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Godly Influence
Preached by Apostle Aje Pelser at Harvester Church Cape Town.
I once asked God why he did not bless us with more money, when my parents were in missions and going through a hard time, often selling possession to fund the next mission and pay the bills. As a family we have sold everything we possess several times now to fund the work we do for God. And we continually sacrifice and give because the cause is holy. I got a simple word in my heart that settled it for me, and that aligned my heart to do it all again: “I have given you influence.”
Definition of influence – “the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself,”
When you ask God something sincerely, He will answer you, but he might not give you the reason that you thought you would get!
As His ways are higher than our ways, let’s look at some opportunities to influence a generation in from our greatest written influencing source, the Bible.
Examples of a positive influence in the Bible:
1. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
Gen 17:9 And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
Covenant with God is supposed to transcend generations. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. IN in his Seed all the nations of the world were blessed because Jesus was born of his line.
When a covenant was made in those days, there was an exchange of various objects, including the belt, the sandal, a cutting with blood and a general understanding of: “What’s mine is Yours!” Read more about it in our MBTC Subject ‘Blood Covenant.”
When God cut covenant with Abram He also added the ‘h’ to his and Sarai’s names – the bit that we hear in Elohim. When you enter a covenant with God, there is a bit of His nature in you now.
God is looking for people who will influence their families, their neighbourhoods, their circles in which they live and move and have their being.
In fact, God thought so much of Abraham that He shared his plans to him:
Gen 18:17 And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,
Gen 18:18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 18:19 For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”
2. Moses on generations to come revealing Jesus:
Deuteronomy 18:15 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,”
In this scripture Moses is prophesying about Jesus to come. In a way, Moses
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Preached by Apostle Aje Pelser at Harvester Church Cape Town.
I once asked God why he did not bless us with more money, when my parents were in missions and going through a hard time, often selling possession to fund the next mission and pay the bills. As a family we have sold everything we possess several times now to fund the work we do for God. And we continually sacrifice and give because the cause is holy. I got a simple word in my heart that settled it for me, and that aligned my heart to do it all again: “I have given you influence.”
Definition of influence – “the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something, or the effect itself,”
When you ask God something sincerely, He will answer you, but he might not give you the reason that you thought you would get!
As His ways are higher than our ways, let’s look at some opportunities to influence a generation in from our greatest written influencing source, the Bible.
Examples of a positive influence in the Bible:
1. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
Gen 17:9 And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
Covenant with God is supposed to transcend generations. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. IN in his Seed all the nations of the world were blessed because Jesus was born of his line.
When a covenant was made in those days, there was an exchange of various objects, including the belt, the sandal, a cutting with blood and a general understanding of: “What’s mine is Yours!” Read more about it in our MBTC Subject ‘Blood Covenant.”
When God cut covenant with Abram He also added the ‘h’ to his and Sarai’s names – the bit that we hear in Elohim. When you enter a covenant with God, there is a bit of His nature in you now.
God is looking for people who will influence their families, their neighbourhoods, their circles in which they live and move and have their being.
In fact, God thought so much of Abraham that He shared his plans to him:
Gen 18:17 And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,
Gen 18:18 since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Gen 18:19 For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”
2. Moses on generations to come revealing Jesus:
Deuteronomy 18:15 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,”
In this scripture Moses is prophesying about Jesus to come. In a way, Moses