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How To Build Relationships


We've been looking up until now at the blessing of the Lord and the three areas of life which is health, wealth and relationships. I've been spending a lot of time on health and wealth because they're quite important and I've left relationships for last because it's one of those things that, but honestly I didn't know enough about you. I feel I've still been living it myself and I can't preach anything until I've lived it a little bit.

So I said Lord you're gonna have to help me here. I need to teach on a subject that I can't consider myself an expert on. I love people.

I can build bridges to people very quickly and very easily but I would not say that I have a huge number of people following me, that I have a huge ever-growing circle of relationships and I think probably a lot of us could say the same thing. Sometimes we live a lonely life especially if you're a prophet. Okay so today I'm going to share on how to build relationships God's way.

I believe God's given me a revelation. I didn't realize it but I already preached some of this a while back in a series which if you have noticed is called Overcoming Evil. If you've ever looked at our series Overcoming Evil you'll see that there's three volumes.

The one volume is one that we've never really promoted. It's how it's overcoming poverty, lack, loneliness, the whole lot. Okay I covered all three.

The health, the wealth and the relationships. I actually already covered it in a complete volume all on its own. Okay so as I came to ask the Lord, Lord what do I preach on relationships? He said you've already preached some on it.

I said have I? You say you can't, you don't even know what you preach. You know what I preach so many things that God gives it to me I can't even remember. Sometimes I have to go afterwards and watch what I preach.

He said is that what I said? Because I'm getting revelation even while I'm preaching you know. So I went back there and I discovered, I discovered that God had given me a revelation back there that I'd forgotten. And so the Lord told me to take that, pick it up, wear it.

I left off and now move ahead and go further. So if you have not read that volume of Overcoming Evil, I would sincerely recommend you buy it. It's actually available in a printed book would you believe.

One of our few printed books is available and it's quite detailed and a very good teaching. But today I'm going to zero in just on the one which is how to build relationships. I have one scripture to read Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 6 leading to the praise of the glory of his grace in which he has made us highly favored in the beloved one.

How do you build relationships with other people? How do you get others to want to follow you and want to be with you? Well here's some simple things you need to take into account. Firstly find out what people want. Then try and give them what they want.

Try and do this without sinning, without having any selfish or wrong motives. And that kind of messes it up a bit doesn't it? Well I'm going to show you from God's word today how you can do this. Every one of us as human beings has some basic needs.

And actually we all have two basic needs in life. And you've heard me preach on these many times. And sometimes I may have come across to imply you these are a problem because you have these needs.

Truth of the matter is these needs are built into us. God has made us this way and every single human being has those same needs. What are they? They need to be accepted and they need to be recognized.

Every one of us has those inherent needs. Do you know that no human being ever sees bad in themselves? The most hardened criminals are known to say well you know I'm not such a bad guy. You know I've got a good heart.

Yeah I just kill people for fun but yeah I've got a good heart. It's amazing. It's amazing how nobody ever sees bad in themselves.

And we always try and make excuses for our failures don't we? If somebody should accuse us we've got 10 reasons why we did it. Well please excuse me because you know you know I've had a tough time in life and you know if you were in my position you would do that as well. And you know I couldn't help it and you know it was Johnny's fault not mine.

It starts way back in childhood really doesn't it? It's human nature. We justify ourselves. Some years ago there was a system of evangelism created by a man by the name of D. James Kennedy called evangelism explosion.

I personally think it was one of the best evangelistic methods that's ever been taught. I've included some of the principles in our own teaching on evangelism. And James Kennedy's method always started with two questions that you would use to try and bring a person into the place where you would share the gospel with them.

His first one was are you sure that if you were to die right now you... The second question was a very powerful one. The second question went like this. If you were to die now and stand before God and he was to say to you why should I let you into heaven? What would you say to him? Now do you know what everybody would say? Well you know I've never done anybody any harm.

You know I'm a pretty good guy. You know I read my bible and I pray occasionally and I go to church twice a year. People will always find something in themselves to point to that says for this reason God should let me into heaven because of what I've done.

Because I'm inherently good you see. We will never see the bad in ourselves. Well is that a bad thing? Well it's human nature isn't it? It's human nature and it's the way God has made us.

You see it's natural to put self first. We want people to notice us. So we do many different things to try and get people to notice us because we are important.

