Lift your hands and give praise to God this morning for these awesome testimonies. They’re the doings of the Lord, they’re marvelous in our eyes.
Lift your voice, give Him praise. Bless His name, He’s worthy of praise. Celebrate Him, this can only be God. Father we thank You. We honour You Lord. Blessed be Your name.
Thank Him for answers to your prayers also. You have not prayed in vain, you have not prayed into storage. You have not called the seed of Jacob to seek Him in vain. You have cried unto Him, He has heard you and He has answered you, granted you your petitions. Thank Him from the depth of your heart. Do it with faith. Don’t mutter your words, give thanks.
Now begin to ask Him to speak to you this morning. Lord speak to me again. Speak to me this morning by Your Word. Blessed be Your holy name in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Father in the name of Jesus we thank You today for this opportunity you have given to us to stand in Your presence. We thank for the answers You have given to all our prayers. We thank You for the testimonies of Your mighty works in our midst. We give You all the praise. This morning our eyes are upon You, speak to us again, by Your Word let everyone be changed and transformed, we give You the praise and glory in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Our line of exhortation for this week is
NO CHURCH GROWS WITHOUT A PEOPLE ON THE GO
According to Scriptures it is clear that the priority of God is the building of His Church.
Matthew 16:18
Revelation 11:15
We also discover that the fundamental purpose of any revival is for the ingathering of souls into the Church.
God’s Word makes it clear to us in
Zechariah 2:4
The growth of the Church demands that people be on the go.
God’s Word declares in
1st Corinthians 3:6-9
According to Scriptures there is a demand on man in order to see souls drafted into the Church.
Luke 14:23
So there is a man part in the advancement of the Kingdom of God and it requires that men are on the go.
Now in the natural the sales of any product will stop where it’s marketing stops.
Mark 5:18-21
I want you to think about it, when the Bible says we were waiting for His arrival, there was no flier, there was no email, there was no phone. So it means they had been waiting since they heard. It wasn’t just that day. Church Gist.By the announcement that went out, the multitudes kept looking out for Him because of his publishing of it. The Bible says that all of their rejection was turned around for anticipation.
So in other words if we’re going to see the influx that God has ordained then you and I have a duty like that man to go and publish it everywhere.
John 4:19
She simply went marketing it everywhere.
Clearly our advertising of Christ determines the reception. Just like in the physical, any product will go as far as the marketing goes but the advertising of Christ also determines the acceptance that people have for Him.
One of the greatest brands in the world is Coca-Cola. It’s simply a drink that in most simplified terms is sugar and water but people have marketed it so well that there is no nation where there is no Coca-Cola and there is no place where there is no market for it. People are buying it on a daily basis because it is marketed appropriately.
Now we are marketing a profitable product and that is Jesus Christ. So we have a duty to ensure that everywhere, He’s published.
Matthew 16:15
Market me everywhere. That’s our assignment. So every child of God is a Kingdom marketer and we must go with that perspective that we have a profitable product that must be made available to everyone we come across. Don’t forget, He’s not willing that anyone should perish but that all should come to repentance, that is the intention of God but the duty of man is to publish it abroad.
Mark 1:40-42
He marketed Him, he placed it abroad and people began to come to Him from every quarter. He was not in the city but in the desert but they came to Him from every quarter. Church Gist.So it means that the quality of our marketing determines the potency of our results. This man marketed Jesus in such passionate and quality manner that they came to Him from every quarter, from near, from far, from the city, from the towns, from the villages, they began to flow in to meet with Jesus. That’s the task that Jesus has given to you and to me, to be Kingdom marketers.
The word blaze is a word that is associated with fire and you know if fire is not controlled it will keep flowing. So in other words, this man was a man on fire and as a result of being on fire, he could not be controlled. Everywhere he went, he was touching people with his testimony, “Come and see the man that cleansed me from leprosy, come and see the man that changed my story”. That is what Jesus is sending you and I to do.
The truth is this our lives alone are sufficient testimonies to share. We can place abroad the matter, we can advertise everywhere. That is our assignment.
- My prayer today is that the necessary zeal like the one that this man had, I pray that it will come afresh upon you.
As we conclude this morning, we must take note of this that we cannot experience supernatural growth without engaging the Holy Spirit who is the Lord of the harvest on the altar of prayer. We cannot experience supernatural Church growth without engaging the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 9:38
The Lord of the harvest is the Holy Ghost and we engage the Holy Ghost through prayer.
Matthew 4:29
According to Scriptures the Holy Spirit is the Lord of the harvest and we must engage Him on the altar of prayer and it is when we engage the Holy Ghost that we are able to begin to experience supernatural Church growth. So the growth of the Church is at the mercy of our engagement on the prayer altar. Church Gist.What that means is that it’s not enough to be on the go, we must also ensure that we are on our knees. It is the combination of prayer and going that brings results.
Remember according to God’s Word the heart of the king is in the heart of the Lord and He can turn it anyway that He wills but the altar of prayer is where we engage the Holy Ghost who touches the hearts of men because it is conviction that gives birth to conversion and it’s that conviction that the Holy Ghost will bring. So we must engage Him through prayer and as we do so we begin to see the Church grow from grace to grace and from glory to glory.
Therefore what God is saying to you and to me is simple. We’re Kingdom marketers but we have a bank of empowerment and that is the Holy Ghost. We’re Kingdom marketers. We must must ensure that we must keep taking empowerment from the Spirit of God to ensure that our marketing efforts are continuously productive.
None of us will fail in this assignment in the name of Jesus Christ.
Lord I receive grace, the same grace you gave to these individuals that made them effective, marketing the gospel, I receive that grace. The grace to publish it much, the grace to blaze abroad the matter in order to take territories for you. Lord I receive it.
I take delivery of that grace right now, this morning I take delivery of it. Lift your voice and lift your hands and begin to thank Him for the outpouring of that grace. Thank You Father, thank You Lord. Blessed be your name in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
We are far more advantaged than those that we have seen their examples in the Scriptures. The man who was blazing it abroad had no flier, had no tract but he was effective. The man who Jesus said tell your friends, he didn’t just tell his friends, ten cities were covered by him. The Samaritan woman left her pot, had nothing to show to anybody but kept telling them “come and see”. We have our mouth,our testimonies, our fliers, our tracts what will be our excuse? No one here will fail in this assignment in the name of Jesus.
Too many advantages. None of the three of them had the Holy Ghost, we have the Holy Ghost so why is there a reason to fail? You will not fail. It shall be so in the name of Jesus.
- Each one of us will carry bountiful harvest in the name of Jesus Christ.
Another day is here, speak to the day, make your decrees, make your declarations, whatever you see concerning the day is what God will deliver therefore speak right now to the day. You shall decree a thing and it shall be established. Thank You Jesus. Blessed be Your name in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
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