You might say, "Well, I've done a lot of bad things in my life. What could Jesus possibly want with me?" You're exactly what Jesus died for. You're the reason He died. In fact, Jesus died while you were yet a sinner.
He didn't die when you got better. He didn't die for you when you straightened up your life. He died for you when you were absolutely rotten to the core. But He loved you. That's agape love. The God kind of love.
It goes beyond human love. Human love is conditional. It says, "I love you if you love me." However, the love of God is unconditional. God loves you, regardless. No ifs involved.
When there was no hope for us, when we were headed for hell, Jesus died, shed His blood, and was raised from the dead so that you and I might be justified before Almighty God.
When Jesus looks at people, He doesn't just see flesh and blood. He doesn't see black faces, white faces, red faces, yellow faces. He sees people who are potential champions. He sees people who are scattered without direction in their life. And yet, He loves them so much that He says to pray that labourers will be sent across their path.
The Bible reveals to us that it is the will of God that every man be saved and come into the knowledge of the truth. God wants every man to be saved, but who does He want to send to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ? You.
Catch The Vision
Once you see people the way Jesus saw them, you'll never be able to look at another person the same way. You'll see them differently. You're not going to be able to stand in the streets of your city and watch the crowds go by and see what you saw before. You're going to see people who need direction. People who need Jesus.
It is vitally important that you catch the vision of what Jesus sees. Catch the vision of how Jesus responds to people and how He reacts to people. He was moved with compassion.
How do you obtain the same vision and spirit of compassion that Jesus had? You must become a person of prayer. When the spirit of intercession comes on you, it will cause you to be willing to stand in the gap for the multitudes, the people in your community, the people in your city, and the people in your nation.
You've got to become serious about winning your city for Jesus, and absolutely stand toe-to-toe with the devil, and tell him, "You're not taking my city. You're not taking my community. You're not taking my nation. I'll fight you with everything I have, and I have weapons that are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. And in case you haven't noticed, devil, God is on my side. You are helpless and hopeless. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. So, you are coming down in Jesus' Name!"
I can see God literally taking cities and nations. How can that happen? By you and me catching the vision and becoming intercessors and spiritual warriors. By us being willing to stand in the gap. By us letting Satan know that he's not in charge of our city. Catch the vision, become an intercessor, and then become passionate about winning your city!
Invade Every Man's World
It's time that we channel all of our energies into taking cities and entire nations for the kingdom of God. Do you realize that we are so close to the appearing of the Lord Jesus? That's why we must reach our cities and do it quickly! God has been training us up for this time. He wants us to become vessels of the Holy Spirit to carry His presence and His power into the world and make an impact.
Isn't that awesome to think about? You can impact an entire nation. It doesn't matter what kind of occupation you have—whether you work in construction, a bus driver, or a housewife, you can impact your city and your nation with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. God wants to use you. You just need to be willing.
God not only wants us to go into all the world geographically, but He wants us to invade every man's world. He wants us to invade the political world. God is going to raise up people who are born again, full of the Holy Ghost, full of the Word of God, who will not compromise, and who can't be corrupted and put them in the political arena.
God is going to raise up people who believe in the power of God, who operate in the miraculous, who can't be corrupted, who will remain pure and upright before God, and put them right in the heart of the economic world. He'll put believers right in the heart of the educational world, and everywhere else where there is human existence. That's how we win cities!
It's time to invade every man's world. God is looking for faithful people. He's looking for those who won't run when the pressure is on. God is looking for those who will not compromise. Those who are not moved by persecution or opposition. It's time to make a quality decision to reach your city. People are going to want what you have—Jesus.
No other people on earth have the opportunity to make the changes that are so desperately needed in society today, than passionate, visionary, committed believers. And God's expecting us to seize these opportunities now.
The Holy Spirit is stirring the hearts of millions of lost people right now. They don't understand what's happening, but they are beginning to look for answers. They're no longer satisfied. They don't know where to turn, but thank God that's where you and I come in. God is getting the church ready to reap this vast harvest of souls.
Don't think small any longer. It's time for us to think bigger. It's going to happen right here in your city and in your nation! God is going to accelerate things. The harvest in the days ahead will literally stagger the imagination of man. We've entered into a new era!
You Have A Mandate From God!
What is a mandate? A mandate is an irrevocable order from God, which must be fulfilled by the person or persons to whom it is given. It's an irrevocable order from headquarters. God's not going to change His mind about what He wants you to do. And you must be determined that you will not abort God's plan—no matter what the cost.
God has entrusted you to fulfill His plans and purposes for reaching your city for Him. God wants your city; He wants your nation. He has called, chosen, empowered and commissioned us to invade and conquer. The most blessed people are those who step out in faith and reach out to their city when no one else seems to be doing anything. Don't wait for someone else to start. You be the pioneer—God is waiting on you!
Look again in Luke 10. After Jesus sent them into the cities, He empowered them to heal the sick and preach the kingdom of God. Verse 19 says, "Behold, I give unto you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and overall the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you."
The Spirit of God recently showed me something about this verse that I had never seen quite this way before. This power was given not for just healing the sick but also for pulling down strongholds that hold cities captive. We have the authority to pull them down in Jesus' Name!
Two thousand years ago, when Jesus made His triumphant entry into Jerusalem, the first thing He did was attack the spirit of corruption that He found there. Do you know where He found it? In the church. Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out them that bought and sold in the temple and said unto them, "It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves."
Notice, He did not go to city hall. He found it in the church. The reason city hall is corrupt is because the church is corrupt. So, what did He do? Notice these two terms: Cast out and over throw.
That's our job in our cities. It is time to cast out and over throw every spiritual stronghold that's stopping our city from experiencing the lordship of Jesus. It starts in the church. Godly standards must be set in the church. More churches are going to be exposed because that which is hidden is going to come to the light. Strongholds are coming down.
When we get the church cleansed, then city hall will be cleansed. That's why Jesus went to the church first, to cleanse it, to cast down, and to throw out the spirit of corruption. We are not going to conform to the world, the secular world nor the religious world. We're going to be lights in a dark world. God is going to use us to bring masses of people into the glorious light of the Gospel.
Determine to change the spiritual climate of your nation with the Word of God. Do it with your upright living. Don't be silent. Don't think small anymore. Think big! Your voice can be heard in your city. Your voice can be heard in your nation.
Jesus is expecting us to recover our cities from the grip of every evil force by which it has been controlled. He expects us to preach the Gospel to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to set at liberty those that are bruised. Time is running out. It's time to win your city for Jesus!
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Dr. Jerry Savelle was an average, blue-collar man who was struggling and needed God's help. While he considered himself a "nobody," when he became a believer God told him not to worry about it because He was a master at making champions out of nobodies. God has since taken Dr. Savelle from being a constant quitter to a man who knows how to stand on the Word of God until victory is experienced. Because of the life-changing combination of God's faithfulness and Dr. Savelle's "no quit" attitude, his life is totally different than it was thirty-eight years ago.
