 Hey, good morning everyone Welcome to another class of lifestyle evangelism. Let's just begin this time with a word of prayer One of us, please lead us in prayer Father, we thank you for this time you've given us Lord, we pray that as we come before your presence to learn from your word We pray that you would open the eyes of our understanding and help us up all to reveal the mysteries of your word and Help us to understand and live out of the relation that we understand from your God Thank you for this time in Jesus precious name you pray Amen. Amen. Thank you John Okay, so let's just continue from where we picked up last week So last week we looked at chapter six Looked at how we can invite and pray pray for people We looked at the you know the importance or the power of a single invitation and how You know Andrew went and found his brother and then through common interest They both came to know the Messiah and and and so as we are learning all of this You know, I I just pray and you know, that's my heart's desire is that we apply this In our lives wherever we get opportunities to You know to share the gospel to do so and then we also looked at Certain hindrances or some certain things that hold us back from inviting people to explore Jesus and there were a few points. We are too self-conscious at times We're afraid to face rejection now. We're afraid that people may perceive us differently So we also looked at last week and how we should not Compartmentalize our life, which means who we are on Monday to Friday Monday to Saturday is who we should be On Sunday as well, right? So we're not two different people So just be yourself Then we looked at you know another point where we're afraid that we don't know all the answers so they what if they ask difficult questions and also Sometimes we're afraid to invite them to church because the church service may not be even relevant to them And we had you know looked at a few examples of through all of this three important things that we Also looked at was while you're making an invitation to a friend or somebody who is an unbeliever be simple be truthful Be inviting without cursing, which means don't don't force them, right? I don't say I know you for ten years. You have to come now Right be simple be truthful and just invite them. Let them make the decision whether they should come or not All right, so before we get into chapter 7 I'm gonna ask the question did anyone get an opportunity to share the gospel any one of us Whether it was the mall or supermarket neighbor anybody Even if it was just a point of you know Pointing them to what Jesus did in your life, even if it was just for one minute That's a seed soon Did any one of you? Try Yes, go ahead Nicholson. Yes So we had We are just heading back from church. We are currently in house churches So we are visiting one house church and you're heading back and on the way There was this kid just standing on the road who looked at us like you know Please pick me up kind of look here on his face So we passed him then we stopped and we said, okay Ask him if he wants to come he came on board and by God grace through that entire journey We started talking and we were able to share the gospel It started off simple it started off with just him saying I mean he's Hindu Person so they had their Ganesha festival recently and we just said we went to church So he said oh, why do you go to church and then it started from there and we were able to share We gave him our number So We are hoping that he'd reach out to us. We invited him for a youth meeting. So we're hoping he gets back to us Yeah, that's that's nice. Thank you Nicholson. Yes, that's nice So the good thing was you know what Nicholson did was he gave his contact number So, you know can always be in touch with that person. So that's nice anybody else Got an opportunity to Share the gospel or just invite somebody to church as well even that's fine Yes, the beggar go ahead Go ahead The owner is a question but he always says that his institution Not affiliated to any religion so this week I Had a chance to be training them starting from Monday and He has been part of the training and yesterday as we were concluding the session He had to say something when I was training them. I showed them that as far as spiritual development is concerned I told them that we came from where we don't know and we will go where we don't know So our life does not basically depend on us because we were not asked to come here and they won't ask us when we're going so I try to show them in the Bible teach them some things to do with the Bible and Yesterday when he was talking it was his first time to Tell everybody in in the congregation that his institution is Christian Best and we're all laughing we are saying how come that this man is saying that his institution So I think it is a step in the right direction as we try to preach the gospel Thank you, Loubega, that's thank you Loubega. That's nice. That's good. Okay anybody else Anybody else would like to share Okay, all right. So that's great. I want to encourage you each one of us go ahead and you know Try your best, right? You may have to step out of your comfort zone I understand that you know, many of us may be you know with covid happening restrictions around But if we do get an opportunity Let's you know, put this into practice Right. I'm reminded of what the Bible teaches us be not just hear us the word but Do us of the word, right? Not only our subject of lifestyle evangelism, but as you go through this entire course You know, the point is yes, we get knowledge we want to learn