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You have been saved; this means you have believed in your heart the Lord Jesus and confessed
his Lordship over your life (Romans 10:8-10). It also means that you have, as a result of this,
received eternal life- Life in its absolute sense; the Godkind of life (John 3:16, John 1:4, John
4:14, John 6:47, John 10:10,28).
You have believed the Good news of Jesus- the message of salvation- and this makes you born
again (regenerated), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm) but from one that is immortal, by
the ever living and lasting Word of God.
I Peter 1:23 (AMP.)
This means that the Word of God which was preached to you and which you believed got you
born again. This same Word has become your origin with I Peter 1:23 describing it as immortal
(incorruptible, indestructible). You have him now in your heart.
This is what qualifies you to be an herald of the good news of Jesus Christ. It is the reason life can
be reproduced in another heart when you preach. The unregenerate cannot preach the Gospel
for this message of reconciliation has not been committed to them but to the saved. The blind
cannot lead the blind; neither can a lost one show another the way.
Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and teachers of the Law calling them blind leaders of the blind.
This is because they did not have a precise understanding of the Law they taught and sought to
uphold. As a result, their leadership was a burden to the people. They could not perceive the
path of life,much less lead others to walk in it.
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The unbelieving one does not know who to call on. He does not know what to believe because he
has not heard what to believe. This in turn stems from the fact that nobody has preached to him
though God has sent many (Romans 10:13-15, Matthew 28:19). The unreached will remain that way
until someone reaches out to them.
The world will continue in darkness and death until the light of the glorious gospel of Christ
shines on them. They will always carry on without God and without hope (Eph. 2:12) until the Word
of truth is preached, to translate them into the kingdom of God's dear Son (Col. 1:13).
You, however, have become alive unto God (Eph. 2:1). Now you are in tune and in perfect harmony
with Him (Eph. 2:14). God can therefore communicate His thoughts to your heart unrestrainedly.
The person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. I Corinthians 6:17 (AMP.)
You can be sure that the thought, which is foremost in God's mind, is the though t of the
unreached. This is made obvious by the fact that He gave his all as seen in John 3:16 (AMP.)
For God so loved and dearly prized the world that He (even) gave up his only begotten (unique)
Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to
destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
God dearly loves and dearly prizes the unsaved. He did not wait to hear the world cry out for
salvation, rather, of his own free will He set about, carrying out the Redemptive plan and called
out to all when it was done.
But God shows and clearly proves His (own) love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners,
Christ (the Messiah) died for us Romans 5:8 (AMP.)
God takes no pleasure in the death of the sinner and therefore constantly searches for hearts
that burn ceaselessly like His, with a passion for the lost, with whom He can work effectively, by
His Spirit. He has shown us His love by sending Jesus to die for us. Now we ought to show our own
love for him by taking the Message of salvation to the world.
More so, you have enjoyed a sweet fellowship with Him and other members of His Body, having
become a child of God. You have tasted of His goodness and partaken of His nature (II Peter 1:4).
You dwell in His Presence, walk daily (as you are being taught) in the knowledge of His Word and
bask in the richness of His Love. Now, God expects you to share these with others who have not.
Remember you are to love as Christ has loved you. This simply means that you are to do much,
tell much and share much about what Christ has done for you. God wants you to be aware and
conscious of His thoughts concerning the unsaved and as His son, be devoted in carrying them out,
Thank God! His thoughts are definitely not mysterious. They have been made known in His Word
as we see in I Tim. 2:4, which tells us that God wishes all men to be saved and come to the
knowledge of the truth (KJV).
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Jesus declared in Luke 4:18-19 The spirit of the Lord is (is) upon me because He has
anointed me (the anointed one, the messiah), to preach the good news (the gospel) to the
poor. He has sent me to announce release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to
send forth as delivered those who are oppressed (who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed
and broken down by calamity);To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the
lord(the day when salvation and the free favours of GOD abound) (also Isa 61:1-2) AMP.
In the sight of God, the minute Jesus was born into the world, the work of salvation was as
good as done. Jesus declared that He was anointed to preach the Gospel to the poor. He
did the perfect will of the Father throughout His earth-walk and He is described as the sole
expression of the Glory of God, the perfect imprint and very image of God's divine nature
(Heb 1:3) AMP. This will is redemption from spiritual death which has resulted into sickness
and poverty. The Gospel proclaims that all these profusely abound in this dispensation of
God's favour.
This Gospel indeed is health to the sick, strength to the weak, comfort to the troubled,
peace to the anxious, the truth to the deceived, the way to the lost, the light and the
direction to the wandering, life to the dead. In a word, the Gospel is God's one and only
solution to humanity's problem. It is All the Power of God to save man (Rom. 1:16).
