SABOTAGE YOURSELF

Sometimes you need to devise ways of subtly sabotaging yourself so you can get ahead in life.

In order to make worthwhile progress in life, at times we need to deliberately put obstacles in our own way to ensure we walk the straight an narrow. 

In order to mortify the desires of our flesh we must learn the salient art of self-sabotage because we are admonished thus in Mark 9:43, 

"If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out."

For example, as you get along in years, you know you need to stop binging on soda drinks, so you can make up your mind not to drink soda unless someone gives you, and also not to buy any with your own money unless someone buys one for you.

You can also take it a step further by ensuring that when you are offered a soda drink, you make up your mind just to drink a percentage of it and immediately pour away the remainder, so as to purposefully set limits for yourself, with the ultimate motive of one day putting an end to taking such unhealthy sugar-loaded drinks. 

Once you can psychologically get rid of the thought that though the drink was bought but the disadvantage of you finishing the drink far outweighs what it costs to purchase it, it becomes easier to dump it after having a few sips. 

Sometimes building up one's self-control needs to begin with little but meaningful steps to overcome some compulsive behaviours. 

I once went for an anti-drug abuse rally and I met a lady who was bold enough to say she was glad that she was not struggling with any addiction in her life. 

Instinctively remembering what addiction I knew that I was struggling with and having a premonition that she too may be having the same difficulty but had not accepted that it was an issue she had to deal with in her life, the Holy Spirit helped me to contrive a way to bring her issue out into the limelight. 

I quickly counted the witnesses around when she made her unwitting boast and proceeded to buy cold soda drinks for the people present, especially because it was midday and the sun was scorching hot. 

I purposely waited for her to lift the bottle to her lips and just when she was about to take the first sip I prevented her from doing so by holding back the drink.

Knowing she was about to protest my action I then told her that if she was sure she wasn't struggling with any addiction she should not take the Cola I bought for her but instantly pour it away. 

It took her a few seconds to process what I was up to but when she fully grasped what I did she immediately told me I was a wicked person, and that why would I do what I did to her. 

She subsequently guzzled down the drink while some of those around us chuckled and admitted the same type of addiction affected us all, but that we sometimes fail to recognise such cos we always feel someone else's own is more weightier than ours. 

Thank God everybody got the message and had sometime to reflect on the compulsively habitual issues they had to deal with in there lives, but had not realized or even bothered to reflect on. 

The self-sabotage tactic as a first-aid attempt to try and resist can be used on a myriad of addictive issues that we may identify in our lives but we must apply it with the most effective way of self-control, which still is to pray and have faith on the very words of God concerning why we shouldn't be addicted, knowing that as in 2 Timothy 1:7, "...the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline."

Shalom

ACCESSING GOD'S PROVISIONS.

There's something about times and seasons God has alloted for us to activate and enjoy, that we need to understand and key into if we are to take full advantage of His Supernatural provisions of blessings for our lives that are new every morning. 

In Psalm 68:19 KJV, the author praised God by saying, 

"Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, ...."

We can surmise that King David, the author of the Psalm was able to identify and therefore praise God this way because God's daily provisions that were able to cater for his needs and wants, had become his daily experience. 

From Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV, 

1. We can appreciate the greatness of God's faithfulness upon our lives - on a daily basis. 

2. We can understand that God's compassion fails not and that it is because of the Lord's mercies we are not consumed as a result of our sins.

3. We can also delight in the truth that his mercy and compassion are new every morning. 

As people of God, we are supposed to speak forth and declare (by faith) what we desire for ourselves and indeed confess the blessings of God we come across in His word into the next day, before it comes upon us. 

We can understand the reason we need to do this from Genesis 1:5, where it is recorded that, 

God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning - the first day.

From this scripture we can deduce that the biblical day begins in the evening and as a result we can therefore pattern our lives after this truth, for as with God's scheme of things, it is only what a man sows today that he is assured of reaping tomorrow. 

Before Christ called, chose and designated twelve of his disciples as apostles in Luke 6:12-13, Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray. It was recorded that he spent the whole night praying to God. 

God who calls those things that are not as though they were, graciously chose to make us in His image and likeness so we could also partake in His godly nature of declaring a thing and having it come to pass, by our faith in His very words and promises that are strewn all over the Holy Bible. 