But we need to apply that into our life, right? If we for example, we're learning about prayer We know, okay. These are different kinds of prayer Or this is the different kinds of worship that we can do but if we don't apply it What happens is it just becomes head knowledge? And we don't want that we want to grow in the Lord. So that's the whole point of Learning, right? Okay. Let's go to chapter seven chapter seven connect and impact Now we will look at John chapter four the whole encounter with this a marathon woman that Jesus had And we'll pick up a few examples from them now The reason we're using this again is because it it teaches us a lot It teaches us, uh, you know, how we can evangelize And it's the best example that we can find throughout the scriptures Of course later on we look at chapter eight We look at how apostle Paul went into asia minor went into Corinth fs And he did a wonderful work there. So we will look at that as well. So this week We will look at the Samaritan Encounter with Jesus now. We all know the story, right? From Jerusalem to Galilee through Samaria was about a three days journey So jesus and his disciples decided, okay, we're going to go to Samaria and we're going to pass Through a city called sichar, right and this city is In the district of samaria Now jesus took his disciples and wanted to go to samaria Now here's the interesting thing when we read it, we may feel okay So what's what's the what's the big deal about, you know, okay, jesus wanting to go to samaria Now, let me just do a little bit of a background, right? We may have heard this but this was important to understand The jews in the old testament the jews Started getting married to the samaritans now the samaritans were idle worshipers, right? They they had a mountain called mount garrasm Which moved on to different kinds of mountains and they had temples in different places and so the samaritans were gentile worshipers and the jews began to get You know married to the samaritans Right. So sometimes it would be a jewish Husband and a samaritan woman or a samaritan jewish woman and a samaritan husband, so They intermarried Right. So what they would do is the samaritans They would go to this temple And they would worship the idol but they would also follow the law Right, because you know, they were half and half. So they would also say, okay God of Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, we also believe that we also try to follow the law So it was a mixed culture Now this is something that was extremely offensive to the jews as they said You are gentiles and you got married to jews and Not only did you do a wrong thing by getting intermarried now you are also worshiping You know the the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob the only true god And so they utterly despised the samaritans You know history says that if they wanted to use a curse word They would say hey use a marathon It was like the highest form of curse word for a jew Hey, don't be a samaritan. It was like the highest form of a curse word Right and and so now jesus is taking these Disciples who are strong jewish people They're saying let's go to samaria now You know the mindset would have been jesus Why samaria? Usually if you look at the map, it's Jerusalem And and then there's samaria. It's just on one, you know one straight line But what the jews would do is they would take a roundabout And then go this way because they they had this You know feeling that they didn't even want to breathe the air that the samaritans breathed So there was so much of division and hatred Now with that as a backdrop Jesus is telling his disciples. Let's go to samaria Disciples may be wondering why Why samaria out of all the places why that place? That terrible place the people are bad the place is bad But jesus takes his disciples jesus goes in and As the enters this city of sichar jesus is tired He sat at jacob's well and this was about the sixth hour which is about 12 in the afternoon very hot Right and he sat near this well. He met this samaritan woman and There was a divine setup It was not pre-planned. It was not scheduled. It wasn't even expected jesus did not You know Pre-planet, okay, you come there. I'll meet you there. No, that was not pre-planned So jesus is there There's this samaritan woman And we know that jesus began to minister and to her and you know Bring the whole message of the messiah that he being the messiah So point number one be open for divine setups Even as we go through this walk of life, we will have divine setups That will come our way Things that we may not have, you know taught or planned about right For example, maybe you go to your friend's house And when you go to your friend's house, you see an old friend who was in school, you know 15 years back Say, hey, I remember you Now this could be a divine setup No, you had planned to meet another friend of yours, but then you meet a school friend who was a friend maybe 15 years back Be open for divine setups That could be an opportunity for you to get to know, you know, what he's doing and then slowly present the gospel to him right Be open for setups which god has arranged And be open to share the gospel with that person You know niclesan was sharing There was just a random kid that was on the road And it was a it was a divine setup Right, they didn't plan. Okay. We'll go on the road. We will stand on the road. We will wait It was not a plan. They were just finished church going back home And so the same way each one of us God will open And give us divine encounters divine setups Right, but here's