You know often as I'm driving down the road or just walking or just sitting watching people you just see so many different shapes and sizes coming before you and I look at a person I think you know I don't know that person I'll probably never get to meet but you know to that person they are the most important person in the world. Each person feels that way about themselves. It's the way God's made us.

And you know when we speak to somebody we want them to listen to us first. We've got so much to take so much to tell. We love talking about ourselves.

Somebody once said speak to a person about himself and he'll listen for hours. We can't wait for the other person to shut up so we can say what we want to say. We kind of suffer and tolerate their little wait for them to get finished.

Then we get in we take our chance and we say what we wanted to say. It's human nature. Unfortunately if you want to build a relationship between two people who both think that they are the most important thing in the world somebody's going to have to give.

Otherwise it's a competition. That's why so many of us don't have relationships because we go in competing. We go in wanting to impress people with what we have and who we are.

We really don't take the time or care enough to even listen to what they think. It's important. It is a basic fact of human nature.

If you want to build a relationship with somebody else the first thing you will have to do is to put your own needs and desires aside. Otherwise it's going to cost you. And then you're going to have to try to meet the needs and desires of that other person.

If you can do that they'll think you're the most wonderful person in the world. They'll want to talk to you for hours. In fact they'll start clinging to you and want to let go.

Because nobody in the world has ever cared before. Nobody's taken the time to listen. And even if they did go in one ear and out the other.

People don't care about anybody except themselves. First step towards developing a relationship with another person is to let go of your need for acceptance, recognition and start giving that to the other person to meet their need. And we need grace to be able to do this.

We need grace because it doesn't come naturally. Are you going to look for a model of a person who has lots of relationships and perhaps you know somebody like that. Or you know of somebody like that and perhaps you've been tempted to think I wonder if I followed their example and did things the way they did without getting the same results.

How do you become popular and famous? Most of the time we envy that popular famous person. Wish they would just drop off the end of the earth. Are we going to look for a model folks? There's only one person really that we could trust to be a true model.

How did Jesus get people to follow him? And he didn't seem to have a problem with that. You know almost had to kind of turn them away and escape from them sometimes. He eventually decided to choose 12 out of them.

Otherwise they would have mobbed him. Hey how do you get that kind of popularity? How do you get that kind of following? It all lies in one simple word grace. Grace.

I want you to go back to the scripture we read at the beginning. Leading to the praise of the glory of his grace in which he has made all of us highly favored. The original king James says accepted in the beloved one which is Jesus.

See what what does it mean to be accepted? It means to have favor with somebody else. And do you know that word favor in the original greek language is the greek word which most of the time is translated as grace. Grace.

Okay so we need to understand what this grace is because if we want to have favor and if we want to create favor with people we need to understand how grace works. Now for some people grace is just a big theological word. Well you know we're saved by grace.

What does that mean? Some people go overboard and say grace means I can live however I like it doesn't matter. Other people they swing to the other end and they say all these hyper grace people they they living out sin they're not preaching against sin and judgment and we get these these fiery hellfire and damnation preaching. Which is want to condemn everybody to hell.

Make your sin glow in the seat as they preach because you think they're preaching right at you. Been in those churches? I grew up in one of those churches. You know what this is not somebody you want to go and greet afterwards.

Not somebody you want to get too close to. You feel uncomfortable next to them don't you? There's your first sign of what it takes to build relationships. Grace.

Not condemnation but grace. What's the first thing we do when we meet someone? Well men and women react differently. You know they say guys just notice a couple of things about another guy or woman she notices everything.

Just look at that disgusting fat. Look at her hair. Can be so critical.

Hey how come on how often do you meet somebody think oh what wonderful qualities this person has. We always look for the negative. Always look for something that we can put the person down.

You know why? Because ultimately if they're too good they're going to be a challenge to us. We would rather they were below us. Human nature.

Well human nature is sinful and it's selfish. If you want to understand the word grace extend it a little bit into another English word which you probably do understand. Because the word grace even in English we don't really know what it means.

Most of us it's a woman's name. It's about as close as it comes you know. But do you know what gracious means? Could you can you visualize a gracious person? See we can do that.

That person's very gracious very considerate. See that's what grace does to a person. It makes them gracious.

Makes them respond to others differently and have a good attitude. The Greek the word is best translated as undeserved favor. In other words you are being favored and looked upon well even though you don't deserve it.

