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THE BENEFITS OF ENGAGEMENT (2): POTENTIALS ARE RELEASED

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Sunday, February 25, 2024

THE BENEFITS OF ENGAGEMENT (2): POTENTIALS ARE RELEASED

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Matthew 10:2 (KJV)

The truth is that there are potentials locked up inside of you that are waiting for your active participation in preaching the gospel to be unlocked. There are things that are latent in you beloved and can only be unlocked as the power of Yahweh begins to flow through you to change the lives and destinies of the people in your sphere of contacts. So engaging in the assignment of soul-winning unlocks latent gifts and callings in your life. Whatever Yahweh has given you in terms of gifts and potentials, He is not going to take it back (see Romans 11:29), but they can be untapped until you enter eternity. Preaching the gospel is the easy way to unlock the gifts and calling of Yahweh upon your life. No matter what your secondary assignment on earth is, your primary assignment can bring it to prominence. The gospel raises whatever it comes into contact with, be it your career or business. As you give yourself to the work of preaching the gospel, everything in your life is enhanced because of divine presence. Divine presence is like a fertile soil upon which whatever you sow on it produces maximally.

Look at the disciples of the Lord Yahushua. Acts 4:13 says that the Pharisees and the Sadducees marvelled at them. They were perplexed to see that these seemingly ignorant men have become men to be wondered at. That is what the gospel does in the life of anyone. It has the ability to turn nonentities to celebrities. It has the power to manifest the marvels of your life to those who think that nothing can come out of you. The greatest answer to your critics is to be committed to the gospel because therein lies the power to make you a wonder in the midst of men. They marvelled at the disciples and took notice and knowledge that they had been with Yahushua. You see your association with Yahushua only profits you on the wings of bearing the gospel. If you want people to see the colour of your Christianity, then go mad for the gospel and see how beautiful your feet becomes. Men will literally want to lick your feet just to make contact with you. There is nothing that glorifies like bearing the gospel.

There is something in you. You are not ordinary. You are laden with gifts and calling. Your calling to preach is the sickle that harvests the gifts of Yahweh in your life. The gospel is a double edged sword, it profits the bearer and the receiver. You are doing yourself great disservice by neglecting your primary assignment as a Christian. The truth is time is very short. You do not have eternity to fulfil destiny. Get going beloved! Fulfil your ministry, preach the Word. Tell the good news till nobody in your sphere of contacts is going to hell. Then, suddenly, the world would begin to mind you as a result of potentials that are beginning to show forth all around you. Selah!

REMEMBER: It is only bearing the gospel that has the ability to unlock the gifts and calling upon your life.

PRAYER: Precious Father, thank You for enlightening me today, I receive the grace to run with the gospel because the time is short. Help me to unlock all the potentials you have locked up inside me in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

PROPHETIC RELEASE: I decree that the gifts and calling of Yahweh upon your life finds expression as you go bearing the gospel in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

FURTHER READING:
Acts 2:7; Matthew 10:5-42

ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Leviticus 4:22-6:30; Mark 5:21-43

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February 25, 2024
THE BENEFITS OF ENGAGEMENT (1): DIVINE PRESENCE

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Saturday, February 24, 2024

THE BENEFITS OF ENGAGEMENT (1): DIVINE PRESENCE

And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Mark 16:20 (KJV)

If you want to know the pulsated presence of Yahweh, go preaching. Divine presence always accompanies those that bring good news. Many believers are wondering if they are still in the faith because there is no manifestation of Yahweh around them at all. This is because the power of Yahweh is in the gospel and it is only those that bear it that see that power manifest in real terms. The glory of Yahweh is upon His Word and those who herald it experience that glory both in their own personal lives and through them to others who now become partakers of the glory of the gospel. Beloved, are you thirsty to see the manifestation of the Lord in your life? Are you desiring to see Yahweh work with you? Then get going with the gospel. Go preaching the Word. Start sharing the Word with your family, friends, colleagues and associates and see how instantly there will be divine confirmations.