the important thing. We must recognize those divine encounters Right, we must recognize it. Hey, this is divine. This is something that god has, you know, set in place. I need to do this right Or if we don't recognize it Or if you're not led by the holy spirit at that moment What happens is we will just look at it as a luck Or a just a instance that happened You know, uh, but it's not It's a divine setup Right, so we need to be open to those Second one We looked at the previous chapter some of the inhibitions that stop us From sharing the gospel, right? Sometimes we are, uh, we are not ready or we feel that we don't know how to speak We don't have the answers fear of rejection fear of failure fear of persecution. So me No, uh being an introvert So all these are inhibitions that we have but Here in this example Jesus had many reasons why he could have held back from sharing the gospel And many reasons at uh First one, he was tired Right, uh, all of us, you know, when we are tired, what do we want? We want some peace of mind Right, I'm sure if you had a long hard days work, none of us will want a You know, I mean, I don't know but at least for me, I would want some peace of mind Some relaxing music peace of mind, right? I wouldn't want like, you know screaming and shouting everywhere You said tired, you just want some peace Jesus is tired They walked all the way Right, probably walked almost the whole day to enter that city And he's tired. He could have said, okay Or by the time I, you know, talk to this lady. Let me just, you know, let me just just take water and be done with it Uh, it was, you know, something that was happening inside him. He was tired physically tired But he pushed past that inhibition So here's an important point, right? During our ministry in our life As we go about doing things, we will be tired As youth and then when we get married, we have children It's going to be tiresome, right? Uh, nothing is easy, you know, sometimes, you know, attending these three hours One after the other may be tiresome Right, but he pushed past our inhibitions He pushed past those To make sure that we are able to do something and share the gospel with somebody else. Jesus did that Two, he was a Jew and she was a Samaritan Right, what if that other person, the woman was a Samaritan, was a Jew Okay, it's all right. Two Jews talking, no problem. Just go ahead Ask for water, be done with it But that's a Samaritan and that's why in the beginning of the class I You know, I put forth the whole thing of the difference between a Jew and a Samaritan and how the Jews despise the Samaritan So that's a Samaritan. Oh, I don't want to talk to her Uh, these are people who've you know that who is Jesus So being the son of going said these are the people who have gone against the law against god the father against my father Then they are not going to believe in me. They're not going to believe in the messiah So many thoughts can come to our mind But Jesus pushed past that He didn't let that cultural difference That religious difference get in the way of sharing the gospel Right very important point Sometimes we judge a person just by their culture or their religion Or the things that they do or the things they wear or how they speak We need to come out of that Right. We need to come out of that even though The Jews hated the Samaritans Jesus didn't bother about all of that. He said no, I will You know Speak to this woman. I will reveal myself to her Third point He was a man And this was a lady at the well Right now picture this First of all, you're a Samaritan Secondly, you're a Samaritan woman Now it is said that the woman would come out in the afternoon time To do their most of their chores their daily works. Why because People would ridicule and mock at them. Women were not given high regard Even through the Old Testament Not given high regard And so it was like Not enough you are a Samaritan and you are a Samaritan woman It's you know, I shouldn't even be asking for water I would rather you finish up filling your water and go away and then I would find a way to you know fill my own water Again Jesus pushed past that inhibition Right. He pushed past all of this his tiredness the cultural The gender differences. He pushed past all of that What if people see me talking to this? Oh Samaritan woman What are the you know later on in that chapter when the disciples came the disciples were Surprised to see Jesus talking to a Samaritan woman But they were afraid and they didn't ask him any question Right Jesus laid aside inhibitions to speak to her How much more you and I need to lay aside inhibitions to present the gospel to other people Right Jesus explains his motivation Why why did he break past these inhibitions he in that same chapter? He says that let's look at a few points He says he lived to do the will of the father That is to complete and carry out his work Right. So the main purpose of Jesus's life Was not to raise 12 disciples and have a big organization Right That was not the Will of God The will the plan of Jesus was to follow Obey the will of the father That's all Remember in the Garden of Gethsemane He knew his time was up. What does he say? He says let not my will but your will be done That's not my will but your will be done. So the the whole point of Jesus You know coming and The coming into this world the sacrifice that he died on the cross was to fulfill the will of the father He wanted to carry out his work Let's read John chapter 4 and verse 34. Can one of us please read that? John 4 and 34 Jesus said to them My foot is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work