Soul Winner

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Good morning, Lord

Verse of the Day:    2 Peter 1:5-8

But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Memory verse: Romans 8:32 ►He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?  

Today's reading: Deuteronomy  25-27 MARK 14:27-53

Soul Winner

 "How do we pray for ourselves that we are ready to plant". God causes the increase.

1 Corinthians 3:7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

In the preparation for everyday, pray for the lost you know by name. Pray for yourself, always with thanksgiving, that you be a spade in the hand of God-a worthy instrument through which God can cause this miracle.

One little flash of grace that plants the seed for the eternal Grace of God will be there forever-so will a bad temper or attitude or foul word. If our behavior keeps one soul from the seed that opportunity is lost.

Proverbs 11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.

The verb 'wins' in the Greek has many variations but one that caught my eye was 'takes captive'. We do not want to take anyone captive-we just want to allow God to captivate that one tiny flash of eternal grace in the mind of that one lost at a time-through us-at His divinely appointed time.

Pray for the lost but also pray to be a worthy vessel for God to use-all the time.

...because He loves us...

Father in Heaven,

Forgive me for not being conscious of Your righteous purpose all the time. Captivate my thoughts with your grace for the lost around me. Thank you Holy Father.

In the name of Jesus,

Amen