We have heard testimonies of those that were condemned to death by one terminal sickness or the other and they carried their last breath to preach and share the gospel. When you are in the harvest field, you are an instrument to bring healing to others. The pipe that carries water cannot be thirsty. So in the process of sharing the gospel, the affliction went back to hell. They went to the doctors and confirmed that the terminal disease has been terminated. These testimonies come in from time to time confirming that you are the first beneficiary of the power of Yahweh that accompanies you to preaching the gospel. It first of all eliminates the issue of shame and reproach in your own life. But that power will never work for you until you are committed to the gospel. Our opening verse says that they went everywhere preaching and the Lord was working with them. They didn’t seat down; they went. As you begin to go, the presence of Yahweh floods your path and do things in your life that you only wished were possible before.

You can be an instrument of healing and deliverance if you will yield yourself to the assignment of the gospel today. All your long list of prayer requests will be a thing of the past if you would get going with the gospel today. Why is that so? Because divine presence benefits you the carrier first and through you reaches the people you are ministering to. That divine presence forbids that you are suffering sickness, disease or lack and want. Whatever will hinder you from doing your task well, is eliminated by Yahweh’s presence in the gospel. Go out today and make preaching the gospel your lifestyle and see a new lease of life you never thought possible. Shalom!

REMEMBER: Divine presence follows the preaching of the gospel and benefits the carrier first.

CONFESSION: I am a bearer of the gospel of Yahushua HaMashiach making disciples of the people in my sphere of contacts. Today and always, preaching the gospel is my lifestyle. I am committed to the gospel. Glory be Yahweh!

PROPHETIC RELEASE: Anything in your life bringing shame to the gospel of HaMashiach is cursed today and uprooted from your life now in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

FURTHER READING:
Mark 16:15-20; Matthew 28:18-20

ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Leviticus 1:1-4:21; Mark 4:35-5:20

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February 24, 2024
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (6): COMPASSION DRIVEN

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (6): COMPASSION DRIVEN

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Matthew 9:36 (KJV)

Compassion was the energy that drove Yahushua HaMashiach into soul-winning. Compassion is what causes the virtue to flow and brought the people both the Word of Yahweh and healing in the ministry of Yahushua. Compassion is coming to a deep awareness of another’s suffering and out of sympathy and empathy doing something about it. Understanding the eternal position of the unsaved soul is something that will drive any humane soul to doing something to help. Even though you are tired and needed rest, you go in search of a new convert or to share a tract or word with someone because you understand that the person can exit life at any time and then face eternity unprepared. The understanding of the state of the unsaved evokes compassion and compassion drives gospel campaign. To be successful in soul-winning therefore, compassion is very vital. You want to function in the healing anointing, then you must be compassion-driven. Matthew 14:14 says, ‘And Yahushua went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.’ The unction flows in the direction of compassion and the preaching of the gospel is unction-driven. ‘For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance;’ (I Thessalonians 1:5).

Another thing about compassion is that it is a seed and what you sow is what you reap. As you sow compassion into the lives of others, you inevitably begins to reap same in your own life. The truth is what is sown doesn’t just come back in the exact proportion that it was sown but it is always pressed down, shaken together and running over. Somehow whatever anyone does, of the same shall he/she receive of the Lord. Ephesians 6:8 says, ‘Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.‘ So the issue of compassion isn’t just about winning soul but also it’s about the law of seed time and harvest. The truth is that the seeds of compassion we sow in the souls of the unsaved speak for our generations unborn. There is what you are doing today that is an investment into your generations unborn. It speaks in time for you and throughout all eternity. What a life!

