Dedication Focused — Devern Fromke

How we praise Thee that Thou didst fill the cup that it might overflow. We thank Thee this morning that it's not out of a dry cistern, but it's out of the well of Thyself that we give back to Thee. We crown Thee, we acknowledge Thee as Lord, we say, Lord Jesus, be pleased in our midst.

Oh, we thank You that it's been so good to fellowship with You, Lord, just You this morning. Thank You for Your presence. Thank You for the reality of Your presence. Thank You, Lord, that You've deigned to be in our midst.

In Jesus' name, we thank You. Amen. Romans, chapter 12. Romans, chapter 12. We have been speaking about dedication. The first morning, it was our purpose to define it. What is dedication? By the mercies of God, we present ourselves unto Him.

The next morning, it was dedication enlightened, or dedication according to renewed knowledge. God renews our minds, brings us into newness of understanding that it will not just be dedication, but it will be an intelligent thing.

How many of you have seen folk with a dedication, but oh, how it lacked clear understanding of what dedication was. They meant well, zeal, but not according to knowledge. Yesterday, it was dedication proved.

Dedication Tested Through Israel’s Wilderness Journey

I think there are many folk who want to present, they want to give, they want the Lord to have something from their life, but it's so easy to get stalled midway. God called Israel, as we said yesterday, He brought them out of bondage, out of Egypt.

Who doesn't want to get free from their bondage? But how long did they wander in the wilderness? It was a proving period. He wanted to bring them in, and in bringing them in, He wanted them to possess the land.

Dedication Focused in the Body of Christ

So, it was dedication proved yesterday. This morning, it's my burden, and I pray the Lord to give us His own special help. Dedication focus, that's the way I call it. It's always interested me that in this 12th chapter of Romans, which is really the very best picture we have in the New Testament of dedication, after He speaks of presenting our body, the renewing of our mind, the proving of what the will of God is, is to marvel that immediately He started talking about the body.

Look at it now. We'll start with verse 3. For I say through the grace, chapter 12, verse 3, For I say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and everyone members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given unto us, whether prophecy let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith, or ministry let us wait in our ministering, or he that teacheth on teaching, or he that exhorteth on exhortation, he that giveth let him do it with simplicity, he that ruleth with diligence, he that showeth mercy with cheerfulness.

May I say that I believe when our dedication comes into the right perspective and focus that God intends, dedication will be in the body. It will be something of learning a relatedness that we have in the Lord with his people.

It's not just doing anything that seems good, not just picking up a cause or a project or something that seems worthwhile, but God is here in this picture, I believe, giving us an example of how dedication becomes very focused to the thing that he wants.

You see, first of all, you look at the cross, and you remember that the cross has its vertical. This is our relatedness to God, the first aspect of our dedication, Lord, I am related to you. One thing the Lord is doing today is to show us the cross piece.

How we become related to one another in our dedication. And I just cannot emphasize it too much this morning, but I believe that dedication is a related thing. It's related rightly to God, and that's the way enlightenment comes, God proves, and then it finds its relatedness toward one another.

I just cannot function independently. I dare not function unrelated. And so it's a very wonderful thing now that immediately Paul introduces body life, the fact that we are members of one body, and that our relatedness in the body is the way we learn to function.

I believe dedication gets pretty narrowed down. And I'm not saying that one can't have individual dedication. This is true. We realize that God brings us in most of the religious world today is dedicated.

In a sense, they know the vertical, but oh, and God begins to bring the cross piece in. And we see our relatedness to one another and what this really means. So I just have to reemphasize, I'm not, I just wonder if we can really go on very far, but what we will see the dedication is not an independent thing.

It's not just an individual thing. We begin to find our relatedness with one another. Let me go back this morning for a little bit and pick up what we've been getting at. I'd like for us to see that, in a sense, when God begins to work, the governing law or the law that governs our related dedication, our functioning in a related way, is that God does everything by the anointing.

The anointing seems to be so very important for us to understand. Uh, let's, uh, let's just go back. Here we were yesterday. We spoke of what it meant to be in Adam. Here's the family tree of Adam. We've all been a part of it.

When we were nailed to the cross in the Lord Jesus in his death, we saw that we were buried down in the tomb. We saw that God resurrected, raised us up. We were saying yesterday, it is God's way of taking us out of the old and planting us, or so to speak, positioning us in the new.

