You want to share it with every person you know and every person you meet. The following is the true principle that God does the work we cannot fail it is all God’s work;
i. By grace you are saved through faith and this is not from yourselves, it is God’s gift.
ii. I was with you in weakness, in fear and in much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words of wisdom but with a demonstration of the spirit and power.
iii. Will my words be which goes out of my mouth? It will not return to me empty.
How to use the scripture
i. Hearing
Faith comes from what is heard and what is heard comes through the message about Christ. God uses this hearing of His word in a dynamic way.
ii. Question:-
Remember:-
§ The non-believer will be doing the talking, listening in a way that he or she will want to talk
§ The Holy Spirit will be doing the convincing
§ God’s word will bring conviction
Follow the three steps
1. a) Do you have any kind of spiritual belief?
b) Do you know who Jesus is?
c) Do you believe there is Heaven and Hell?
2 a) Are you a sinner
b) Do you want forgiveness for your sins?
c) Are you willing to surrender your life to Christ?
d) Are you ready to invite Jesus into your heart and into your life?
Prayer
Heavenly Father, I have sinned against you. I want forgiveness for all my sins. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for me and rose again. Father, I give you my life to do with as you wish. I want Jesus Christ to come into my life and into my heart. This I ask in Jesus’ name, Amen.
It eliminates
Ø the pressure to succeed,
Ø the need to argue and
Ø the fear of failure through everyday conversation,
Persons are guided to the word of God and asked to read for themselves. What is has to say. You open the door for God to work in the non-believer’s life. Remember that success in witnessing is living out Christian life, sharing the gospel and trusting God for the results.
Hear My prayer Lord
Lord, the creator of Heaven and Earth, are the Justice, Judge to be compared to you is none. You knew me before I was conceived. You were present at the place where I was born, you named me to this age that I am. You have been with me in my times of fears sorrows and I know you, my face will be filled with smiles and laughter of joy. You are gracious everywhere and hope of the discouraged. Hear me dear father when I call. Wipe away my tears when I cry.
Prove my innocence when I am accused falsely Lord, and do not let my hope go because of temptations and tribulations of this world because I know that my home is where you are. It has been long. I had been suffering, rejection and negligence yet I keep trusting in you. I made a choice to follow you in all the days of my life.
Help me Holy Spirit to achieve the crown that has been kept for me in Heaven. Now that my heart is broken and my mind not in peace come to me that I may be restored. Heavenly Father my good shepherd you are all what I need my love for you lasts forever.
In His presence live, love so might and so true, your happiness, loving service it belongs to Jesus Christ. If you are in trouble, look above, because Jesus completely saves. He will lift you by His love out of the angry waves.
* Has the church ever asked you for money?
* It is true that most churches take an offering
* God doesn’t want your money. But when you become a believer, something happens to your heart. You give because you want to. I you don’t give in joy, you shouldn’t give at all.
* God wants you to surrender your life to Him.
* You can say, I tried a prayer once and nothing happened. Did you mean the prayer when you said it?
* How do I know I have enough faith? If you have enough faith to ask Christ to come into your heart, you have enough faith to receive Him into your heart.
Isaiah 59:19, Matt 6:10
* You must give thanks in all things either bad or good
Ezra 3:2-5
* The meaning of prayer
* What you want to be you shall be
* What you pray you will receive
* All things shall be OK when you trust and obey the Lord
* You must reach the top of the mountain
* Life in this world is so strange people must learn in Christ how to handle problems, what is demonic and holy
* Don’t use demonic materials
* To have understanding you must learn
* You must have the fear of the Lord
* Heavenly life is not as earthly life
* Human wisdom is foolishness to God
* It is time to pray
* The law of God is perfect
* What does the Bible say will happen to those who have heard and have not responded?
* You have heard the gospel. Will you respond? ‘From the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood through what he has made. As a result, people are without excuse’ [Romans 1:20]
* Have you put a relationship, a job or some activity that you would rather not or have over a relationship with God? If you have those items become your idols
* Because of the holiness of God, it is possible to measure up to His standards of perfection. Since God is the judge and the jury, it is His approval we have to meet [James 2:16]
* I want you to know that I like you, have been guilty as well. The difference is I found forgiveness through Jesus. Do you want this kind of forgiveness?