What is it that powers compassion? It is the Understanding of the Word that imparts compassion. The Word gives you a mindset. It is a mindset of divine provision for humanity. When that mindset is in place, anything that is not consistent with that provision in the lives of others will evokes a response to see them corrected and helped. The more of the Word you know, the more heart of compassion you develop. As a soul-winner, you must be taking in the Word on daily basis. You must be a Word addict, consistently eating the Word for your spiritual health and development. The Word will develop compassion in you and guarantee that you are successful in Kingdom business. Selah!

REMEMBER: Compassion imparts unction to function in the harvest field.

PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for your word to me today. I am love born and the love of Yahweh is shed abroad in my heart. The compassion of Yahweh is compelling me to reach out to the unsaved in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

PROPHETIC RELEASE: I decree that the seeds of compassion that you are sowing in the lives of the unsaved begin to speak in your own personal affairs in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

FURTHER READING:
Matthew 15:32; 20:34; Mark 6:34; 8:2.

ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Exodus 36:8-38:31; Mark 3:20-4:9

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February 22, 2024
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (5): A FIGHTING SPIRIT

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (5): A FIGHTING SPIRIT

No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
Mark 3:27 (KJV)

A fighting spirit is a spiritual disposition of not taking a “NO!” for an answer. It is developing a victor’s mentality. It is coming to a point of only having triumphs or nothing. Instead of not winning, let the fight continue – that is a fighting spirit. What we are saying today is that it takes a fighting spirit to be successful in the soul-winning business. This is so because our text associates the unsaved as the captives of Satan, the strong man. To let go his captives, you must put up a fight that will result in binding him. II Corinthians 4:3-4 says, ‘3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: 4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of HaMashiach, who is the image of Yahweh, should shine unto them.’ The god of this world being referred to is Satan. He is responsible and behind every unbeliever’s blindness to the light of the glorious gospel. For you to succeed in letting the unsaved to see the light of the gospel you must take care of the strong man Satan. This is done in intense intercessions.

A fighting spirit is the answer to the attack of discouragement. In the harvest field, you will come across things and behaviours that will try to put you off and discourage you. It is at that point that a fighting spirit comes to your rescue because it would not accept a no. Until victory is achieved, a fighting spirit fights on. It knows no discouragement. Apostle Paul is a very good example of a fighting spirit. They stone him, beat him and in some cases he was left as dead but as soon as strength comes into him, he gets up and off to the next town to preach. He laid necessity upon himself for the gospel. He is either preaching, following-up or praying for souls. Never tiring, never depressed! The work of the gospel is a task that must by all means be executed even if it means to lay down his life, Apostle Paul was willing. At a point he said that he was not just willing to be bound in Jerusalem but to die for the name of the Lord Yahushua (Acts 21:13). That is a fighting spirit, beloved.

How do you come about a fighting spirit? It comes by a baptism of fire of the Holy Spirit. There is a baptism of fire beloved. It is an experience where the Holy Spirit sets your spirit, soul and body on fire of enthusiasm for the gospel. That fire came upon Jeremiah that even when he does not want to speak the word, it begins to burn in his bones that he cannot be at peace until he speaks out the word (Jeremiah 20:9). When that fire lands upon you, it intoxicates your spirit making you restless until you are running with the gospel. That fire imparts on you a fighting spirit. Even in your personal affairs, you are guaranteed to win when the fighting spirit is in operation in your life. No circumstance overwhelms you. You are so dogged until you weary every devil out of your affairs. Beyond excelling in the gospel, a fighting spirit helps you win at every turn of life. Go for it.

REMEMBER: A fighting spirit is the answer to all assaults of the devil in the harvest field and in your personal life.

CONFESSION: I triumph in every place by the power of the Holy Spirit. No situation overwhelms me because greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world. Halleluyah!!!

