- The soul of man is the most valuable treasure to God on earth
- He will pay anyone just anything in return.
- Just anything that money cannot buy. You can’t use money to buy a husband or buy a wife.
- Many shall enjoy multiple change of levels this year by raw encounters with God’s favour.
- As a Ministry, we pant after souls: yet we have never recorded lack and want; debts and weights and burdens.
Let’s one more time be reminded that there are no private revelations in the Kingdom (Mark 13:37). There are also no private testimonies, therefore don’t be slothful but followers of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. There are no private testimonies, any act of God in any believer is available to any other believer who cares for it. Every testimony points you and me to our heritage in Christ. There are no private revelations and there are no private testimonies, it is your year: 2021 IS YOUR YEAR, THIS YEAR IS YOUR YEAR.
Let me say this, that will help you: Whatever the Lord doeth, it shall be forever (Ecclesiastes 3:14). When God lifts you and you remain rooted in your Lifter that led to your lifting, it is FOREVER.
What man does is temporal but what God does is eternal, it is forever as long as you abide in Him and His Word abides in you; what brought you up, you stay true to it, He is committed by His integrity to keep it forever.
*You will never know a downward trend anymore in your life.
There is this parable of Jesus in Matthew chapter 13 verse 44. I believe soul winning is one of those hidden treasures in the Kingdom that is worthy of any level of investment. It is the principal work of the Father on the earth (John 4:34). The work of reaching out to the lost, bringing them into the Kingdom. That is His work, that is what Jesus said.
That is the Father’s core business on the earth, “I must work the works of Him that sent Me while it is day because the night comes where no man can work”: the work of reaping the harvest into the Kingdom (John 9:4).
It cost the Father His only begotten Son to show that it is His core business on the earth (John 3:16).
SOUL WINNING: A HIDDEN TREASURE OF THE KINGDOM
“For the joy of it, he goes and sells all that he has and buys into it” (Matthew 13:44) – You heard that testimony of a man and his wife (documented testimony). The man went this way, the wife went that way: 49 souls for Jesus, 20 souls in Church; 15 souls for Jesus, 9 of them established in Church and Heavens opened up. Meant to be sacked, God sacked the Board to preserve His own: You will always win favour with God when you are on course with His core assignment.
These are real life stories, they are not fictions, they are not fables, they are not illustrations: they are raw encounters and testimonies of change of stories; God has not changed.
Soul Winning, a hidden treasure of the Kingdom. How?
The soul of man is the most valuable treasure to God on earth and He will pay anyone just anything in return.
How is it the most valuable asset to God or treasure to God on earth? A soul is worth much more than all the treasures of the earth put together, we need to understand that (Matthew 16:26).
“If he shall gain the Whole world and lose his own soul?” – one soul; that’s how valuable the soul of a man is to God.
“There is joy in Heaven over one soul that repents” (Luke 15:4-7). Heaven will go agog over one sinner that repents, more than over 99 just persons which need no repentance. There is joy in Heaven. It is a riot of praise in Heaven over one soul: that is how valuable the soul of man is to God.
He will pay just anything: He who did not spare His own Son but delivered Him for us all…how much more shall He not give us freely ALL Things (Romans 8:32). Church Gist When you get someone into Christ, God said, I will freely give you All things, anything. All these things shall be added to you I tell you (Matthew 6:33).
People don’t know what is in what they are doing, that’s why they get weary too soon. They think it is one game so the Church can grow: No, it is for your life to have meaning, it’s for my life to have meaning. It is just for you and just for me. Look at those testimonies: are they testimonies of the Church? No, they are the testimonies of individuals.
I wondered if life was all about confusion, frustration, stagnation, but when I came in here and I heard the Word, I decided to engage (documented testimony). When I went out, ministering to people with a pure heart, here was I face to face with the person I was going to marry. Then the siege ended.
Just anything that money cannot buy. You can’t use money to buy a husband or buy a wife; you obtain favour from God (Proverbs 18:22). When you engage with the heartbeat of God, you will become a candidate for supernatural favour that covers all areas of life. One encounter with favour is worth much more than a lifetime of labour: just one encounter with Heaven’s favour is worth much more than a lifetime of labour.
*Many shall enjoy multiple change of levels this year by raw encounters with God’s favour.
Passionate pursuit after souls bring believers into favour with God.
“You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen and I have ordained you that you should go forth and bring forth fruit…that WHATSOEVER you ask the Father in my name, He will give it to you” (John 15:16).