Thank you Rosalind So Jesus said to them My will is to fulfill all that he has sent me for and to do his work The will of the father is that each and every person be saved and come to know the truth So it in in the natural It was like, okay, she's a Samaritan. She's a woman. She's we got differences, but for Jesus his His intentions or his purpose was not to look at these differences That was man-made But to fulfill the will of the father Now the moment we think of this We will be able to past You know pass inhibitions and to overcome these inhibitions in our life Like the only thing hey, God has called me to fulfill His purpose in my life So whether they are Hindu whether they are Muslim whether they are Sikh whoever they are Whatever cultural differences whatever backgrounds they are from whether they are rich whether they are poor All of these natural things should not hinder us because we have come To fulfill the will of the father So once we have that in our mind It does not become An inhibition in our ministry to Every person is harvestable ready to be reached John four and was 35. Let's read was 35 Do you not say there are still four months and then comes the harvest Behold I say to you lift up your eyes and look at the fields for they are already white for harvest Yes, thank you Rosalind. So Here what Jesus is trying to tell his disciples is The harvest time is ready It's time for us to go and bring out the harvest every person Is harvestable and we looked at it in chapter one every person in this world Whether they you know believe in god or they don't believe in god Have this place in their heart a god shape back to you which only god can fill right we gave so many examples of the rich and the Influential people in the world who got everything that the you know the desires of the world They fulfilled all their desires yet. They were empty Why because they need god? Every person in this world is harvestable so so you and I Whenever we get opportunities remember that hey this person is harvestable. I can Share the gospel with him Now whether they receive it whether they accept it or not that is secondary Right, uh, but I can Share the gospel this person can reap a harvest in her life or his life Right point number three We are gathering fruit for eternal life So eternity is at stake, right? We rejoice together in the future even as we Do this remember the fruit Even evangelism as we sharing as we bring people to christ the fruit is not a temporary fruit Paul is writing to timothy his last letter And he's telling timothy timothy You are you and the believers Are the fruit you are my crown not a perishable crown which is which gets decayed and Gets wasted away, but you are an imperishable crown In the presence of the lord Apostle Paul had many things to boast about right He could have said god He would have gone to jesus and he said you know the number of missionary journeys i did and all this But he says no you are my crown You are my rejoicing you are the fruit of our ministry. He writes that to the Colossians. He says the the The the work of our ministry the fruit of our labor is you It's it's not it's not the Number of missionary journeys, but you the people the believers the church that is the Fruit of our labor And so remember that what we are doing is we are You know harvesting fruit For an eternal life Right. It's not a temporary fruit It's not something that is temporary. It is eternal When we bring someone to christ And maybe they accept jesus and they're following and obeying god and walking in the world You and i have eternal fruit Right. It's not a temporary fruit. What a joy it is That we are able to bring eternal fruit in the lives of people Just by sharing the simple gospel right Jesus knew it. I may not see this woman again Right. Uh, I may not see her because i'm going to move on from here And this is my opportunity she she jesus shared the gospel And she accepted that and through her the entire almost the entire city Was touched by the gospel everyone believed Later on it says that not only for what you said but also Right for what we have heard and seen we believe that he is a messiah eternal fruit Right Fourth point Sometimes we saw and others reap Or sometimes others so And we reap Right now it is obvious now when we look at this woman She asked a lot of questions. This is a marital woman. She says We know that one day the messiah is going to come, you know, when we worship in the mountain There'll come a time that you know, we worship on the mountain. There'll come a time when we will worship in the temple as well so she's trying to Ask these questions because she already somebody has already put the seed in our heart What was the seed? The messiah is there We're waiting for the messiah the messiah will come and get things done All that is you know, uh happening now He will make things right So somebody has sown that seed in her And so when jesus uh when the marital woman meets jesus and says i know that the messiah is coming Is is going to come. What does jesus say it is i you have seen the one who you're seeing is the messiah Right and then she begins to worship god and here's the important point here Somebody else sows somebody else reaps somebody else sows and another person reaps so paul writes first corinthians Now the reason he is writing this letter in first corinthians chapter three Maybe we'll read that first corinthians chapter three versus six to nine I think it's six to nine. Yes first corinthians three six to nine Can one of us please read that I planted bolus watered but god