Engaging the Holy Spirit for Evangelism

Messages for November 2016: Our Month of Evangelism

Message for Sunday the 27^th of November 2016

Theme: understanding the Publication of the Gospel

Topic: Engaging the Holy Spirit for Evangelism

Jn.14:26; 16:7-13; Acts 1:8; Rm.8:11; 26; 1Cor.12:1-11; Jude 1:20

Introduction: When the Lord had fulfilled His earthly mission on His first advent, He promised His disciples that He was not going to leave them comfortless but that He was going to send them the comforter who He described as the Holy Spirit. He promised many things the Holy Spirit would accomplish in His absence for us. All of these accomplishments of the Holy Spirit are aimed at helping us effectively represent the Lord and testify of Him to a lost world. See Jn.16:7-13

 Thus engaging the ministry of the Holy Spirit in evangelism is the greatest and the best way to get the job of the harvest to which we have been entrusted done. We are therefore going to be looking at the Ministry of the Holy Spirit in evangelism today to enable us understand how we can take advantage of His presence in our lives to win the lost world to the Lord Jesus Christ.

How the Holy Spirit helps us to evangelize: To take advantage of this great gift of God to us in evangelizing, we must first understand that He is God’s special gift to us and therefore cannot be bought with money or earned by good works. He is God’s gift which we must receive by faith to take advantage of. See Acts 1:4-8; Acts 2:38-39; Acts 19:2 and Acts 8:18-24.

Steps to take to involve the Holy Spirit in Evangelism:

1.     The first step anyone must take to be involved in this great harvest is the new birth experience. It is the disciples who are told to make disciples of all nations; not all men. You must first belong; your access point is to be born again. It is only those who are born again that have the privilege to lead other people to Christ. See Jn.3:3-7 and Rm.10:8-10.

2.     The next step is to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. [He has been here since that day of Pentecost when the first century Church first received Him in Acts 2.] This is evidenced in speaking in other tongues as the Holy Spirit empowers you. This is the access point to the supernatural because the Holy Spirit will give you His language which only God and His own angels understand. Also the infilling with the Holy Spirit is one of the signs that marks out a believer and separates him or her from the world. See 1Cor.14:2; 1Cor.13:1 and Mk.16:17.

3.     Pray to God to send labourers into His harvest and ensure you enlist as a labourer. As a labourer, you become an answer to prayer and are instrumental in bringing the good news to others. Some would believe and be saved and some would not believe and be damned. See Mk.16:16; Mt.9:37-38; Lk.10:2 and Jn.4:34-38.

4.     Pray in the Holy Spirit daily to build spiritual capacity for the work of evangelism and be in tune with the Holy Spirit so that He can always use you to help people to know Him. Even when we do not know what and how we should pray, the Holy Spirit will help our weakness. See Rm.8:11 and 26. With His help, we cannot pray amiss [Jas.4:3].

5.     The Holy Spirit will lead you to specific places and people He has prepared to harvest and the work is made easy for you. See the example of Philip helping the Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8:26-40. Also see Acts 16:7-10.

6.     We must demonstrate the gospel we preach by signs and wonders. To move in this realm, we have to understand that we can only work signs and wonders as the Holy Spirit wills and in obedience to His promptings [1Cor.12:11]. This is why we pray in the spirit always to enable us build capacity to hear him easily and obey Him promptly.  Signs happen when you hear a divine command and promptly obey. See Acts 14:8-11; Jn.5:19-22; 30.

7.     When we demonstrate the gospel we preach with signs, multitudes will gather to hear us and be saved because people will not believe except they see signs. Signs are proofs of divine approval. See Jn.4:49; 20:25; 5:36; Acts 2:22 and Mt.4:23-25.

As we come to the end of our month of evangelism, let us understand that it is the beginning of ministering to the lost with greater impact for us and that this habit of evangelism will not pass with this month but will live with us until Jesus comes.

Meanwhile, someone may be reading this that is yet to make a decision for Christ and has just seen the need for this decision and desires to do so right now, you can do it now by saying the following prayer out loud in faith:

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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