07/31/2026
Live deep with Jesus.
Show up with expectation.
Relate with everyone, always.
Risk it all for what matters most.
At Morning Manna this morning, Steve Carter closed 1 John where it ends – chapter 5 – and called it “The Echo that Endures.” Those four are how you become an everyday Ananias.
An echo that never leaves the room isn’t an echo. Too many of us treat grace like a dam, holding back the one thing meant to flow through us.
Ananias is named barely a dozen times in Scripture, and he changed the trajectory of the New Testament with one word: yes. God sent him to Saul – the most dangerous man he could have been sent to. He nearly talked himself out of it, zooming in on Saul’s record instead of seeing what heaven saw. He went anyway, and the gospel opened to the Gentiles.
“The supernatural activity of God begins when we say yes to a whisper and prompting of the Holy Spirit.”
And if you take nothing else from this week, Steve said, take RISK.
R – Rescued people rescue people. If you’ve been rescued by grace, go rescue somebody else. It’s William Booth’s vision: a world about to perish, and our job is to jump in.
I – Invitational fails. Celebrate them. You can’t control the answer, only your faithfulness. “No” just means next opportunity.
S – Seven days. Pray for an only-God story every seven days. That’s 52 a year. 520 in ten years.
K – Knees. Every movement, every revival started with people praying. God, use me – in my school, my corps, my community.
Then the question that should keep all of us up: what if Ananias had said no? God goes to someone else. And if they say no, someone else. And our corps, our schools, our cities, the nations never become what God intended.
But what if every one of us said yes?
“The single greatest gift you can give another human being is an introduction to the God who already loves them.”
Don’t keep this week to yourself. When God whispers, say yes. 🙌