And so when we look now at what God has done in taking us out of the old and planting us into his son, we get a little glimpse of what it means to be in Christ. I have to remind us that first of all, we need to see all that has taken place in history, that is, from God's viewpoint.

And here he puts us, well, let's just put our, the body. He puts us in the body, as it were. We come forth out of the grave. And when we come out, as it were, out of death, we are planted into Christ.

We are made a member in him, in his body. Ah, I think it's very wonderful now to remember that in history there is one faith. I come and I, and then I appropriate. In history becomes very real to me. First of all, in my apprehension, I say, oh, thank you, Lord Jesus.

You died. You died for me. I apprehend it. I understand it. And by simple faith, I take, I appropriate. So what's historical becomes very living and personal. It's made real, isn't it? And I, I don't want to push this too far, but I think there will come a day when you'll find yourself really buried.

You'll see that God really nailed to the cross all the old Adam was. And because it smelled so, he said, I've got to cover it over. He puts it in the tomb and we come to a personal seeing and a personal reality of what that means to be buried with Christ.

All that the old life is. Thank God for the day it becomes very real. Our crucifixion, our burial. And as I said yesterday, and I want to reemphasize it, thank God for the day that we discover it takes more than the negative.

I lived so long on this side. I thought if I could just get people dead, God would get them alive and he does. But some people have a way of hanging around the grave. And as my brother was saying yesterday afternoon, you see, we get so caught with the reality of a thing.

And it's so wonderful. How many of you know, we want to camp there? It's one of the tendencies of all of us. When a thing's been made real to us, we cry, hooray, I found it. Eureka, this is it. And so we stay there.

And the Lord has difficulty getting us beyond. And this is why we come finally to see that it's not enough to see that he died for us. We died with him and he buried all. And the reality of that burial is something.

But we come to see that we live by the life of another. All the reality of the resurrected Christ. And I like to say that about this time, it's very wonderful that we begin to realize that not only resurrection, but he ascended and he was positioned.

He was seated at the right hand of the Father. What is the proof that Jesus was the Son of God? His resurrection. It was God who raised him from the dead. And the fact that he was the Son of God is proved by the resurrection.

What is the proof now? What was the proof that this Jesus, who is the Son of God, has now been seated up here at the right hand of the throne? What's the proof that he's exalted? The Holy Spirit has been poured out.

Peter says, this which you see, it's the proof. Well, they couldn't see up into the heavens, but he was saying, this is the proof that he has been exalted, been poured out, you see. Now, the Holy Spirit is poured out, and I do believe it's upon the head.

And as we see, it comes down upon the whole of the body. The Spirit poured out. Now, I have to be honest with us and just help us to be very careful because there's a lot of confusion at this point. How many Calvary?

How many burials? How many resurrections? How many ascensions? How many exaltations? How many outpourings? Are you sure? You are determined to miss the parallel. Start all over again. How many crucifixions?

I don't need to go on, do I? In history now, in history there's one. How many times throughout all these years has it been personalized? Many. How many burials? How many times has it been personalized?

Now we're on the road, aren't we? How many resurrections? How many times has it been? Many. How many ascensions and exaltations and outpourings? One. How many times has it been? It'll help us to keep our Scripture very clear.

Now, I know I haven't changed doctrine for 20 years in this. Believe me, we entered in years ago. I've had a deep conviction that people have been prone to call things by the wrong name. You can't take their experience away, but what you have to do is to get adjusted to the book.

Are you with me? So when somebody says, well, I had a baptism, I say, he means he's personalized what took place up there. Are you with me now? There's really only one baptism. And now that the Spirit has been poured out, really this is the anointing.

This is the anointing. A lovely anointing. I think that the anointing, the anointing is the basis for all our sin. I've noticed through the years that when the anointing comes to an individual, folk can have heard that Jesus died for years.

And then suddenly the anointing pulls back. The eyes have come and they say, oh, thank you, Lord, for dying for me. On what basis were they able to see that he was their substitute? It's the what? The anointing.

It's the anointing that reveals. It's the anointing that breaks the yoke. It's the anointing that helps somebody to see. I've had individuals in meetings for years, and they quote Galatians 2 .20. I have been crucified with Christ.

