Evangelism and Spiritual Warfare, Mentor's Guide, MG08

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1 Pet. 1.10-11 - Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully, [11] inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories. In your discussion be careful to draw attention to the fact that the deliverance promised to us from the Lord is anchored in the person of Jesus Christ, and that this deliverance is in no other (Acts 4.12). The heart of evangelism is the testimony regarding the deliverance ; the actual delivering acts themselves are all attributed to the Lord Jesus himself (John 14.6). Your responsibility to emphasize the power of prayer goes without saying as a Mentor of a Capstone module. Prayer must not be considered merely an overly familiar or mundane task, or a fixture in the lesson outline with no real power. Prayer is the way in which the truth of God can be pile-driven into the spirit of your students, the way through which the Lord can so open their eyes that they may see wonderful things out of his law. (Cf. Ps. 119.18 - “Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.”) Prayer, therefore, is a spiritual discipline that can enable us to both understand and apply truth; by taking specific needs to God in light of a truth, the students can solidify those ideas in their souls, and receive back from the Lord the answers they need in order to be sustained in the midst of their ministries. Of course, everything is somehow dependent on the amount of time you have in your session, and how you have organized it. Still, prayer is a forceful and potent part of any spiritual encounter and teaching, and if you can, it should always have its place, even if it is a short summary prayer of what God has taught us, and a determination to live out its implications as the Holy Spirit teaches us.

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