Lift your hands this morning and let’s glorify God for those awesome testimonies, they’re the hand of God in our midst. Let’s give Him the praise that is due unto Him.
He is worthy of all the glory, He is worthy of all the honour and all adoration belongs to Him. Give Him thanks and praise this morning. Celebrate Him from the depth of your heart. Lord we thank You, we bless Your name.
Will you also thank Him for the answers He has given to your prayers. You have not prayed in vain but God has heard and answered you and granted your petitions. Lord we have come to say thank You.
Now begin to ask Him to speak to you this morning. Lord we have come to hear from You today. It’s Your voice we have come to hear Lord. Speak to us today directly by Your Word. Thank You mighty God in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Our Father this morning we thank You for the awesome testimonies we have heard. They are clearly Your doing and they are marvelous in our eyes. We give You all the praise. For the answers You have given to our prayers we say thank You. Again we are before You asking that You will speak to us again, by Your Word let everyone of us be transformed. We give You the praise and the glory for it in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
From Scriptures we are meant to understand that we must continue to take up the names of our new converts in prayer so as to secure their establishment in the faith.
Romans 1:8-10
We see the necessity of continuing to stand on the altar of prayer for every one of our new converts.
Matthew 12:43-45
We have a responsibility to continue to engage. Infact we are told that we must continue to travail over every one of our new converts until Christ is formed in them.
Galatians 4:19
So there is the travail for birth and there is the travail for their establishment. The testimony we heard this morning is very instructive. That family, the woman engaged on the altar of prayer for the soul of her husband. And the man woke up, dressed up, entered into the car, the one who will not hear anything about Church before and said drive Mee to Canaanland. Got to Canaanland, surrendered his life to Christ and has not stopped testifying of the hand of God upon His life because of the reason of her engagement on the altar of prayer.
Colossians 4:12
There is the need to engage the altar of prayer. What this goes on to show us is that we must have a warfare mentality in order to fully discover God’s expectation particularly in this ongoing season of operation who is on the Lord’s side.
I see each one of us today receiving grace for this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The reason is simple. Soul winning is not playfare, it is warfare.
Luke 11:21-22
The devil can be referred to as a strong man. But you and I must engage with the weapons of the stronger man in order to disarm the strong man and take him off his captives.
That is why we must understand that when we talk about soul winning, it is warfare and all through this week we are going to be looking at these lines of exhortation captioned
SOUL WINNING IS WARFARE
The good news is that we are winning that war. Say a loud amen.
Matthew 12:12
So there is the engagement of force in order to take delivery of the harvest that God has ordained for us. Let’s take note of this this. God has given the Church the entire harvest field of the world.
Matthew 28:18-20
Take note of this very clearly. So there is no territory that is outside the domain of God’s harvest field for us.
Mark 15:15-16
He has given us all the world as our harvest field.
But there are adversaries to contend with.
1st Corinthians 16:9
So we have the whole world given to us as our harvest field but we have the adversaries that are seeking to resist our advancement.
Deuteronomy 2:24
Clearly from Scriptures we are made to understand that there is a contention required because there is a resistance raised by the enemy. Each one of us must understand that as we engage this resistance with the forces of the Spirit we are sure to win that battle supernaturally.
The gates of hell are ever all out against the growth of the Church. Therefore it requires the combined forces of faith, prayer and fasting to dislodge them. That’s how we fight. We don’t fight in the flesh.
2nd Corinthians 10:3-4
So we engage with weapons that are not physical and part of our amory are these three combined forces of faith, prayer and fasting.
Matthew 16:18
So they will attempt to resist but they cannot prevail. What we engage to dislodge them are those three combined forces.
Matthew 17:19-21
So Jesus was saying your faith is required but it must be combined with prayer and fasting. The three forces put together will dislodge any satanic resistance. So the moment we engage the combination of those three forces every satanic manipulation is paralysed. We saw it in that testimony, a man who was so hostile, to the point that he has already chased the family away. It was by engagement that the family was brought back into the house. It was by engagement the man on his own volition, satanic manipulation taken off his eyes and arrived in the Church, surrendered to Christ and not only became a child of God but became a testifying believer. Continuously testifying of the hand of God because of the combination of the three forces. There is nothing the enemy can do when the three are combined. It dislodges his forces.
I see that for each one of us as we engage these forces in this season, every satanic manipulation, against any one of our target or anyone of our converts shall be paralysed in the name of Jesus.
Everyone that we reach out to shall be established in faith and in this Church.
So what you and I need is simple. We need grace to remain fervent in Spirit, engaging on the altar of prayer, engaging in fasting, engaging our faith in order to see the harvest, not only that but established in the faith. Don’t forget, God has made us for this particular reason that we go and bring forth fruits.
For each one of us our fruit will not only be brought in but they shall abide.
Rise on your feet with me, lift your hands and your voice and receive grace from Him right now. Lord I receive grace from You this morning, grace to remain fervent in the Spirit, grace to remain fervent in the faith, in prayer, in fasting. I receive that grace this morning.
Lift your voice and pray that prayer from the depth of your heart. Lord I receive that grace this morning. Thank You Father for in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
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