We not only need to take advantage of this Supernatural provision of bringing to life our needs and indeed wants, by confessing His Words but we also need to do so in the manner God has purposed and provided we do for effectiveness.

Being expectant, preparing for and even going the extra mile to find out the exact times and seasons for the good, pleasing and perfect will of God for our lives, is crucial to ensure we don't miss out on God's provisions as and at when due. 

A few principles we must adhere to so we can access God's provisions for us are: 

1. Realising that God's supply of our provisions in life are tied to our love for Him and our desire to accomplish His purpose for our existence, and our obedience to what He reveals to us to do for Him. 

In Proverbs 23:26, God commands His Children thus: "My son, give me your heart and let your eyes delight in my ways,"

2. Recognising that God expects us to ask Him for our provisions and doing so. 

We need to ask God for our daily provisions because the relationship He foreplanned for us is not just that of a creator to the created but that of a heavenly Father to an earthly child.

We are mere mortals with limits on our knowledge and abilities but that is how God intended it to be.  

His plan is that as His children we approach Him by prayer, as our example Jesus Christ did, in asking Him of our provisions and His empowerment to live above our limitations, so that in turn we do His bidding as we would our earthly fathers.  

This may be hard for some of us to wrap our minds around but in God's scheme of things we as His creation; made for His good pleasure, need to understand that God is Almighty and His plan is that though we have finite wisdom and limits on our strength on earth, we are to depend on Him for absolutely everything we desire or lack as a child would his father. 

3. Asking for our needs and wants in a timely manner. 

In Matthew 7:7, we are assured of getting an answer to our request or appeal to God concerning our provisions or indeed any other petition concerning other people thus: 

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."

We can also intimated as in Ecclesiastes 3:1, that: "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:" so we need to understand the times so we can not only ask for our needs and wants in there allotted period but also be expectant of them. 

4. Being expectant that what God promised in His Words concerning us, will be accomplished by our faith in Him to bring them to pass. 

In Matthew 7:8, we are guaranteed that: 

"... everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened." So let's live every single day with high expectations that God will provide for us. 

Finally and most importantly, as in Matthew 6:33, we are commanded to seek first the establishment of God's Supernatural kingdom and a right-standing with him in our lives and that of others, and as a result all the other necessities of life like our feeding, clothing, livelihoods, etc, that unbelievers unfortunately run after, and that our heavenly Father already knows we need, will be given to us as well.

Shalom

THE GREAT COMMISSION - DISCIPLESHIP

THE GREAT COMMISSION - DISCIPLESHIP 

Discipleship is a practical "follow me as I follow Christ" approach to teaching new converts and other people who don't have a firm biblical foundation about Christ by living by example.

The call to Disciple others is the last command Jesus Christ gave the disciples he had called unto himself and by the extension of faith, we his latter-day disciples, before his departure from the earth. 

To disciple others, a discipler must be a active follower of Christ. He must constantly seek God's guidance about his own affairs and that of his disciples while practically teaching them about living a Christ-like Abundant life.  

In Luke 9:23-26, Jesus Christ cautioned his disciples concerning the daily sacrifice they had to make in following him saying: 

23. ....“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. 

24. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it. 

25. What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self? 

26. Whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

The 4 major things that Jesus Christ expects of those who are serious about following him, on a daily basis are: 

1. Denying Oneself.

Denying oneself refers to mortifying the cravings and desires of one's own flesh while feeding one's spirit with the Word of God, so that the Spirit of Christ will be in full control, thereby empowering and allowing one to do Christ's bidding alone. 

2 Taking up one's cross.

Before Jesus Christ died he carried a cross on the behalf of all mankind, by this he carried the sins and burdens of all men so that the devil could lose his hold on creation and all men would be free to choose to be reconciled to God. 

We too as his disciples, that is, his followers, also in our own way need to carry the burdens of others so they can focus on Christ. 

Some of the burdens we are expected to carry on behalf of others can be found in Isaiah 58:6-7 & 9-10.

3. Be prepared to lose one's life to follow Christ and for the sake of lost souls so that one can save it for eternity. 

Loss of one's life in this context may not outrightly mean by death, although it might come to that for some people, but that one will have to make some sacrifices in life, like Christ and his disciples did to win souls. 