* Remember to be loving to your friend; God is still in control of his life. You shall have no other gods before me [Exodus 20:3, Romans 1:25]
* ‘He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the first born over all creation because of Him everything was created, in Heaven and Earth. The visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities – all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things by Him all things hold together [Coli 13:17]
* I am not God, but He is in me. Would you like God to be in you?
* A Christian hurt you, would you accept my apology for those who did that to you?
Psalms 31:1-17, 37:1-14, 25, 38:3-22, Exodus 14:!3-19
When you pray you will receive
When you ask you will be given
* When you knock the door will be opened.
Micah 6:8
No, O people, the Lord has already told you what is good and this is what he requires:-
* To do what is right
* To love mercy
* To walk humbly with your God
Commentary
People have tried all kinds of ways to please God [6, 7] but God has made His wishes clear. He wants His people to do what is right, love mercy and walk humbly with him. In your efforts to please God, examine these areas on a regular basis. Are you fair in your dealing with people? Do you show mercy to those who wrong you? Are you learning humility?
Micah 6:8
He has shown you O man, what is good and what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God [N.I.V.]
Commentary
Man, the use of the singular makes the accusation personal though Micah is speaking to all Israel. Act justly, love mercy. The kind of obedience God expects from His covenant people.
Wrong Decisions
That is what El Shaddai can do.
* You may have made wrong decisions, if you turn back to God, you will discover that He has provided some very unique opportunities.
* How many of you are willing to pay the cost? ‘If anyone would come after me, let them deny themselves, take up the cross and follow me’. For whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world and in the end lose his life?
* That in all of life God is the factor
* We may understanding it or not
* Choose Him or not
* Know Him or not
* Love Him or not
* Every decision you make you must make God the factor. Whether it is a job, business venture, a school. God must be your all and all. You involve him to your blessing. You leave Him out to your peril.
* In your day to day lives, you may encounter sorrows, distress, joy and pains but God, like the master artist, will weave these into a most beautiful pattern. You will soon make some very provident discoveries if you hold on and do not waver.
It is illogical to expect a laborer to work without sustenance from his labor. Likewise, the Gospel Minister who works tirelessly yet the church fails to support him as he deserves inevitably loses his zeal for the work. It is equally wrong for anyone to enter Christian service because of what they can get. Many Christians have this problem where they pay better than even the private sector.
This removes the element of God’s call and the sacrifice that is an important ingredient in Christian service. The result is that there are many people flocking for jobs in these organizations in the name of ‘call to the ministry’. Someone forced their heart out of relationships leading to marriage simply because the other family is too economic or from a wrong social class. There someone says that ‘it is not an exaggeration that that the average Christian today sees religion primarily in terms of the help which God can give him or her in this world; with a vague expectation for the world to come rather than as an active creative relationship with God; a relationship which has professional implications for this life but which is fulfilled in eternity. To put it crudely, it is an attitude which regards God in terms of His usefulness rather than as an object of adoration and love.
Ephesians
It is for you only, try to understand this message
You must decide to read through the book of Ephesians when you realized the many excuses you have given to justify your failure to keep promise before God. Put your feelings side and go ahead and read through the book of Ephesians. After a few days, you will consider how subtle the enemy of your souls can be in his schemes to lead you into state of luke warmness.
You will tought it would be in order for you to alert others especially those of us in full-time of the danger of the being caught up in the ‘sluggard syndrome’ which leads to not only failing God but yourself and others as well. 2Cor 4:16:- ‘Therefore we do not become discouraged utterly spiritless, exhausted and wearied out through fear, though our outer man is progressively decaying and wasting away. Yet our inner self is being progressively renewed day after day – If you retreat from your daily relationship with Christ then eventually your relationship becomes religion, righteousness becomes self-righteousness. Not only do we fail to understand the times. We also run the same risk the Ephesians got into. They got into activities, toil, troubles and labourious. Remember God knew they were enduring patiently, they had not fainted, become exhausted or grown weary, yet got lukewarm. They had abandoned God, their first love. Without Jesus Christ being central, Christianity is only barebones. Its doctrines may be known and even understood and yet Christians can be left out. I would like to summarize your sad situation:- ‘The problem is situation is desperate but you are not. You should be’
It is not the most learned or the see pest thinkers that know him best, but his true friends, whom Jesus Himself spends in secret, teaching them what no books can ever tell. When you get on the lighting to excellence and burn your bridges behind you, the excitement begins. TO know our virtues without being tempted to pride, or our faults without falling into discouragement, we must look at them with the master’s eye which mirror for the un falling truth and light.
