A Reason a Day #12

You must be a soul winner and allow the Lord to send you out to win souls so that you will not be sent out by persecution and other troubles, like the early church.

Acts 8:1-4 KJV
And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles. [2] And devout men carried Stephen to his burial , and made great lamentation over him. [3] As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison. [4] Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.

Amanda Berry Smith said, "To stay here and disobey God-I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed."

God is issuing a warning to the Church: "If you don't spread out, I will spread you out Myself." Did you know that the early church did not fully obey the instruction to win souls?

God has different ways of getting us to obey Him. When the early church refused to go out, God allowed a strong persecution to come her way. He sent a man, Saul, to harass the church until the people were forced to travel away from Jerusalem in order to avoid death.

Many churches experience splits and painful divisions. If you look carefully, you will realize that many of these painful divisions lead to church growth in the long run. The reason is that more ministers are allowed to develop their gifts and more churches are established. Are you waiting for your church to split up before you obey God?

I laugh when people criticize me for planting many churches in the same city. I muse that these people do not know what they are talking about. I have very large and successful branch churches just a few metres from where I am. Most of these pastors used to work with me at headquarters. When I sensed the potential in them to minister, I sent them out to begin churches. Most of them have succeeded in establishing solid Bible-based churches, and the entire ministry has expanded because of this.

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