Our Mission for Missions | Elder Terence Atkinson

You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message

will light up your day. The title of my messages morning is our mission

for missions. We're going to be taking scripture from the book of Collosians.

And when I was reading this, the thing that struck me was, it's

quite strange. Really, this whole chapter chapter one is strange because of who

is writing to whom. And I hope that when I share this with you,

you'll begin to understand a little bit more so reading from Collosians chapter one

versus Well, we'll start my first one in two and it says here Paul

and Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, and Timothy,

our brother to the Saints and faithful brethren in Christ who are in coloss Grace

to you and peace from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now Paul is the one writing this letter. It is Paul who is writing

the church in Klaus. And when we go a little bit deeper into this,

we're gonna find it it's a little bit strange in the sense that Paul

hadn't been to Klaus, all right, So Paul an apostle and here he

is using a title and Apostle of Jesus Christ. You know, do we

realize that everyone who stands in front here in front and shares the word of

God with you is sharing on behalf of one of God's apostles alive today?

Who's that? Pastor Kenneth A right Pastor Kenneth is the founder of X Church.

And every time we are as an elder or another church, pastor from

X stands in front of you and shares the word of God. It's exactly

like Terrence, a representative of the founder of EX Church is sharing with you.

So never I know, it's strange, and past never talks about this

and most of us don't, but always appreciate the fact that the Man of

God praise for people to be able to come and share the Word of God

with you so that your lives can change and improve. So there's still a

part that he plays, and you know, there's nothing wrong with him identifying

as that. And I just well, the Lord wanted me to share this

with you, to give recognition to someone who loves you, all right.

So Paul and Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God and Timity

are brother to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ to our in colors.

So this message comes to the faithful brethren who I am example, you see.

So there is a connection. Grace to you and priest peace, not

priest peace from God, our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, one of

the first greetings. And you know we always tend to take these greetings when

we read it in scripture. For granted, the desire of the people of

God over us is always that you and I enjoy peace from God. It

is something that is a blessing. And if we talk to any pastor,

any senior pastor of his flow, you know what he prays constantly for his

church, that they may have peace. If you remember the last time when

I came, I shared with you how the world is in chaos. Right

those of you can't remember that. Worse, you can find it on Spotify.

We can find a message on Spotify. But the fact of the matter

is this world is in chaos. And thank God we have some people,

some of our leaders, some of our spiritual fathers, who constantly pray for

peace in our lives. And thank God for that, because if that did

not happen, we'd really run into some trouble. So now I got to

ask you this question. What was Paul's relationship to the church at Klaus.

Do you know that Paul had never been to Claus. He is writing to

a people that he had no first hand connection with. Why on earth would

he do that? We have to learn from Paul's example. You see,

it didn't matter that Paul had not been to Claus. It did not matter

what was his connection. They believed in Jesus Christ. Wow, they believed

in Jesus Christ. So that tells us that we have to have some kind

of feeling for other believers, right, And it's wonderful. You can go

anywhere in the world and as long as you find a believer, they do

treat you as a brother, They do treat you as a sister, they

do treat you as family. Very rarely when you go into a company of

believers who will not take care of you. I remember when I was coming

back from Singapore when I finished my studies, and I think I may have

told you this. I had ten bags and one TV. Ten bags and

one TV. I'd finished my studies. I was coming back to kl from

Singapore. I had caught this train, paid for second class tickets all right.

And when the train had moved and gone past JB, I found out

I was on the wrong coach because the back coaches would stop somewhere along the

way, catch another train and go to the east coast. So my ten

bags and myself were in the wrong cart. The cart we had to go

for was ten carts ahead. Ten carts ahead. How am I going to

take all my bags and my little TV? Ten carts ahead? I said,

God, you gotta help me. And I looked around, and then

I saw these group of youngsters. I wasn't very old. I was also

a youngster at the time. I saw these group of youngsters and they were

memorizing scripture. I could see them. I don't think I did them with

my friends low, you know, memorizing scripts. These were Christians? Okay,

So what did I do? I just went up to them and they

said, you guys Christians? They said yes. I said, I need

your help. They said, sure, what do you want us to do?

I said, I got ten bags, I'm on the wrong cut.

Can you help me? So? And I think there's about six or seven

of them, there's a big group six. They all took a bag or

a couple of bags, and we walked from the last cart more than ten

carts, to the front. It was a long train to the front and

low in Bohol. When we got to the front sides, there was no

more places to sit. Trust KATM to over sell the tickets, so there

was no place to sit. So basically what I did was I found one

cart and I just told him put the ten bags anywhere you can find.

