The soul winning field is one of those treasures that the Kingdom of God makes available to us and we have been trying to find out what and what makes soul winning a treasure indeed.
What are the returns on soul winning that makes it such a treasure? Remember also in Matthew 16:26, the value God places on souls and it’s interesting because in John 3:16, He gave His only begotten son to save the World, that’s how much value, He has for the souls of mankind. So, He will pay anything to any man that is in partnership with Him for the salvation of mankind. He wants all men saved and come to the knowledge of the truth which is made available in Church (1 Timothy 2:4).
TREASURABLE RETURNS FROM SOUL WINNING
1. Every dedicated and fruitful soul winner supernaturally ends up a star in his endeavours. We saw Peter, a fisher of men. We saw Jesus ask him a question: do you love me more than this (John 21:15-17). Peter became an immovable mountain, he stood when the Holy Ghost came and 3,000 people turned their lives to Christ. The fisher of men just began to manifest.
Every time: Peter, James and John. He replicated Jesus bodily. He saw how Jesus brought out Jairus’ daughter from the dead, he brought Dorcas back to life after the same manner: he put everybody out and said, “Dorcas, come back.” (Acts 9:40)
What made Jesus a bright and morning star?
Revelation 22:16, John 18:37
…bearing witness to the truth made Jesus a King. Pilate was upset because he thought he was going to rule in the land. Eternal King who is coming back to reign a thousand years, whether you don’t want it or not, they don’t have to vote for Him, He is just coming back. He’s landing here and to reign for one thousand years. After that, anybody who doesn’t know the truth pays eternal price.
To bear witness makes a king. Don’t you see how simple that is (Proverbs 11:30, Proverbs 8:15-16). That’s how soul winning makes stars.
In Daniel 12:3, which we all know in this place, makes stars of ordinary people.
Paul even said, “I am not worthy to be called an Apostle because I persecuted the Church beyond measure,” but grace found him like it found you and me; he went wild for Jesus (1 Corinthians 15:9, 1 Corinthians 9:16, Romans 1:16).
After the impotent man was healed, …”they lifted up their voices,…the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men” (Acts 14:8-11). So, I see an army of stars in this Commission globally including our online worshippers.
An army of stars rising on the platform of soul winning, not ‘Churchism’, but going after souls with the passion of Jesus. You may not look like anything now but He is making something extraordinary out of your life.
He is making something extraordinary out of your life!
…and a child shall lead them.
At the age of 12, Jesus went with Mary and Joseph to Jerusalem, His mission was speaking as early as 12 (Luke 2:42, 46-47). Please allow your sons and daughters to connect, you can’t believe on their behalf. After they are 20, anything that comes out of them is their making. There is no risk in serving God, there is only risk in ignoring God.
At the age of 19, I saw God gave me grace to reach out to those village people and at the completion of my time with them, they gave me a prophetic lantern, a bush lamp, that’s all they could afford and said: “May the light you brought to our village shine round the world.”
I was on my way to being 19, I wasn’t 19 then, I was 18+. So, I received a prophetic global ministry at that age.
You can’t protect anybody, only God who neither sleeps nor slumbers can protect people.
We saw here a little boy in Secondary School who went about distributing 98 tracts and jumped levels from a very poor performance in Mathematics to securing an A.
We saw Matthew Gold, at 19, went after souls into a dying cell and the cell grew to 43. Now, God lifted him: somebody who could not afford money, his parents could not afford money to buy JAMB form; he is studying in the US today on scholarship. Not 10 years after, 3 months after. God visited him.
Somebody is going to be visited. That’s how much treasure is loaded in soul winning.
Paul, a new testament star, who lived in new testament days said, “by the help of God, I continued to this day, WITNESSING to both great and small…” (Acts 26:22)
– Witnessing to kings, witnessing to peasants
– Witnessing to the rich and witnessing to the poor
Every soul carries equal worth in the sight of God. The soul of the hawker and the man that sits in the ivory tower weighs the same (Ezekiel 18:4).
If the rich won’t listen to you, talk to the poor.
If the men of intelligence won’t listen to you, talk to the ordinary man on the streets.
Talk to the hawkers, they carry the image of God, there is a treasure in them.
You don’t need a calling! I didn’t have any calling, no calling at all in 1973, I just had a heart for God. You can’t be in love with God and not be a wonder to your world.
Your children will command greater honour, greater glory, greater authority than you do all the days of your life!
2. Soul winning confers honour on every believer (John 15: 8). Remember, in the multitude of people is the king’s honour (Proverbs 14:28). When you are a part of bringing multitudes to Him, you are entitled to honour from Him. Dedication is required to bear much fruit (John 12:24). You can’t bring much fruit casually, it’s by dedication that you bring forth much fruit (John 12:26).
God speaking to the Winners’ family prophetically, 15th of July 1996, said, “raise with me a people of honour, a people of attraction, a people to be envied and by them, I will storm the world.”
