ST. PAUL SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP

"Be ye followers of me as I also am of Christ." (I Corinthians 11:1)

(With Frank Eiklor and Walter Contreras)

GOD'S B.O.W

("BAND OF WARRIORS")

LESSON 68

INTRODUCTION

Maybe this is the most important lesson I have ever offered you.  It is different.  It will challenge you to be totally honest with God.  How much do you really love Him?  Enough to surrender totally to His will for your life?  Enough to look at "self" as dead, and Jesus alone as ruler of your life?

I want to see who is out there with a heart that beats for Jesus and whose greatest desire is to please the heart of the Father who gave you and me His precious Son.  Study this lesson in an attitude of prayer. Look up each scripture verse. Then be still before the Lord and ask Him:  "Lord God, will You make me a true disciple - a spiritual warrior - and put Your burden for the unsaved of this world into my heart?"

If you can pray the dedication prayer (at the end of this lesson), sign your name as one in our "Band of Warriors".  Then email us so we can add you to the list of those who will receive special prayer.  The Shalom team and I will be awaiting your reply.

GOD'S B.O.W ("BAND OF WARRIORS")

BECAUSE:    God gave His Son, Jesus Christ, as His unspeakable gift to the world to die for

                    all men so that those trusting Him can have forgiveness of sins and eternal life.

                    (John 3:16, 2 Corinthians 9:15)

BECAUSE:     Those who know Jesus are to follow Him in the pursuit of souls and not of self. 

                     (Matthew 4:19)

BECAUSE:    The time is short in both brevity of life and the prophetic signs of the times. 

                    (1 Corinthians 7:29-31)

BECAUSE:     Jesus said that world evangelism must precede His glorious return and reign.

                     (Matthew 24:14)

BECAUSE:      God's purposes are best fulfilled in those who are completely abandoned to Him with

                      no other answer to the Holy Spirit's orders than "Yes Lord!"  (Acts 9:6)

OUR               Relying on the power of God who works in us to will and to do His good

RESPONSE:    pleasure, we offer our lives to the following covenant made before God and each

                       other.  (Philippians 2:13)

THE COVENANT

2.    For our "First Love" Jesus to direct all other loves. (Revelation 2:4; Mark 12:30, 31)

4.    To determine to study "all scripture" so as to know the Father's will. (2 Timothy 3:16)

5.    To measure love for Christ by obedience to Him. (John 14:21,23)

6.    To have a willingness to have Christ's burden for souls outweigh all other concerns. 

   (2 Corinthians 5:14, 15)

7.    To be willing to have God enlarge our hearts to embrace His world vision. (Acts 1:8)

8.    To hold the conviction that all we possess belongs to God. (1 Corinthians 4:7)

MY DEDICATION PRAYER TO GOD

"With eternal gratitude for Your sacrifice in offering up Your beloved Son, and for   

Jesus' sacrifice in giving His life to save me, I come to You, my Father, with this

prayer.  I want my life to be only for You.  I am not my own but have been bought with

the price of the blood of Christ.  Take me-spirit, soul, mind and body-and make me

a living sacrifice that brings You glory.  Work in me both to will and to do Your good

pleasure.  Cause me to die to self so that Your resurrection life can make my new life

fruitful in Christ.  I want Jesus to always be my first love and Your plans, my Father, to

be fulfilled in my life.  Cause me to measure love for You by obedience to You. Where

I doubt, help my unbelief.  Where I'm weak, make me strong.  Fill me with Your Holy

Spirit and make me a warrior whose life will model Your truth and whose lips will declare Your love.  This prayer I offer You in Jesus' name.  Amen."

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