Post by Evangelist Denise Dove on Feb 7, 2011 22:55:12 GMT -5
Even though you have broken the power of the enemy over your family in Jesus' name and are standing in faith on the Word of God for their salvation, they will never be born again unless they hear the Word of God.[/blockquote]
How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
Romans 10:14,17
How can men or women have faith in what Jesus has done for them if no one shows them in the Word of God? How are people to recieve Jesus as Lord and Savior unless they are first told how? People have to hear the message of Jesus Christ.
Someone might say, "well I have told my loved ones about Jesus and that they need to be saved, but they just won't listen to me".
That is true. Many times it takes someone outside the family to bring the message to them. This is why Jesus tells us in Luke 10:2, THE HARVEST TRULY IS GREAT, BUT THE LABOURERS ARE FEW: PRAY YE THEREFORE THE LORD OF THE HARVEST, THAT HE WOULD SEND FORTH LABOOURERS INTO HIS HARVEST.
Jesus is telling us to pray that God would cause born-again men and women to cross the paths of our loved ones' lives and to have the opportunity to share this all-important message with them.
See the Word as a seed. (1 Peter 1:23.) The harvest wikk not come forth without planting the seed first. In other words, your loved ones need to have the Word of God planted in their hearts by hearing it before they can believe the Word and make confession unto salvation.
Praise the Lord! Once that seed is planted, it will never quit working in them. Isaiah 55:11 says that the Word will not return void unto the Father but shall accomplish that which pleases Him. The Holy Spirit will continue to convict them of their need to be born again until they respond to that conviction and surrender to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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