PROPHETIC RELEASE: I decree the release of a fighting spirit in your life today in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

FURTHER READING:
I Corinthians 15:32; I Timothy 6:12

ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Exodus 34:27-36:7; Mark 2:23-3:19

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February 21, 2024
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (4): LIVE A CLEAN LIFE

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (4): LIVE A CLEAN LIFE

Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
II Timothy 2:19 (KJV)

This is one factor that impedes the commitment of many to the gospel – a life of unrighteousness and iniquity. Soul-winning demands that the participant is delivered from a lifestyle of sin before he/she can qualify to be used to deliver others. Soul-winning is bearing the everlasting gospel to the next person and it is required that those that bear the vessels of the Lord must be holy and clean. Isaiah 52:11 admonishes, ‘Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.’ You cannot be meddling with sin and still be free to carry the everlasting gospel. The gospel is holy and uncleanness disqualifies one from bearing it. Living in sin and preaching the gospel is hypocrisy. If what you are preaching is effective, it should save you first. If the gospel you are preaching has not saved you, it would be impotent to effect any change in the life of the person you are witnessing to. Forever, guilt cannot allow you to be effective and successful in the gospel that is why you must clean up. No matter how good an apple is, if you handle that apple with a hand that you used to apply sniper (poison), that apple would be contaminated and can cause death. It is a good apple, the problem is the person bearing it. Same is true about the gospel.

The gospel is not effective in some quarters today is not the fault of the gospel but that of those who are bearing it in unrighteousness. You can deceive man but you cannot deceive Yahweh. There is power in the gospel but it cannot flow when the bearer is laden with sin and iniquity. For the power of the gospel to flow, you must allow it to affect your life first by obeying the gospel yourself before running with it. Clean up! Clean up!! Time is running out! Don’t waste your life in sin. The worse deception is self-deception. The gospel has foundation (standard) for you to handle it and that is walking in holiness. In the Old Testament, you approach the holy things with sin, you drop dead instantly. We are in the era of grace where Yahweh is giving you countless opportunities to repent but don’t take Yahweh for granted so you don’t end grounded.

Leviticus 10:3 says, ‘Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what the Lord spoke, saying, ‘By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the people I will honored.’” ‘ We are living in a generation that has no regard for Yahweh – a generation that know not the Lord. They are not aware that sin can shut one down and lower the person to early grave that is why they are playing with unrighteousness. A Christian is a king-priest. As a priest, you are expected to stand before Yahweh on behalf of the people and before the people on behalf of Yahweh. How can you stand before a holy Yahweh and be messing with sin? This is not that you made a mistake but you are living and enjoying iniquity. I am afraid for you because I know this Yahweh does not take rubbish. That you are not yet dead like it happened to Nadab and Abihu (see Leviticus 10) should not make you think that Yahweh is a fool or is condoning with your lifestyle of iniquity. Repent today and cut off sin from your life. Living in sin is a choice for the believer. You can help yourself because the power is in you. You are your own worst enemy. You are stopping divinity from making you a show-piece of the gospel by your lifestyle. Today is still an uptime. Selah!

REMEMBER: Those that bear the vessels of the Lord must be holy.

PRAYER: Dear Father, thank You for Your word to me today. I am sorry and repent from every known sin in my life. I ask that the blood of Yahushua watches me. I cut off sin in my life from this day in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

PROPHETIC RELEASE: That thing that has sapped your spiritual power is cursed today in your life in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

FURTHER READING:
Hebrews 12:28-29

ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Exodus 33:7-34:26; 20 Mark 2:1-22

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February 20, 2024
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (3): BE COMMITTED

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Monday, February 19, 2024

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (3): BE COMMITTED

And Yahushua said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of Yahweh.
Luke 9:62 (KJV)

It was Che Guevara who said, “We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.” Martin Luther King Jr. says, ‘A man who does not have something for which he is willing to die is not fit to live.’ Until you are willing to die for something you are not worthy to live. We are talking about commitment to the gospel. Commitment is the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose. It means that you focus on a purpose steadfastly no matter what comes. To be successful in soul-winning you must be committed. It would take your time to pray, preach, follow-up and your money too. Everything you have got must be involved in order to see success. First, recognize that this is kingdom business. Like every other business, you must plan, budget, execute, evaluate outcome and re-strategise. Which group of people are you aiming at reaching out to? The group will inform your strategy. For instance, if you are reaching out to teenagers, then you will have to think and behaviour like a teenager yourself to be able to reach them. You must be very patient and a good listener. No matter the group you are reaching out to, commitment is a must. If you give the gospel 30% of the attention you give your career/business, you will see such result that will amaze you. The results that have eluded us is only a function of lack of commitment on our part.

