One with One on one world changers all have an active faith, not some passive kinda faith. God gives em this faith.
Listen, if you can’t yet believe God for and pray down a city-shaking or nation-changing Spiritual awakening due to a biblical revival in His church.. then pray and believe Him for this down into you.
Have saving faith to enter His rest. When you receive Christ by faith, you receive the Winner of all winners inside and He can help you win in life! He can use you to win souls. As you follow, He will win souls through you!
One on one faith is given to us to wisely use, to exercise, to flex, to develop, to stretch -- don’t let it just remain static or atrophy. Use it or lose it. Pray in the Holy Spirit, go tell as Jesus leads you, and wisely applying the word of God.
"Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him." Acts 8:35 nkjv
What matters to God? People do. Pursue the things of heaven. "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things." Colossians 3:2
Don't get all caught up in the things of earth that you lose your primary focus. Jesus. Yeah, don't be conformed to the things of this world. Instead be transformed by the word of God. Live your life as His rep - go one with One first. Go one on one. Stay centered upon Jesus and what really concerns Him.
There's a time to prayerfully listen, a time to ask the right questions. I don't want to miss with my words, with parts of my story or with the whole thing, or with God's Scriptures when sharing with a lost friend! We are livin' in the last days!
Doin' my best, I commit the rest!
"So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective." msg
"Just as iron sharpens iron, friends sharpen the minds of each other." Proverbs 27:17
By faith real friends win their friends to the best of all friends, Jesus Christ. And they non-pushy-disciple-em too, lovingly sowing God's truth into their minds and hearts. Philip went one on one with One leading him in this.
One with One on one world changers have an active faith, not a passive one. If you can’t yet believe God for a city or nation-changing awakening or biblical revival.. then believe Him for this into you.
"One on one" (kind of sports terms here..like in basketball), but these three words can be witnessing terms as well..an activity far more important in our day.
One with One - is far more important to me -- prayer terms. You've heard of initiative-personal evangelism, well I am thinkin' about prayer-evangelism. Musing on allowing the Spirit to guide you tactfully with those verses previously set to memory. During these last days, we can't really afford to miss-apply, or not give sinners and saints what's fitting to help.
One with One on one world changers have an active faith, not a passive one. Are you a faith filled reproducing disciple-maker where those disciples become reproducing disciple-makers? One with One on one can of course go one with One on more than one at a time, but this One (Christ) still saves people one by one.
If you can’t yet believe God for a city or nation-changing awakening or biblical revival.. then believe Him for this into you.
When I see me I see weakness, God sees potential. I feel hopeless just like my story is over, but God doesn’t see that for me.
Today we’ve been seeing the world turning us believers upside down, instead of us turning it upside down by faith.
"But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, ‘These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.’" Acts 17:6 nkjv
- World changers have an active faith, not a passive one. Listen, the more you use of your faith the stronger it gets. Faith is like a muscle, the more you properly use it the stronger it gets. Is your faith all show and no go?
- World changers do things with their faith. Abraham obeyed God. A faith that has no works is a faith that does not work.
- World changers have a faith that can be tested. Christians are like tea bags the strength comes out in hot water. We get faith by hearing, by reading, by grasping or understanding.. and applying the word.
- Faith can make the difference between something good happening or not happening. Remember the lady who appealed to Jesus for daughter.
By contrast.. Jesus could do no mighty works there because of their unbelief. We can stop the work of God in our lives by unbelief.
"So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.’ Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.’" Matthew 13:57-58 nkjv
Without faith it is impossible to please God. He rewards those who diligently seek Him. He wants to work in your life, in your sphere of influence. Apply biblical faith and take wise risks. The mouths of lions can be closed by Him due to your faith. Remember Daniel who daily prayed?.. he didn’t become their meal.
- World changers are indestructible until God is done with them here. Don’t be afraid to die. Better to be in a lion’s den with God than anywhere without him. You.. trust the Lord!
Q. By faith Philip went public instead of always staying private? There's a time for private and alone with the Lord, but there is a time to go tactfully share the gospel with the unregenerate. Do you recall when the Holy Spirit used an angel of the Lord to guide Philip into one-on-one world-changing? He boldly preached Christ in a non-preachy way to a very loved Ethiopian. We each can do that.
"So when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans. 26 Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, “Arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is desert. 27 So he arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to worship, 28 was returning. And sitting in his chariot, he was reading Isaiah the prophet. 29 Then the Spirit said to Philip, “Go near and overtake this chariot.” 30 So Philip ran to him, and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?” 31 And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 The place in the Scripture which he read was this: “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before its shearer is silent, So He opened not His mouth. 33 In His humiliation His justice was taken away, And who will declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth.” 34 So the eunuch answered Philip and said, “I ask you, of whom does the prophet say this, of himself or of some other man?” 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him. 36 Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized?” 37 Then Philip said, “If you believe with all your heart, you may.” And he answered and said, “I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.” 38 So he commanded the chariot to stand still. And both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and he baptized him. 39 Now when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, so that the eunuch saw him no more; and he went on his way rejoicing." Acts 8:25-39 nkjv Fish4souls.org .. Photos by Pavel Kononenko, Jed Villejo, Anon. Thanks!
