- All the glory must be to God (for 52 years of walking with Jesus)!
- The same Grace will take you there, to where God has ordained for you.
- Ask God for grace to be an active believer. Refuse to be docile.
SOUL WINNING: A HIDDEN TREASURE OF THE KNIGDOM.
We call it treasure because of its amazing valuables that it brings our way. For instance, “He that wins souls is wise”, so soul winning brightens you up, charges your faculty, makes you brighter (Proverbs 11:30). The reason why is “He that walks with the wise shall be wise” (Proverbs 13:20).
Every time you are on the Go for Jesus, He goes with you (Matthew 28:20). You can’t engage with Jesus in truth and in deed and not be smart. He ‘smartens’ us up.
Those fellows were with Jesus for three and half years, they couldn’t believe they were ignorant and unlearned men. Their being around Jesus just stirred up their intellect, they became wiser than their peers because they were walking with the Wisdom and the Power of God, Jesus.
When we are on the Go for Jesus, we are in partnership with Him and we get smarter by the day. Money can’t buy that. Education can’t buy you the wisdom that Jesus freely offers you. They call it, ‘the Wisdom from above’, not available in the land of the living, no matter the level of the school of knowledge you go.
Well, we are going to see the manifold wisdom of God in manifestation in this end-time, like never before. People will just be trading the secrets of God to scale the utmost heights in life.
Job had nothing to himself other than the secrets of God at work in him.
Daniel got to his place by access to the secrets of God (Daniel 2:19).
Joseph got to the throne by the wisdom of God. “For God to have shown you all these, there is no one in your class. Take over this land.”
That is one of the amazing benefits that accrue to us in soul winning. You are walking with Jesus and you are brighter by the day!
We cannot claim to be in love with God if we do not love what He loves the most and when we do, He manifests Himself to us.
God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, to rescue the world from perishing (John 3:16).
“Do you love Me?” He said to Peter; I do. Okay, prove it, go after my lambs, the young ones (John 21:15).
“Do you really love Me?” I do. Go after my sheep: the adults, young adults (John 21:16-17).
“Do you really love Me?” I do. Go after the full-grown adults and the old, to prove that you do.
Whosoever has my commandments and keeps it, he is the one that loves Me; if you love Me, my Father will love you and I will manifest myself to you (John 14:21).
It will be fake to prove to love God without a heart for what that your God loves the most. In many professions, we talk about active ones and dormant ones. Church Gist How actively you engage in your field is what makes you an active professional!
Grace to remain active in this core purpose of your calling, core purpose of your redemption.
You have not chosen Me, He said, but I have chosen you and I have ordained you: he is talking to every believer (John 15:16).
Core purpose: ambassadors for Christ, reconciling the world back to God (2 Corinthians 5:20). Every child of God has a ministry of reconciliation given to us by our Father.
Among other things, soul winning confers boldness that empower believers for triumphant living. Soul winning confers boldness on believers. When they saw the boldness of Peter and John, knowing they were ignorant and unlearned men, they took knowledge of them that they had been with Christ (Acts 4:13).
You grow in spiritual boldness as you get on the Go for Jesus.
They said, “let’s threaten them.”
They (Peter and John) said, “we are unthreatenable. You judge whether to listen to you or to obey God. But as for us, we cannot but speak those things that we have heard and that we have seen”
What does that do? It puts you in command of the supernatural. They were speaking boldly in the Lord (Acts 14:3).
Again, another outstanding valuable that accrues to us in soul winning: spiritual boldness that puts you in command of the supernatural at will. Church Gist
Soul winning is a covenant platform for the rise of giants:
Paul, an outstanding Apostle said, “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes” (Romans 1:16).
“Woe is me if I preach not the gospel” (1 Corinthians 9:16).
There is no questioning the fact that he was an outstanding Kingdom personality for all ages.
Hear his testimony: Acts 26:22
“Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come”
Witnessing: “Hello, Jesus loves you.”
Great and small: the lamb, the sheep and the old sheep.
So that devil said, “Jesus I know and Paul I know, we don’t toy around with them but who are you?” (Acts 19:15).
