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Sometimes working for the Kingdom starts as a discipline in us, but it needs to become a passion.
Our desires also need to sync up with His desires. When we spend time with God, we start to recognize all the ways Jesus is at work around us, and then we can join in with what He’s doing.
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“Help me pay attention to all the ways You’re working around me, Lord, and join in with what You’re doing.”
morning prayer
His promptings are often light as a feather that lands on your arm; it would be easy to brush it off and ignore it.
we need to pursue God encounters like a hunter pursues its prey.
God’s gift to you is ability and your gift to God is availability,
“God says, ‘You go and I’ll show.’”
luke 10:1 jesus sent the disciples to every place he was about to go.
For me, it’s often the case that I sense God wants to speak, but I have no clue what He wants to say until I begin speaking.
Sometime if you just have a sense that God wants to say something to someone, I would encourage you to step into that in faith.
One definition of grace is “the power of God to do the will of God” (see Philippians 2:13).
When we approach people, God wants us to go as ourselves and be ourselves. You might not feel extremely confident in what your spiritual gifts are or operate at a high level of what you think of as “supernatural” ministry. You might not even be comfortable with the idea of evangelism, but the Holy Spirit is comfortable with it. The Holy Spirit is the ultimate evangelist, constantly pointing people to Jesus. As we step out in dependence on Him and follow those small promptings, He teaches us how to reach people.
encouragement for anyone to do evangelism
As Christians, we’re often in danger of becoming theoreticians rather than practitioners of the Kingdom.
It’s not about the miracles; it’s not about the healing. The goodness and beauty of the Kingdom is about the King. The Kingdom of God is about the revelation of its King and the reconciliation of the King with His people.
great summary of the kingdom of god
All of us have more authority than we realize, and so much more than we currently operate in.
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often I’ve prayed for people eight or ten times before I’ve seen a change. As I’ve pressed in, however, I’ve yet to see the limit.
this world’s status quo is actually at odds with the Kingdom of God and the transformation He wants to bring.
Taking risks is the very definition of living by faith; we live not by our past experiences or by what we see, but by what we believe and what God’s Word says is true about us—that we’ll actually do what Jesus did.
Living by faith means taking risks. Dont be ruled by our past disappointment .
Pictures or flashes or impressions may come to mind as we pray. It can be through our bodies, which might involve sympathy pain, unexpected emotions (tears, joy or peace) or a sense of peace in difficulties. It even can be through movies that we watch.
how we an listen to go as we minister.
We have a tendency to say, “God, if You’ll anoint me, I’ll go.” God says, “If you’ll go, I’ll anoint you.”
We aren’t the main act—God is. But He’s made us a crucial part of the breaking in of His Kingdom.
I’m not coming in my name or in my power—I’m trusting that because I’ve shown up, God has shown up.
“If you kept praying for people and you never saw any more healing, would you be willing to keep praying in this way just because it pleases Me?”
It dawned on me in that moment that all the results were for Him, not for me, and they showed His mercy toward those I was praying for. When I realized this, I was able to pray, “Lord, if it pleases You, I’ll continue to do it.” I was able to decide in my heart that I would continue to do it for Him, no matter what.
Have you noticed in Scripture that Jesus never gives His disciples any clue what will happen next?
Faith is always mixed with perseverance, and it pays to persevere.
You can be confident that God is present in a situation simply because you are there and He is in you.
key to understand
simply walk up to anyone and everyone and say, “We’re just walking around town looking for people to pray for. What can we pray for you about? Do you have any pain or sickness? What about family or relational needs? Do you need a job or finances? We’ll pray for anything.”
“Well, could I just pray a prayer of blessing for you right now?”
“free peace-soaking prayer.”
Ask the Lord to show you something specific for a person around you.
God puts His Spirit in each of us so that we can be His priests and the pastors of our workplace, gym, favorite mall, public transportation route or school.
I started speaking, just trusting God that He’d fill my mouth. Honestly, that’s how it works best for me.
Then Victor said something interesting: “Well, we’re all children of God. We don’t have to choose that. We’re already it. God created us all, so we’re all His children. We don’t have to make a choice for Jesus.”
“Yes! In that same way, Jesus wants to be chosen. He wants us to choose Him.”
The reality was that God had been pursuing him his whole life.
When we walk with the expectation that God wants to break in, we’re walking in agreement with the spiritual reality that Jesus declared when He said the fields are white for the harvest
Jesus held Scripture in the highest regard, affirming its divine inspiration, infallibility, final authority and sufficiency.[2]
Through constantly reading the Word of God, we learn to recognize His voice.
Many times while you’re reading the Bible, certain passages will pop off the page as if highlighted. Rather than treating this casually, keep a record as this happens, which is a great way to begin recognizing the way God speaks to you.
In the New Testament and still today, many people operate in the general gift of prophecy that encourages, builds up, comforts and edifies people.
I believe the healthiest way to view prophecy given in the general sense is to handle it as we do any other gift—it should be joyfully embraced by the Church, pastored, trained, developed and held to the same standard of accountability.
In the New Testament, we see three major purposes laid out for prophecy. It’s given first to comfort, strengthen and exhort believers, second as a sign for unbelievers and third to give direction (see 1 Corinthians 14:2–5; 24–25; 1 Timothy 1:18; 4:14).
When people tell me, “I’ve got a loved one who doesn’t know the Lord,” one of the things I pray is, “God, invade the person’s dreams. Reveal Yourself, speak to them and bring clarity. Give them angelic visitations in the night.”
A fortune-teller may be able to tell you your driver’s license number or what you had for dinner, but it won’t change your life. The enemy comes to steal, rob and destroy, but the Spirit comes to give life. A word from the Lord may be as simple as, “God loves you.” When it’s from the Spirit, it will bear fruit. As we reach out, He confirms and the Spirit bears witness.