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Pray for boldness (Acts 4:29-31). The gospel of Jesus should not be preached with
timidity, fear, or in cowardice. The boldness that would accompany your speech and
deeds as you evangelize should mark you out as a disciple of Jesus, just like it did the
early apostles.Now when they saw the boldness and unfettered eloquence of peter
and John and perceived that they were untrained and unlearned in the schools
they marveled; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus (acts 4:13).You
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Don't have to possess a long list of academic qualifications to preach the gospel
effectively. The apostles Peter and John were obviously bold despite their lack of
education; they preached the gospel and got marvelous results. Apostle Paul in 1
Cor. 2:1-2 said; As for myself brethren, when I came to you, I did not come
proclaiming to you the testimony .of God (concerning what he has done through
Christ for the salvation of men) in lofty words of eloquence. And wisdom; for I
resolved to know nothing (.to make a display of the knowledge of nothing and to
be conscious of nothing) among you except Jesus Christ and him Crucified.Even
though Apostle Paul on the other hand was educated, he did not go about preaching
the gospel with the consciousness of it, neither did he seek to display knowledge,
rather he stuck to and was conscious of his message which is Christ and his death on
the cross. So whether you are educated or not, what GOD expects of you as you go is
to be focused.
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Pray that the Word of the Lord will spread rapidly among the unsaved people you are
about to reach out to (II Thess. 3:1).
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Pray also that the Message which you bear will be received as the very Word of God,
not that of man and therefore be strictly adhered to.
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Pray for wisdom (James 1:5) to handle effectively whatever situation you might be
faced with and to answer wisely, skillfully, any questions you might be asked without
getting into fruitless discussions and arguments. Declare also, according to God's
Word that you have a mouth and wisdom which no one can resist. Luke 21:15For I
(Myself) will give you a mouth and such utterance and wisdom that all of your foes
combined will be unable to stand against and refute. Acts 6:10 (AMP.)
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Pray for utterance (Eph. 6:19): that you would say by the Holy Ghost, just the right
thing in every situation and to each person or group of people while speaking at the
same time freely and without reservations.
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You will do well to pray also for those you are preparing to reach out to. You should
not however, leave this aspect out just until you are about to go on evangelism.
Rather, it should be done more often that. You should start your praying long before
you set out.
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Prayer is an activity, which has a definite way in which it should be carried out. Prayer is based on
the kind of agreement or relationship between the one praying and the one receiving in prayer (I
John 5: 9-12, 14-15),
Prayer has different forms because because there are different circumstances. God loves the
world (John 3:16). It is therefore His desire that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of
the Truth
who desires all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth? (I Tim. 2:4)
The knowledge of salvation and God's Love cannot be discerned by the natural man (Romans 8:78, II Cor. 4:4), it is beyond his comprehension. This makes obvious the fact that just like every other
spiritual activity, the battle of evangelism is won in the place of prayer.
God makes His thought on this issue clear when the scripture says in I Tim 2:1-2
First of all, then, I admonish and urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be
offered on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in positions of authority or high
responsibility, that (outwardly) we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life (and inwardly) a
peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way: AMP.
The believer can be sure he is doing God's will when he gives himself to praying for the unsaved.
Such praying is good and right and it is pleasing and acceptable to God our savior (I Tim. 2:3). God
takes pleasure in hearing the prayers of the believers for the unsaved and we know that when He
hears, we have what we ask of Him I John 5:15).
There are different forms of prayer applicable in different situations but here- in praying for the
unsaved- more attention will be given to intercession and supplication. Intercession means to
stand in the gap, that is, to bridge a gap between two parties; act as umpire between two warring
parties. Intercession also means to stop the hand of judgment from coming down on another.
Abraham made intercession for Sodom and Gomorrah to stop the deserved judgment for their
sins (Gen 18:23-32).
The believer has become a house of prayer for all nations (Luke 19:46, Isa. 56:7) - he has become
God's dwelling place. Prayer is supposed to issue forth from him for men of different tongues,
tribes, and races.
Supplication simply means to make entreaties- to make a petition or an earnest heartfelt request.
Examples of this form of prayer run all through the scriptures. We see King Solomon (I Kings 8)
making heartfelt requests, entreaties and petitions to God as he dedicated the Temple he had
built. God's answer to that prayer was recorded in chapter 9: The Lord told him, I have heard your
prayer and supplication which you have made before me (I Kings 9:19). Worthy of mention is
Hannah's heartfelt, earnest continued prayer for a child (I Samuel 1:10-21), Samuel was the result
of that prayer.
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Apart from the II Cor. 4:4, general problems of the unbelievers, there are a few other
reasons why some unbelievers have remained so. We see this in Romans 10:13-15, which
says: For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord (invoking Him as Lord) will be
saved. But how are people to call on him whom they have not believed (in whom they have
no faith, on whom they have no reliance)? And how are they to believe in Him of whom
they have never heard? And how are they to hear without a preacher? And how can men be
expected to preach unless they are sent?
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