See that's God's grace. Undeserved favor. God shows his love that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

See he gave us favor when we did not deserve it. So from God's point of view we love his grace. We love to say I'm saved by grace.

That the Lord accepts me just the way that I am. Gave the best that he had for us even though we were his enemies. Do you know that the love of Jesus is totally uncondemning and non-judgmental.

Jesus said I did not come to condemn the world. I came to save. And you know a lot of us we know that in our heads.

Sometimes we haven't even experienced his grace and sometimes it's the preacher's fault. Because they're always telling us what God demands of us. First time I ever met Jesus in the spirit and I've shared the story many times.

As I stood before him and I didn't know what to say and I said Lord I'm just concerned about believers that that served you once and they've grown cold. Fallen away. And he said Les what makes you think I love them less than you.

I felt ashamed at first but then he was showing me something. He was showing me my love does not depend on anything that you can be or do. It's unconditional.

And even at times when I failed him he was never there with a condemning word. Ever. Ever.

If God's used you in giving prophetic words and you've been in the spirit and I've given true prophetic words. Not just thinking about words of encouragement but yeah even that. Does God ever say anything negative in a prophetic word? When's the last time you heard somebody say a prophesy and that says the Lord I'm very angry with you people you make me mad.

I've never heard it yet. If somebody does that I'll tell them to shut up because that's not prophecy. It's always motivation.

Always encouragement. You know when you move into prophetic office and you start giving directive words to people that are more pointed and you meet somebody and you assess them. You make your own judgment.

Well pretty carnal Christian you know. I don't know if that'll ever amount to much. You know they've got so much in their lives that you can see.

He's no God. Let's have a word of prayer. Thus says the Lord behold my child you are special to me.

I'm so proud of you. I'm going to use you in a wonderful way. Now and I stop and I think Lord have we got the right person yet? Are you sure? He always has something good to say.

He always has a wonderful promise to give. Well you get to know him in the spirit and you get to hear his voice whether it be in prophetic utterance. Whether it be through journaling or just hearing his voice.

You'll always hear words that say I love you. You're special to me. You're special to me.

I would die for you all over again. That's grace folks. That's grace.

Oh what effect does grace have? It makes us respond positively. Scripture says in 1 John 4 verse 19. We love him because he first loved us.

We don't love him because he demanded it of us. We don't love him because of what we're going to get out of it. So we're going to bribe him, twist his arm.

But because he first loved us. His love and his grace had an effect on us that we cannot help but respond back again in love. Can't help ourselves.

Grace motivates us to action. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15 and verse 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am.

And his grace directed towards me was not a waste of time. But I worked harder than all of them. But not me.

Grace of God that was with me. See grace makes us work harder. Grace makes us more committed.

Some people say that grace teaching makes people live loose lives because you know if God loves us and we're saved by grace we can do whatever you like. He's not going to judge us. I might as well go live like the devil.

Well you know if you understand grace it doesn't do that. Somebody makes a sacrifice for you. You kind of feel you owe them.

They didn't demand it. They gave you unconditional love. Maybe they even gave their life or risked their life for you.

You feel obligated to that person. Can't help it. Grace produces favor with other people.

In Acts 2 46 it says and they continuing daily with one mind in the temple and breaking bread from house to house ate their food with gladness and oneness of heart praising God and having favor with all the people. Do you know what happened also then? It says and the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved. What made these people come in? They found something here that they've never seen before.

Here's a bunch of people who love. They care. These are people who actually listen.

These are people who give and care about my need. These are people who not just about themselves but they've freely given out. You know I want to hang around with the crowd like that.

I tell you what you couldn't keep them away. Maybe I'm not giving enough grace out there otherwise this hall would be full. I don't know.

I'd like to see it happen like the early church. The Lord is adding to the church daily. You know what we need more space.

We need more houses. We need more meetings. See that's I believe that if the body of Christ would catch this explode.

Can't keep the people away. So we can use God's grace to build relationships. Jesus grace made people love him and follow him.

God's grace if we would manifest it to others will get others to love us and follow us. Well how do we do this? How do we show grace to others? Well firstly accept them as they are without demanding anything. Don't give the message you I would like you if you were different but you know you're not part of my social group.

You don't do things like me. You don't fit in with me so I'm not comfortable with you. That's not often what we communicate to people.

I don't have time to get involved in your affairs. I don't want to listen to your sub stories and your problems because I've got enough problems on my own thank you. Accept people just the way they are.

