The Strategy of God

Are you content with what you know? Perhaps you’ re looking at this manual and you’ re thinking to yourself, “I’m already going to church services every Sunday. Why do I have to read all this?”

Friend, the contents in this manual are in no way to act as a substitute to what the Lord feeds you with every Sunday, midweek, cell-group, or whatever fellowship you have along the week. It is, however, in a way a supplement to what all these other meetings have to offer you.

It is a systematic step-by-step guide to fill in the little gaps. Not just a devotional study to illuminate us in our daily walk, rather it is a “study” to “equip” us to illuminate, touch, bless, encourage, counsel, help, comfort, inspire, motivate... other people.

That’s right, YOU will be given ammunition for war. Ammunition to USE for the glory of God.

“But I don’t want to be a pastor!”

Friend, you don’t have to worry about that. Look at what the Scripture says:

“For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given us, let us use them...” - Romans 12:3-6

This manual is not designed to change your career. It’s main task is to help you function more effectively with what the Lord has given you. To help you understand your gift and your calling. A calling specifically for you... Our God has system and order. He has assigned each of His creatures specific tasks. This is why it is important for us to understand ours. Below is a sample of what we’re trying to talk about:

God calls and sends people to testify to other people about Him.

“Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into the harvest field.” - Matthew 9:37, 38 (NIV)

“Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit” - John 15:2 (NKJV)

“If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned” - John 15:6 (NKJV)

The Lord has ordained people to preach the Gospel and not angels.

“He told us how he had seen an angel appear in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa for Simon who is called Peter. He will bring you a message through which you and all your household will be saved.’” - Acts 11:13, 14

“Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out. “Go, stand in the temple courts,” he said, “and tell the people the full message of this new life.’” - Acts 5:17-20

So many Christians worry about their loved ones or friends who have not yet come to know Jesus personally. We gaze at a multitude everyday of lost and wandering souls longing that they too might call upon the name of the Lord. We have to do more than just pray.

Though we have different gifts, our aim is one: to point the lost to THE WAY. With each of our differing gifts working together the result is an interesting blend of effective evangelism choreographed with the leading of the Holy Spirit.

We are all part of God’s orchestra. This is why finding a seat with the rest is not enough. We must pick up the instruments and master them. Do you know which instrument you are supposed to play? Take the time to study and find out. God bless you in your journey.