Interestingly Yahweh does not do something with someone that is not committed. Our text says that no one that puts his hands on the plough and looking back is fit for the kingdom of Yahweh. You are disqualified immediately it is notified that you are showing signs of no commitment. Non-committal is a disqualification criterion in the army of the Lord. You must be committed not in word but indeed. Until your commitment is certified, success as a soul-winner is not in view. See the kind of commitment that makes people a success in the harvest field, listen to Apostle Paul, ‘For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!’ (I Corinthians 9:16). Commitment is placing necessity upon yourself in regards to the gospel. It is giving yourself a target of souls that must be established in Church and driving yourself to achieve it. Most of our jobs are target-driven, and we strive to meet and exceed our targets in our various jobs but can we just be target-driven in regards to souls?

It is commitment that is driving results. If we are going to be results-oriented in our soul-winning task, we must be target-driven and commitment conscious. Beloved, how can you be committed today? How can you improve on your level of commitment to the gospel today? Time is running out. There is an urgency in the Spirit to rush in and preserve the harvest from decadence. Will you respond? Will you carry-on as if there is nothing? This is your opportunity to see divinity manifest in your affairs as you commit to Kingdom expansion business. That prayer point that has been on your mind for a long time now, can be tackled in a flash by the power of Yahweh if you can just commit to the heart of the Father in these last hours of the age. Selah!

REMEMBER: Until there is commitment, there can be no results.

CONFESSION: Sweet Heavenly Father, thank You for making my life beautiful giving me an opportunity to be your witness to the peoples of the world. I receive grace to be more committed in my primary assignment. I up my game from today and go wide for the gospel. So help me Yahweh! Glory!

PROPHETIC RELEASE: Everything contending with your commitment to the gospel is cursed today in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

FURTHER READING:
Philippians 1:21; 3:12-14

ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Exodus 30:22-33:6; Mark 1:21-45

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February 19, 2024
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (2): MORTIFY SELF

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Sunday, February 18, 2024

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (2): MORTIFY SELF

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
I Corinthians 9:27 (KJV)

The greatest enemy of the recreated human spirit is not the devil. When you were born again, you had dominion over the devil and his gates of hell. The greatest enemy of the born again person is his/her flesh. Self is the greatest enemy of the born again person. There are three forces at war in the life of the born again person: the Holy Spirit, the Flesh and the devil. The flesh is always cooperating with the devil that is why you must put it under. Self talks about the cravings of the sinful nature. To be useful and usable in the hands of the Lord of the harvest, you must mortify your self. You must come to the altar of burnt offering and lay your body at the altar as a living sacrifice. The reason is that you must be salted with fire to be useful in the hand the Lord (see Mark 9:49). If you are still alive in your flesh, you are not useful and usable for the work of the gospel. With your self still alive, you cannot represent the Lord and the gospel in your lifestyle which is the most primary form of evangelism. A self that is still alive is full of pride, easily angry, boastful and self-centered.

Galatians 5:19-21 lists the activities of the works of the flesh, ‘19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Yahweh.’ You see why we said that until Mr Flesh dies, you are not ready for kingdom business. The need for people to be enlisted into the harvest field is enormous but just anybody will not qualify to be enlisted. You can now better understand why it is not everybody that comes to Church understands the soul-winning business. So many are around, but very few are qualify to be enlisted. These days many are coming to Church for so many reasons; some to belong and answer that they are Christians, others just to get Yahweh to answer their prayer, etc. The flesh must be dead and Mr Self must be laid on the altar. It is as serious as that.

