Love this twitter from Derek re: discipleship.........To lead every person into a journey of discovering God, hearing his voice, and adjusting his or her life according to the scriptures ...
course I love he and his wife, their hearts for You....over in SA mentoring young Khosa men and women into lives about You so they can lead their villages into the same. It is so freakin exciting to read about their journey's...to know that their hearts are so sold out for you they are living in extreme circumstances in a 'saved' territory leading them deeper into seeking who YOU are, into full a blown relationship with Christ, with the God of the universe...to be led by Your Spirit...Your Word ....it seems exciting there and here.....I so yearn to give exactly that.....to walk with people into seeking You with their whole hearts, minds and souls.....

so this verse this morning....I loved it and while I want to stick in the whole of Romans 9 this one in the message translation excites me no end....

Isaiah maintained this same emphasis:

If each grain of sand on the seashore were numbered

and the sum labeled "chosen of God,"

They'd be numbers still, not names;

salvation comes by personal selection.

God doesn't count us; he calls us by name.

Arithmetic is not his focus.