So they did, and I had to mentally take on the windows where those

ten bags were. And then I had to sit on the floor for six

hours. You know where one seat is like this and one seat is like

this. I sat on the floor in between both seats all through the night.

That was the thing that made me make sure I never took another KATM

train in my life ever. Again. I have kept that promise. That

was eighty two, So that's been forty one years. I've not been on

a KATAM train. Yeah, I'll take your word for it, but it's

all right. I don't know how I got those ten bags off the trainer,

but I did. Nobody stole it, Okay, I got the ten

bags off the train. I had someone. But what am I saying when

I was in a difficulty, I had family who helped me. There were

still people whom I may not know, have known their name, but I

knew their heart. So God joins us as family by a heart, not

necessarily by a name. And this is where I think mission starts to play

an important part. Paul had no personal relationship with the church at coloss because

the church was started by a profess. If I'm not mistaken, that's how

I pronounce his name, all right, it was. So it's just like,

Okay, Jonathan starts a church and I write a letter to the church.

Never been there before. I mean, we've got many churches like that

in x. How many of you have been to x Botswana? No,

but you pray for it, right, Okay, let's not go so far.

How many of you've been to x is candor it's only three hours away,

but still you pray for it. You see, So it doesn't matter

that you have no personal connection, but you have a heart connection. See,

I'm trying to share with you that in missions, what are we developing.

We are developing heart connections. We're developing heart connections that supersede physical connections.

What was Paul's relationship with the Church of coloss Well, he might have

known a propose, which he did, of course, But the fact that

the matter us he had never been to the church. So who started the

church? It wasn't Paul. Why would Paul concern himself with the church he

had not started. Why should you and I be concerned with admissions? Why

should you and I be concerned to go to a place to share the gospel

of the Lord, which we have not started. Why would we take the

trouble to go to Bantung or to go to Pahang, But Pantong is in

Pahang, right, Okay, kaha? Why would we take the trouble to

go to Becassie? Why we have not started that church? Right? But

there is something that the Lord wants us to realize that we have an impact

wherever we go. There is an impact which I will show you some pictures

afterwards, and I'll give you a little bit of background about it. So

there is an impact to where you You know, I was this homes We

had a study on missions. Is that right? Do you realize that if

we think we need to be Bible scholars before we share the word of God,

that is an error that is an error. More people came to the

Lord in my ministry during the time when I had just accepted the Lord and

I had absolutely no theology. I only knew, Hey, Jesus saved me,

he can save you. Why didn't you come to church and learn all

about it? And people came to the Lord. Now you ask me,

I can tell you. Do you know that when Moses sacrifice that land and

took that blood and put it on the lintel and the door posts of that

room or that house, he was actually doing a type of the cross where

Jesus shared his blood for you. Now, there's a lot of theology.

I haven't seen as many people come to the Lord in my ministry with all

the theology as I had when I shared with them simply what God had done

in my life. Do you know that? That's what missions is all about.

Missions is not for you to go and share your theology. It is

just for you to share that example of what God has done in your life.

You know when people see you, do you know why they respond more

to people that come from outside because the Bible says it very clear prophet is

not welcoming his own Oh go figure, I saw it to be true.

Okay, when my sister came to the Lord and she shared Jesus Christ with

me, you know what I did. I fought with her for four years.

I fought and I fought, and I fought, and I said,

I studied the Bible to prove you wrong. Four years later, when I

went to a simple church, I accepted the Lord and I didn't tell her.

Then I tell my brother. You know what happens. We fight,

So I leave him alone and I share with our mutual friends. And they

come to the Lord. And you know what my mutual friends do. They

share my brother and he becomes a Christian. What's the matter with him?

I shared the same thing. Why didn't it work? Because the prophet is

not welcome in his own home. So now my elder brother and my younger

brother very close. My so my elab bra share. My younger brother don't

accept the Lord. He will not accept the Lord. My younger brother refuse.

So you know what my elder brother did share with my friend Michael,

assmate. He became a Christian and he shares it my youngest brother, and

my youngest brother becomes a Christian. That's why you need to go on missions.