Just the way they are without demanding anything. Without saying I will accept you if or I would accept you but you say I don't do that and you I do. I'm free to admit it because I have a problem.

I've been a trainer for so long. It's my job to see things in people that need to be corrected and I'll deal with that just now. But I got so busy being the trainer to help people overcome their problems that all I ever saw was the wrong things and people revered me and they respected me and they feared me but they didn't want to be around me.

Is that the way you wanted to be? I think all of us want people to be drawn to us. People to want to be with us, to follow us, to love us. I believe that's what God wants.

So the first thing you must do is accept people. The next new person you meet practice it. Look at them and say I'm going to accept you just the way you are.

It's your ugly hair, your dirty clothes and that scowl on your face. Whatever else you can find you don't want to accept you just the way you are because you know what? Jesus loves you just the way he loves me and therefore I have no right to do anything but love you the same way just the way you are. Now that's not going to be easy and I'll then show you a little bit more of how to make it easier but are you prepared to do that? And then you must show them recognition.

That means you must find something about them that's good. Oh that one's even more difficult eh? You know it doesn't, it actually doesn't take much. It really doesn't.

Find something about the person that impresses you. Look hard. Maybe it's the way they're dressed.

Maybe it's the necklace she has around her neck. Maybe it's the way she did her hair. Eh? I don't know.

Maybe it's the tie he's wearing. I don't know. Find something.

I'm not honest. Honestly. No flattery here.

Okay. Honestly. No I really like the way you do your hair.

It looks so nice. What hair dress did you have man? It looks so good. Something small.

Something that makes the person feel good about themselves. Well how did Jesus do this? I'm going to show you two examples from scripture. When Jesus first met Peter we read about it in John 1 42.

It says and he brought him to Jesus and when Jesus looked at him he said you are Simon the son of Jonah. You will be called Cephas which is by interpretation a stone. Now you and I know Peter's no stone.

He's as floppy and flappy as a jellyfish. Really. He's as unstable as the wind.

Jesus knew that. He knew that. He said Peter you I'm I'm calling you a stone Peter.

I'm calling you the potential that I see in you. Not what you are. What potential do you see in one another? Do you dare to even give another person the privilege of having an opportunity? You're too busy wrapped up in yourself.

Another person was Nathanael. Nathanael was never a big claim to fame. We've probably never even heard much about him but when Jesus met him in John 1 47 says Jesus saw Nathanael come into him and said concerning him behold an Israelite in whom is no guile.

Now you read the scripture just before that. Somebody came to Nathanael and said hey we found the Messiah. He said you're kidding nothing good could come out in Nazareth.

So now and here comes Nathanael meet Jesus and Jesus says an Israelite in whom there is no guile. Well well how do you know me? Nathanael said from where do you know me? Jesus answered him before Philip called you when you were under the fig tree. I saw you.

I saw you. I see your potential Nathanael. No guile in you.

You're a real man. You know what Nathanael was no longer saying can anything good come out of Nazareth. He was saying this is my man.

He was ready to follow. Oh hey Jesus know how to do it. We don't hey.

We could learn. You're not going to be able to do this with human power. You can do a certain amount with human power.

One of the most famous books ever written is a book called How to Win Friends and Influence People written by the late Dale Carnegie. If you've never read that book go and get it. It's really cheap.

You can buy the download on Kindle or online for a pittance. It's one of the most inspiring books. Adele Carnegie discovered some of the things I'm sharing today about human nature just by research and he taught how you can get people to like you and to respond to you and to build friends and of course he was also teaching people how to use that in a business context in order to get people to buy from you as well.

One of the most powerful books ever written by a person who was kind of godly but not really a Christian. Some of the principles he taught are totally sound, totally scriptural. See but he didn't know about grace and he didn't know about the power of the spirit.

Now we've been learning from the way of blessing that we have within our spirit three forces and those three forces have the ability to create everything that we will ever need or desire in life and those forces are faith and love and hope. So if we want to create a relationship the first step is to be able to be gracious and to accept and to recognize people but in order for us to accomplish this we're going to need more than human nature. We're going to need the power of the spirit and that power is going to be manifest in those three forces.

Well how do we do that to build relationships? The first thing you must do is show somebody that you believe in them. That's faith. I believe in you even though you're a miserable failure.

