Welcome to
the month of December 2018: Our Month of The Ingathering
He that is not
with me is against me; He that gathereth not with me scattereth – Mt.12:30 and
Lk.11:23
I welcome you again to December the last month in the
year also known as our Month of the ingathering. This term is gotten from the
Hebrew tradition that made it a feast at the end of the year where the people
came together to celebrate the harvest of all their labours for the year. It
was a time when I believe God symbolically causes His people to reap from all
the fruit for their efforts throughout the year.
It was a time of the year when the Lord caused the
children of Israel to reap the fruit of all they did throughout the year
whether good or evil. In our case however, we are told that while the Law was
given by Moses, grace and truth came by the Lord Jesus Christ. See John 1:17.
To this extent, we can receive mercy from God following a true repentance from
the heart for all the wrongs we may have done. However, by the same mercy and
grace of God, we can receive a harvest of good things for all that God has
graciously allowed us to do right throughout this year.
In our case, we can liken our experience to the origin
of the feast of Purim always held in the last month of the Jewish year Adar
form the thirteenth to the fifteenth day of the Month when they were allowed to
avenge all that hated them; a period when their enemies hoped to gain the
advantage over them which God caused to be turned around in their favour as God
caused the enemies to be smitten before them after they sought His face for His
intervention.
In our case, God has caused us to embark on a
spiritual enlargement exercise throughout this year which was intensified from
March up till now. In this twelfth month, God will turn around the evil
expectation of the enemy towards us making us gain the victory over him as he
turns their curses into our blessings in Jesus’ name. We learn from Job 5:12-14
that the Lord frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot
perform their enterprise. That he takes the wise in their own craftiness that
their counsel is headlong and they end up in darkness even at daytime because
they begin to grope in confusion. This is what God is set to do to all our
haters in this month of the ingathering.
Finally, before His ascension, after His victory on
Calvary Cross, the Lord left us with the great commission to make disciples of
all men baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. He
commanded us to teach them to observe all that He has taught us assuring us
that He will be with us always even to the end of the age. This year, He has
graciously led us to do this through the spiritual enlargement exercise and His
word as well as the various Nehemiah projects He has caused us to embark upon.
No matter the craftiness of the wicked, God’s truth cannot fail. Has blessed us
with light and understanding this year and enabled us to receive the power that
goes with walking in His love in spite of the demands it places on us. While we
are still believing God to perfect us in this, we are set to harvest souls in
obedience to the great commission in order to receive God’s return on all the
positive spiritual investments we have made this year.
In light of the foregoing, this month, we shall be
looking at a theme I call evangelism with power. During His earthly ministry,
the Lord went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the
devil. When he sent His disciples out to win the lost to God, He gave them
power against unclean spirits to cast them out. Further, we are told that He
commanded His disciples to heal the sick, raise the dead and cleanse the lepers
giving freely of His salvation as they had received. See Mt.10:1-8; 28:18-20;
Lk.10:1-12, 19; Acts 1:8; 10:38.
As a matter of fact, as far as the Lord is concerned,
since the great commission was given to His Church, anyone not engaging in it
is actually scattering the flock. We find this truth in our text scriptures in
Mt.12:30 and Lk.11:23. This is why this moth of the ingathering we are going to
enlist in a huge way in obeying the great commission. We shall therefore be
looking at God giving us understanding of evangelism with signs and wonders.
This is because the lost most of the time will not believe except they see
signs and wonders as the Lord tells us in Jn.4:48. The word of God is replete
with insights on evangelism with signs and wonders which I want to refer to as
Divine evangelism. Thus our theme for this month’s teachings will be: Divine Evangelism. Only evangelism
masterminded by the Holy Spirit will deliver in signs and wonders and the word
of God tells us how this is done.
It is my heart felt prayer that you will engage in
God’s promptings of us to do this in this great month of ingathering so that we
can bring in a huge harvest for the Master as we await His soon return in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Meanwhile someone wants to engage but is not eligible
because you are not yet saved to be able to help save others. I have good news
for you, you can immediately become qualified through true repentance and
learning the ways of God so that you can command His acts. If you will take
advantage of this today, it would not take long for you to be involved in the
harvest depending on your heart. If you desire to be part of this great
commission, please say the following prayer out loud in faith and qualify
yourself for this great experience:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a
sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died for me and you raised Him from the
dead for my Justification. I therefore declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour
and Lord and from today, I renounce the fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus
Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you for this father in Jesus’ name! Amen.
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