Was causing the growth So the neither the one who plants Nor the one who waters is anything But god who causes the growth But he who plants and he who waters are none But each will receive his own reward according to his own labor For we are god's fellow workers. You are god's field god's building Amen, thank you john so paul is writing to the corinthians now What's happening in corinth is These people have become believers. They've entered the church now in the church All right, they're saying hey, I believe in what apostle paul told me I believe in what apollos told me because early in the second missionary journey Apollos is You know sent to corinth to be with the church So I believe in what apollos is told me and then later on some of them say hey, I believe in what peter said seafus So you got three people here And there's division within the church paul is writing to them and saying hey Somebody sold The seed in your heart Apollos may be watered it Now it is not Who sold it is not who watered, but it is god who makes it grow So what is paul trying to say hey? There will be times That people will come into our lives and you will be able to minister into people's lives and you may not see the fruit There have been hundreds of times where I've shared with the gospel with people I still haven't seen the fruit I believe that the seed is sold Maybe somebody is watering it At the right time god will make it grow Right remember that when we are sharing the gospel to people maybe somebody has already put the seed in their heart Right, or maybe it's you are putting the seed in their heart Right, so so we don't have to you know, worry about what if they haven't heard about Jesus at all Right, it's okay. You're putting the seed Or we don't have to worry about hey, he already knows about Jesus. No, it's all right So let me just move on to somebody else. If he knows about Jesus He's still not he or she's still not believing god is calling you and I to water it right To ask those questions to water that seed so that god can make it grow. There's a part that we must do I remember reading the story many years back and that story just stuck with me and I always You know read these stories in church history There was this young man this happened in early in the early 1980s sorry in the 18 Uh, I may be wrong with the year, but some in the 1800s. There was a young man named Robert Mary McShane And he was in England in Wales and he was praying for revival He said he had a small church about 40 50 people And he was praying for revival. He said god send revival. He prayed and prayed and prayed Nothing happened Right about seven years or nothing happened the church was still about 50 70 hundred people And then he had uh illnesses Sicknesses in his body and uh, so he wanted to take a sabbatical arrest from preaching and ministry So they hired a young man named wc burns Only about 24 years old So wc burns comes into the church He begins to preach and all of a sudden There's a revival Hundreds of people come into church And this young man wc burns has no idea what is happening Like thousands of people are coming in the revival of Wales The biggest problem was getting a place to have the church services So they would have multiple service. You have first service 2000 people second service 2000 people So the church was packed And this young man wc burns has no idea what's happening. He signed up to pastor the church for hundred people thousands of people And then people wrote a letter to Robert Murray McShane who was in his You know time of rest And he knew what was happening he said somebody soared I watered And this person wc burns is reaping what somebody else sold And maybe somebody else watered So it is not who soared it is not who reaped But it is God who makes it grow Right and so when we are sharing remember that we may be doing one of these two things either sewing or watering in their lives right Another point is connect with them Jesus engaged with the woman he started With something that she was doing Jesus didn't go to the woman and say hey, you know who I am Uh, I'm a Jew Come from coming from Jerusalem Uh, can you give me some water now? Right, what was she doing? She was drinking. She was filling water. Jesus was tired Jesus was thirsty All he said was give me some water Right, it's just a regular connect Jesus didn't say oh, you're a Samaritan. Let me go five steps away from you now Just acted normal just behaved normal Jesus Took that conversation masterfully stirred that conversation from the regular water To the water of life. What a beautiful way of bringing in the gospel It says can I have some water? I'm thirsty. Can I have Jesus takes that water and drinks from it? And he steals that whole conversation the point of drinking water And he connects that whole conversation into Something that a water an eternal water that you will never thirst again Remember the Samaritan woman maybe thinking where do you get this water where you will never thirst again? I haven't seen it in any of the wells here not in Jerusalem or any other not in Rome What kind of what is this that if you drink that you can never thirst again? Jesus engaged with people based on what they can relate to Right Jesus did not say here. This is what the law says, you know, Moses gave the law And then you know, uh, we have to do the first sacrifice the second sacrifice Then there's the Pentecost and these are the first fruits offerings He didn't give an old explanation of all that because she wouldn't have any idea about all of that What was what was what did she know? She knew that, you