Because God knows something that we don't. That a prophet is not welcome

in his own town, he's welcome somewhere else. So, guys, we

gotta get up and go. So he said, okay, we go for

missions. What are we gonna do. We're gonna, We're gonna, We're

gonna pray for the sick we see. Is not our job to see someone

get hit. It is our job to pray for them. Whose job is

it to heal them? God? Because he already healed them. What our

job is is to tell them you have a way up. Do you realize

that many times you lay hands on people in the town, your neighborhood,

you lay hands in prayer, be healer. Nothing much happens. Somehow when

you go into these interiors, when you go and pray for the simple for

you just leave, they get healed straight away. Why is that God's trying

to tell us something. He's trying to tell us, get up, get

up and go. What can we learn about Paul Allier from the greeting like

that? Praise the Lord? Let's look at Colosians one three to five.

We give thanks to God and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ, praying

always for you. So what is Paul doing now? He is praying for

the church, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of

your love for all the sins, because of the hope which is laid up

for you in heaven, of which you heard before, the word of truth

of the Gospel. You know why Paul prayed for the church. The answer

is there because he heard of their faith. He heard of their faith.

That when we hear of the faith of what's happening in other churches, do

we get excited enough to begin to pray for them? Do we? Paul

had heard that they had faith in Jesus Christ, and that was sufficient enough

to get him involved. We have many things happening in our church plans across

the world. We have many things happening with those mission fields that we go

out to. Is it exciting enough for us to even start to pray for

them? Hey, you and I we do have a responsibility towards the church,

God's Church at large. So missions is much more than just preparing to

go out to someplace, which is which is what it is. But it

is responsibility. You know when God said in Matthew twenty eight, go ye

into all the world and preach the gospel, baptizing them the name the Father,

Son, the Holy Gods, and making go and make disciples. Right,

Jesus says that you know what that is? That is responsibility. Man,

are we fulfilling our responsibility? Hey, some of us we can't go

and that's why you have things like missions pledges, which is fine. But

between missions I just and going, have we even prayed? Have we done

the most basic thing? Have we prayed? We have a responsibility, Paul

is teaching us we have a responsibility to pray for those missions because it's important

there you and I. We need to pray for them because, as I

said, the world is in chaos. How many of you know that many

many churches in Malaysia closed down during the pandemic, are you a well,

many churches throughout the country in all those small small towns because the people were

not coming and you know, they didn't have enough money to sustain the pastors

had to move on and the churches closed down. Sorry, Lord, I

made a mistake. I did not pray for them. Yeah, that's that's

that is a responsibility. That's why you pray at the very least. That's

why you pray for those missions because there are many that need spiritual help that

goes far beyond that which our hands can do. You know, you know

why it's hard for us to go on missions. It's hard for us to

go on missions because we don't even pray for them. If we pray for

them, we will have a heart connection, and the heart connection will cause

us to act. So we give thanks to God, our Father, since

we heard of your faith and because of the hope which is late for you.

So now Paul is saying, I pray for you for two reasons.

One we heard of your faith, and two this is the part that we

know that they don't know. And that's what he's saying, because of the

hope which is laid up for you in heaven. Paul is telling them,

I'm praying for you because there is something great laid up for you and you

need to lay hold of it. I'm going to be involved, Paul saying,

I'm going to be involved because I know something great is laid up for

you. Are we like that when we know something great is going to happen

to somebody else, will we take the trouble to involve ourselves so that they

will get it or are we the sort of people that only do that when

we know what's going to happen for us. God's not about what happens for

us, He'll take care of that. He's about what we'll for somebody else?

So could we thank God for somebody else? Could we thank God for

some other mission? Could we thank God for X UK Edinburgh? Could we

thank God for X Melbourne? Could we thank God for x Is? Can

we thank God for X Chang Mai? Could we pray for people we don't

know? The only people I know in Chang Mai is Pasta Banjo, his

wife and Andrew. I only know the three in the rest all I don't

know the name. Sorry, but the fact that the matter is, can

we still pray for the church? Would we get excited about somebody else that

is not us? I mean, listen to myan Ma pasta Pastor Samuel.

