Dr. George Wood delivered a great message last week at General Council in Orlando, FL. I watched the video online and was so thankful for his message. He told the story of his parents being a small Indiana town. They had successfully planted churches in other towns, and would go on to plant churches in China. But in that small Indiana town they worked 2.5 years, his dad’s health gave out, and they left. The A/G later sold that building to a woman evangelist.

It turns out the woman evangelist saw the church explode in growth. She still pastors the church at the age of 91!

Dr. Wood has preached in that church several times and he asked the Lord why his parents hadn’t made it there. Why did the woman evangelist succeed and his parents fail?

He heard the Lord speak to his heart that his parents had knocked on a hard wall continuously for 2.5 years. When this woman came to town she knocked once and the wall fell. Why? Because his parents had kept knocking and they had weakened the wall.

Our call isn’t about worrying over the certain gauges of success. Our call is to be faithful. My call is to keep my eyes on Jesus. What will matter 100 years from now? It’s the legacy of faith. Will I pass on a legacy of faith to the next generation?

I need to keep knocking. I need to keep pressing on that wall. There is breakthrough. Darkness WILL give way to light in my community. Don’t stop knocking!