Did you ever teach a Bible lesson expecting a certain outcome but experienced a totally different result? That because when it’s His message flowing out of you, He determines the results.
God’s Message Yields God’s Results
We can know that God’s Word is “useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16-17). But, what we don’t know for certain is how God will use it in each student’s lives.
According to Isaiah 55:10-11, the results are up to Him.
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
These verse let us know that when teachers are conduits with God’s message flowing through them …
1) there will be results.
2) the results fulfill God’s purposes, not ours.
As Conduits, Bible Teachers Trust God for the Results
Remember 1 Corinthians 2:4-5:
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.
The Bible Teacher’s Role Download continues with more thoughts about trusting God for the results, along with other teaching about being a conduit and seven additional roles teachers might assume to impact lives.