Matt 18
Feature: Forgiveness
* Forgiveness is like taking poison expecting others to die
* Do you want to pray the Lord’s prayer
Romans 8:1
* Those who in Christ
Matt 5:7
* You want it you give it away
John 11, Luke 4:!
1. Responding to God’s call
2. Accepting to serve God
3. Living in God’s intending reasons for your life\Committing your self to the Gospel of Truth
4. No room for disobedience
5. Lead the army forth right to victory
The believers who are not filled with the Holy Spirit may not be put in prison but they endanger themselves and others when they live and engage a vicious enemy without the Holy Ghost power. Without the Holy Spirit we are powerless in our Christian living and endeavors. He brings into remembrance all our weapons of war. He instructs, directs and empowers our work and lives. Maybe someone is discouraged, wounded and depressed. The Holy Spirit isn’t indifferent to that. This requires that you deal with past sins and ask Him to come and fill you up wait on Him, ye soldiers in battle. Wait in your own Jerusalem until you are filled with the power.
Many people give up fast. They do not think long-term but short-term. They fail to realize that Armstrong did not land on the moon the first day he taught about it and in his first attempt. It took a long process It is persistence that creates winners. It takes resolve to reach the top. There will be obstacles in your path and impediments to your success.
Life is a cycle of planting, reaping, resting and renewal. Even though winter is not endless. It eventually gives way to spring. Do not die in your winter. Hold on a little longer for your spring. Winners use them to build up strength and learn a better way to do something. They lose focus and direction. Apostle Peter is the example of how persistence brings spiritual gain.
I saw the Lord before at all times. He is near me, and I will not be troubled. And so I am filled with gladness and my words and words are full of joy. Mortal though I am, will rest assured in hope, because you will not abandon me in the world of the dead; you will not allow your faithful servant to rot in the grave. You have shown me the paths that lead to life, and by your presence you will fill me with joy.
Medium:- Means that a person who believes that he/she can communicate with the dead
Outkast:- Means sinners. Find in the book of Mark 2:15-17 or Luke 7:34, 15:1-2
Paralytic:- Someone who suffers from disease that prevents him / her from moving part or all his body
Sorcerer:-A person who works magic for evil purposes
Winged creature:- Means God’s majesty and His presence
[see Exodus 25:18-20, Ezekiel 1:5-13, Revelation 4:6-9]
Waiting upon the Lord
When you look over in your job, you will see people who have forgotten who they are, what their resources are, and whose anointing. God is going to use you to break the yokes in the company. Jesus Christ is everything and you have to rise and stand for your job and declare the glory of God. You are supposed to purify the altars because a day will come and everything will be changed. Prayer makes the devil put down his weapons. If Christians makeup their minds to get back what the devil has taken, they will be a mighty victory. ‘If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven and I will forgive their sins and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered’ We need to repent for being religious without being spiritual. God needs two things; people who will stand and pray and who will walk in true character of a Christian. The reward of the devil will never challenge your walk with God. Being faithful means that when God promises something it doesn’t matter how long it takes, you’re going to wait. People cannot be faithful because they do not have the right concept of faith. The Bible does not say you believe God until you get it. It says, faith worketh patience. Faith makes you wait upon God even when everybody else has given up The Bible says those who shall wait upon the Lord shall walk and they shall not be weary.
It is where we are going that should count the most.
God’s Generals
Great hearts make great characters, great hearts make divine characters. It is the heart and not the head which makes God’s Generals. The heart counts much every way in the gospel. The preacher binds his people to him and rules his people by his heart. They may admire his gifts, they will be proud of his ability, they may be affected for the time by his sermons, but they stronghold of his power in heart
How much do you weep? How often do you do it? It’s the one who goes forth weeping not preaching great sermons, it is this person who goes forth bearing precious seed. It is a person who shall come again rejoicing, bring his sheaves, eternal harvest with him. There are big difference between people who come to the Lord after receiving a gospel preached from the heart and closet and those who receive from the head knowledge. Time tells it all. Many of those who received the message from the head will soon backslide or wax cold. It is the anointing which makes the word of God powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even of the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints marrow, a discerner of the thoughts of the hearts. Anointing breaks chains of sin, wins estranged and depraved hearts to God and repairs the breaches.