You know the tough stuff that's happening there. I mean, elder Elder Pengho

just came back from a trip over there. It's not easy for that church

in the town. No bombs just outside of the town. You can already

hear bombs going off and things like that. It's a tough, tough place

to be in where electricity goes off, what ten times a day? It

goes on so often, And here can we get excited that the church is

growing despite all these problems. We are growing up in a world that is

a little bit spoil. In the seventies, the Christian churches were praying for

the Christians being tortured in Russia. You were all too young, some of

us can remember that the Christians were jailed, they were tortured, the children

were raped in front of their parents, and we, as the Christian church

in the seventies and the very early eighties used to be praying for them that

they will be able to see it through. And you know many of them

did. Many of them stood firm, and you know what happened. Communists

Russia fell. Communist Russia broke up, the prayer of believers broke a nation

up. I guess what it's starting again. We can go there. But

what we can do is we can pray for them. The world prayed for

that country and they did get religious freedom after that. The young ones in

Russia have forgotten the fights that their parents had to go through to give them

the freedom to believe in Jesus Christ. Yeah, I just want to show

you some pictures. Okay, you should how I need to show the last

picture I sent you with me and somebody else. Yeah, no, no,

the one before that. Okay, all right. I actually argued with

the Lord or whether I wanted to show you these pictures. Okay, he

says, no, you do it. Okay, so I'll do it.

This is me and my friend forty four years ago. All right, Uh,

don't know, maybe about forty two years ago. All right. This

is my friend and me. The guy on the right is Raymond, and

that was me seventy pounds ago. So I kept telling you seventy pounds ago.

So this At that time, I was just a new Christian. Remember

I said, no theology. I didn't have all the theology. All I

knew was Jesus Christ's Lord and God's still on the throne. There's power in

the blood, and I'm saved to the bone. The devil come against me,

I'm going to make him feel some pain. I can bind him,

bruise him, cast him out by the power of Jesus name. That's all

I knew. That's a song. I'm not a poet all right. I

used to to in the night pray for people who were possessed in the in

the church, all those that that that that you know, were possessed or

oppressed of the devil. I will pay pray through the night until about five

am, then go and get ready for school and then I'll head to school.

And I used to share this with my friends. So this is one.

This is one of my friends. Go to the next. That's the

last photograph. This is the both of us last year August thirty feet.

All right, you know what we're singing together. We're singing gospel. We're

doing a gospel duet at his birthday party in his home. All right,

this is the guy. This is in Bangkok. Now, when I shared

with him, he did not know Jesus Christ. Today, let me tell

you what he does. Now, show me some of the other the other

pictures. You see this land, this is a rubber plantation. All those

trees around the air. Rubber plantation is about maybe twelve to fifteen acres of

land which my friend owns. All right, he's become very, very very

successful. You see this land that is cleared. He cleared one to two

acres. Knew why he did that to build the fifth church. He's already

built four. I mean, he did not know the Lord when I was

with him, but I prayed for him every day. I was like a

missionary because I came from Malaysia. I went to Singapore and I shared the

Gospel with him. And as a missionary inverted commerce. What did I share

with him? Jesus Christ is Lord. I'm saved and the devil can't touch

me unless Jesus says so. And that is why I pray every night for

people who are possessed. I was nineteen years old when I shared with him.

But today you see why he's cleared this land to build a church.

He drives eight hours from Bangkok to Displace up north. He's overseeing the building

of the church. So when he's there, he stays in that tenth that's

a tent by the way. That little dome there, that's a tenth.

So he stays there over the weekend. Next picture, so this is another

another angle. He goes there with his pastor. All right, one more

so you can see it's it's pretty large. Next one, you see on

the right they're building a fish pond. That's the church they've started this little

bungalow here. It starts small, but as time goes on it will grow

bigger. Okay. Next one, this is the fish ponds building. By

the way. What he's done is all that land where he got the rubber

plantation. He's got people to work there. He says, you take half

the profit you give me, so basically he sort of helps with the economy

of the people around the area. And then the fish pond. It's a

huge pond and he's studying once a rare fish, so that churches can go

there and you know, have their meetings or their retreats or whatever it is.

Okay. Next one, that's the little church that has started. Now,

when he went there there was zero people. Zero. He go with

his pastor, his wife and himself, so three people are like like like

how Pastor Canno has said started a church with three Next one there's another anger.

Is the church the beginning of the church? Next one, all these

various angers. Okay, but what I wanted to show you is three acres

he has removed. Means that that's not money he's getting every month. This

is money he's not getting. He's set aside this property so that the church

could grow and he could develop a ministry. Next one. This is his

wife sitting down here, he's taking the picture. That is his pastor.

So they go door to door telling people about Jesus Christ, and in five

months the church is now twenty strong. Twenty strong. Did I have a

part to play it? I don't know, but I do know one thing.

I shared Jesus with him. And that's what we do as missionaries.