Nevertheless, I live, yet not I. And I know it's a verse to them, and that's all it is. When does it become a reality to them? One day the Holy Spirit pulls back, you see. I had one of the most lovely examples of this a number of years ago.

We were on the West Coast. God broke in with a church, and about 50 young married couples were saved. It was just a very sovereign working of the Lord. And in those days, our emphasis was so much on the cross.

Our look the first time to see his death. Our look the second time to see our death with him. And after about 10 years, I had gone back to that particular group many times. But I was invited by this pastor and his church to Spokane, Washington.

And we were there in meetings for a couple days. And one morning, we had the morning session. The pastor's wife stood, and she said, Oh, I must tell you. And Brother Verne will hardly believe it. But I had a funeral last night.

And then she told, she said, My husband lay in bed and snored away. But, oh, God put a mirror before me. She said, I've heard all of this for 10 or 12 years that I died with Christ. She said, I learned it in Bible school, and I taught it to all of our ladies groups.

But she said, Guess what happened? Last night, it happened to me. I'll never forget the tears, Corsten. She just, she just opened it. You know, I'd looked at her as one of the most lovely pastor's wives I'd ever met.

Oh, I knew God needed to do more. But there were so many wonderful things, you see. But that night, she said, I saw everything. Her name was Dorothy. She said, I saw everything Dorothy had ever done. The Ladies Missionary Society, leading the class, leading the choir, all these things.

She said, Oh, what a, I couldn't stand to look at it. What did she see? She saw all that the old life, the old creation represented in Adam. And in the desperateness of her heart, she kept saying, Oh, God, no wonder you couldn't be pleased.

You see, it was something that had escaped the tomb and was trying to dedicate to God. We sat there, I suppose, 30, 40 people, everyone weeping. She was loved. Everyone loved her. She said, I just went through such misery for about three or four hours.

I wanted to wake my husband. The Lord said, this is a private funeral. She said, I wanted to go knock on your room, and I knew that wouldn't be right. The Lord said, this is a private funeral. It's one thing you go through all alone.

You know, after I saw what had happened, I don't take anything for granted in anybody anymore. If it could happen to Dorothy, Lord, it might happen to some others. But what is it, really? What is it? Now, you see, I'm not implying you have.

Whenever you deal with the things that are subjective, we have a tendency to cause everybody in the group to wonder. I don't know if that happened to me. Are you there? You know what I mean? You're all wondering, aren't you?

Come on now, aren't you? Well, I don't know, but I know what I keep saying, Dear Lord, if there's something I don't see as clearly as I ought, let the anointing pull back. Let the anointing, let it, let it.

Lord, I claim that every bit of what has really taken place and what I know positionally, and I've claimed positionally, Thou wilt make to be very living and real. Now we are right where we were yesterday.

Remember, we used the word promise and prove and possess. And I know that there's such a thing as apprehending the promise of the thing and claiming the reality of the promise. Oh, Lord, that's wonderful.

And then we go through the proving of it, by which the Holy Spirit makes it into a reality. We possess the reality of it. So, we say that it's the anointing that's been poured out. The Holy Spirit has been poured out, and he is wanting to make living and real all these aspects.

Anointing, Spiritual Gifts, and Related Ministry

I believe, brothers and sisters, that God's not only trying to get some folk resurrected, but there comes a day when he shows them what it is to be related, to be really planted in the body. If I understand the word baptized, what it means in 1 Corinthians, it is that literally we are planted into a living relationship in the body.

It's a positional thing primarily. I'm positioned, I'm put within, you see, I'm put within as a member in the body. Now, let me go on again and say, I hear every place I go, people saying, Oh, praise the Lord, I'm suddenly discovering what it is to be in the body.

Every place you go, there's a new awareness today. It's the anointing that gives us a little bit of that enlarged understanding. The anointing is awakening folks to say, mine's not just a private dedication.

Mine isn't just giving myself and seeing something good and going out to do, but I begin to function within the body and recognize what this means. All this independency that is ruled, and it has been so evident in much of the religious work today, is the dissipation of our energy and our strength.

