By Discerning God’s Strategic Mission
By Deploying God’s Strategic Messengers
By Depositing God’s Strategic Message
HBF Reality Number 7: Real Churches Impact Real War Zones
The scripture is clear that the mission of making disciples who can impact the planet is a high stakes reality. Just as Nations have training institutions designed for developing strategy to engage and win war, so the body of Christ is the institution God has called, ordained and equipped to prepare men and women to reproduce themselves in strategic people and places on the planet. Understanding who we are fighting and where we are fighting is a big part of being successful. If a church is going to leave a lasting impact on real spiritual war zones, they must Discern God’s Strategic Mission.
Jesus said 2000 years ago “It is finished” but Satan is still inflicting as much damage as he can before he is cast into the lake of fire. The collateral damage in this war is the souls of men and women. It is therefore very important that we never lose sight of the war in which we are engaged. Prayer that passes straight through the second heaven to our Father ensures we provide the supplies necessary to encourage the troops who are engaged in spiritual battle on earth.
It was no accident that God called strategic men like Paul to face off with strategic men like Nero. Paul was Deployed as God’s Strategic Messenger to deliver the news of Jesus victory to everyone who needed to hear it, even heads of state.
In the Old Testament, God called Israel an army long before they looked like one (Exodus 6:26). Those Pharaoh saw as slaves, God saw as an army capable of driving out people who were greater and mightier than them (Deuteronomy 9:1). It takes time to prepare common believers to accomplish uncommon things. Even the apostle Paul was not ready the day he was saved. It took some time of serving and preparing before he was deployed to reproduce faithful men and ministries. Strong churches make sure men and women are prepared, because when God opens the door, you need to know what God wants you to do and believe God can do it! (Numbers 13)
There are at least 53 cities in the 10/40 window with populations over 1,000,000 people. Many of these cities are cities you have never even heard of in places like China, India or the Middle East. They have official religions like Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism or in the case of China no religion. These are not imaginary places, but real places with real people who need to hear the real gospel from real Christians who can plug them into real churches that reproduce real disciples who can be used to Deposit God’s Strategic Message in the hearts of people within their sphere of influence.
If Jesus were as popular as Pepsi is in Nepal, then we would certainly be in the millennial reign of Christ. We know the times and seasons (1 Thessalonians 5:1-4). We understand that the next great spiritual leader to captivate the entire world like Pepsi in Nepal is the man of sin himself. Real Christians in real churches should be encouraged as we see the day approaching. As the population of earth swells there is not a greater time to engage the souls of men with the liberating message of Christ!