BE GOD'S CO-WORKER TO THE WORLD

After your family is harmonized and ruled by LOVE, what next?

Go public and save more souls. Be a coworker of God to the world. Today billions of souls are disoriented and lost due to false teachings.

Help the rich and the famous. They pre-occupy themselves with fortune-building, rushing for appointments, staying sexy, vacationing, partying, whiling away boredom, getting addicted or obsessed with something.

And help the poor. They pre-occupy themselves with dreaming of aping the lifestyle of the rich and the famous while keeping poverty at bay; with slowly wasting away from a sickness or two; and with trying to move on from one frustration, hurt or incapacity to another.

Do not give up the fight. Lucifer might not show it but at this stage, you have earned his respect. For you have pulled your family away from his hands. You have the credentials and the personal testimony of a victor. You have grown into a seasoned warrior; fear is removed from you. You have merited the favor of God. You are well-versed in using Spirit-empowerment.

You would enter the bigger arena battle-scarred and tested. Nobody would have to baby-sit you. You would be an asset, not a liability, to the cause. Your fellow coworkers would see in you a big-hearted, knowledgeable and dependable co-warrior. You could relate with the disoriented and the lost; your words and actions bear moral authority; they would listen to you.     

Expect Lucifer to contest your soul-winning nonetheless (Revelation 12:17). His demonic forces and human agents will pick on human weaknesses and faults (yours and your neighbors’) to intrigue, frustrate, rebuff and irk you, to break up your love-relationships, to make you quit. Do not give them the satisfaction.

Keep on building up. Do not quit on anyone—not even on the human agents of Lucifer, for they too are part of the target souls of Y’shua’s ministry. 

Understand that the neighborhood is a plate of fallible and flawed beings. Everyone (you included) commits mistakes and causes problems. God has bunched us in this setting to test us in LOVE and faithfulness. Instead of being frustrated or irked, instead of breaking up LOVE-relationships or giving up the fight, learn to be compassionate: first to your erring self and then to your erring neighbors.

Lucifer used the apostle Judas Iscariot, Y’shua’s best friend, to betray Him. The apostle John ran away and abandoned Him to His arresters. Three times Peter denied his association with Him. The other apostles hid in great fear for their lives. The Son of Man could have given up on them but He did not. He resurrected and went back for them.

Y’shua did not give up on Saul either, the great persecutor of the early Christians. And the perseverance paid off handsomely. Saul became St. Paul who, like Peter and John, transformed into a tireless teacher of the faith, a miracle worker and an undaunted martyr.

¹ Therefore, since through God’s mercy, we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. ¹⁶ Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 2 CORINTHIANS 4

Fight corporate. Fighting alone the evil empire (a large and well-organized army) is like stopping the tsunami with bare hands. Fight as a member of the Church; coordinate your intentions and get your specific assignment. Learn fast of the power to be gained in corporate unity, planning and organization. Strictly speaking, it is the Church (the collective whole) and not you that must fight it out with the evil empire. So work with the Church. Corporate resistance is a must. 

This explains the prayer of Y’shua:      

²⁰ My prayer is not for [My disciples] alone. I pray also for those who will believe in Me through their message, ²¹ that all of them may be one, Father, just as You are in Me and I am in you. JOHN 17

Carry your cross well. The task of soul-winning requires urgency. Your target souls might die this afternoon or tonight. Or to put it bluntly, you might die. Every tick of the clock counts. It is like saving a life from drowning or from falling from the edge of a cliff.

⁹ You must rescue everyone while there is still time. JEREMIAH 6 

The task also requires selflessness. This explains why only the matured should be at the warfront. And who is the matured? He does not hesitate to risk everything, his life included, to get the job done. The one knowledgeable in the Word of God and lives by it. The success in harmonizing his family in LOVE. He who prays instead of worrying. He who has overcome fear, trusting that God can restore everything he put on the line.

¹ Since the Messiah suffered and underwent pain, you must have the same attitude He did; you must be ready to suffer, too. For remember, when your body suffers, sin loses its power, ² and you won’t be spending the rest of your life chasing after evil desires. 1 PETER 4 tlb

¹⁸ Perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 1 JOHN 4

¹¹ This is the message you heard from the beginning: that we should love one another… ¹⁶ This is how we know what love is: Messiah Y’shua laid down His life for us. Now we ought to lay down our lives for our brethren. 1 JOHN 3 

⁶ Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Y’shua did. 1 JOHN 2

Laying down our lives for our brethren means righteous living. Like volunteering to wash the dishes or doing the family laundry (even if we don’t feel like doing it). Kissing and embracing everyone in the house and appreciating them for what they are. Giving a seat to the old, the sick and the handicapped. Being considerate of the pedestrians when driving. Being compassionate. Crossing the line to make peace with our “enemies.”

Love-in-action is how lost souls are won over to the Lord. Paul described it and the selflessness it entails in three words: “I die everyday” (1 Corinthians 15:31).

²¹ For to me… to die is gain. PHILIPPIANS 1

Be humble. Selflessness requires humility. What is humility?

Humility is readily bending your will to the will of God.

⁴² Father… not My will, but Yours be done. LUKE 22

⁵ Your attitude should be the same as that of the Messiah Y’shua, ⁶ who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, ⁷ but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant [slave], being made in human likeness. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death, even death on the cross. PHILIPPIANS 2

Humility is honoring the freewill of your neighbors, not overriding it. The Son of Man used His power for others, not over others.

               ⁸ I could be bold and order you what you ought to do, ⁹ yet I appeal to you on the basis of love… ¹⁴ I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that any favor you do will be spontaneous and not forced. PHILEMON

Humility is setting examples on righteousness, leading no one to do wrong.

¹³ You have been given freedom: not freedom to do wrong, but freedom to love and serve each other. GALATIANS 5 tlb

Humility is readily confessing your faults and your wrongs, accompanying it with repentance, apology and restitution.

¹⁷ The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit. PSALM 51

Humility is not having a low opinion of yourself or thinking of yourself as inferior to others. A humble person makes a realistic assessment of himself. He is without illusion or pretense to be something he is not. A humble person does not wear a mask or put on a facade in order to look good to others. A humble person loves and serves others selflessly, for their sake, rather than his own.