Category: Mission

DON’T ASSUME……. God’s Thoughts and Ways are Higher than Ours

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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways”, declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”  (Isaiah 55:8-9)

One of the greatest needs of God’s people has been and always will be godly perspective which could be defined as “understanding the times and knowing what to do.” (1 Chronicles 12:32) or “seeing what the father is doing.” (John 5)
Too often we assume that God is a God of habit with a regular weekly routine and His ways for us are always predictable. Nothing could be further from …

EQUIPPING PEOPLE TO BECOME EFFECTIVE WITNESSES

 

Equipping People to Become Effective Witnesses Includes:

  • Developing a testimony – sharing your story
  • Discovering your sphere of influence
  • Developing a gospel outline
  • Becoming a conversational, relational witness in the power of the Holy Spirit
  • How to follow up new Christians
  • How to pray for non-Christian people “Love on its knees”
  1. I pray, Lord, that You draw……………. to Yourself. (John 6:44)
  2. I pray that…………………..hear and believe the word of God
    (1 Thessalonians 2:13)
  3. Holy Spirit, I ask You to convict………………of his/her sin and need to know Jesus Christ as his/her Saviour (John 16:8-13)
  4. I ask you to pull down the strongholds of the enemy that have bound, and blinded………………….

“And now for the…. MEETING AFTER THE MEETING”

 

It happened one Sunday morning in the church I was pastoring after praying at the close of the service.

I had a growing conviction that the Holy Spirit who had been present in our worship service didn’t depart after the closing prayer was prayed. Too often the spirit of the worship service can be easily lost and replaced by an atmosphere where the conversations after the service are often dominated by trivial pursuits.

At the close of the service that Sunday I continued, “I invite you all to stay after the church service for the MEETING AFTER THE MEETING. I have good news for you! The Holy Spirit is

WORDS THAT HAVE SHAPED MY LIFE (112) “THE LITTLE THINGS”

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Admiral William McRaven of the United States navy wrote a book, “MAKE YOUR BED…..little things that can change your life and maybe the world.” The book contains ten life lessons learnt from his navy training days with the elite SEAL Teams. He writes, “Make your bed. If you accomplish the first task of the day well, then the rest of the day has a better chance of going well. Do the little things right!” Interestingly, Jesus emphasised this same principle in His teaching. “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.”