In Your Bible Read This
Daniel 10
Here Is Your Memory Verse
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil,
and he will flee from you. James 4.7
Afterwards Talk About
This
In Acts 16. 6-10 the Holy Spirit stopped Paul, in 1 Thess 2.18
Satan stopped him, and 1 Cor. 16.12 Apollos himself was unwilling.
How can you tell who is stopping you?
Something To Do Before
Next Time
Find 2 new believers each from any church. Visit and
encourage them.
They may be facing all kinds of opposition.
Written Diploma Work
Satan stopped an experienced soldier like Paul.
Write one page on how you think he did that.
Meditate Word By Word On
This Verse
1 Peter 5, 6-11
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a Minute to Change the World
- Pray For Jordan -
Nearly 4,000,000 Arabic peoples
- 94% Muslim, 7,000
Evangelicals
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Be sure to
teach this lesson to others.
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Always pray
and prepare well adding
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your own verses and stories to
bring it to life.
Have you ever noticed what happens when
anyone decides to follow Jesus? Family members suddenly become
experts in religion and the arguments fly. Mention either water
baptism or being filled with the Spirit and speaking in tongues
and watch the smiles vanish.
1. Someone Is Upset!
Ephesians 6.12 says that our warfare is not
against flesh and blood, so it is Satan, and his evil network
that opposes our:
- Salvation
- Where Satan loses his grip, and worse
for him, God gets inside you.
- Water Baptism
- Where man's old sinful nature is cut
off.
- Spirit Baptism
- Where new nature is empowered.
When Satan fails his next plan is to try
and keep new believers in such blindness that they only go to
church on Sunday and give a few pesos each week.
2. Onwards, For Jesus
Now if you dare to pray about 'missions,'
really watch out for explosions of inner fears, family tears and
even misunder-standing at Church, because mission is the vehicle
by which the born-again, victorious, spirit filled and led
follower of Jesus can make his greatest impact upon the world
around him for Christ.
The Bible says that without a vision the
people perish, Proverbs 29.18, and that is exactly what Satan
wants. First he wants you to perish from boredom and then he
wants a world of people to perish eternally with him. Your life
in the hands of the Holy Spirit may mean eternal life for many
men and women.
- One In Every Hundred
- Why is it only 1 out of every 100
believers that say yes to missions actually make it to
the field? Are prior commitments to marriage, employment
or studies, or lack of money the real reasons? Or are
some invisible hands at work yet again conspiring to stop
new believers, pastors, elders, even entire churches from
entering into the Great Commission?
3. Who Is Stopping You?
Is It Holy Spirit?
Surprisingly it is God, the Holy Spirit who will stop you
first, as a friend. If you are willing to serve you become
such a precious person that Holy Spirit may stop you if your
direction, methods or timing is wrong. He does not want you
to make a mistake and go wrong. See Acts 16, 6-10; Isaiah 30.21
Is it Evil Spirit?
The very last thing that the spirits of anti-Christ want
is the gospel preached in all nations and the King to return.
From inside their fortress of worldwide faiths like Islam,
they mock us, saying, "You will never get in here. Look
how big we are, how many of us oppose you, how small and
divided you are!" But in 1 Chronicles 11,4-5 with Gods
help resistant Jerusalem fell, and recently so did the Berlin
Wall and the giant of communism. We may think we are as small
and weak as snowflakes, but when snowflakes get together they
stop a city!
What happened to those demon princes of
Greece and Persia, or to the gods in Elijahs day, and
their Roman and Greek counterparts in Pauls day, Zeus
or Hermes for example? Did they become extinct? These are
eternal beings unfettered by time and mortality with an
everlasting strategy of wickedness to hold every age in
darkness. So, if the prince of Mexico knows you are coming he
may well order strikes against you now to discourage you
before you leave home and come his way. So don't be surprised
by sudden friction with family and fellow believers probably
when you least expect it.
Is it Your Own Human Spirit?
Most unreached peoples are very different to us and not
many believers are prepared to go and live with them and show
them Jesus. We can see the reasons in Genesis 12.1-3, where
Abram is called by God. Satan of course is also a master of
exaggeration and fear.
- Geographical Obstacles
- Because we have to leave our own
familiar country.
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- Cultural Hurdles
- Because we have to leave familiar
people and common values.
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- Social Challenges
- Because we have to leave family and
church and move to a people whom we suspect and they
suspect us.
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- Personal Fears
- Swirling thoughts keep us awake at
night struggling with the fear of not being in control,
fear of change, or fears of failure in finances or
languages. The fact is that we are all so used to comfort
and ease and very used to going to church where
everything is done for us. When we go somewhere else we
may well have to be the church for someone else!
4. Overcoming The
Darkness
- Defeat the conspiracy with Godly steps:
- Follow Gods call. Be compelled
by the love of Christ, 2 Corinthians 5.14.
- Be discipled into maturity. Victory
comes out of weakness through prayer, spiritual warfare,
wisdom and the supportive fellowship of leaders and
friends who want you to succeed.
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- Be trained in the Bible and skills.
- Be an apprentice on the field.
- Finally, be a mentor to others.
Taken from the
Joshua Project Unreached Peoples List
these people have no church and as yet
no cell, church or mission has committed themselves
to prayer, adoption or church planting among this people.
Oman
|
People Name |
Language |
Population
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Mahra |
Mahri |
109,000
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Persian (Irani) |
Farsi, Western |
38,000
|
Shihuh |
Arabic, Shihhi Spoken |
10,000
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