03/07/2015
Hello every good people out there. I invite you to spend a few of your precious time with me as I introduce to you my retirement project and hope God will talk you as His anointed servants to support His calling to extend His Kingdom and bring to closure the Great Commission Christ commanded us 2000 years ago.
Having been an Elder of Nagire Church and a strong supporter of the Wa-nagire Presbyterian Church Mission Corner for many years, I have had the opportunity of learning from missionaries both locally, regionally and internationally, about the work they do as Missionaries. In 2011, God challenged the foundations of everything I knew concerning world missions.
The Lord spoke to my heart "I want you to educate yourself concerning the harvest. Initially, I thought my knowledge about mission work was fine having involved in a few mission works and attended a number of meetings regarding missions. Patiently the Lord revealed my ignorance to me, asking, "Son, what part of the world has never heard the Gospel? What groups of people are in those regions? Who is reaching out to them? Which organizations and what are their strategies?"
I was surprised! All these years involved in the missionary work of a sending church sending off workers to God’s harvest fields yet I could not answer those simple questions. Humbly I admitted my ignorance to the Lord and set out to broaden my understanding.
I felt a strong sense of destiny in my search of knowledge and truth concerning the harvest and as I dug deeper I became aware of failures of old strategies and a need to develop new ones. Hence, this is the rationale for my retirement project.
Introduction
We are living in a moment of destiny when God is preparing and talking to his anointed people to be actively involved in spreading the gospel to all the people of the world.
We continue to witness like never before so much faith and vision in the interest of bringing closure to the Great Commission. But, one thing has always remained to be a challenge; there is always luck of provision for funding those who are called to bring to completion he harvest.
When we study about the history in the bible we learn that when God’s Kingdom is being established in the earth, transfer of wealth has always gone with it. When Jacob departed from his father in-law, he had stored up so much wealth Laban was provoked to jealousy. Why had Jacob become so wealthy? He had to have the "seed" for the beginning of an entire nation. Likewise, when God brought the nation of Israel out of Egypt He did so with nearly all of Egypt’s wealth. The kings Cyrus and Darius transferred great portions of their wealth to assist in rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem. In the New Testament, the wise men from the east brought wealth for the baby Jesus. Here the preparatory was made for the rearing of Jesus in Egypt while the family was in exile. These are only a few examples of wealth transferred into faithful hands for the establishment of God’s Kingdom.
I trust we have reached a moment of another great wealth transfer. This one, however, will be to be used in saving souls for the kingdom.
Many missionaries, like Rev John Williams were murdered for taking the Gospel into regions where they have never heard the name of Jesus. Among those individuals ran a common thread. They were in severe lack of resources.
In Santo bush we learn of missionaries struggling to survive with very little means as they walk miles deep into Santo bush to reach the unreached who themselves live in very poor conditions. These missionaries have learned to depend on God supply to live each day.
However, in recent times, as I have taken assessment of these missionaries, I feel compelled to consider something deeper. Is God’s will for bringing closure to the Great Commission to have the smallest amount of resources with which to do that primary task?
In Matthew 24:14 Jesus states, "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." (NIV)
Could it be that another overriding factor is preventing those taking the gospel to all nations? Let’s look at some statistics that shed a great deal of light on these questions.
• Of all missionaries going to cross-cultural fields, only 2% end up in regions with no Gospel witness.
• Of all wealth focused toward Global evangelism, only about 1% goes to regions that have no way of hearing about the Gospel.
When we consider this, a very clear picture emerges from the cloud.
A conspiracy of supernatural proportions is taking place before our eyes! Only one force could possibly be behind this kind of opposition. Satan, who knows that only the completion of the Great Commission will end his reign, will do ANYTHING he can to stop the Gospel from advancing into areas of the Earth that have not yet heard.
What can our enemy do to hinder or hold back the spread of the Gospel? Can he stop the anointing or call on individual’s lives? No!..... Satan will do anything to stop us from giving to support missionaries out there advancing the Kingdom of God and to bring to closure the great commission.
What is going to change this?
Please provide constructive comment and ideas of how we are going to change this and stop Satan from hindering with God’s will.
