Listen to “Stir Me” (If You Dare)

I guess I had a nostalgic moment last week but I started remembering sermons that left a lasting impression on my life. Now I have heard sermons since I was able to realize that the guy standing up on the stage behind the podium was preaching. And I have not remembered the hundreds of messages I have heard. My apologies to all the pastors living or with Jesus. There are, however, sermons that changed my life. Those I remember.

One of the remembered sermons was called “Stir Me” delivered by a petite missionary lady named Helen Roseveare. I heard her as a college student sitting in a required chapel. I was not ready for this little lady to make a difference in me but the words she said burned my heart.

I bought the cassette of her talk. (I know, cassette, which I can’t even play on any machine I now own.)

I have found a website that has the recording of the message and I happily listened to it again. I wondered if it would still have the impact it did so long ago. It did. Find this at sermonindex.net and search “stir me” by Helen Roseveare. Let her get through her unassuming and dated intro before you turn it off, or skip ahead a bit.

Don’t! And I repeat, don’t listen to this if you are a half-way Christian. She doesn’t have time for you and her sermon doesn’t include you.

I’m not even sure if I can put myself in the complete surrender position she placed herself in God’s hands.  But I surely want too. And Hope I will if God calls me to it.

Stir me, God, really stir me.

Stir me to go.

Stir me to give.

Stir me to pray.

http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/visit.php?lid=17462

P.S. BTW she's still alive the last I heard. An amazing life story.