I Cannot Stop Speaking About Jesus Christ

[Sue J Love]

Twenty-one years ago, in 2004, my husband Rick and I were training to be church planters with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (The Alliance), the church denomination I grew up under. Rick was going for his ordination, and I was going for my consecration. So there was a district prayer conference (September 13-16, 2004) for the official workers under The Alliance in our district which we both planned to attend. But Rick hurt his back and he could not go, so he encouraged me to go alone to represent our tiny congregation.

At the conference the Lord immediately began speaking to me about many things, via the various people who spoke, as they shared what the Lord was teaching them through his word. So, I took detailed notes so that I would remember what all he taught me. This is a summary of what I learned:

• Preach the Word of God, not the teachings of man
• Listen to God, hear what he is saying, and then obey him
• Tell the people what God tells you to tell them and leave the results in his hands
• What you are going to do, do it NOW
• You were appointed by God as a herald and a teacher of true faith
• God has given you a clear sense of his purpose for you and an urgency…
• Fan into flame the gift(s) of God within you
• Give your ministry over to God – it is not yours; it is his
• God may have something else for you to do that you have not even thought of
• Write down what God shows you and then wait on him to bring it about
• Don’t ask God “why,” just trust him – stand firm, press on
• What you are going through is much bigger than you can imagine
• NOW is your time! – For such a time as this I was placed upon the earth…
• Be a tree climber and get a closer look at the Supremacy of Jesus Christ
• The Church is in crisis – the crisis of Supremacy
• It is indistinguishable between the lives of evangelical Christians and the world
• We need to get back to the basics – we need to put our focus on Jesus and the cross of Christ instead of on the teachings of man

I was also asked to speak, representing our tiny congregation of college age adults, to whom my husband and I had ministered out of our home for 7.5 years. So, as the Holy Spirit led, I spoke, and I shared, not only about our ministry, but about what the other speakers had talked about, and how I was being encouraged by them. And based upon what some of them were teaching, the Lord had me encourage them all to “let their daughters prophesy” (Acts 2:14-18), in the sense of them sharing the Word of God.

This was well received by some of the pastors and official workers of the C&MA in our district, who agreed with what I shared, but it was not well received by the people who were in charge. So I was called to a meeting and I was told that I was not hearing from God, and so basically they shushed me on no biblical grounds. If I was to continue in my pursuit of becoming an official worker under the C&MA, I would have to stop speaking as led by the Spirit, and I would have to conform to the ways of the church denomination.

“But Peter and John answered and said to them, ‘Whether it is right in the sight of God to give heed to you rather than to God, you be the judge; for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.’” (Acts 4:19-20 NASB1995)

All that was taught at that conference was meant by God for me to hear and to apply to my life. God had a purpose in it all, and he has made that purpose very clear to me. And it was then the Lord began to call me to this present ministry of writing down what he teaches me from his word each day and of placing it on the internet so that the internet could “run with it” (the name of my blog). I would never have imagined then the journey that God has taken me on these past almost twenty-one years. All glory to God!

So, Rick and I did not continue to pursue becoming church planters with the C&MA after that. Rick had his own reasons, and God did indeed have something else for me to do that I would never have considered. For he sent me to the internet to be a missionary to people in many nations all over the world through the writings that he gives to me each day. And eventually these became daily devotionals. And added on to that was songs he gave me to write, and then poetry, and then he has had me record video devotions, and lastly he added on Christian memes. And this is my full-time job.

The point here, though, is if I had listened to these denominational heads, instead of listening to the Lord, I would not be here doing what God has called me to do each day in writing down what he teaches me from my times with him each day in his word. And I would not be in the will of God doing what he had prepared for me to do even before I was formed in the womb of my mother. So, I had to walk away from that ministry so that I could serve the Lord in the ministry to which he called me 21 years ago.

[Acts 2:14-18,42-47; Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12:1-31; 1 Corinthians 14:1-5; Galatians 6:1; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:1-16; Ephesians 5:15-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Philippians 2:1-8; Colossians 3:12-16; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 10:23-25; James 5:19-20]

I Surrender All

Hymn lyrics by Judson W. Van De Venter, 1896
Music by Winfield S. Weeden, 1896

… Lo, we have left all, and have followed Thee. (Mark 10:28)

All to Jesus I surrender,
All to Him I freely give;
I will ever love and trust Him,
In His presence daily live.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Humbly at His feet I bow;
Worldly pleasures all forsaken,
Take me, Jesus, take me now.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Make me, Savior, wholly Thine;
Let me feel the Holy Spirit,
Truly know that Thou art mine.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Lord, I give myself to Thee;
Fill me with Thy love and power,
Let Thy blessing fall on me.

All to Jesus I surrender,
Now I feel the sacred flame;
Oh, the joy of full salvation!
Glory, glory, to His Name!

I surrender all,
I surrender all;
All to Thee, my blessed Savior,
I surrender all.

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I Cannot Stop Speaking About Jesus Christ
An Original Work / September 8, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love