Being a Channel Only

Channels only, blessed Master,
But with all Thy wondrous grace,

Flowing through us, Thou canst use us

Every hour in every place.

Hymns 268, chorus 

The chorus of hymns 268 has been my experience as a Christian. Since I got saved, the Lord has been showing mercy on me to be a channel to a good number of people. In fact, my prayers the moment I got saved were for the salvation of my whole household. The Lord answered those prayers in due time. All my immediate family members have all been saved and still I am praying for the salavation of all my distant relatives too. Even by prayers, I realised that I could be a channel for the Lord's divine life to flow through.

As far as the gospel is concerned, I have also been praying for many of my classmates and teachers in my college and university, many prominent personalities the Lord burdened me for prayers, and uncountable number of gospel friends. I believe, the Lord, in due time, will flow His life to them. Perhaps, through me or any other channel. My burden is for their salvation. It's upto the Lord whose channel He will use.

Besides, the Lord also has been gracing me the experience of being a channel to supply the needs of many needy saints. Apart from the life supply, financial supply too also passes through me. I make it clear here. The source of the finance has never been mine. It has always been from the Lord through some saints. A huge amount of offering has been transferred through me to many saints for the past many years. As long as the Lord pleases to use me in this way, I am glad to be channel only. The reason for mentioning this point is stated below.

Since the Lord used me as a channel to supply the financial needs of many needy saints, some of these ones who received the financial offering often thought that I was the one who offered to them. But I am not. So when they were in urgent need for financial help, they took the freedom to mention to me their financial needs boldly which I really did not like it.  How I wish to hide myself even from being a channel. But there is no way, for all the offerings were transfered from my bank account to theirs. And that's the only way I could offer.

In the past few weeks and months, I have been contacted by some of these dear siants making me known again and again of their financial needs. I felt very uneasy and fearful deep within. For I know I am not the source. I supply only when I was supplied to supply. I have been serving as a channel only to route the financial offerings to many needy saints in India. And I will continue to do so as long as the Lord pleases to use me as a channel only. But the source of the money has never been mine. It was the Lord’s provision through some saints. So when being contacted foe financial help, I just kept quite and prayed for them that the Lord would meet their needs and that they would look to the Lord only to meet their needs. In fact, in a couple of cases, I let them know that they should look to the Lord only and used to quote a Bible verse for them to live by.

Philippians 4:19 RecVer 

“And my God will fill your every need according to His riches, in glory, in Christ Jesus.”