We sit and we talk to people, and people who don't know Christ will

want to know Christ. Five months from zero to twenty. How's that studying

a church in the wilderness. In case you don't know, I got saved

in a church in the wilderness. It wasn't like how you see twenty eight.

You know, three acres of my church that I got saved was actually

in the Palmoil estate. Palmoil trees all around one little hut, and that's

where I got saved. I traveled from chris Klang to this little hut church

because I was going to go to Singapore for a holiday, but I had

to stop in the church first, and that's where the Lord met me.

So you see, when you and I take the trouble to even put a

little bit of a time into someone else that's not earth. You're gonna see

great things happen. You will see great things happen. There's another picture.

You see this man here. This man is the one I told you about

who came from a very very very rich family. His parents multi millionaires.

He's so rich. He had his own yacht, his own yacht, and

he was the one that was on the water and something happened. He was

about to die, and he told me in my moment of desperation. Somehow

I remembered what you wrote in my autograph book, if you'll run into trouble,

calling the name of Jesus and he will come and help you. And

you know what, Terrence I did that I was about to die. I

was alone on the water. I called on the name of Jesus and he

came to me and he helped me. When he got to show he gave

up all those riches to go full time. That's him in his church preaching.

He's a pastor today. What impact do we have when we go on

missions? We have great And you know, the devil doesn't want you to

see it, you know, because there is a blessing. God said,

go ye into the world and preach the gospel. You know Dinah that there's

a blessing that goes with that, because the Lord doesn't send you where he

doesn't go first. If he has told you to go, he sent you

with his blessing. Isn't it a blessing He's given you the command to go?

Isn't it a blessing? Go it's taken care of Lord. I'm in

trouble, Go it's taken care of I mean, when you come to someone

for helper and that person tells you go, it's taken care of her.

Do you worry how it's taken care of you? Just turn around and go.

Isn't not go? This is what's happening, your impact that you have

when you go for missions, or when you even go out into some place

that's not your own. And for all you know, you're not even sharing

the word of the Lord. You are just carrying a box of instruments from

the car into a hut. Do you know someone will see that and say

can I help you? One little kid will say can I help you?

And you say sure, carrying this guitar and the next thing you know,

that's the next Eric Clapton because you allowed him to hold a guitar. One

of the good Malaysian tennis players, his name is child Chin Chuan. He's

now a bank officer, so he's given up tennis. One of my friends

at that time when I was young, Do you know what he used to

do? He was a ball boy. He was a ball boy. But

because he was there, somebody gave him a tennis record and the next thing

you know, he became good enough to represent the country in tennis. How

many chances are you and I are going to give people just by showing up?

The devil has lied to us that we have nothing to offer. You

have more than you are aware of. I mean, did I know that

a simple word on an autograph book was going to have that kind of impact

in someone's life? I had absolutely no idea. So are there more people

that I could have touched along the way? Time will tell, I will

find out. I will actually find out there are so many people that have

been impacted just because I was there. How many people have you have been

impacted just because you were there? You don't know. When the Lord reveals

it to you, then you will be kicking yourself. Say, if I've

only known I had this much of impact, I would have done more.

Don't be like that. In Colosion one six to eight. The world which

has come to you, as it also in all the world, is bringing

forth fruit. Is that what I've been telling you? It's been bringing forth

fruit as it always among you since the day you heard and knew the grace

of God in truth, as you also learned from Apper Prass, a dear

fellow servant who is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf. How many

of us thank the people who are in charge of us? How many of

you actually go up to Selena and say thank you for being you know,

a CPC. What does scriptures say here? Paul was actually thanking. He

was acknowledging Apper Pruss for what he had done. Hey, the lessons that

we can learn, you know, how many of us have gone up to

pass it and say thank you for your life, thank you for starting ex

church because I received a lot through that ministry. How many of us actually

go up to the people who have helped us and say thank you? You

know, God is touched when we can do that. I'm forty years old,

forty, I'm sixty two years old. No, in my heart.

In my heart, I'm twenty five with thirty seven years of experience at it.

I got thirty seven years of experience at being twenty five years old.

So you asked me about being twenty five, I've got a lot of experience

where hey are you? But you see, you know, until today,

I will thank each and everyone of the people who have ministered something into my

life, even if the person is well well younger than me. You know

why it pleases the Lord. I would rather please the Lord than my ego.

You know, it's so easy for us to get upset at someone.

It's so easy for us to show face to be disgruntled. It's so easy.