I believe in you and if we'd had a father who believed in us probably would have accomplished a lot more in life. Very often we didn't have that and so we struggled. You must show them that you have hope in them and you must show them that you love them.

Well how are you going to show them? Come on now they are spiritual forces. How do we release spiritual forces? Two ways. Words and action.

Well let me show you how you release the spiritual forces in words and action to build relationships. How do you show somebody you believe in them? Tell them I believe in you. You may choke on it you may choke on it as much as the first time you tell somebody you love them.

My wife and I first started going out. We were already talking about marriage within three days. I didn't have time to feel anything for her yet.

So when I said I love you I did it in faith. Feelings weren't there yet. See but I spoke the words in faith and then the feelings came afterwards and actually all of love all of love requires an action for God felt so wonderful about the world.

I know you love the world that love is unconditional. So tell them you believe in them. How do you express hope? Tell them I'll stick with you even if you fail.

I have hope in you that if you keep going you are going to succeed. I'm not giving up on you. See that shows you're releasing hope towards that person.

How do you show love? Tell them they're special to you. Say you're important to me. You're special.

I want you to know that you're no ordinary person. You have a special place in my heart. Could you feel bad about a person who did that to you? Could you be negative about a person who did that to you? You know even though you looked at them and thought I don't want to be associated with that.

They come and they say they're beautiful. Maybe it's not such a bad call. You kind of start making excuses don't you? That's words.

How about actions? How do you show faith in someone with actions? Trust them to do something. As a leader you have to trust somebody sometime to do something even though they've never done it too well up until now. They certainly can't do it as good as you.

But I have faith in you. Why don't you come up and preach today instead of me? I have faith in you. It's all right.

I don't know how to preach. It's all right. I believe in you.

You'll learn and then hope again allows them to fail. So when they stand up and put their foot in their mouth and feel so ashamed that they want to call out. You say don't worry.

That was only your first try. You'll get better next time. I have hope in you.

Wouldn't you get up and try again? Sure you would. And love? Give them what they don't deserve because that's the love of God. God so loved the world that he gave.

Love is always manifested in giving. You know as parents we're often guilty of telling our kids I'm not going to bless you because you were naughty, because you were bad. If you're good I'll buy you that gift.

And no, no, don't ever do that to your children. Don't ever do it to anybody else either. Learn to give.

Not out of obligation. Learn to give to say you're important enough to me. I care enough to give.

And if you really want to demonstrate it well give them something that's really going to cost you. We love to give out of our excess don't we? You know I've got two cars and you really need one so I'll give you the clapped out one that I don't really need anymore. See that's not what Jesus did.

That's not what God did. He said I'll give you the Merc and I'll keep driving the clapped out VW. I told you it's going to cost you this one.

But you know what? If you were to manifest this to somebody I'll tell you what that person will cling to you like glue. They've never found anybody in this world who ever treated them that way before. You've got a relationship growing without you and nothing more.

So do you want to build relationships? Is that what it's not fair? Nobody likes me. Nobody wants to hang around with me. What's wrong with me? Am I ugly? Am I stupid? What's about me, me, me, me? It's not about me, it's about you.

Take your eyes off yourself, look at them. Give them they so earnestly desire. But you know what? Eventually they'll start giving it back but you're not demanding it.

But it'll happen. We love him because he first loved us. You cannot love a person without him eventually beginning to feel positive towards you and eventually they will love you also.

What about if you're in leadership and your job is to correct people and say, expose all the bad things in them as I mentioned earlier? Well you know there is a time to correct and to judge. After Jesus had called his disciples, the twelve, into that closer place he was always there for them, always encouraging them, trusting them. He showed them that he believed in them but he also corrected them.

They needed to be corrected. It was part of raising them up into becoming the great leaders that they were eventually. And if God raises you up to leadership, especially in the body of Christ, there's going to be a slightly different relationship that you're going to have with people.

See, people come to us for training. I say to them by the time we finish you're going to hate me at least once because I'm going to have to point things out to you that you may not like. I'm going to sometimes take a chisel to that floor and it's going to hurt.

See, that's a different kind of relationship. In such a relationship, the person would have invited you into it, okay? I'm talking about building relationships with ordinary people out there. We can do this if we learn the grace of God.

Well, where do we get that? Where do we get the spirit and the anointing from the spirit that's living with him? Because Christ is in you. Let's step out there and try and do it in the flesh. I'm going to show I can do this.