know, what is needed? She knew that there's a, you know, uh You know, God knew that Jesus knew that there was an emptiness inside of her But he was Jesus was able to stir that whole conversation To the water of eternal life Now even as we talk to people have conversations with people Ministering to people evangelizing maybe sowing the seed or watering the plant We need to be cautious of certain things Right very important just because God has called us for ministry What we the mistake that we do is we switch off our mind No Our mind needs to be on we need to think as we do ministry We need to plan. We need to use our mind First one Do not engage with people of the opposite sex Don't get emotionally involved Do not cross moral boundaries, which means There are, you know, there are many pastors that I know of I'll leave them unnamed because you may not know them, but Young pastors and they I have and they called me they tell me what's happening they Some of the church for students They say I want to talk to you And then this pastor will say okay come to church I'll talk to you So the pastor comes alone And they have discussions one hour alone with the girl in the church Right one hour alone Now what's happening? They're having a con maybe they're having a regular conversation Right nothing wrong about it. Maybe they just Truly, you know having a counseling session and all of that But all of a sudden this girl You know, she had a rough childhood her parents, you know rejected her and all of it But this girl started liking the pastor and so It it became very emotional and even she he was very emotional with her and Remember he called me and he said This is what's happening I said to him you need to get out of this Immediately you need to stop counseling her Right just because you you and I you're a pastor you you cannot do this And so very important you and I as believers Be wise even in the ministry One of the things I praise God. I thank God. God's grace Is even as I started off at a young age. I never meet a girl personally People call me old-fashioned I mean when you know in terms of you know, I do talk to Our church folks. We have a lot of girls who are you know Studying here students who come I talk to them when people are around and if they want counseling I take my wife with me And you know most probably I would say you speak to my wife She'll be able to help you and if they say no, I want to speak to you I would take my wife along and so we both will sit and speak to her Now this is not written in the bible right, but we need the wisdom of God And we need to be wise in making decisions Do not cross moral boundaries Right in the whole zeal of oh, I want to share the gospel I want to be helpful. I want to do everything and help this person and make her or him stand In God's presence and make everything right In that zeal we may forget our moral boundaries remember that our moral or personal life is very important for people Even as a testimony we need to stand as a testimony to do not interfere in personal matters a big big drawback in ministry is we've got you know ministers and pastors and all these So-called prophets and evangelists who come up and say, you know, I met this lady who stays a little away from the city and she said You know this pastor that I the church that I go to this pastor said You know if I don't give to God God will not bless me. So he said sell half your land and give it to God And and she was just, you know They know what to do. She sold half the land gave it to God and then she expected God to bless her and Everything was okay until her husband came and she told her husband I sold half an acre of land and there was a complete disaster And you know the pastor was involved the family was involved never interfere into personal matters as leaders I will talk about a little bit of leadership and discipleship later on of this in this course But as leaders always give suggestions Give them ideas give them your thoughts give them biblical You know solutions to their problems give them biblical strategies, but do not make decisions for them People are grown up. They're above 17 or above 18. They're grown up. They can make their own decisions Right. So we need to stay away from that Right. Do not be condemning. Do not be condescending or self-righteous Right. Don't condemn another religion. Don't mock their religion You know, oh, that's only made of wood. That's only made of stone. Don't do that, right? And don't have that self-righteous attitude like, you know, I have I know everything I am, you know Uh, the whole thing of being knowing I am the holy of Holiest and everyone else and now we need to come out of all of those things just being normal Jesus here He didn't say oh, so mountain woman go away from me for I am the messiah He didn't do all of that. He just behaved normal, right? third one There was an impact in that conversation As Jesus engaged with the woman He released word of knowledge Sorry word of knowledge. He he was able to say something of his of her past and also something Of her present, right? You had five husbands at the one that you're living with now is not even your husband So you got your past and you got your present This affected her powerfully. Who is this random man who came who asked for water? and He knows everything about my life right She began to ask him questions and that day She accepted Jesus and she believed in Jesus He has he has a wonderful thing that we can learn from this You know in the book of acts The holy spirit is poured out on all the believers as they were praying You and I Have the