Making a Personal Decision with Jesus Christ

Make a personal decision to give your life to Christ.

The word of the Lord is powerful, it transforms life.

The word of God is powerful, sharper than a two edged sword. Put it in your heart. The Jesus we believe in is alive and real.

Genesis 12 

Its God in you that causes you to accomplish all things. As believers, our strength is in the place of prayer and the word of God.

We need to be people of prayer and the word of the Lord.

Abraham set up altars on His way to the land God showed him.
Genesis 26:2

Be careful not to go down... You start to mess up when you go down to Egypt.
Whatever you speak should come from the house of prayer.

When you make decisions out of your prayer room, you make mistakes, and you later ask God to endorse your mistakes. But God is not about to be cheated, you will not cheat God!

God is faithful to His word, Ishmael is a sign of man's decisions.

But even when God is silent, I'ts a time of testing, its a sign of writing your script, please don't go to Egypt, remain in the house if the Lord.

Abraham let go of Ishmael and his mother, Hagar for the promise of God to be made alive in his life.

Ishmael is a wild donkey of a man Genesis 16:12

Let us know that souls will only be won in a place of prayer. Never talk to a man about God before you talk to God about that man.
Whatever decisions you make, please make them in the place of prayer.
Hide the word of God in your heart, it not in your heart, at least keep it in the pocket.c

Sunday Post- About what we worship

What we love so much we will worship; Mark.10:17. What you hold onto most soon becomes an object of worship.

Emphasis is from the first two commandments of God. (Exodus 20:4)

We can only worship one God, not the seas, images or any forms of objects, we only glorify the Lord our God.

Sacrifice your worldly treasures to serve the Lord, give God your best, your strength in worship and praise. "..love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength..." with your entire being.

Where are you putting your worship, your talent,your tithe, your strength and your time?; invest in the Lord.

Sunday Post~The Power of The Message

 Acts. 1:8
The message of the gospel;
The message should not change much as the mode of transmission changes.
The transformation of heart which happens when the gospel is preached is not dependent on how but the power in which it is preached.
When we go out in sharing the gospel, we ought to bear in mind that saving is the work of The Saviour. Therefore we should not fear the outcome.
The preacher needs to be humble; as an act of obedience.
*Be humble to the fact that you're being used by God.
*Be humble to depend on the wisdom of God and not of ourselves

We need to stick to the Gospel and not try to please men with vain talk.
1Thes.2:4 We need to please God in preaching the gospel and not to change the content to suit the desire of man's ears.

Sunday Post~Launching Into the Deep of Outreach & Evangelism

Scriptural Reference: Jn 15: 5, 1 Chron 16: 22, 23, Ps 96: 2,  2 Kings 7: 1 – 11

The Lord will cause your enemies to be confused, they may think you have been defeated, but the Lord will hand them over to you, you will see your victory with your own eyes.

That friend whom you think it impossible for them to come to God; He will bring them to Himself.

God has already blinded your enemies, victory is waiting for you. We have to brave to go to the enemy's camp and get what is ours.

We have to share our salvation with every one, salvation is a gift from God. There is no need to keep the good news for yourself, keep sharing it.

You are in a better place today, God has worked for us. We need to take the good news to those that have not yet received it. We need to tell them of the peace of the Lord: God saves, God heals, God forgives, tell them about the goodness of the Lord.

You can bring them to the house of the Lord, and the words will get to their hearts. God's proving ground is the house of the Lord.

You are a child of God and He delights in you. Let's tell people we left in the world that there is good news this side, there is good news in the house of the Lord.

Sunday Post~Deep Launch into Evangelism

Hosea 3:1

The Israelites were a rebellious nation but God chose to love them
In the same way, the world is full of such people who we brand as sinners and unworthy, they have walked away from God's ways but God still loves them and continues to pursue them. God's love never runs out

Rev.3:20 God is knocking and we who have heard have a role to help those who have responded to that knock.
Draw them to fellowship and show love to them.
Pray for them Ezk 36:26
Change your attitude towards these people after all God loves them

Sunday Post- Evangelism

Jesus himself is good news
Isa. 61:1-2
those who are poor and they know they are blind
God has good news
those who are blind God has good news
those who are wounded, Jesus has good news
Isa.52:7 (How beautiful are the feet...)
the good news is that what ever we go through, God is still on the throne
The only way we can beautify out feet is by proclaiming the gospel of Jesus.

Exo. 3:7-8 (God saw and heard the suffering of the children of Israel)
Gabriel announced the good news of the birth of Jesus Luke.1-19.
Luke.8:1 God wants us to be bold in evangelism.

Who are involved in evangelism?
First, there has to be an evangelist
Then God puts his word inside  him (Equips)
When you receive that message (Salvation) God expects you to reach out to others with the same message. Besides being equipped as an evangelist, God also calls us to this ministry through the five fold ministry (Eph. 4:11)

Qualities of evangelists

1. Must be born again (a child of God)
2. Must be a person of prayer or intercession (Rom 8:26; 8:34)
3. Must be a witness in the power of the Holy Spirit (Acts.1-8.)
4. Must be a person of the Word of God (Colossians.3-16.)
5. Must have a message 2Sam.18:21 
1. The message is the gospel (1_Corinthians15-1.)
1. That Died for our sins
2. Christ was buried
3. Christ rose from the dead according to the scriptures

It takes a living person to justify a living person, that is why Christ rose from the dead so that He could declare our justification.

We not only preach the gospel but also salvation 2Cor. 6:1-2
We also preach Christ (1Corinthians1:23)
We preach Christs' Manifesto Luke. 4:18

Audience (What kinds of people are we speaking to)

1. We speak to all (Rom.8:23); 
2. Hypocrites (Mark.7:6)
3. Lukewarm (Rev.3:16)

Objectives of an evangelist

1. Desire a change in the audience
2. Train witnesses (2Tim. 2:2)
3. Prepare people to meet the soon coming King

Methods of Evangelism

How did Jesus do evangelism? 

1. One to one (John 4, Jesus talked to the Samaritan woman on a one to one basis)
2. Preaching through mass evangelism (John 4, The Samaritan woman called people to listen to Jesus)
3. Teaching the word of God (Mathew 5 , If you hear this teaching, receive it and apply it in your life, you will be like a house built on the rock)
4. House to house Evangelism (Luke 19:1-10, John 7)

Practicalities when doing Evangelism

1. In doing Evangelism, focus on Jesus, but before you talk about Jesus, make sure you have Jesus in your heart. 
2. Pray earnestly about the people you are to talk to. Talk to God about the sinners. 
3. Appear good. Don't make your appearance be a stumbling block, for example, dress honorably 
4. Don't attack people's religions, there religious leaders, places of worship "Don't attack Maria, Buddha, Mohammed"
5. Show respect for the people you witness to
6. Don't complicate the gospel