Beloved, do you understand what it means to mortify the flesh now? It is to do away with the works of the flesh mentioned in Galatians 5:17-21. Lay yourself at the prayer altar and petition Yahweh until there is no trace of any of them in your life. The truth is that the sin nature died the day you got saved, the problem is that a lot of us have not renewed our mind to put these things off. Stay in the word and renew your mind and they will wear off and your life will conform to the righteousness of Yahweh in your recreated human spirit. In the place of word bath, your strength is renewed to manifest the nature of righteousness in your spirit. Because the Word is Spirit and Life, the more Word you take into your spirit, the more the fruit of the spirit will reveal and manifest in your character. Get into the Word and lay the flesh and its works to rest permanently. Shalom!

REMEMBER: Everybody must be salted by fire to be usable in the harvest field.

PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for Your word to me today. I ask for the grace to read, study and meditate on the Word in order to mortify self in my life in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

PROPHETIC RELEASE: I decree fresh appetite in the Word upon you now in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

FURTHER READING:
John 6:63

ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Exodus 29:1-30:21; Mark 1:1-20

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February 18, 2024
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (1): ASSURANCE OF SALVATION

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Saturday, February 17, 2024

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN SOUL-WINNING (1): ASSURANCE OF SALVATION

The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of Yahweh,
Romans 8:16 (NASB)

From today to the next couple of days, we shall be examining what it takes to be successful at soul-winning. There are certain ingredients that must be in place for us to make a success at our soul-winning drive. Today we shall be considering assurance of salvation. Assurance of salvation means that you are sure of your salvation. The person that must be successful in winning souls must be very sure that he/she is genuinely saved. You must have had that encounter yourself. There is no substitute to that. You are called to be a witness. How can you witness to what you never saw or knew? Being a witness presupposes that you have had experience of what you are talking about. You can never appear in court as a witness of what you never knew anything about. The soul-winner must be a person that had encountered the Lord Yahushua genuinely with evidence of a changed life. Like the blind man in John 9, your testimony should be “I was blind but now I see. I used to do this and that, but now I do not.” One of the outstanding thing about Apostle Paul was his conversion testimony. It was so profound that at the slightest chance he recounts how he became the man he had become.

You may be born in church, that does not equal to being saved. That your parents are Christians does not mean that you are saved. Salvation is a personal experience. It is an encounter that does not leave you the same. Your salvation must be traceable to a day that you heard the Word and answered an altar call, or a time when you surrendered to Yahushua HaMashiach on your own. Are you baptised since you believed? It is very important that you are baptised in water. Do you have the witness of the Holy Spirit in your spirit that you are a child of Yahweh. We are stressing this because it is the foundation of the person that will be successful in soul-winning. Until you are saved, you cannot become an instrument to saving others. Trying it is getting the experience of the sons of one Sceva. In Acts 19:13-17, some boys started preaching and casting out demons even though these boys have not even known the Lord themselves. Then the devil leaped on them and dealt with them until they ran out naked. It is dangerous to function in the warfare of soul-winning without being genuinely saved yourself. The reason is that soul-winning is warfare. It is confrontation with the gates of hell. If you are not in HaMashiach, you are still in the camp of the devil, then how can you dare to try to lead a fellow captive to freedom?

Being genuinely born again has no substitute if you are going to be useful in the hands of the Lord. Kingdom business are only the preserve of kingdom men and women. No stranger has a lot in it. If you are reading this today and you are not sure of your salvation then please pray this with all your heart thus: “Dear Father, I repent of my sins and believe in Yahushua HaMashiach that He came, died for my sins and rose again to give me life. Now, I confess that Yahushua HaMashiach is Lord and Saviour of my life. Lord Yahushua I surrender my heart to you today and forever. Through You Lord and in Your name I have eternal life; I am born again. Thank you Lord for saving my soul. Now I am a child of Yahweh. Praise the Lord! Hallelujah!” Congratulations!

