DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT - TUESDAY: The Wisdom of Soul Winning

“Oh, to realize that souls, precious, never dying souls, are perishing all around us, going out into the blackness of darkness and despair, eternally lost, and yet to feel no anguish, shed no tears, know no travail! How little we know of the compassion of Jesus!" -- Oswald J. Smith
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The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise. -- Prov 11:30

TAKING THE POSITIVE APPROACH
As we consider the implications of this exciting ministry I want to encourage you to approach it in a very positive manner, believe that everything the Scriptures say on this subject, applies to you personally. There is no legitimate reason why YOU may not be successful and effective in this ministry. Every possible objection you may raise has an answer and a solution in God.

There is no hindrance that He cannot overcome! If you are willing, God will help you overcome every obstacle, which may threaten to hinder you; He will take your willingness and determination and transform it into Soul Winning successes. Through your life and witness many will be turned to salvation and the Kingdom of God will be greatly enlarged.

In the natural, the single most powerful factor required for accomplishment and success is the faith factor. Quiet confidence and positive expectation are vital and indispensable keys to accomplishment and success. If you do not believe that you can do a certain thing, the indications are that you never will. Success never comes to the unwary; people almost invariably get what they expect from life.

Positive anticipation always precedes personal accomplishment.
This is as true in Soul Winning as in any other area of life, for it is an unchanging law of life that "You reap whatever you sow." If you sow whilst harbouring negative thoughts of doubt and pessimism in your mind, you will never reap a positive, effective, and fruitful harvest. So, as you read these studies, be positive and confident that God is going to use you in a remarkable way to win other people into His kingdom.

Remember that God is with you!
He has commissioned you. He wants you to succeed. God is going to accomplish His purposes, and if you are willing, He will accomplish them through YOU. The Holy Spirit of God is working within you now, He will guide you to the very people to whom God wants you to speak, He will put the right words into your mouth, He will empower those words with authority and make them powerfully effective. The Holy Spirit will bring all things to your remembrance at the right time and for the right occasion, He will give you insight into the needs of the people to whom you witness.

You will find yourself speaking words of wisdom, which you did not prepare or pre-meditate. It is the work of God in which you will be involved and if you are a willing channel, He will flow through you to accomplish His purpose.

A Word To The Wise
You can choose to become wiser because the process of growing in wisdom involves making right choices. Solomon was aware of this when God appeared to him one night in a dream and said, "ask what I shall give you." -- 1 Kings.3: 3-15. What an opportunity! Solomon could have asked for whatever his heart desired but he used the little wisdom he possessed to acquire more. He humbly requested "an understanding heart" in order to rightly judge the affairs of his people and to properly discern between right and wrong as he sought to rule over them.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

As we continue in this study you will discover opportunities to make some right decisions which will prove to be extremely wise, decisions to serve God with a new zeal and determination, decisions to redeem the time by using every opportunity to share your faith, and thus influence others towards God.

You will discover so much more about God and people than you ever knew before, you will acquire more and more wisdom and you will take your place in the ranks of those whom God considers to be wise, for in His estimation, "he that wins souls is wise."

Wisdom and Soul winning go together, because the wisdom of God is indispensable in the winning of souls, we could never hope to win people to Christ using our own natural wisdom…

The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. -- 1 Cor 2:14. So, whenever one brings someone to Christ, they are doing it by the wisdom of God, the wisdom of God is operating through them.

Loving Father, I desire so much to be a soul winner for you, help me by the power of the Holy Spirit, to put these principles of soul winning into action, so that I may see souls brought into your Kingdom. In Jesus wonderful name! Amen!