Could a 100,000 souls be reaped this year?…
Could a 100,000 souls be reaped this year?… I have been led by the Lord to challenge everyone of you that land on this site to help lead 100,000 souls in America to Christ this year in 2012. Here is how this challenge came about: After responding to a couple of threads at sermonindex.net, sharing how easy it is in order to get someone saved actually is, The Lord ask me “do you believe what you said?” my response was “It’s is written and what is written in your word I believe it with my heart, Yes Lord I believe it”. How many Souls reaped? Then he ask me, “How many souls can you believe in your heart can be saved this year?” I had to pause and ponder this question for quite a while before I could honestly answer his question. “Lord I can believe for 100 souls this year…” Folks, my heart for the lost is big, yet I was stretching my faith to its extreme when I said 100, because honestly it is more like 5 or 6 in a year. That is my average, if we are thinking in baseball terms, which isn’t very good. What’s yours? Plus, to add to this, my wife’s parents are living with us because they are aged and need a lot of care. As a matter of fact, their doctors have been recommending that we place them in a nursing home. Yet we are equipped and I am able to do the work needed. So, my wife and I feel it is better to be with family than in a nursing home. Amen. Yet if you will hold Mary Jo and Glen Shelton up in prayer, I would be appreciative of your support. How 100,000 souls could be saved or reaped… When individuals and Churches in America would catch the same vision. However, I believe there could be 300 souls saved from this blog alone in a year and I also believe that is a conservative number. I am going to believe for 300 souls saved from this blog from America alone in 2012. Amen. Here again is my thought that brought me to this conclusion: Back in the 80′s my wife and I were involved in Amway. If anyone is familier with Amway at all, what I did was find prospects that were looking to get involved in their own home based business. When I would give a presentation I would draw circles. The first circle would look like this: 1. You – Prepare to witness to 6 people. this includes prayer, scripture memorization or carry a new testament with you. Read your bible daily. Prepare to train those that you helped our Lord Jesus, reaped. 2. You talk to 6 people about Christ by Introducing them to the Gospel. If they are ready lead them through the sinners prayer and celabrate their salvation. Other wise you are sowing the word. Someone else will reap what you have sown soon. According to the word we have been called to reap. John 4:38 3. Teach them to do the same thing you did by introducing others to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If each of the 6 just get 4 other people and continue this witnessing cycle, 6 times 4 = 24 new Christian disciples and reapers. Then if those 4 do the same and get just 2 each 4X2= 8 that is 48 new disciples. Then those 2 just get one each 50 new disiples for Christ. Now this could happen with in a few days time or it could happen in as little as an afternoon. Ok, this is may be poor example of how the gospel spreads, but I think you get the idea here. Now here is something that might excite you all, in the Gospel of John chapter 4:35-38 reads: Johns Gospel from the Weymouth translation 4:35 Do you not say, ‘It wants four months yet to the harvest’? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains — they are already ripe for the sickle. 4:36 The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together. 4:37 For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, ‘The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.’ 4:38 I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labors. Others have labored, and you are getting benefit from their labors.” The Lord showed me this verse in particular. Did you read what it says? Look at verse 36, 37, and 38 again. If this doesn’t set you on fire, then your wood is wet. Verse 36: The reaper gets pay (the kjv says wages) and gathers in a crop in preparation for the life of ages. The pay or wages here is refering to souls and the value of a soul will bring much fruit and will be mark to the credit of the sowers and the reapers What an Investment. I also believe that if you reap souls as a soul winner, The Lord will provide all your needs acording to his riches in Glory. So, regardless of your circumstances, the Lord will provide for you. Then the Lord had me read John 4:7-33. I won’t past it here, so, grab your bible and read it for yourself. After I had read these verse the Lord had me read John 4:39-45 verse 41 is pivotal. I believe that Lord is telling us that the harvest is ready and if we act in faith we will reap where others have sown. John 4:38 I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labors. Others have labored, and you are getting benefit from their labors. The Lord has already commissioned us to reach the world in Mark 16:14-18 16:14 Later still He showed Himself [...]
