FEAR Extinguishing 101 in the Middle East AGAIN...for such a time as this!

After several months in the West, we are back "on the streets" here in the Middle East engaging in our mandate to be "Fear Extinguishers".

I'm entitling this post "101" because along the way we've discovered that there are some basics that we share with others and minister to them with.

Here are the "BIG 3" - the basics of for Fear Extinguishing 101:

We have...

1. Promises of Protection - whether it is Psalm 91, or any of the dozens and dozens of promises in God's Word, we have been promised by God that He will protect His children.  Even today as I was sharing this with a Filipino man, he was "taking notes" of these truths that we have to remember! Do we believe this?

2. Promises of Healing - Today I shared Matthew 10, but I will more often share the promises in Luke 10. The Old Testament contains promises of healing but our promises under the New Covenant are "better" (Heb. 8:6-8).  Do we really believe that God is our Healer and that He has promised to "heal the sick"?  

3. Promise of Eternal Life - and if we die (or rather when we die), we who belong to Jesus have had our "names written in the Lamb's Book of Life" (Rev 20:15) and we will live forever and ever and ever.

Already today I was able to share these things with the first 3 people I engaged with the intention of seeing their fear extinguished.  Even as we head out to a large mall now, I am sure we will be sharing it with many many others.

And this is how we are ministering to Christians, even nominal ones.  This enables me to point them to God's Word and to pray with them for protection, for their healing, and even to be able to know that they have their names written in the Book of Life if they trust in Jesus.  Many salvation prayers will be prayed in the days and weeks to come.  

I believe God has given us a strategy to minister to the people we are meeting - to extinguish their fear and to see many committing their lives to Christ.  It is time for the Harvest!  Join us wherever you are and with whoever you meet to be releasing the Kingdom - Protection, Healing, and Eternal Life!

...for such a time as this!