Deuteronomy 30:19
Jeremiah 11L18-23, 12:1-6
John 13:33-35, 15:11-27
1st Corinthians 4:10-13, 18-21
Revelations 3:8-12
Sorrow turns to Joy
How wonderful for you when the sorrows turn to joy. That is what God can do. You may have made wrong decisions. If you turn back to God, you will discover that He has provided some very unique opportunities. It will take only the dreamer and the visionary who is willing to pay the cost to realize the culmination of it all.
But how many of us are willing to pay the cost. ‘If anyone would come after me, let them deny themselves take up the cross and follow me’. For whoever loses his life for me will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world and in the end lose or forfeit his very self? Leave all your life to be the part of a divine destiny found in Jesus Christ.
That in all of life:-
We may know it or not
We may choose Him or not
We may understand it or not
We may receive it or not.
In every decision you must make God the ultimate factor. Whatever it is about a job, a career, a business venture or marriage partner, a school, God must be our all and in all. We leave him out to our peril. We involve Him to our blessing. In our day-to-day lives we may encounter sorrows, distress, joys and pains but God like the master artist will weave these into the most beautiful pattern. We will soon make some very provident discoveries if we hold on and do not waver.
Fight Fearlessly
When the enemy of your faith lashes out and hits your body, your focus will not be swayed. Whatever the enemy wants to do with your body will not distract your commitment to God. And you should die for your faith, you know you will immediately find yourself in His presence – your eternal destiny. You have been weighed down by troubles; they have almost crushed you; sometimes you thought you would never get out of the place of difficulty. Yes! You have no idea that behind the whole thing, God has been working out a plan greater than all. Indeed, Christ is always right there in the adversity.
Fight fearlessly fear not. None can overthrow you. The Lord is standing ever near. Take courage, then the army of the Lord. What cause have you to fear? Triumph is sure. But if you don’t want a spiritual battle, stay seated. Therefore we do not become discouraged, utterly spiritless, exhausted, and waving out through for, through our outer man is progressively decaying and wasting away. Yet our inner self is being progressively renewed day after day.
The problem is that the situation is desperate. We should remember that other people serving God by the clock and other serving by the spirit. Did you see any difference between Spirit and clock. The prayer is what makes the devil put down his weapon.
Because you have come to a point when you want God and His presence and not what is in His hands. God responds to the people who want what is in Him first, not what they can get from him. When you praise God because of His presence, He responds to you. The devil is not scared of people who have, he is scared of people who praise God.
More information from Jesus Christ in the form of a dream
* Fighting in the works of darkness in order to reach a new climax
* You must be claustrophobic because you share and you will be strong in your faith also to know how to stand when the devil comes to hurt your life.
* Be careful because of the people of this world, because they wish you bad things and they want you to be in trouble
* People will love you when you have everything and when you don’t have they hate you and they talk bad things about you.
Importance of Prayer
Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For your struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Put on the full armor of God so that when the devils comes you may be able to stand your ground and after you have done everything to stand, stand firm with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. Take the shield of faith, which you can extinguish, all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God. But this time round we will not so much dwell on the armor, but on another important tool which is so useful on our warfare and that is prayer.
God requires that we seek Him diligently and be steadfast in prayer because it is the only way through which we can overcome our arch-enemy, the devil and his ways. Although God knows our desires even before we approach Him. This should not stop us from praying. Tell God that you are solely dependent on Him for your living. We have to pray in earnest, focusing fully unto God. It is not right to pray as if we are just passing time. God is pleased with a broken and contrite spirit and we should humble ourselves in His presence. Before we approach God, we should look at our lives checking whether there is any wickedness that may hinder the power of God to work in our lives. If you desire to have the presence of God in our lives we should deny ourselves and seek him diligently.
We should never get tired of praying as God will meet our needs as we pray.
We will just count our blessings, fighting on and overcoming.
Prayers open closed doors and make something out of nothing.
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