To be true disciples of Christ (as in verse 25) there is a lifestyle choice in the form of daily sacrifices that we must make in choosing to lose what we would have gained in enjoying the trappings this vain world has to offer, so that at the end we do not lose what really matters in this life, and then the life hereafter forfeit one's soul to hell for eternity. 

The loss we may have to experience in life, that is the sacrifice we must undergo to be latter-day disciples of Christ can be appreciated if we can understand the word of God as stated in Psalm 126:6 which confirms that: 

"Those who go out weeping, 

carrying seed to sow, 

will return with songs of joy, 

carrying sheaves with them."

4. As disciples of Christ we must always be proud to identify with Christ and all he represents. 

One cannot be embarrassed or ashamed of Christ and his words, and expect to be a disciple of Jesus.  

Many people find it easy to identify with Christ as their Saviour knowing he has delivered them from one issue or the other they faced in life and that they'll need him to continue to do so but having him as Lord of their lives, having to take instructions from him about how he would have them live their lives on his own term and not on theirs is unfortunately the reason some find it difficult to effectively follow, as they want to be in full control. 

Finally as disciples of Jesus we must follow the pattern Christ's disciples of old did as seen below. 

Shalom

The Discipleship Triangle: 

HOW DOES GOD SPEAK TO YOU?

God may choose to directly speak to us audibly or to our hearts or indeed communicate with us in any way He chooses to. 

With time He may choose to speak more frequently with us if we come to the  understanding that He can. 

This consciousness helps us to be expectant of His promptings and feedback to our longings, prayers and Petitions. 

We may never in our lifetime hear God speak to us saying something like, "My son, don't go to work today!" or in any other epic warning or command, but we can be rest assured that God will certainly communicate to each and every one of us in our lifetime, whether we choose to seek a relationship with Him or not. 

It is important we all find out the specific way(s) God chooses to relate with us when He wants to pass across an instruction or warning, so we are not in any doubt when He does, so we can act immediately on it. 

Over the years I have come to understand  these 5 specific ways God communicates with me: 

1. Through Songs and Hymns. 

I may wake up early in the morning with a particular piece of edifying music playing in my head that the Holy Spirit will prompt me to start singing, and while I'm praising God or lifting my own spirit through the song, I find that the wordings themselves may also have a particular significance to what God would have me focus on that day.

2. Through the Word. 

Hearing the Word of God in church, while taking public transport, through digital media, visually seeing the Word via tracts, books, magazines, etc are all avenues God affords me to commune with Him.

Whenever I come across the Word of God my Spirit immediately confirms that which is noteworthy, that God would have me act upon. 

3. By Speaking to other People.

I have come to understand that when I speak to certain kingdom-minded individuals comcerning godly living, etc, I tend to reiterate things in the affirmative that God has previously layed in my heart but that I have not fully grasped or accepted are what He expects of me.

4. By putting a thought in my head. 

God from time to time would put a thought in my head for me to document and act upon or share.

Thoughts would come to my mind and I would instinctively know God desired I dwelt on them and understand them so I could act on them.

So that I don't forget I would quickly jot the thought down on a phone app like Google Keep and allow the Holy Spirit to help me expand on it so I could get the full picture and act on it. 

However, there was a particular time in which I had a long spell of drought of God's revelations because I failed to document, brood over so I could understand and act upon what the Spirit of God had impressed upon my heart. 

The drought lasted for almost a year despite my prayers and apologies for my failure to act decisively. 

5. By highlighting topical issues I come across in my interactions with people that He would like me to expand upon so that I will be able to understand the godly perspective of the topic and therefore be able to pass the knowledge across to others.

In Jeremiah 33:3, God Almighty enjoins us thus: 

"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."

The scripture above makes us understand that it is God's desire we call upon Him that He may likewise answer us but we must also understand that as the adage goes, "God speaks to those who take time to listen".

It is unfortunate that a lot of us Christians are foolish and indeed selfish communicators. 

We are actually aware that Prayer is supposed to be a two way communication channel but seldom do we believe that God can audibly reply our requests just as we audibly spoke to Him, talk-less impress His reply upon our hearts or through other mediums like through His word, through a prophet, situations and circumstances, etc.