God is saying, “I’m raising them to be part of my agenda for shaking the world”
God is going to be visiting the end time Church with such tremendous wealth because it is required for shaking all nations.
The silver is mine, the gold is mine, I am looking for who to channel them through (Haggai 2:8).
Someone will just show up and say, “I have 3 of the Churches in Madagascar to build”
You say How?
Response: As I was landing in that country for my business, the Lord just spoke to me.
Someone will say: I know we have a lot of Churches out there in the US, can I have 10 of them to build, 10 to buy, anyhow
Okay, we have thousands of village Churches, can I have a thousand to build?
Because of where he has reached. That’s why the greater your Kingdom dream, the greater your future.
People of honour are rising, an army of them is rising from this platform and that includes you.
Everyone hearing me today, you are ordained by God’s agenda for this Commission:
– To emerge a man and a woman of honour;
– To emerge a man and a woman of attraction;
– To emerge as a channel for Heaven’s resources.
Remember, He that honours me, I will honour (1 Samuel 2:30).
I’ve shared this before: when you are on a presidential convoy, every honour that accrues to the President accrues to you. No traffic Police man can stop you. As they are waving to him, they are waving to you even though they don’t like you.
When you are on a soul winning endeavour, you are in the company of the King of kings, the Lord of lords and His name is called the King of Glory. So every honour that accrues to Him, rubs off on you because you are in His convoy (Matthew 28:20).
So whosoever touches you, touches the apple of his eye (Zechariah 2:8). That’s the honour and dignity that accompanies every fruitful and dedicated soul winner. It comes naturally, it comes on its own. You will never suffer shame anymore all the days of your life in the name of Jesus Christ.
Jesus and Paul were in the same class (Acts 19:15, Acts 27:24). Every witness has God’s presence with him and that bestows honour on him. You will never suffer shame and reproach in your life.
3. Soul winning secures a crown for us in heaven. Jesus called 12, 1 fell away (Luke 22:28)
What is the errand? Mark 3:14
You have continued with that assignment in spite of how tasking it has been, I will appoint to you a kingdom, sit on thrones in heaven, judging the 12 tribes of Israel (Luke 22:29-30). I believed Judas missed his crown and Paul, the Apostle took it, not Barnabas.
Anyone on an errand for Jesus consistently and fruitfully is securing a crown for himself in heaven (1 Corinthians 15:8).
2 Timothy 4:5-8, Matthew 24:14 – all those who are driven by that prophetic agenda, they have secured for themselves a crown of righteousness in heaven.
You won’t miss your crown, hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown (Revelation 3:11), just like Judas lost to Paul.
Every prophetic agenda comes along with responsibility, awesome responsibility.
The good news is, God is all out to distinguish you and this is one of the great platforms that God uses to distinguish people. The more committed you are to His cause, is what determines how you distinguished you will become on high (1 Corinthians 2:9).
How many can see that soul winning is indeed a hidden treasure? Among other things, He said, the number of your days, I will fulfill (Exodus 23:26). You are serving Him, you are entitled to a good old age, that’s you and that’s your portion. That’s where you are going.
Receive fresh grace to engage in soul winning endeavours as your new lifestyle, seeing the need for people to be saved, seeing the need for people to be rescued from the oppression of the devil, praying for souls to be saved, following them up after they are saved, bringing them to Church for their establishment.
Grace to keep serving God and the interest of His Kingdom with your time, energy and resources as your new lifestyle.
Pray for a new zeal for your sons and daughters, your children. New zeal for the Lord. None of them will break your heart, none of them will miss out on God.
Well, we are just about the last week: next Saturday is the last day and then Sunday is our bumper harvest service.
Grace to make the most of this one week remaining, come on now, go ahead and receive it. Receive it now!
Grace to make the most of this one week remaining in praying Kingdom Advancement Prayers, praying for souls to be saved, praying for the saved to be established in the faith, reaching out in love and passion to the unsaved around you and to everyone you might have on your list. Receive that grace.
In Jesus precious name, we have prayed.
I must tell you this, every simple truth carries tremendous power. The greatest asset in soul winning is wisdom. Just to know what to do per time, it’s such an asset. By asking sincerely: there must be a better way of doing this.
Jesus, show me a better way of doing this.
To the glory of God, this week in our 4-day outreach:
– 825 on Tuesday
– 1123 on Wednesday
– 1074 on Thursday
– 1109 on Friday
Making 4,131. In all my life, I have never seen that but He showed the way to go. He gave the devil the shocker of his life.
Now, I know that by asking more, we will soon get 10,000 in a week.
Strategy: accessing Heaven’s wisdom puts you on top in any engagement.
I pray that no one will end this one week ordinarily. There is nothing extraordinary on its own, it is man’s extraordinary input that makes it so.
In the name of the Lord Jesus
What is 7? No
We are 15 in our team. Jesus, the wisdom and the power of God: knows the way forward anytime, He knows the way forward any day.
You are ending this season of revival in your new status.
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