The power of Christian evangelism. Matthew 28:18-20; II Kings 17:22-29,

The power of Christian evangelism. Matthew 28:18-20; II Kings 17:22-29,

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

If the government of any nation knows the power of Christian evangelism, they will cut their police budget by half and invest the second half in Christian evangelism. They will cut their defence budget by half and invest the second half in Christian evangelism. At the end of the year, half of the amount budgeted for internal security and defence will be unspent because there will be less criminals to catch, there will be less wars to fight. The suicide bombers, the rapists, the buglers and armed robbers would have been converted and given a different focus. If the church is doing enough in evangelism, we can boastfully tell the police the number of criminals that will be off the street at the end of the financial year.

The power of salt (Matthew 5:13: Mark 9:50)

The power of light (Matthew 5:14; 6:22)

The exponential factorial ! (Matthew 13:33)

Give tracts. Psalm 68:11 The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it. Say something. Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Pray for opportunities.1Peter 3:15

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Answer questions: how was your day? Great, I went to church and I love it.

Are you ok? No I am not, I couldn’t go to church.

Luke 10:17 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. 18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. 19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

We believe in miracles but there are no more miracles within the confine of the church walls. God has moved the miracle centre to the field outside of the church building. You want to see miracles? You want to perform miracles? You want to become a miracle? Go on evangelism outside of the church. Outside the church, on evangelism field is the new residential address for miracles.

Ephesians 6:12

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Why are we wrestling? Where and when? Evangelism.

Why did Elijah’s fire come down? (II Kings 18:38). Why did Zadrach, Meshac and Abednego walk out of the fire unscathed? (Daniel 3:1-26). Why did Jesus perform all these frightening miracles? (Matthew 8:23-27; 28-34; 9:18-26; 32-33; 14:22-32; 21:18; Luke 7:11-17; John 11:1-44) Why did Peter (Luke 5:8), Paul (I Timothy 1:15) and a whole lot of people receive forgiveness and did unstoppable miracles after? There is only one answer. Evangelism. Ask some of our contemporary evangelists as well.

Evangelism is scientific. When Jesus wanted to win the Pharisees, he went to the Pharisees (Luke 7:36; John 3:1; Acts 5:34). When he wanted to win the Scribes he went to the Scribes (Mathew 23:13-17). When he wanted to win the rich, he went to their houses (Luke 14:1). When he needed the multitude, he went to the market place (Matthew 5:1; 23:1). How could he have won the Samaritans without going to Samaria? John 4:1-42

Matthew 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Just like fishing, the water you fish determines the fish you catch. Remember anyway that no fish will ever give itself up.

Whether home or abroad, evangelism might be the only reason why God is still sparing us. Let’s fulfil the purpose of God for our lives. Let’s cooperate with God to fulfil destiny.

Esther 4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

God bless you.

Prevailing prayer, prevailing worship, prevailing time (Daniel 9:1-27)

Prevailing prayer, prevailing worship, prevailing time (Daniel 9:1-27)

Prevailing prayer is like wrestling. You have to sweat it out. In Daniel 9, for 21 days the Hebrew slave was fasting and praying for his enslaved nation. His knowledge of prophecy assured him that it was time for their release from captivity. On the contrary there was no freedom in sight, so he decided to iron it out in prayer.

Dan 9:18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

Thank God he prevailed. My sincere prayer for you is that you will prevail in that situation. But you need encouragement to be able to continue till you prevail. You need people who are daring to prevail like you. Come join this bunch of prevailers in the most inconvenient time to seek God like Daniel did. You will surely prevail.

1Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

The more issues become tough, tight and difficult, the more you have to pray. This is more easily said than done. When you pray through you will definitely breakthrough. You will prevail. Since there is a God in heaven that answers prayers, we are encouraged to keep on praying until we prevail.

Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Prevailing worship on the other hand is irrespective of what is going on around us. Our conviction of God

’s absolute righteousness is unshakable by the temporal fluctuations. Prevailing worship is demonstrating intimacy with God our father and connecting him through our spirit in the name of Jesus. John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

At a point when you breakthrough to the realm of the spirit through prevailing prayer or prevailing worship, time becomes inessential. All you feel is the awesome presence of God, May the Lord lead us to have prevailing time in his presence. When Moses entered into God

’s presence on the mount Horeb, he just got lost. Forty days and forty nights were like five minutes tea-break. When he came out nobody could look at his face. It was too radiant with God’s glory. The elders had to cover his face with a veil because his people couldn’t look at him. You need to spend more time, real time in God’s presence through prevailing prayer and prevailing worship.

Exodus 24:17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights. ( Read Exodus 34:28-33, for more)

Nevertheless, prevailing prayer and prevailing worship are only possible when we are born again. When we invite Jesus into our heart and accept that he should direct the affairs of our lives.

Romans 10:8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

This is when we agree with God that our sins are bad and we turn away from them through God

’s help. This is when we make up our mind to cooperate with the Holy Spirit. Then we become the children of God through Jesus Christ and then our spirit could meaningfully call Abba Father. The good thing is you can do it now. If you are happy to start a prevailing life, say the following prayer.

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins, the life that I have lived and the wrong things I have done; I need your forgiveness.
I believe that your Son Jesus Christ shed His blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin.
I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Saviour. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honour to you alone. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life. Amen.

God bless you

Your heaven is opened (Matthew 3:1-17)

Your heaven is opened (Matthew 3:1-17)

Isaiah 64:1

Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, 2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

Both Isaiah and David knew the importance of opened heavens. David earnestly prayed that the Lord would open the heavens. In fact he wanted the doors and windows of heaven removed to permanently have it opened and unlocked. He got the answer to his prayer. The heaven remain permanently opened over David. Even God said that no matter what happens, David had an everlasting opened heavens.

Jeremiah 33:20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; 21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

I declare and decree that your heavens will be opened in the name of Jesus. In fact may you have an everlasting opened heaven.

Several years later, when David has gone, his son inherited the opened heaven after him. Solomon continued to thrive under the opened heaven. One day after he finished dedicating the house of God with a great worship service, God’s fire tumbled down. Why? Because the heaven was opened and has remained opened since the time of his father tore off the hinges.

2Chronicles 7:1

Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the house. 2 And the priests could not enter into the house of the LORD, because the glory of the LORD had filled the LORD'S house.

Then it became the turn of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist really described what he saw, an opened heaven. The Holy Spirit came down upon Jesus in the form of a dove, and God the father spoke from heaven. From then onward, Jesus moved from one exploit to another super exploit.. His breathtaking miracles came one after another without a break until he literally suspended the law of gravity and ascended in to the opened heaven.

Acts 1:9

And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

What about Peter and Paul? They all experienced opened heavens at different levels.

Acts 10:10

And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, 11 And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: 2Corinthians 12:1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

What do you think opened heavens did for them? A lot. All kinds of blessings, exploit, fulfilment, miracles, signs and wonders. In fact the whole world has never recovered and can never recover from the effect of their opened heavens. And now I am saying it is your turn for opened heavens. May your heaven be opened. And may it remain opened until you fulfilled your God given destiny.

A few things as a matter of course to allow heaven open. You must cooperate with God and this I mean on different and various levels. All of the people I mentioned above except Jesus started with repentance. They repented of their sins. They sought to know more about God. They love God and did services unto him. They continued as followers of God in prayers, praises and worship. Would you like your heaven to be opened? Follow the steps of these people who had their heavens opened and the world will soon notice its positive impact. God bless you.