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How
do I know what my purpose and calling is for my life?
Do
these words sound familiar?
Deuteronomy 6:4-7
"Hear, O
Israel
:
The Lord our G-d, the Lord is one! You shall love the Lord your G-d with
all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength
.
"And these
words which I command you today shall be in your heart
.
You shall teach them
diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your
house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up
.
”
What are
we really being asked to do here?
You
are being commanded: You SHALL love the Lord G-d, teach the Word to your
children and others, live and breathe G-d in all your daily activities
from morning to night
.
You CAN do this
.
Let’s learn how
.
The main
focus of this study course is to enable you to actually carry out this
“great commission.”
Matthew
28:18-20 Yeshua (Jesus) came and told His disciples, "I have been
given complete authority in heaven and on earth
.
Therefore, go and make disciples
of all the nations, immersing them in the name of the Father and the Son
(Yeshua) and the Holy Spirit (Ruach haKodesh)
.
Teach these new disciples to obey
all the commands I have given you
.
And be sure of this: I am with you
always, even to the end of the age
.
"
The
command to “go and make disciples” is not a mere suggestion any more
than the ten-commandments are G-d’s ten suggestions
.
What does it mean to go and make
disciples? When we make disciples, we are producing believers by
mentoring them until they are grounded in their beliefs and have a firm
foundation in the Word (Bible
.
) This book will help you to carry out
that calling
.
Question:
Out
of every 10 people who accept Yeshua (Jesus) and G-d’s free gift of
salvation, one year later how many of them do you think have left the
faith and are looking for G-d elsewhere?
80%
of new believers leave the faith within one year. Quoted from Rick
Joyner’s The Harvest Volume 2.
Why
is this happening? Because the vast majority of believers believe their
ONLY job is to get people atoned (saved
.
) How could so many well-meaning
believers come to such an incorrect assumption that this is their
“primary job”? Perhaps they were told by the person that brought
them to the Lord that their job is to bring more people to the Lord
.
That is great, honorable, important,
Scriptural, yet also naïve
.
If
your job was to bring as many 16 year olds to a place where they could
get a free car you would certainly succeed
.
But if all you did was say “Here’s
your car, congratulations and enjoy your free gift”, how many of those
kids would crash and burn and cause deaths and lasting injuries to
themselves and those around them? How many of their relatives and
friends would tell other kids to stay away from the place where they
give away free cars? My point is this
.
Just as you would need to teach those
kids how to drive and teach them about the rules of the road, so it is
after you bring someone to the Lord
.
It is imperative that you teach them
.
You can give them this book and that
would be a good beginning
.
Make sure they get connected to other
mature believers who can help them to grow
.
That
means stay with them, hold their hand, until they are securely connected
to other believers and a place of worship
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Mentoring them is the key to success
.
Perhaps
you were shown this Scripture verse as the proof that G-d wants us to
bring others to Him:
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