But how many of us find it easy to thank those who spoke something

good into your life? If for no reason that you do it, do

it for the reason that it pleases the Lord. Blessings come because we do

the right things. Someone who's declared to us your love in the spirit.

Do you know that the people talking about you about how much you love the

Lord they are You don't know it? You know that other friend of mine,

the girl No. One of the first things I did when I became

a Christian is I introduced my my wife to all my girlfriends. I don't

have one girlfriend. And I was a girl, and it's a friend of

girlfriend. Now not like you know what people think girlfriend is one. No,

if it's a man, it's a friend. Is a man friend law.

So it's a girl, it's a friend is a girlfriend. Okay,

let's let's keep our mind's very clean. So I introduced my wife, and

so they also became friends. What one of them said to me is that,

hey, you know what, Terrence, Out of all the things that

I learned from you or I heard from you, I remember this is one

statement which I always tell my family and friends. The devil cannot touch you

unless Jesus says so. And if Jesus says so, you have grace to

overcome. There's twenty years. Oh no, there's forty years. She has

been making that statement. And you know what she says. She tells her

friends, this is what my friend told me. So it's the same thing.

She is actually thanking the Lord for what I've declared to her in love,

and the Lord honors that, she says. You know what, The

Lord honors that every time, as we learn from Epper, for us,

there is a connection. Man there is a connection. If you think you're

not connected, nor you are, You're connected by the whole spirit. You

know, it's never been about them in us. Oh, we are ex

mpunment. We have nothing to do with the rest. Or we are x

we have nothing to do with the rest. No, it's not about us

and them. It's about we, the body of Christ. It's about we.

It's about us and us and we where we we are in the center

of Christ. We always talk about being Christ, being in the center of

us. But do you know that we are in the center of Christ because

He is all around us. He is all around us. We play our

parts together as one in a work across mere geography, just because we'll be

coming to a closer but just because we are separated by distance, Does that

mean we don't care? Does that mean we don't care? Of course we

do. When one of our family members in another country, and I'm not

talking about blood family, I'm talking about heart family in another country goes into

trouble, don't we feel the pain. If we don't feel the pain,

we have to go to the Lord and say, God, something's wrong with

me. You should feel the pain. I mean, you do it for

your family member, But how about the family of your heart and collusions nine

one, nine to ten. It says for this reason we also see the

day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you. Paul did

not cease to pray for the church in coloss although he had never been there,

he did not cease to pray. Come on, we have plants all

over the place. Let's pray for them. We may not have been there,

but our mission for missions is to pray for them because we have a

heart connection and to us, that you may be filled with the knowledge.

And this is you want to pray. This is what you pray, that

they may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual

understanding. Why his will? When you know his will, you do right.

When you do right, you get blessed. It's as simple as that,

that we may walk. What if the Lord fully pleasing him? You

want to please the Lord fully? Somebody is praying for you, won't you

pray that for somebody else? Being fruitful in every good work and increasing in

the knowledge of the Lord. For what reason we pray unceasingly? You know

what we pray. Let me summarize it we pray for our brothers when we

go to minister in missions. What are we doing? We want them to

know the knowledge of His will. We want them to walk worthy of the

Lord. We want them to be fully pleasing to him. We want them

to be fruitful in good works, and we want them to increase in the

knowledge of Him. One eleven to twelve. Strengthened with all my according to

His glorious power, for all patience and long suffering, with joy, giving

thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of

the saints in the light. Strengthened with all might. We pray that they

be strengthened with all might, always giving thanks to the Father. So how

is this all summed up in one word? His discipleship? Isn't it?

When we go and we have missions, and even we start them with knowledge,

knowing who Jesus Christ is, haven't we started them on the pathway to

be His disciple? To discipleship Matthew twenty nineteen twenties is go therefore, and

make disciples of all nations, all nations, baptizing them in the name of

the Father and all the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teaching them to observe

all things. And I have commanded you, and lo I am, I

am with you always, even until the end of the age. Do you

know you teach them what God has taught you? If you know one thing,

teaching them that one thing qualifies you as someone who's making a disciple of

somebody else. If the Lord has taught you ten things tennis twicer. If

the Lord has taught you ten things and you share that ten things with someone

else, you know what you qualify because you're helping someone else being disciples in

those ten things. More is given, more is required. You and I.

We don't have an excuse if we don't do this because the Lord is

not calling us to do it when we are experts. He's only calling us

to do it with what we know, and with that that should be our

mission for missions. Praise the Lord. We hope you've been blessed by this

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