REMEMBER: Soul-winning is warfare and it is unsafe for the unsaved person to engage in it.

CONFESSION: I am born of Yahweh. Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. I triumph everywhere I go for the gospel. Glory be Yahweh!

PROPHETIC RELEASE: As you ensure your foundation, you shall be fruitful in the work of the gospel in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

FURTHER READING:
I Peter 1:23

ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Exodus 27:1-28:43; Matthew 27:57-28:20

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February 17, 2024
WAYS YOU CAN GET INVOLVED (6): LIVING OUT THE GOSPEL

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Friday, February 16, 2024

WAYS YOU CAN GET INVOLVED (6): LIVING OUT THE GOSPEL

Then, even if some are disobedient to the word, they will be won over without a word by the way you live, when they see your pure and reverent conduct.
I Peter 3:1B-2 (KJV)

Everyone of us has the privilege to live out the gospel in our day to day operations. With most people that are close to you, lifestyle evangelism is normally the most effective. It is normally a contradiction when you see one that is vocal about the gospel but whose lifestyle is directly the opposite. There is nothing that turns off children than to see parents that proclaim the gospel in words but their lifestyle at home is opposite the gospel. This is the reason so many children from Christian homes turn away from the Lord as soon as they left home. You have parents that are Christians in the Church but devils at home. No matter what you tell children, what they see you doing is what they are going to imbibe. Lifestyle evangelism is so critical at home, office and with close associates. People that relate with you on a daily bases will be drawn to the Lord more with your lifestyle than with words. When you have shown HaMashiach-like character, it is easy to preach and be heard. So as a Christian, your lifestyle is critical to the success of the gospel in your sphere of contacts. Your colleagues are watching you. You cannot take bribe, lie and cheat and then turn around to preach to them about Yahushua. It is not possible to take such a person seriously. You will regard the person as a hypocrite. But when someone has challenged you with a solid life of integrity, and the person talks to you about Yahushua, you are quick to listen.

There is a quote “preach the gospel at all times and when (if, where) necessary, use words” usually attributed to St. Francis of Assisi. The truth is that St. Francis of Assisi never said those words. What came closest to that was in his Rule of 1221 on how Franciscans should practice their preaching: “No brother should preach contrary to the form and regulations of the holy Church nor unless he has been permitted by his minister … All the Friars … should preach by their deeds.” What we are saying today is that at all times that you live out your life, you are preaching the gospel whether you know it or not. You are either marketing or demarketing the gospel. Someone will either subscribe to or reject the gospel because of the way you are living. In our text, the wife, was encouraged to live in such a way that even if the husband does not obey the gospel, he will be won by observing the godly lifestyle of his wife.

Beloved, what kind of gospel are you preaching with your lifestyle in your office or business centre? As people encounter you on a daily basis, what impression is being made on their minds about the gospel, about the Lord Yahushua? We must live to preach the gospel. That is to say that the way we live, must be such that will help us explain the gospel more to those that are observing us. By all means you are involved in the spread of the gospel, the least way being lifestyle evangelism. Take responsibility to represent the gospel in all you do. We are saved to live for the glory of Yahweh and help others find their salvation too. Shalom!

REMEMBER: Everybody is involved in lifestyle evangelism. Do it well!

