Passion For The Lost (I)

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Memory Verse: "...I have much people in this city." (Acts 18:10, KJV)

Scripture Reading: Lk.19:1-10

Our Memory Verse and Scripture Reading passages should be a source of great encouragement to try to do good, since God has among the vilest of the vile, the most reprobate, the most debauched and drunken, an elect people who must be saved. 

When you take the Word to them, you do so because God has ordained you to be the messenger of life to their souls, and they must receive it, for so the decree of predestination runs.

They are as much as redeemed by blood as the saints before the eternal throne. They are Christ's property, and yet perhaps they are lovers of the world and haters of holiness; but if Jesus Christ purchased them, He will have them. God is not unfaithful to forget the price which His Son has paid. He will not suffer his substitution to be in any case an ineffectual, dead thing. Tens of thousands of redeemed ones are not regenerated yet, but regenerated they must be; and this is our comfort when we go forth to them with the quickening Word of God.

These ungodly ones are prayed for by Christ before the throne. "Neither pray I for these alone," saith the great Intercessor, "but for them also which shall believe on me through their word." Poor, ignorant souls, they know nothing about praying for themselves, but Jesus prays for them. Their names are on his breastplate, and ere long they must bow their stubborn knee, breathing the penitential sigh before the throne of grace. 

However, "The time of figs is not yet." The predestinated moment has not struck; but, when it comes, they shall obey, for God will have his own; they must, for the Spirit is not to be withstood when He comes forth with fullness of power- they must become the willing servants of God. "My people shall be willing in the day of my power." "He shall justify many." "He shall see of the travail of his soul." "I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong."

Friends, if you are [truly] saved, let compassion for the lost, dying and perishing grip you this morning. 

It was John Knox that said: "Give me Scotland, or I die." He said that on his knees while interceding for lost souls in Scotland out of a compassionate heart to see them saved. 

But what about you my friend? If you're the only saved in your family, you're not saved yet! It's your responsibility to ensure that your family members are saved too. Pray them into God's kingdom because, "He died for them also." Don't stop until they (your family members, friends, loved ones, colleagues and neighbours) all come to the knowledge of God that saves. Keep pushing in the labour room of prayer until their souls are reborn. 

You must birth atleast a soul today! Do you believe it is possible? If you do, go ahead and put your faith to work.

Ponder Point: Jesus died for sinners, can't we live for them?

Action Point: Target atleast one soul and hunt him or her down for Christ.

Prayer Point: Father, in the name of Jesus, I ask that You fill my heart with great compassion for the lost and release upon me the grace to go after them in love until they be saved and established in Christ, Amen.