Oh, I tell you what they are going to do so bad. They're going to respond to you so bad. You're going to say that was a stupid idea.

Be ready for it. You'll be tested. Now, get into the spirit first and say, okay, Lord, we're going to go do this one together.

Lord, you know this person, she hates me. Oh, boy, she hates me. We got such a conflict.

I'm going to build a relationship with her now, Lord. Well, if you failed before, it's not going to change now. You're going to need more.

You're going to need the power of God to do that. You're incapable of loving the way he loves, so you got to let him do it for you. Okay, Lord, here we go.

I will stand back and you love them through me. You believe in them through me. You have hope in them through me, and you'd be amazed how suddenly a new power rises.

In conclusion, building relationships with others seldom comes naturally. The reason for this is because we're all selfish by nature. There's always a price to pay for relationships.

There's always something you have to give up and something you have to give away. You need to be able to show grace. That is not.

To do that, you're going to need his grace. To enable you, and the only way that you can do that is to walk in the spirit. How do we walk in the spirit? We stop walking in the flesh.

Walking in the spirit is a very simple thing. Walking in the spirit means coming to the place where you hear his voice and obey it, following his leading, which is a simple submission. Lord, I can't do this.

I can't love this person. I can't accept them. I ask you now and I submit to you and ask you to lead me and show me what to do.

You know what? It becomes so easy. You wonder why you didn't do that before. From now on, you have no more excuses why you don't have relationships.

Who do I develop relationships with? Next person you meet. You go to the shops and there's that sour, miserable teller again who never smiles. You can get it.

I take it as a challenge. I'll try and get her to smile. I'll say something that will make her smile.

You'll be amazed. She actually showed a couple of teeth, but it was a move. It was a change.

See, you keep doing that. The next time you walk in, you see the smile come out as soon as you arrive. Suddenly, you've got a new relationship.

It's not a close friendship yet, and there are levels of friendship. I've dealt with that elsewhere when I taught on building relationships, but you can start accumulating things to where, you know, when you walk into a place, people should notice you. You know, we walked into a shop in Pretoria.

We've been there for a while, and one of the guys, like a security guard at the door, he said, hey, I'd like to work for you guys. Well, we weren't offering a job, and actually, we don't need anybody, but, you know. No, he said, you guys, you come here often.

He said, I really would like to work for you guys. Do you think we were wealthy that we spend time shopping all day instead of working? I don't know, but you know, we found that after a while, going to the same place, people there would begin to know us, and you get the smiles when you meet them, and you get positive responses. You know why? Because we always went with an openness and a consideration, never with a judgmental attitude.

You can do this at work. You can do this wherever you get involved in any social or public activity, anywhere where you're involved with people. Take the time, sometimes just to listen, maybe just to ask them a question about themselves, and then listen, listen, and ask them another question about themselves, and listen, and then when they finally say to you, and tell me about you, don't think, well, this is my chance.

Let's unload. No, no. Oh, no, no.

You don't want to know about me. I'm not important. I want to find out about you.

You know, they won't argue with you. They won't say, no, no, no. No, they won't argue with you.

Trust me, they'll carry on talking about themselves, and in the end, actually, they did all the talking, and they'll say, man, you are a wonderful conversationalist. You didn't say anything. You just asked questions, and you showed interest, and you smiled a bit.

Smiling does help. I know it might crack your face if you're not used to doing it, but make the effort. You can build relationships wherever you go.

If you come to the place where you're in a foreign city in the middle of the night, waiting to catch a plane, and somebody comes running up and says, hey, hey, how's it? Do I know you? I want to get to that place, don't you? I want to be in a place where people want to know me, where people are telling their friends about me. You know, if we could build that kind of rapport and relationship in the body of Christ, do you know how the church is going to grow? Do you know how people are going to come in? We're going to have, like it said there, the Lord was adding to the church daily those who were being saved. Let's go ahead and do it, shall we? Thank you, Father, for your word.

Thank you for the challenge. Thank you for the inspiration. Thank you for the principles that we can apply.

And above all, thank you for the power and ability that you give us to do these things, Lord. We submit ourselves to you and we say, Lord, lead us in this. Show us how to do it.

Show us who to do it with, Lord. And may we have an ever-increasing circle of friends and influence as we spread your kingdom into this earth. We ask it in Jesus' name.

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