प्रार्थना योद्धा / THE PRAYER WARRIOR

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 25 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Adopt a ‘completion mindset’ . Evaluate your ministry by the Great Commission as your mandate, with the numbers of disciples made, baptized, equipped and sent out as the benchmark. This authority and responsibility you receive when you receive Christ and should be put into practice from day one. Like our Lord, focus on a few strategic people to reach millions. Aim to become a millionaire of souls. And why not? After all, you believe in a great and awesome God for whom nothing is impossible. At the very least, like Peter, shoot for 3000 baptisms every Pentecost.  Or like Paul, plant a multiplying micro-church every day, till you can claim, “There are no more places left here for me to preach.’  The minimum standard to qualify as a follower of Yeshua is, that like your Master, equip twelve disciples who have the ability to turn their world upside, wherever they are placed. God of Israel liv...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 24 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Are you Rapture ready? Do not wait ‘till death do us part’, rather do whatever it takes to precipitate Rapture by bringing Christ back on earth in your own generation. Re-set your priorities to preach Christ where He has not been named including your workplace, home or neighborhood. Do not light candles in the chapel but be the candle that kindles the lives of those who sit in darkness and in the shadow death. For this you do not have to go to church from Sunday to Sunday nor work from paycheck to paycheck. Most people are so busy earning a living (worshipping Mammon, the god of gold and silver) that they have no time to live.  You are chosen and “ordained” to be a harvester and blessed to possess the gates (cities) of the enemy. The only hands-on skill the church imparts is how to clap your hands but there is an acute shortage of laborers who can wield a sickle in the harvest field. How do yo...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 23 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Most good missionaries practice bad missiology because they naively export dysfunctional Christianity, heavily preloaded with money, knowledge, power and superiority based culture and traditions which they try to impose on others but utterly lacking in the supernatural. But God dwells and specializes in the supernatural. They must delete all that is demonic but revive, regenerate and fertilize all that is of virtue and noble and good. Do no violence to their food habits, dress code and do not vilify their culture and worship style, just because they are different. Do not hurriedly church a new believer into an institutional church, where he will be lectured to but not discipled. Yeshua did not call us to be church-goers but cross-bearers and disciple-makers. Sadly 99.9 percent Christians do not have a clue, on how to share their faith even with their best friends, forget about leading someone o...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 22 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Offer Mincha and then Pray. God said, “My house shall be a house of sacrifice and I will meet and speak with you at the altar where continuous sacrifice is made.” Jews prayed after offering sacrifices. Yeshua said, “My house is a house of prayer for all nations” which means “all nations” will come there to be prayed for healing and deliverance and then discipled all the way into the Kingdom. In the NT we are to offer saved souls as lasting fruit as our sacrifice of thanks giving and then pray, “I have chosen and ordained to bring forth lasting fruit and (then) the Father will do whatever you ask.” Fruit is the ovary of a plant, full of seeds to be disseminated. The tasty bit is only to attract you to spread the seeds. Your lasting fruits are those seeds which produce fruit elsewhere. Paul’s ministry was to offer Gentiles as mincha (bloodless thanksgiving). Building tall prayer tower does not bring...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 21 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Remove the chapel, the chaplain, the pulpit, the collection box and the Sunday service and the church will still be there because you are the walking and talking mobile temple of the living God. Reorient your personal paradigm. Recognize ‘Hi, Hello,’ happy clappy Sunday Service, where they serve sugar coated cyanide, as your ‘secondary, optional church’. Your business, workplace or home, wherever you spend most of your time, is your ‘Primary nuclear church’.  It matters little whether you are the CEO, or the janitor or the kitchen queen; you are a full-time work-place minister and accountable. The ancient worshipper did not just listen to the minister and sing a few songs. He was actively involved in worship. He slaughtered and dismembered the sacrifice with his own hands and then watched it go up in smoke (Burnt offering - Olah meaning ascending). Offering your bodies and mind as olah is the ...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 20 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. God placed Adam in the Garden of Eden to ‘work’ and to guard it. Significantly the Hebrew word Avodah for work can also be translated worship. Adam was to worship God through his work in the garden while guarding it from demonic attack. God took an accountability walk every evening to see how Adam was doing. Sadly, Adam disobeyed and climbed up the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, fell down and fractured his relational equation with Father God. He died instantly but was buried 930 years later. Paul, Aquila and Pricilla, Cornelius, the Jailor, Lydia, Phoebe and many others while continuing to work in their professions and business, also transformed their workplaces. The Lord commanded us to pray for laborers until we become part of our prayer. Persistent and ceaseless prayer will not work unless accompanied with persistent and ceaseless offering of lost sheep. The church needs to shift from the ...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 19 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Re-baptize seminaries: Shift from training aquarium keepers to equipping fishers of men. They are the Trees of the knowledge of good and evil. These Great Omission centers need to be anointed as The Great Commission training centers. Africans trained in western New Age theology are as irrelevant as Indians trained out of Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist context. They need to put on their ethnic garb, rather than the western designer garbage. Be the Tree of life, wherever you are planted, and bring forth abundant new fruit, even your leaves should be for the healing of the nations. Share the whole wisdom of God from house to house, and set up an unstoppable momentum of multi-generational discipleship chain. Atheists today are no longer fools (Nabal=willful rebel) that simply deny God in their hearts but have Ph.Ds. Using pseudo-science; they aggressively preach doctrines of demons in our educational camp...