Has God Spoken To Us About 2022

 

At the end of 2021 my pastor spoke several times about the importance of reaching out to people. She said we as Christians must always remember that our mission in life is to win souls. As Matthew 28:18-20 says:

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

My pastor asked me as we enter 2022, to start thinking about how I can bring people around us, including family and friends, to God. I know that this is what we are called to do as Christians. However when I am asked to seriously do this, I became fearful. I always think that I do not have what it takes to bring people to God. I do not know how to approach them and speak graciously to them. I also feel that it is inappropriate for me to disciple people because my character is far from perfect. People still can see my imperfection and I often disqualify myself to lead them to Christ.

So to compensate for this commandment, I tried to do other good things for God such as do more worship and prayer at home, be kind to others, give donation to people in need, and other stuffs. I feel more confident to offer my time and finance to help people rather than having to evangelize them and bring them to Christ.

Until I visited a church a few weeks ago and the pastor in that church was preaching the same thing as what my pastor has been saying to me. He said that our job is to pray and evangelize the people God has entrusted to our lives. We are put in their lives for a reason, namely so that we can be a prayer for them and can win them to God.

This message from the pastor really hit my spirit and it stays in my heart. I started to feel that it is the deepest longing of our father in heaven so that His children can be brave enough to get out of their comfort zone and try to reach out to the lost. It's not easy for me, and I believe it's not easy for everyone either. I always try to find reasons to refuse this call. But I feel like this year is the year for me to start thinking seriously about ways and strategies to win people over for God.

In my previous blog, I talked about the joy of giving. I mentioned about one family that I cooked for when she needed food for her family. After I gave food to this family last time, I continued to send food every week for them. I have a connection with an organization that feeds the poor every week. They do food hampers weekly and each week I collect four bags from this organisation and deliver them to this family.

On Christmas just passed I planned to give them other household needs such as toilet tissue, oil, soap, shampoo, and other household items to this family again. Then I came up with an idea to write a message about God on a Christmas card for them. I felt a little uneasy to do it because it was my first time to write on the card about God’s love and goodness to a stranger. But this is something I will do often in the future so I need to start practising from now.

I hope that starting 2022 God will give me more opportunities to meet people and for me to share the gospel with them. But most of all I hope that my spirit will not slacken to be a bearer of good news to people, instead I become more courageous to evangelize to others. Surely I need a lot of grace from God for this calling but I know God will always be with me.

How about you? What has God convicted you to do in this 2022? Perhaps you want to take time and listen to Him what He has for you this year. 

Thank you for reading my blog and I believe you will experience a great year with God in 2022.