We need to come to the understanding that Christianity is all about God's desire to cultivate individual relationships with us all via channels like prayer. 

We therefore need to believe in the communication channel of prayer that God has availed us with to commune with Him, to the extent that we are expectant and patient enough to wait for answers. 

God is our Father and we need not be afraid to approach Him and vehemently request that He answers us when we call upon Him in a way that will be clear and obvious enough to us, that it is He indeed that is replying like our earthly fathers relate with us. 

If we are truly serious about living godly lives and fulfilling our God-given mandates and therefore destiny's, then we need to complete the cycle of prayer by actually making out time to listen to God reply us after we have called upon Him, and made our supplications known unto Him. 

May God Almighty who has revealed all we now know empower us to  go the extra mile by being real and true to the concept of prayer by believing and making out quality time to listen to God reply our requests to Him, whether the answer be a "Yes!", "No!", "Wait!" or some other reply, and may He give us the grace to accept the outcome, knowing that His reply is always for our good, in Jesus name, Amen. 

THE GREAT COMMISSION

THE GREAT COMMISSION

● THE GREAT COMMISSION IS AN INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY: 

The Great Commission is a responsibility Christ Jesus gave to individuals first and foremost and we must see it as such. There are many situations that we will encounter in which we need to collaborate but just as our salvation is a personal race we must ultimately see the call of Jesus on his disciples to evangelise and disciple others as it truly is - an individual assignment. 

Evangelism, which is our ministration in words and deeds to people to accept Christ as their Saviour and Lord or re-dedicate their life back to God is just the first step in the redemptive process God has called us into in bringing mankind back to Him.

The Evangelistic mandate we were given can be appreciated when we understand the ministry of Christ which was summed up in Matthew 9:35 thus: 

"Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness."

The next step is to establish such in Christ through building up the person in the knowledge of God and Christ's Jesus via the Word of God, so that the person is not lost to the world again but alive in Christ to do God's bidding. 

We need to ensure that new converts, as the adage goes, "take in the Word to keep out the world!"

That establishment programme is what Discipleship is all about. Without discipleship, we turn the Great Commission into the great omission. 

Just as we were all called to be Evangelists who teach, preach and heal, so also has Christ called us to live exemplary lives that others will desire to emulate through the Discipleship process of being Disciplers as he was while he was on earth. 

If we are truly followers of Christ we must have the mindset that Christ has called us to do all he did on earth and that he has empowered us through the Holy Spirit to do even more. 

As in Ephesians 2:10, we must believe and understand that, "... we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

There are 4 major steps in the process of Salvation of any individual and they are, namely: 

1. Being Born-again (Accepting Jesus Christ as one's Saviour and Lord), 

2. Constantly Renewing one's mind via meditation on God's Word so one can Cultivate a personal relationship with God so that one can get direct revelations from God about one's specific purpose in life - per time and run with it. 

3. Evangelising the lost and those who have gone astray.

4. Discipleship of those one has led to Christ.

It is indeed unfortunate that the physical Church denominations most of us belong to have failed in teaching us the total Salvation process that Christ Jesus ensured his disciples adhered to, and if we are his modern day disciples we must follow his footsteps accordingly.  

It is quite remarkable how we claim to be followers of Christ, accept to do some of the things Jesus Christ and his disciples have done in their lifetime as recorded in the Bible but choose to leave out the most important aspects out of convenience. 

In 2 Peter 3:9 we are made to understand that it is not God's desire that people perish in hell but that they repent of their sins and are saved to serve him and not to fulfill their earthly desires.

Since God's heartbeat is that people be saved to live godly lives, it is therefore clear that the pursuit of the Evangelistic and Discipleship mandate that most Christians fool around with at the detriment of their salvation is not to be trifled with.

We are not just called to bring new converts to Christ and the church but also to disciple them in godly living. 

There is a command that Jesus Christ expressly gave his disciples with regards to Discipleship and by extension we who are his latter-day disciples, if indeed we actually accepted him as Lord over our lives like his disciples of old did. 

The command as found in Matthew 28:19-20, is this:

19. .... go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 

20. and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Duly recorded in another chapter of the Holy writ is another Command that Jesus gave his disciples with regards to the Evangelical work he was going to fully entrust into their hand before his departure in Mark 16:15-16,20, which goes thus: 

15. ..., “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 

16. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, ....... 

20. Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.

Discipleship requires Sacrifice and if we desire to evangelise and disciple people in all the nations of the world as effectively as Christ has entrusted into our hands we need to have compassion for the lost, and prayerfully read about, understand and emulate the life and times of Christ and his disciples with regards to both ministries. 

 

● ACCOUNTABILITY: 

There's something that being a discipler confers on a believer which just evangelism cannot completely do and it is that Discipleship encourages responsibility and therefore accountability. 

Accountability in God's scheme of things is our acceptance of our responsibility for the Great Commission and its consequences. It is our acceptance to be held responsible or answerable for our God-given mandate. 

Discipleship which in a nutshell is a "follow me as I follow christ" approach to teaching one's disciple(s) about Christ by living by example, encourages accountability of a Discipler, first to God and also to his disciple(s). 

This singular opportunity makes a world of difference in helping a Christian be accountable to God and men in all his endeavours. 

● THE ULTIMATE TEST OF OUR LOVE FOR OTHERS: 

The ultimate test of our love for God and indeed our fellow man is being a follower of Christ that disciples others (a discipler). 

As Christ's true followers, 

If we have come to the understanding that we must work towards doing the works Christ did and even greater things with regards to evangelising the lost, then we can be rest assured of the signs and wonders that must accompany our obedience, so that the lost can believe and accept Jesus as a result of the miracles and be saved. 

When we have come to the understanding that we are called not just to evangelise but also disciple people as Jesus did, we can also take comfort in the truth that he that called us is faithful and he will encourage and empower us to do it, if we take the bold step of faith to join a discipleship class or prayerfully find out how Jesus did it, build up our faith that we can disciple others also and start something with the people around us that we have brought to Christ. 

Can I be bold to say that, If a man cannot take up the responsibility for his neighbour that is lost or has gone astray because God commanded him to, then such a person has failed in the purpose of his existence. 

This call to discipleship is by no means a way to hoodwink you into starting something you believe you are not ready for but to help you see the bigger picture and jolt you into taking steps to ensure you fulfil your destiny by following the exact footprints that Christ has laid out for all of us who profess his name to follow. 

In John 14:12, Jesus Christ declared this: 

"Very truly I tell you, 

whoever believes in me 

will do the works I have been doing, 

and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

You need to pray and confess this truth into your life until you begin to see it's manifestation. 

Note that Jesus Christ actually gave his disciples a blank check when he made these affirmations to them with regards to them getting what they believe in - from him when they obey the preceeding verse by desiring, believing and actually doing the works he did, as a lifestyle: 

In John 14:13-14, Jesus Christ assured his disciples of meeting their needs and wants, thus: 

13. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, 

so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 

14. You may ask me for anything in my name, 

and I will do it.

● THE CHURCH IS NOT TO BLAME... YOU ARE.

The church has indeed failed in it's responsibility to preach the "Full Gospel of Christ", by building up their members to become dominion-minded enough not to depend on the Word from the pulpit but to be independent enough by thier personal relationship with God and His Word, to ensure that they experience the influence of the Kingdom of God and that it emanates from their lives to their daily evangelistic and descipleship pursuit to likewise empower the lost for dominion. 

The Full Gospel of Christ is all about the restoration of the Dominion mandate mankind lost from the fall of man, caused by the original sin of our forefather Adam. 

This mandate was retaken by Jesus Christ's death and resurrection, that sin and the influence of the devil over mankind, the world and it's systems might be done away with, so that men may enjoy the Abundant Life he promised and wrought for us all. 

The church may have abdicated it's responsibility to preach the Full Gospel of Christ in search of relevance, membership, funding or other things we tend to castigate the church for nowadays but the gospel truth is that the mandate Jesus gave was never given to the church, that is a group of people who fellowship under the umbrella of Christ, but it was given to individuals. 

It is about time we stop whinging about what the church did and didn't do and face the truth that we have all been individually tasked with the Full Gospel of Christ and we must all give account for our Stewardship or lack thereof in the fulness of time. 

● LIVING BY EXAMPLE: 

Discipleship for Christ is all about living by example. 

We are all called by Christ to live godly lives in all our endeavours and to by example teach others to do likewise. 