You have now been brought into favour with God by going after souls, reaping them into the Kingdom and ensure that they abide. You are brought into favour. Fearful favour is what comes the way of those who favour Heaven’s agenda on the earth to see souls saved (Psalm 102:13-15).
Zion is the Church, the Church is God’s Kingdom on the earth. So you favour the advancement of Zion, God brings you into realms of fearful favour, favour that the world will (exclaim), “Heh heh, what is going on there?”
That’s the kind of favour you are walking into.
God will add to us everything that others are dying to get when we are in pursuit of the salvation of souls. He will add to us: “when I sent you without purse or scrip, lack ye anything?” They said nothing (Luke 22:35).
Being on the Mission for Christ brings you out of every lack and want.
Being out on the Mission for the salvation of souls, delivers from all forms of lack and want.
Your life will not be hanging on any man, just favour from God opening chapters and new chapters to your life. That will be your experience.
I have told you before, look at this Church:
It has no one man, by any name under Heaven that, “thank God if these fellows were not here.”
Has never referred to any man for any aid.
We are simply saying, “God save them; God heal them; God set them free; God preserve them” and every other thing is coming direct from Heaven.
The same way He deals with institutions, He deals with persons: when He gives peace, who can make trouble, whether it be done against a nation or against an individual (Job 34:29). The way He deals with organizations, deals with institutions, is the same way He deals with persons. Church Gist
Just watch how this Ministry is not panting after things but panting after God and the interest of His Kingdom for 40 years in May (2021); yet has not recorded lack and want; debts and weights and burdens.
Many people in this Commission today and outside this Commission who are trading this secret are sharing the same testimony.
*You are the next in line!!
In case you don’t believe my testimony, you are in this Church and we gave you 8 different intercessory prayer guidelines, now show me which one is saying, “God, come and build this project; God, come and do this.” We have been doing that before you came, it’s not that when you came, we now adjusted! If you check our prayer point when we were 2, it is the same; when we were 10, it is the same; when we were 10, it was the same.
*Nobody serves God at a loss: IT IS YOUR YEAR!!! God will make you a showpiece to your world. It is your year.
“Seek ye first” (Matthew 6:33). Not just ‘Seek Ye’, ‘Seek Ye First’: let it become a priority of your life. SEEK YE FIRST.
Not once in a while: Not when you are looking for miracle; you got one and you run away. Then the miracle flees.
SEEK YE FIRST
“You know, God used to bless me”
When? When you used to serve Him. When you stop serving Him, the blessings stop. You don’t keep getting salary when you stop serving, it stops.
*May God’s blessings never stop in your life.
Daniel 12:3
When He says, “Be not slothful”, it means nobody gets anything out of life dragging about (Hebrews 6:12). There is nothing in doing nothing. Doing the right thing keeps things going, gives meaning to life, gives colour to life.
*It is your turn!
Prayer: Ask God for grace and passion to be part of this awesome move of the Spirit. Passion to pursue after souls. Passion to pray for souls to be saved. Passion to bring souls into the Kingdom.
Pray with words, don’t mutter words. Pray in the Spirit.
I don’t want to be an onlooker; I refuse to be an onlooker. Help me Jesus, keep your passion burning in my soul towards the unsaved. Engrace me with the spirit of dedication all through the days of my life.
SPEAK TO THE WEEK
It is our Operation Andrew Week: You are bringing someone to Jesus, at least one soul. Lord give me at least one soul that will abide in your house forever.
Matthew 13:1-9
If you need one (soul): go for four. You want one (soul), what do you do? Go for four, one must fall into good ground.
You need 2 souls, go for 8: that is the way it works.
One by the roadside: “have you people finished? Thank you.”
You want me to pray? Yes. Oh Lord Jesus save me
As soon as you left (he hisses): he thought I gave my life to Christ.
That is by the wayside!
Some among thorns: “What will give my life to Christ do now? My business is down! The children are hanging around, they can’t go to school. Is that salvation that will now bring me school fees? I am not doing”
Some on the rock: Deceitfulness of riches; “I need money. I don’t care what you are giving me. I need money”
Do you need healing?
Response: I said, I need money
You need protection?
Response: I said, I need money. Money!!!
Deceitfulness of riches choke their lives off and when you see a man say, “I need money”, he will steal anything from anywhere. If he gives you a lift and you forget your purse in his car, that is the end, he sees it as the blessing of God.
One must fall on the good ground: somebody will leave you and say, “I thank God for today, see me, my life has taken a new turn at last.”
So you need one (soul), go for four (souls). That is the parable of the sower and then you establish at least one into His Kingdom.
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