RHAPSODY OF REALITIES (Saturday, December 21st, 2013)

HIS PARTNERS IN SOUL WINNING – BY PASTOR ANITA

Preach the word; be instant in season,
out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort
with all longsuffering and doctrine (2
Timothy 4:2). The Lord Jesus, talking about His mission
in Luke 19:10 declared, “…the Son of
man is come to seek and to save that
which was lost.” This statement clearly
underlines how passionate the Master
was about soul winning. He considered it much more important than physical
food when He said to His disciples, “…My
meat is to do the will of him that sent
me, and to finish his work” (John 4:34). In Matthew 9:38, the Lord, once again,
conveyed the urgency and importance
of soul winning to His disciples by
saying, “Pray ye therefore the Lord of
the harvest, that he will send forth
labourers into his harvest.” He finished His work here on earth and went to
heaven, but before His departure, He
charged the Church to, “…Go ye into all
the world, and preach the gospel to
every creature” (Mark 16:15). We’re
God’s co-labourers today in the ministry of soul winning (1 Corinthians 3:9). The responsibility of preaching the
Gospel has been passed on to us. Our
theme verse says, “Preach the word; be
instant in season, out of season…,” in
other words, preach the Gospel when
you feel like it, and when you don’t. It’s your life vocation. You practise it,
whether or not you feel like doing it.
You’re to partner with the Lord in
winning others, not only because it’s our
vocation, but because you’re persuaded
by the love of Christ. Don’t say, “Well, if the anointing comes
on me, I’ll preach.” That’s wrong,
because we don’t need any more
anointing to preach the Gospel than we
did when we received the Holy Spirit.
Acts 1:8: “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.” God has already sent and anointed you
to preach the Gospel; don’t wait for
another sign or instruction.

PRAYER: Dear Father, thank you for
making me a partner with you in soul
winning; I’ve set my heart to be faithful
to the call of leading the unsaved in my
world to Christ. I thank you for the
increased grace you’ve granted me to be fruitful in this endeavour, in Jesus’ Name.
Amen.

FURTHER STUDY: 1 Corinthians 3:9: For we
are labourers together with God: ye are
God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
2 Corinthians 5:18-20: And all things are
of God, who hath reconciled us to
himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given
to us the ministry of reconciliation; To
wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling
the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath
committed unto us the word of
reconciliation. Now then we are
ambassadors for Christ, as though God
did beseech you by us: we pray you in
Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

1 Year Bible Reading Plan: Revelation
13:1-10; Daniel 5-6

2 Year Bible Reading Plan: Acts 2:14-24;
2 Chronicles 35