PRAYER: Sweet Heavenly Father, thank You for Your word to me today. I ask for grace to live to please You and to show the light of the glorious gospel to my family, friends, colleagues, and those I meet on a day to day basis in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

PROPHETIC RELEASE: I declare that your life shall bring glory and help your family, friends and colleagues to find salvation in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

FURTHER READING:
Acts 9:36-42

ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Exodus 25:1-26:37; Matthew 27:27-56

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February 16, 2024
THE TIME IS SHORT

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

THE TIME IS SHORT

Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Revelation 12:12 (KJV)

The devil knows that he has but a short time but unfortunately so many believers do not know that they have but a short time on this side of eternity. Today we are going to look at prophetic timeline and see why soul-winning is so urgent at such a time as this. Yahweh gave Daniel a vision of what He will do in the end times and it is commonly referred to as the seventy weeks of Daniel (Dan. 9:23-27). The seventy weeks of Daniel is the prophetic timeline of Israel as a nation and people. Whatever Yahweh is doing in the world today, Israel is the point of contact for it. Yahweh’s agenda is in relation to the covenant He made with the ancestors of Israel, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. In prophetic language, one week is equal to seven years. So seventy weeks is equal to 490 years. Yahweh said that seventy weeks is given to Israel to finish transgression. This seventy weeks started from the 7^th year of King Artaxerxes being April 3, 458 BC (Gregorian calendar). From 458 BC to the time the Messiah was cut off around April 3, 33 AD was 69 weeks. This vision of Daniel and the one given to Nebuchadnezzar are one and points to the same end time events. From the Vision of Nebuchadnezzar, the ankle of that image which prophetically is referred as the “Parenthesis” is the times of the gentles which is the age of the Church. One week was remaining from the vision of Daniel which represents the time (seven years of Anti-HaMashiach) of Jacob’s trouble when the Anti-HaMashiach will break the treaty with Israel and unleash persecution which will culminate in the second return of the Messiah.

From the time that the Messiah was cut off to His second coming is 2000 years. Some Theologians believe that AD 33 was the time the Messiah was cut off. If we go by that date, 2033 will be 2000 years from that cutting off. The Church of Yahushua HaMashiach on earth today is the restraining forces that is withholding the manifestation of the Anti-HaMashiach (II Thessalonians 2:3-12). The stage however, is set for the Anti-HaMashiach, the only thing remaining is the rapture of the Church. Once the Church is taken away at rapture, the man of sin (the Anti-HaMashiach) will be revealed. Yahushua HaMashiach is coming back after 2000 years according to the prophetic scriptures and before that time, the Anti-HaMashiach will be here seven years. It is towards the end of the seven years with the time of intense heat for Israel that their Messiah will emerge, destroying the Anti-HaMashiach and beginning the 1000 years reign from Jerusalem.

We are in 2024. Remove seven years from 2033, you would be in 2026 which is two years away from this year. If the dates are anything to go by, then we have between now and maximum five and half years to expect the rapture of the church. Should every living soul around the world not hear that time is running out to make a decision about their eternity? If you are born again, you should preach the gospel with such velocity because time is short. If you are not born again, you should know that time is running out. Unfortunately it is only humanity that does not know but the adversary the devil knows this very well. Within the next five years, we are specially suppose to be rapture conscious. The events unfolding before our eyes all allude to this shortness of time. There is a threat to have every inhabitant of the earth vaccinated by 2030. What is in the vaccines? You have probably heard of quantum dots vaccines being developed by MIT engineers. You have probably also heard of ID2020, the program to leverage immunization as an opportunity to establish digital identity. Beloved, all these are being proposed to be implanted either on the forehead or right hand (see Revelation 13:16-18). When we say the time is short, prophetically, it is even at the door. Preach the Word! Win a soul today! Save somebody from eternal doom! Shalom!

REMEMBER: There is an urgency in the spirit to soul-winning now because time is very short.

PRAYER: Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for insight into prophetic timeline. I ask that you awaken every believer to the urgency of the moment. I ask that You open the eyes of the unsaved to the light of the glorious gospel today in Yahushua’s Name Amen!

PROPHETIC RELEASE: Everything that makes you at ease in Zion is cursed today in the name of Yahushua HaMashiach Amen!

FURTHER READING:
Romans 13:11; Ephesians 5:14

ONE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL BIBLE READING PLAN: Read the events of the bible in the order that they happened.
Exodus 1:1-2:25; Matthew 23:1-22

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