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 18 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls.  Simplify disciple making. Invite a couple of truth-seekers for a meal where the main dish is - The Lamb. Redefine authentic church as “the household of God” with a mission; wherever two or three, eat, meet, gossip the gospel, and multiply. Like Paul try reasoning first, if that does not work, then try persuading and if that fails, try disputing and when push comes to shove, perform a notable miracle that they cannot deny. The primary business of the church is to coordinate between heaven and earth. No one is going to heaven because the pearly gates with streets of gold and glittering mansions, is coming down to earth and God will tabernacle with men. “As in Adam all die.” So when Yeshua comes all the dead, including Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, Elijah, Enoch and the rest of us will rise up, some to eternal shame and others to eternity with Christ. It is not just the economics but the trendli...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 17 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Filter out non-performing goats that come only for hatching (baby baptisms), matching (weddings) and dispatching (funerals). Replace them with sheep that take care of the hungry, thirsty, naked, strangers, sick and prisoners. Culling i.e. getting rid of the non-productive sheep and donating them as free gift to the nearest Pentecostal church, will greatly improve your standing in the local Pastor’s Fellowship. Pastors are not the solution, they are part of the problem, because in spite of unprecedented opportunities and plentiful resources and one pastor for every 250 people in the USA, the church is still heading for the dustbin of history. To be effective, finding effective partners is crucial. Culling is an integral dynamics of the ‘best practices’ of sheep rearing, so that the shepherd can focus and invest on the most productive sheep. God chose David to shepherd Israel, not because of his aca...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 16 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Stop despising the barefoot apostles: For the meek are the inheritors of the kingdom and you may be lucky to spend an eternity with them. The religious mega-stars of yesteryears were focused on “revival and churching the un-churched.” In spite of mass marketing, mega crowds and mega claims, they made little dent in the global religious demographics. In the last couple of decades, the non/semi-literate story tellers belonging to the oral tradition grassroots level workers, who are focused on “conversion and disciples who make disciples movement” have emerged as global players in, changing the spiritual profile of the globe, especially the 10/40 Window countries. It is the shift from the religious superstars to the common man/woman for, “God has chosen the foolish of this world to shame the wise”, as the real drivers of the kingdom at the fringes.  Like their Master, they are not using mere word...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 15 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Resurrect from being a dead organization to a living organism. Missions is too important to be left to extra-biblical bureaucrats with cosmetic titles like CEO etc. who monitor legalistically with clear intension of controlling. Leadership is about influencing and not controlling. Replace “Reverend culture” with five-fold ministry-gifted Elders of either gender, like apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds and teachers. The primary function of the church is to equip the saints, stagnating on the pews, for the works of the ministry of offering Gentiles who have been washed (baptised), sanctified (separated), justified (made to be righteous), resulting in growth and multiplication of the Body.  The primary function of the Aaronic priest was to first offer sacrifice at the brass altar and then offer incense (prayer) at the golden altar. If the church became obedient to this pattern which was s...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 14 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Most church going Christians are deluded into thinking that they are believers. To be a believer you have to carry signs (evidence, proof) of a believer? – “And these signs shall follow a believer; he shall cast out demons…and pray for the sick and they will be healed.” But a believer will not make it to heaven, if he fails to disciple the delivered. A priest when he offered incense at the golden altar was acutely aware that the ingredients came from many nations, so in effect he was a priest to the nations. Secular work done with spiritual motive is spiritual while spiritual work done with financial motive is carnal. Yeshua did not choose you to be just a member of the church, but to be a priest to the nations. Unglue from the pews all those lukewarm Churchians who sit, soak and stagnate, for the Lord is crying out, “Let my people go” and send them to heal the sick, raise the dead, tread on snake...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 13 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Paul’s passion was to catalyze a disciples making blitz, where Christ had not been named, not just with words but with mighty signs and deeds. What is your vision and passion? Vision comes from God, we only cast (share) it with others. Challenge purposeless churches to enunciate a clear vision and to lay out a road map to translate that vision into action plans and set goals to ‘do greater things than these’.  For supernatural harvest, minimize motivational pep talks, “holding to a form of godliness, although denying its power” and maximize supernatural healing and deliverance. The message must be both verbal and demonstrative, “And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power…” Get out of addiction to individualism, applaud for worldly success and consumer culture and align yourself with the King of kings and His constituti...