Even the devil knew that Paul was not just a main believer. He was an Apostle but witnessing to both great and small. That man was a Pope but witnessing to both great and small: “till this day” (Acts 26:22).
So he testified, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course…henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness…” (2 Timothy 4:7-8).
Paul wasn’t just getting to Heaven, he saw the crown waiting for him.
Soul winning is a covenant platform for the rise of stars and giants in the Kingdom (Daniel 12:3).
Not temporal stars: stars forever and ever.
*There are many names today, under the sound of my voice around the nations of the earth where you are connected to this Covenant Hour of Prayer, whose names will still be speaking when Jesus returns. Amen.
Maybe next year, maybe this year, maybe a hundred years’ time, a thousand years’ time because one day before the Lord is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.
“I come quickly”: we are still waiting.
*There are names here, like Paul’s name that will be here on earth causing waves whenever Jesus comes.
- May you be listed as one of them.
Let me say this: please ask God for grace to be an active believer. Refuse to be docile. It is to your advantage. It is not to the advantage of any Church, it is to your advantage. Church Gist
May the same grace that has helped me to this point, which I am still looking forth to help me the next 52 years if Jesus tarries; may that grace come upon each and everyone of us today. Amen.
Prayer: Grace to remain excitedly committed to Kingdom Advancement endeavours with utmost delight. Receive it.
Don’t try to impress anybody around you. Work at earning Heaven’s commendation in your engagement. Whenever God commends a man, a woman, He changes their level: well done, good and faithful servant. Now have thou authority over 10 cities. Heaven’s commendation changes men’s position.
Lord, grace to earn your commendation in this highly prophetic year. Pray in the Spirit, pray in your understanding.
This thing works. The tiniest seed when it is truly dedicated to God becomes a giant tree.
No guess work, no trial by error. This thing works any day, anytime, anywhere. Let’s stop playing religion, let’s face reality.
Ask God for grace. Paul obtained grace. It is not the anointing on him, it is the grace of God that came upon his life.
Lord, I desire the kind of grace that you gave to Paul the Apostle who continued to the end, witnessing to both great and small. No playing games. Help me Jesus.
Somebody is praying from the depth of your heart. Thank You Father. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Next Sunday (21st February 2021) is our Operation Andrew Sunday. The 3rd Sunday of every month is our Harvest Sunday in this Church worldwide.
Prayer: Lord, help me to be a partaker of Next Sunday’s Harvest. Help me to bring at least one soul to your Kingdom with utmost delight in the name of Jesus. I must not come down empty this coming Sunday!!!
Pray for grace to take the appropriate steps to make it happen. I refuse to be docile, I refuse to be dormant. Grace to make it happen. I must not miss my prophetic package in this awesome year of entering into my Promised Land. So help me Jesus, thank You Father.
We will be holding our first special Miracle Service on Sunday:
Prayer: Let no one that comes to Jesus in that Service return without their own miracle in their hands.
They prayed and God answered.
In the name of Jesus, this coming Sunday, no one attends that special Miracle Service without their miracle in their hands.
All the glory must be to the Lord. For He is worthy of our praise. No man on earth should give glory to himself. All the glory must be to the Lord.
We have been singing this song all the time but help me sing this song on my behalf because I don’t know how I got here. I can’t tell how I got here. Grace brought me here.
I can’t tell how I got here but Grace brought me here and the same Grace will take you there, to where God has ordained for you.
Fliers: “Oh Lord, let your fresh breath, Holy Spirit breathe upon these materials afresh and let them bring about massive convictions and conversion; massive ingathering of souls into the Kingdom and into this Church this coming Sunday in Jesus precious name.”
*Whatever has been pursuing you to make life burdensome, unbearable in any area of life, by divine vengeance, they will give up next Sunday.
By divine vengeance, they will all give up next Sunday.
SPEAK TO THE DAY
Today will open up to you: It will be a most fulfilling day, a most enriching day, a most empowering day.
Call the day, the name you want it to bear. Call it forth.
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