And there comes a time, I believe, as we keep holding it before the Lord, that the anointing that has been poured out, the anointing makes real. Oh, thank you, Lord. You've positioned me in the body. You've given this as a place, a function, something in which I am to fulfill.

My dedication is to be sharpened and focused. This is what you want, not just doing good. And I believe this is why we're introduced to gifts. Every spiritual thing that is done is really by a divine enablement that God gives.

It's the divine enablement that God gives. You can cut the lawn for the Lord and trim the trees for the Lord. You can paint the building for the Lord. You can do all those things and that's fine. That's like giving a cup of cold water and the Lord says, Amen.

But we're talking about building something of spiritual quality, something that's very sharpened and is focused for the thing that God really wants. And once again, you see, God governs the focus. He governs our doing.

He governs it because what is done must be done by what he has given. It isn't just doing. He's so restrictive. It must be done by the divine enablement that he has given, not wanting to limit us, but wanting us to come to the fulfillment.

And that's what we see now. You'll notice he says in verse 6, having been gifts differing according to the grace, God's grace in giving. He places within my brother Dan a little rosebud. It's a divine enablement.

It's hidden there. Dan may for years not know it's there. When did it come? Now a lot of, I suppose, difference of opinion here, but I believe that while Dan didn't know it, the moment he said Jesus is Lord, he got planted and in him got planted.

You see, God put a little bud in there. And one day as the anointing begins to work, the anointing working within my brother is going to create sort of a burden in his heart. The burden begins to help him discern a need and a longing to meet that.

So what does he do? Runs out to get somebody else to do it. Now, don't we usually? We get a burden and what do we do? What do we do? Who will help me? And we run out to find somebody to do it. I have a dear brother when folk come and they say, I have a burden.

He says, praise the Lord. That's God emphasizing, do it. Can you see how in we want the spectacular, but how many of you are beginning to realize that the spiritual begins to work in a sort of a very normal unfolding way?

A bolt of lightning had come out and say, this is your burden, do this. It isn't that way. The more spiritual things get so often, they have their natural, I don't know if the word, the normal unfolding.

And so it's by burden. I thank God when I see a little rosebud, the anointing working, God's burden coming within. First thing you know, begins to two petals open up. Isn't that wonderful? Two petals.

And what happened? Those two petals began to reach out toward whatever's needed. And the third one opens. And the fourth one opens. Then somebody squelches at night comes and goes in for a while. But God's way of developing in every life is by the burden that he places within.

Some people have a burden for this, a burden for this. Long, you see, and it begins to unfold. And when God gives burden in you, the enablement goes right along with it. This is what the gift is. It's to see and the ability within.

So this is why the gift begins to develop into a function or into a ministry. Now it talks about gifts here, but it immediately goes to the seven ministries. Seven, a complete number here. And I think that in the average assembly and in the church at large, so to speak, here you have the seven things, anointed speaking, verse six, having then gifts differing.

How many of you can see that one who has a burden to speak, that let's say has a burden and that burden is just discharged as God gives a quickening to be able to speak something in an anointed way. I believe there's all levels of prophecy.

And one of our confusions today is that we do not see that you've got all these levels of prophecy as it's working all the way to the more sure word of prophecy. Someone gets up as a little babe and the first words they list as a newborn babe, they list and say, Lord Jesus saved me so wonderful.

The spirit witnesses with his spirit. He says, Dada, I'm a father. And what's doing it? The spirit. The testimony of Jesus is the first testimony you give. If there's any anointing in it, the spirit's doing it.

And hear me now, we have all these levels. Someone sits in the group and they're exercised with a burden that a certain three or four verses over here is just what's fitting. And of course, the proportion of their faith is pretty weak.

And according to proportion, they read those three, four verses and the spirit anoints, quickens, and everybody's blessed. Are you following me? Of course, you have to do that with the proportion of faith, don't you?

Because what's happening in your mind all the time, something's stirring. Your reasoning are saying, uh-uh, couldn't be, couldn't be. Somebody else will do it. And so you quench, you quench. Now you see, the more we learn to be under the control of the anointing of the spirit of God, God may actually make you so rich in the word that one day you know those three or four verses without reading them.

Are you with me now? And so you just speak them forth. It's all right there. You're on safe ground. It's Scripture. Praise the Lord. This is the way it begins to work. It's anointed speaking. When the preacher stands up, people say, well, what's, what is it, preaching or prophesying?

