. This first experience of sharing my faith was with Campus Crusade for Christ. The late Bill Bright, buy prostate with whom most of you are acquainted, buy founded Campus Crusade for Christ. Every spring Campus Crusade would invade the beaches of Southern California with the Gospel. They did it using a little four-law booklet called the Four Spiritual Laws. It was a very simple, but effective approach to sharing the Gospel. I was part of one of these very first spring outreaches; it was centered in the Balboa Pavilion, and so we called it BAL Week. Campus Crusade for Christ contacted a singing group I was in to back up Andre Cole, a Gospel magician who performed in the Pavilion every evening. We were called the Something Singers under direction of Sonny Salsbury, a very talented musician and great youth director. There were about 20 of us in the group, and none of us had any crusade experience. Most of us had never even led anyone to Christ. It was a very exciting week; we sang at night, and then rested during the day. That is until some Crusade staff challenged several of us to join them and go out and present the Four Spiritual Laws on the beach. I remember saying to myself, “Can I do this?” Well, I decided to give it a try. When I showed up at Newport the next morning, I was shocked when I was joined with about 600 others ready to pass out the Four Spiritual Laws to people we had never seen before. I was still a little apprehensive, but was greatly relieved when I was paired with an old veteran Crusader. I was put with him so I could learn how to witness in the right way. Then all of a sudden a bugle blew! That’s right. Someone actually blew a bugle, which started everyone at the same time. You can imagine what the beach-goers must have thought when they saw 600 of us headed their way. In my heart I thought this would never work, but it was very exciting. The old crusader with me was not so old; in fact, he was young enough to be drafted into the army. I learned later, he was headed to Vietnam the next week. To this day, I do not know if he survived. I have never seen him since. So before he left he wanted share all he knew with someone on how to lead others to Christ. And I was the one God selected to benefit from his experience. After we witnessed unsuccessfully to a few, we came to three rather resistant guys. I didn’t think we had a chance with these guys, but this veteran assured me that we did, if we had faith. And so he presented the Four Spiritual Laws and then asked each of them “Is there any reason why you would not want to receive Christ?” All said there was no reason not to, and all received Christ that afternoon. We prayed together, and then I took their addresses to follow up. Since that time I have learned that there are a lot of things I can do if I have faith, whether it is presenting the Gospel on a beach, gaining victory over a weak area of my life, or opening my home for a 40 Days of Purpose Campaign.
Teachable Moment
There are many I cans to be claimed in God’s Word. Some deal with the faith needed to share the Gospel, and others deal with the basic struggles of life. Your whole family, from the youngest to the oldest, can share this teachable moment. Before you read this teachable moment to your children, send them out on a can hunt. Any can will do, but it would be best if they all were about the same size. When you have collected 12 cans, clean them up and take the old labels off. After the cans are ready line them up and put new labels on them as suggested below. Each can represents a part of life that says, through faith in Christ, “i can do this,” “i can think this way.” Write out each promise and verse as suggested below. Put each of those written promises and verses in a can, and then re-label the can according to what’s now in the can. Find a place to put all twelve cans, perhaps in a reachable part of the garage. Tell your children that if they ever feel they can’t do something to go to that row of cans. Let them know that they are free to take out and reread the promises and verses. And if they are too young, they can come to you for assistance. Each time they go during the course of the year to a particular can, have them write down their name and the day they read what was inside. At the end of the year, the family will gather again to look at contents of each can. If there is one can fuller than another, then perhaps this is where God is doing His greatest work in your family. Paul suggested this when he said that his greatest strength was his greatest weakness, because it is where he had to rely on God the most.
II Corinthians 12: 9-10 And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
- Why should I say I can’t do what is in front of me, when the Bible says I can do all things through Christ who gives me the strength to do it?
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verse in a can and label it I can have strength.
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- Philippians 4: 13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
- Why should I lack for anything when I know that God will supply all my needs? He has so far in my life, why would he quit now?
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verse in a can and label it I can have everything I need.
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- Philippians 4:19 And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
- Why should I fear any circumstance, when the Bible says God Himself will be with me always, there is nothing that draws Him away?
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verse in a can and label it I can attain freedom from fear.
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- Psalm 23:4 Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
- Why should I accept any measure of defeat when the Bible says that God always leads me in triumph?
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verse in a can and label it I can claim victory.
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- II. Corinthians 2:14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place.
- Why should I be unhappy when I can rejoice in hope because God’s presence is within me?
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verses in a can and label it I can be consumed with happiness.
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- Psalm 142:5 Why am I in despair, oh my soul? And why have I become disturbed within? My hope is in God, for I shall praise Him for the help of His presence.
- Lamentations 3:22-23 The Lord’s loving kindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is His faithfulness.
- Why should I worry when I can turn all my anxious circumstances over to Christ?
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verses in a can and label it I can be free from worry.
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- 1 Peter 5:6-7 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
- Psalm 37: 23-25 The steps of a man are established by the Lord, and He delights in his way. When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong, because the Lord is the One who holds his hand
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. I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his descendants begging bread.
- Why should I ever be under the bondage of sin, when I can immediately call on an indwelling Spirit to free me?
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verses in a can and label it I can claim victory over sin’s bondage.
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- Galatians 5:1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
- Romans 8: 15 For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
- Why should I feel condemned for my past, present, or future sins, when I have made Jesus my Lord?
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verses in a can and label it i can have security.
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- Romans 8: 1 Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
- John 10: 28 “..I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.”
- Why should I ever feel alone when I can call on my best friend, Jesus, who said He would always be there for me?
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verses in a can and label it i can be liberated from loneliness.
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- Matt. 28:20 “…and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Hebrews 13:5-6 …He Himself has said, “I will never desert you, nor will I ever forsake you,” so that we confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?”
- Why should I be dissatisfied with my present circumstances when I can live a contented life in every circumstance?
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verse in a can and label it I can capture contentment.
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- Philippians. 4:11-12 Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.
- Why should I dwell in confusion, when I can call on God to give me clarity and understanding in everything?
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verses in a can and label it I can castoff confusion.
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- Matthew 7:7-8 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
- I Corinthians 4: 33 For God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
- Why am I afraid to witness for God, when all it takes is faith.
- Teachable Moment Application
- Put this promise and the following verse in a can and label it I can faith out the results.
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- The Promise of faith – Faith is what you do, and when you demonstrate it, it will bring about God’s righteousness. The righteousness you gain from God will empower you to make the right decisions and do the right things. When you make the right decisions and do the right things according God’s righteousness, you can only get the right results.
- Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.