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 12 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Know your identity in Christ: You are an ambassador of Christ, the highest ranking representative of the government of God, wherever you are posted. You are a royal-priest, made so by the blood of the Lamb. Dismantle ‘Reverend’ culture because only God is worth reverence; “Holy and reverend is his name” and breach the preacher-creature divide. A traffic policeman on duty without his uniform would be useless. To be effective and productive Christian during the week, make sure that the Lamb (not a church leader) is your 24X7 uniform (covering).  Like Melchizedek, the royal-priest of Jerusalem (City of Peace), who served bread and wine, took a tithe and blessed Abraham, bring godly governance to your city whose builder and maker is the Lord.  Do not be deluded into thinking that you elect your President or Prime minister or other political leaders. Lucifer, the father of lies, does. He told...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 11 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Drive the change- Start with your family. Your real marriage is to the Lord. The husband-wife-children relationship is just an earthly model to see how you make it work. If you can’t make it work, you may not be invited to the wedding banquet of the Lamb. Sons and daughters - honor your mother and father, if you want to live long. The Hebrew word kabad and the Greek word time’ for ‘honor’ means ‘making rich’ or even ‘money paid’. Providing for your aging parents’ ranks higher than paying Korban to your church. Tithing for church maintenance are neither a part of the Ten Commandments, nor a requirement in the New Testament but taking care of parents and the poor, widows, orphans, the disaffected, the marginalized and the hurting are the focus of the Scriptures because the church thrives in the broken world where people sincerely pray, “Give us this day our daily bread” and mean it. It rapidly stag...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 10 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Empower Women – The Lord designed His church to be gender-neutral where men and women are equal members of His Body. He ministered to women who were off limits. Mary of Magdala, a redeemed sinner, was the first apostle (sent one) to the apostles. Priscilla, Phoebe, Lydia, Apphia, Nympha and host of other women were apostles, prophets, teachers and house church facilitators. Paul never asked women (gune) to keep their mouths shut, he only asked wives (gune) not to embarrass their husbands (aner) in public but to ask them questions at home. He encouraged everyone, men and women to share psalms, teachings, revelations, testimonies and prophesy.” Yeshua’s blood removes the curse of Eve. Paul did not ask women to cover their head with a piece of cloth, but with hair. As a Jewish man, Paul covered his head with kippah (cap) all the time and wore a talit (prayer shawl) while praying. Orthodox Jewish wo...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 9 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Do not appoint Elders who do not have the tools to convict peoples of other faiths in their tool boxes, nor send theologians with academic tags as missionaries for they know not how to make disciples. They are trained to be aquarium keepers of pretty and colorful but non-productive Sunday fish, but God is looking for those who multiply their fishes. Church is the launching pad for reaching the ends of the earth. By the time a Jew came to worship God in the temple, he had already used his tithe to feed the fatherless, clothe the naked and provide justice to the oppressed, lest God reject his sacrifice. Yeshua took worship to higher level by making it relational by asking them to go back and mend broken relationships. It is not the content of the sermon but its practical application that creates the movement. Just like fishing, discipling is a skill. If you do not use it, you lose it. Yeshua said, “F...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 8 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Your Lord did not preach from the same pulpit twice. Why should you? Especially as 150,000 people die every day worldwide, most of them into Christless eternity. Yeshua came to seek and to save the lost. Are you proactively seeking and saving the lost? If not, why not; when there are tens of millions that have yet to hear the gospel for the first time? After three months of fruitless exhortations in the synagogue, Paul shifted into the Hall of Tyrannus in the market place, put on his working apron, crafted tents to earn his living, as he taught his twelve Ephesian disciples, as well as his clients, the itinerant nomads, and within two years, all Asia heard the gospel. For explosive impact, do not be seduced by size but like your Master, invest on a few to reach many to metamorphose your mega-church into city, regional, national and even multinational networks of mini-churches. Instead of gathering...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 7 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Shift from a spectator-oriented church that dictates but does not engage; that is unsustainable and ready to implode; to an interactive, participatory, gender-neutral prophetic church, where everyone can share a psalm, a doctrine, a revelation, a tongue, a testimony, a dream or a vision; and thus unleash a disciple making movement. Spiritual maturity is not how much you know but how obedient you are in implementing, what you already know. Not using your God given tools makes you rusty, ineffective and even sinful. Making disciples and planting organic house groups is not only fun but what is more, is that they actually work. To precipitate a seismic shift, like Yeshua, find Samaritan women and demonized Gadarenes, detoxicate and dispatch them as workplace apostles (sent ones) from day one.  The dragon is now driving the world by default because 99.9 percent of sincere Christians are sincerel...

DRIVE THE CHANGE STEP 6 25 Steps to transit from being barren to a millionaire of souls. Replace professional music with speaking to each other in psalms and spiritual songs, making melody in your hearts; “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” The Holy Spirit in the apostate church has been displaced by technology. The church is a discipling hub and not a singing club. Not the ecstatic variety inside the church with lots of icing but no cake but ‘worship’ took place, not inside the Temple or the tabernacle but out in the open court, where man met with God at the altar with his sacrifice, penitence and gratitude.  Worship must result in reconciliation and relational restoration with the Father. It required a Sword, the Fire (altar) and Sacrificial animals. On The Pentecost, the birthday of the church, “worship in spirit and in truth” took ...