You can't, you can't really sharply distinguish. There have been times when the anointing on a speaker is a very heavy, it has a very heavy prophetic anointing. Most preaching isn't. Very heavy and it's anointing.

But I've seen times when the Lord's overwhelmed and the Lord's anointing, it was so very real that it reached a higher, higher level. So we're saying now that if God is developing, he has placed the gift within.

And what makes the gift operated? The anointing, the anointing. I'm wanting us to see that the anointing governs, the anointing governs, the anointing governs. Here we are hand, foot, eye, various parts within the body.

And God seems to keep, God seems to keep the whole of this under his control simply by the what? The anointing. I have to be very honest. We travel throughout many places these days. And when people get idea of body life, their first concept is, praise the Lord, this is my opportunity.

And so many places where I get into what they call body life is anarchy. Every man's doing that which is right in his own eyes. Preachers set him down so long, now he's got a chance. Or whatever it is, you see.

And I have to remind us that we are members in the body, but all these members are under the control of the? And so you see, there is real headship, there is real leadership, but it's by the what? The anointing.

It's by the anointing. It's the anointing that governs. The anointing that gives unveiling to see. It's the anointing that gives a registration within our spirit that this we know needs to be done. And all of the gift that's working, whether it's faith, it's word of wisdom, it's knowledge, it's discernment, whatever it is, it's the spirit that's working within.

And we need to have the deep sense within of how to cooperate. Oh, it's a blessed thing. Now you see, our problem is that when God planted us into the body, he gave us position. The planting in is positioning.

Positioning according to need. It's a positioning thing. But if I move only from position, praise the Lord, I'm a hand. And this little word ministering here, it says in verse seven, or ministry, let us wait in our ministering.

That's an unfortunate translation. It really is deaconing, serving. Deaconing, serving, the diaconate. It's the serving, you see, the serving. How many of you have through the years, you've seen someone in a very hidden, but a very wonderful way, grow up and have the ability to serve?

Brothers, sisters. They do it out of great sense of the need that they see, and it develops. The deaconing, the serving. This is the, it's an unfortunate translation. That's what it really means. The deaconing, the serving ministry.

A hand, and the hand learns to serve out of burden and out of anointing. All right, then it says teaching. Let us wait on our serving, or let us wait on our teaching. If God begins to develop within you ability to distinguish things that differ, and you see that the problem with most folk is that they generalize.

Make a generalization. This is the difficulty. All teaching just boils down to distinguishing things that differ. A little boy, remember when he was growing up, we'd go along the highway. Everything that had four legs in the pasture was a hearse.

People read the Bible that way. They read the word sanctification, and it's got four legs, and it's all alike. How many of you came to the place where you saw one day there was a sanctification in Christ set apart in him?

That was very different from possessing your vessel in sanctification, your sanctified walk. One of the great difficulties is that in immaturity, in the body, most folk do a generalization. One word seems to cover everything, but the teacher then begins to have the burden to say, oh, you must see that there's a difference between my being sanctified in Christ the moment I'm saved and learning to walk after the Spirit, my walk possessing the vessel.

You see, it's a difference. So when you learn to wait on your teaching and this gift of discerning, and the word comes to be able to distinguish between positional and the walk of sanctification, when this begins to develop, you're waiting for new ways to explain things that will bring people out of confusion.

How many of you get that burden? Well, we all have it in a general way, don't we? But when the burden gets intense and you start to cry out, Lord, this thing can't go on. And the more intense it gets, you keep waiting and waiting and looking and longing before the Lord for a way to help distinguish and to make things more clear.

Everybody's apt to teach, but not everybody's prepared to teach. And it's according to the what? The burden in waiting. The burden in waiting, you see. I think you learn to wait before the Lord on how to serve.

You can do it from position. Somebody said, if they just appoint people to open the windows when it gets hot and point people to meet folks at the door, and I believe that it's necessary to have position.

But how many of you know that you can put somebody in position and they really don't function very good? They get so wrapped up in the meeting, they go to sleep with everybody else and the windows need to be opened.

So the brother who learns to wait in his beaconing is always very sensitive to the needs of all the what? People are nodding. I better get the windows open. Somebody new's come into the meeting and I, just in case nobody else really loves them and sufficiently shows them, I better do it.

