Marching Order - 2

Respect the Ground Rules - In Everything Team

Update 2/4/11

2Corinthians 9 : 8 - "And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all you need, you will abound in every good work."

In the coming conflict God has given us the high honor of working together with Him to reach the lost. As we were free to choose between following Jesus or turning away, so will the lost whom we encounter. We can talk to them, pray for them, feed them, heal them and protect them, but we cannot choose for them. They must be free, and we're never to apply any pressure to sway them to unite their hearts with Christ's beyond telling them the honest Truth of what their lives will be like for all eternity if they choose to live forever as someone who rejected the gift of the Loving God.

As Jesus ministered in His day, He united the physical world with the spiritual world in much of what He did. Jesus did not create a coin out of thin air, but He had Peter fish for one; He did not create the wine out of thin air, but turned water into wine. The physical is our contribution to the effort, and the result is God's. In the Old Testament, God could have given Goliath a heart attack, but He had David throw a stone; thus they combined in the God/David combo to win the great combined victory. Moses had his staff, Noah had his boat, Samson had his hair, Gideon had his trumpets, and on and on and on.

As we learn to work together with the Power of the Holy Spirit we too will see the combining of the physical with the spiritual. That way the Spirit and us are both contributing to the team win. If you have some food, God can multiply it so that it's all you will need with plenty to spare to share with others. If you need water, ask God and He will help you. Just don't speak to the rock on your own expecting it to work just because you willed it to. Anything that we attempt to do for God outside of the team effort will fail, and disappoint God. We are yoked to Jesus, and His Yoke is light, but don't try to pull Him in the direction that you want Him to go, instead cooperate with the Spirit and go the way He leads you.

Finally, one of the greatest things that God will bring to the table to win the lost is the return of the abundance of food. Before we rise, the antichrist will have already set the stage for a horrible famine, and nothing will help us to win the hearts and the minds of the people to Christ faster then if we can begin to take care of their immediate physical needs. Feeding, healing, comforting, and loving the lost as Jesus would, will initially speak to them much clearer then any sermon that we attempt to deliver, however remember the love and the Message go together hand in hand as the opportunities to share the Truth arise. As a Body, during the harvest window, we will have unlimited spiritual resources at our finger tips so there will be no need to hold back any of the Goodness of the Lord from anyone, at any time. Selfishness, pride, and greed must be put away, because we will have more then we need and it will never be our accomplishments that bring it to us.

Note: When we are filled with the Holy Spirit of Power, God can, overnight, make food grow and make fresh clean waters flow, even in the desert, if it's God's Will to do so and if we will ask it of Him in Jesus' Name. Isaiah 49 : 9b - 10 - "They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill. They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or sun beat upon them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water."