holy spirit inside of us The holy spirit comes with his gifts So you and I can ask God to release the supernatural Gifts of the holy spirit While we are ministering to people Right remember we're not going alone Right, even if we are sharing the gospel with people Remember God is able to release the supernatural God is able to bring healing upon people. God is able to work miracles Right. He's able to do that If somebody comes, you know, for example a friend of yours Says hey, you know what I've been having this terrible back pain from Working from home for the past six months. What is the first thing you're going to do? Now the first thing you do is don't say, okay, why don't you go meet this doctor? This is a good doctor. My parents go. Oh, don't do that First pray say, hey, you know what Jesus did Even I was going through this pain. Jesus healed me Can I pray for you? I think most probably they'll say yes because they want to get rid of the pain Pray for that Expect God to bring healing expect the holy spirit to work in his life. God is able to do it right Expect miracles take simple steps and ask God to release the supernatural Right now This could be a prophetic word a word of knowledge working of miracles now How do I know that God is the Holy Spirit will do this? Here comes the part of Spending time in prayer Spending time reading the word of God Without which we will not be empowered by the Holy Spirit As we mentioned in the in the first few classes if we want to evangelize if we want to reach out to people We need to do it through the anointing and the empowering of the Holy Spirit right Yes, we use our natural abilities Also on the way we talk the skill of talking and asking questions But we need to be anointed by the Holy Spirit in power Right, and then when we are anointed God Now some of them may ask Okay, I'm anointed by the Holy Spirit, but this person is not accepting Jesus. It's been six months That's all right Continue to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal things about him to give me give you a prophetic word Right continue the more we pray the more we ask God the more we Have this in-depth relationship with God God will begin to release the supernatural in our lives Don't be afraid to make mistakes. You know, there are times There's this one time I went to the hospital to pray for somebody And I was in fasting and prayer and all of it went to pray and I laid my hands on this woman. I said I did a strong prayer Right through three four minutes the name of Jesus and all of that And then after the prayer I asked her how do you feel now? She said worse than before I was just taken aback Said the pain is increasing even more. I said, oh god. What is this today? It's all right. There are times we I prayed for people who are on the sick bed They've got up and walked Right and there are times that it's not happen. So does not mean that we are not empowered We continue to ask God Continue to ask God for working of miracles working of anointing working of the anointing of the gifts of the Holy Spirit Right as we evangelize remember this uh, you know something that we always focus on in apc is Our personal life Our personal walk with God Will reflect in our public ministry Right our personal walk with God will reflect in our public ministry So the more we spend time with God the more we will see a fruitful ministry The more we are surrendered submitted obedient to God The more We will see a fruitful ministry Right Just the last point fourth one there was a ripple effect What started with one samaritan woman? What did she say I'm going to go I'm going to tell people And the other people also began to accept You know, the bible does not say that the entire city everyone accepted Right most of them did but there would have been people who Would not have accepted this. No, I don't believe in this Right, that's all right But many people accepted it Right, so when you and I share the gospel with one person Or you're reviving some person back to the Lord There can be a ripple effect Where the entire family or their entire friend circle or the workplace friends Everyone will get to see the fruit in your life and they will also be willing to Accept the gospel of Jesus Christ Right, so let's close with today. Anybody have any questions any thoughts that you would like to share any one of us so So we're close today as usually when I encourage you to Try and you know, maybe even if it's through the phone Setting a message or sending a video To somebody, you know Go ahead and do that and try to share the gospel with people. I hope you've been able to take pointers from this What we will also do is from next week We'll do a couple of role plays With a few scenarios with some of us. We see how that works And then we can pick up from the next chapter as well. All right. Let's close in prayer. Can one of us please close Rosalind Can you please close in prayer? Yes, let's pray Hallelujah, thank you lord Jesus Thank you father for this wonderful session lord whatever we learned In your presence god almighty help us give us the grace That we may apply those things in our life that we may minister to people lord Whomever you bring across us lord father god Maybe not be lazy in doing this father god Give us the grace give us the strength lord Whatever we learn here in this session that we may put it in practice Without fearing with your boldness Thank you lord for doing it in jesus name the praying amen Amen, amen. Thank you rosalind. Thank you everyone for joining us Have a great week ahead. I'll see you next week. God bless Thank you, sir