What is it? Oh, the burden. You say, oh, you're doing things too natural. I want to be more spiritual. Can I let you in on something this morning? God keeps saying to me week after week after week, Vern, Frankie, I want you to get more practical.

And I say, what did you say, Lord? But when you get practical, you step on toes. You get so close. But spirituality really finally gets its sharpness of dedication in practicality. Real practicality. So here we are.

It's by the anointing. It's by the anointing. But if I move out of position, if I move out of position, then I have a smugness and I say, well, praise the Lord. Brother Dan's been selected to meet these folks at the door and Brother Pete's going to open the windows when the time comes and it's a good thing to do all of that.

But they won't fulfill their position the way they ought to unless they have the what. So I must not only have position, but the position must also be governed by the sense of anointing. Let's see if we can take an illustration of the Old Testament.

Jehoshaphat, the Anointing, and Deliverance Into Dependence

Turn to 1 Chronicles 20. 1 Chronicles 20. No, 2 Chronicles 20. Here's a very desperate emergency that has come up. The Moabites and the Ammonites are coming in as a great horde and they're about to swallow up the Lord's people.

What an hour of emergency. And so in verse 3 we read, and Jehoshaphat, who is he? He's the king, isn't he? And the king feared and set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Now, here is one who is king and he's moving from position. Moving from position, he's in leadership. God ordains it. In this particular case, we see what he does. He sets himself and he proclaims a fast and they all gather themselves together to ask help of the Lord.

Even out of all the cities of Judah, they came to seek the Lord. And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord before the new court and said, O Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen and in thine hand there is not power and might so that none is able to withstand thee?

Art not thou our God who didst drive out the inhabitants and so on? And in the midst of this, verse 11, behold I say how they reward us to come to cast out of thy possession which thou hast given us to inherit.

O our God, wilt thou not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that cometh against us, neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon the multitude who are about to swallow us up.

Our eyes are what? Oh, I love the leadership here. I love Jehoshaphat's acknowledging, I believe he's one of the unusual kings of Judah. Our eyes are upon thee. It's a desperate emergency, isn't it? And they all stood before the Lord with their little ones, their wives and their children.

And what does God do? It's very interesting, isn't it? I would have assumed that because such a godly king, such a leader was before the Lord, that the Lord would take the next step and he would give to Jehoshaphat the direction as to what there to do.

But what does he do? Position can go so far sometimes. Then it says, in the midst of the congregation, the spirit came upon a little Levite by the name of Jehaziel. He was of the family of Asaph. He was one of those who I suppose had his position to sing and to minister before the Lord.

And where did the anointing come? Where does it fall? Jehaziel. Who is governing this whole situation? God is. And listen to what Jehaziel says. Verse 14. Then upon Jehaziel, the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation.

And he said, hearken ye all Judah and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou King Jehoshaphat, thus saith the Lord unto you, be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God's.

Praise the Lord. Why didn't the spirit come on Jehoshaphat? Who can tell me? Why didn't the spirit come? Here's the leader. Why didn't he come upon Jehoshaphat? I don't have the answer. I'm asking you.

I think that's very well said. His position went so far. He turns them to the Lord. At least emergency turns them. Or the crisis situation. And his words are pretty good. Our eyes are on thee, Lord. That sounds like the Lord, doesn't it?

But it goes so far. I'm trying to say to us that God has a way of governing by the what? The anointing. And in our fellowships and in our groups, there's a place for the leaders, the Jehoshaphat, to point the people.

There's a place. But always there is the governing element. Heaven reigns. God rules. The anointing comes. And if I could, I pondered this. I'd be very honest. I pondered it many times. Why did he come upon Jehoshaphat?

Was Jehoshaphat a little more sensitive? Was Jehoshaphat sitting there saying, Oh, Lord, I'll be the cup. I'll be the vessel. What do you want? We don't know. But I believe Jehoshaphat, when God delegated, remember where we were the first morning?

God delegated to him. He received what had been delegated. And he stood to represent the voice and to speak for it. And it seems to me that as we learn to keep our ear turned to the Lord, we'll not all have the same burden or the same sensitivity because God has given different.