We have a mandate to live godly lives at home, when we go about earning a living from our businesses and indeed everywhere we go. 

We are called to be Christ Ambassadors as if God was making his appeal through us to all those who are lost in our various spheres of contact to be reconciled with Christ, when they see the exemplary lifestyle we exhibit in all we say and do, desire to emulate our unique lifestyle and begin to interrogate and ask us how we are able to do the extraordinary things we do. 

Then we can win them over into God's kingdom by letting them know the Dominion mandate, the Authority of the believer we have that makes it all possible.

As a true follower of Christ who was himself a discipler because he had disciples that he called to follow him, the best approach to being the discipler yourself is having a "follow me as I follow Christ!" approach to your disciples. 

As disciplers who ought to have also been discipled, we are lifetime students of the Spirit of God, our discipler and therefore we must always make out time to imbibe the Word of God so we can always keep abreast with the will of God for our lives, our own disciples, other people who look to us for exemplary guidance in what we say and do and indeed everyone we come in contact with because we were called to represent God as Ambassadors of Christ. 

● FINANCING THE GREAT COMMISSION:

Fear is sometimes an overwhelming factor that discourages a lot of people from going for evangelism, talk less of embarking on discipleship. 

We however must understand that when it comes to any Kingdom Advancement venture we desire to embark upon all we need do is to overcome our fear by building up our faith about the situation via God's Words that gives us the assurance we need to push ahead. 

Every provision for what God would have us do in life flows with our understanding of God's mandate our willingness to do it and our faith in God and His Word to ultimately bring it about.

God Almighty who has commanded us to fulfil his mandate with regards to the Great Commission is faithful and he will make his provisions available according to our faith in Him to do so.

In 2 Corinthians 9:8, we understand that "God is able to bless (us) abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that (we) need, (we) will abound in every good work."

From this scripture, we can be rest assured without a doubt, that God's ability to provide for all things and at all times is available but we also need to find out what will trigger his ability to work for us. 

From 2 Corinthians 9:10-11, we can be rest assured that: 

10. .... he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. 

11. You will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.

God's supply of seed to the sower refers to God's provision of His Word in season to us to build us up in faith and godliness and also to evangelise to the lost and backsliden while God's supply of bread for food refers to God's provision of what we need and want to sustain ourselves. 

So from the above scripture we can surmise that God's ability to provide for any Kingdom Advancement endeavour we commit to and embark upon will always be triggered by our obedience in actually going out to evangelise and our generosity in giving our effort, time, wealth, etc to those he has directed us to in fulfilling the Great Commission mandate. 

Just as Jesus Christ initially sent out His disciples to go in two's, commanding them not to take any purse of money, bag or sandals but to go as they are and evangelise to people we also need to seek the Holy Spirit's guidance every single time as to How God would have us actually do His work per time. 

● COMPASSION FOR THE LOST:

The engine for our obedience to the Great Commission mandate is our genuine love and therefore compassion for the lost or backsliden and our understanding of the urgency of the task at hand as we don't have all the time in the world. 

In Psalm 126:5-6, it is written: 

5. Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. 

6. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.

● GO IN GOD'S STRENGTH ALONE:

We must approach our Great Commission mandate in God's wisdom and strength alone for by one's own acumen and devices can no man prevail. 

As recorded in Luke 10:2, Jesus Christ told his disciples thus: 

“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."

This request that Jesus made of his disciples is crucial in ensuring we do not encumber or destroy God's work of restoration in the lives of those He wants to redeem to him by going about it in our own strength rather than by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. 

● SEE THE BIG PICTURE: 

We should constantly be aware that there's a heaven to gain and a hell to lose and that can only be accomplished when we fulfil God's purpose for our existence on earth. 

God has called us to Christ solely to bless us and to improve our lives on earth, and by so doing he has also empowered us to improve the lives of others around us. This is the Abundant Life Christ Jesus wrought for us by him dying for our sins and his resurrection so that we may no longer be slaves to sin but slaves to being in right-standing with God. 

Finally, as in Romans 8:11 KJV, you can say this prayer: 

(Since) the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in (me), he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken (my) mortal (body) by his Spirit that dwelleth in (me)

..... in Jesus name, Amen.