“YOU SAY….blah blah blah….. God Says….”

This was a great reminder by Marcus Elzey on what the Turth is about ourselves… what God says about us as opposed to what we say about ourselves… and we all know which is more true!

Read the full inspiring entry HERE

Wow what a night!!!  Its taken me a while to post about it ~ things have been really busy around here

We had been preparing for a long time here in Australia, and the week leading up to it, CEGC was fasting and praying, studying the classic book “When God Visits You” by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome (due to having kids, I prepared here at home).  Viewing here in Aus started very early in the morning, and the day leading up to it ~ it was a very funny day.  To me, it certainly felt as if the world had stopped spinning and was holding its breath for NoB to begin.

We spent a long time in prayer at the CEGC viewing centre, then watched a bit of the dance and song ministrations… then without warning the man of God Pastor Chris appeared on camera walking in his dazzling white suit.  It was as if I had been winded and I almost fell down flat on my face (and some of the brethren actually did). 

Throughout the service, Pastor released words that will not only change each individual, their families and those in their sphere of contact… but those words have changed governments, countries, and THE WORLD!

Thousands were healed ~ lives were changed ~ destinies were altered ~ miracles were wrought ~ calls were answered ~ people were refreshed ~ purposes were concreted ~ the brethren were CHANGED… all by the Word.

Go to www.christembassy.org or www.loveworldchristiannetwork.org  to get more info and order materials that will change your life for ever.  Stay tuned here as I post more in depth on what happened on NoB Jo’burg 2008 in posts ‘to come’.

God bless you real good

Outreaches/evangelism events are just so exciting… to have so many people to preach to, the stories, prayers and ministrations that will take place… the souls that will be birthed into the Kingdom at one time. The fruits of your labour (prayers, planning, giving of your substance etc) pay off there and then. These events are awesome, and essential to the Christian individual and church as ways of preaching the Gospel to all nations.

However, I believe that we need to cultivate a culture of evangelism. We need to continue to train ourselves to minister to those we encounter on a daily basis; an every day effort as well as large planned efforts.

* Be an example ~ be the Message! The Word says to let your light SO SHINE (Matt 5:16), and your are a city that is set upon a hill that cannot be hid (Matt 5:14). Use your influence and be a light to your world, showing them the ways of the Master.

* Find a need and fill it! Read Acts chapter 8, how Philip approached the eunuch asking if he could help him understand the scripture he was reading. The same way you can express your abundance in Christ to those around you, which will (as an added bonus) build trust and an opening to tell them the Good News.

* Actively display your Christianity, and be approachable to others. Some people have never heard of Jesus, and others want to know more about Him, but don’t know who to talk to. Inspire others to find out what that ’something special’ is about you.
This is why I have started designing clothes, cups, bags etc, with short comments, which you can purchase at www.cafepress.com/christ_in_you1 These can help inspire questions from unbelievers (opening doors to minister), and spread the word that Jesus is the same ~ yesterday, today and forever!

Make it a priority every day to tell someone what Jesus did for them. Renew your committment to your individual evangelism, because it is not just the Pastor’s responsibility to bring other’s to Christ ~ and approach your church and find out what programs are running to reach out to the unbelievers in your area that you can participate in. You make a difference, and no-one can do things the way you can!

**BTW, I would love to hear about your personal and group evangelism efforts and outreaches! Testify and share what worked for you, inspire your brethren, and help them achieve as intensly as you have! Just leave it in a comment here…**

Many people think they know what ’sin’ is.  One might answer that sin is going against the Ten Commandments, or ‘fornication’, perhaps ‘envy’… the thing is that these are examples of sin, but they don’t define what the root of sin is.   The thing is, man has a definition of what sin is, ‘religious’ folks have one and the Most High God has His.

My Pastor preached a message on this, called “The Concept of Sin”, and I would like to share with you part of the definition he gave.

Reading from Rom 14:22 (KJV) says:
22Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
23And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

The sames verses in the CEV are:
22What you believe about these things should be kept between you and God. You are fortunate, if your actions don’t make you have doubts.
23But if you do have doubts about what you eat, you are going against your beliefs. And you know that is wrong, because anything you do against your beliefs is sin.

So anything you do, that is not of faith (which works by love ~ Gal 5:6) is sin. Sin is going against what you believe to be alright and true. That is the root of sin, from the bible. We can say that fornication is a sin, envy is a sin, etc etc, but one should understand why it is a sin.  We can read examples and analogies that describe it, but I believe this is the clearest definition.

But halelujah, there is now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus!

God bless you all mightily…