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
- Spend
a Minute to Change the World
- Pray
For Jordan - Nearly 4,000,000 Arabic peoples
- 94%
Muslim, 7,000 Evangelicals
- Be
sure to teach this lesson to others.
- Always
pray and prepare well adding
- 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 God’s 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 Elijah’s day, and their Roman and
Greek counterparts in Paul’s 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.
-
- Cultural Hurdles
- Because we have to leave familiar people and
common values.
-
- 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 God’s 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.
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To Close Pray For The
World's Most Unreached Peoples By Name
Taken from the
Joshua
Project Unreached Peoples List these people have no
churchand as yet no cell, church or mission has committed themselves
to prayer, adoption or church planting among this people.
Oman
|
People
Name
|
Language
|
Population
|
Mahra
|
Mahri
|
109,000
|
Persian
(Irani)
|
Farsi,
Western
|
38,000
|
Shihuh
|
Arabic,
Shihhi Spoken
|
10,000
|
|