“Every Tribe Missions” - September 2012

I was honored to join “Every Tribe Missions” and the students of “River Bible Institute - RBI” on a 10-day evangelism explosion to the rural areas around the town of Mthatha in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

 

We where ± 60 people sleeping in tents, and we battled the elements, rain and tremendously cold conditions, but the fire of the Holy Spirit and our passion to save the lost kept us burning like a fire in the dark night! Over 6000 people said the salvation prayer, many where healed, many received the Holy Spirit and many heard the name of Jesus for the first time.

We preached in schools, local churches, we even went door-to-door; we left no stone unturned.

Some of the teams walked up to, and even more than, 30km a day to reach people that have never been reached to hear the Good News of Christ.

I thank the team and the students for making this an unbelievable and amazing trip that I will meditate on for years to come.

If you have never been on a mission’s trip, and would like to experience it, visit http://www.everytribemissions.co.za/, and join them on their next trip.

I promised the students that I would post the word I gave them on the last evening. (See below)

A word for the RBI students who made the mission-trip a success!

When we are put out of our comfort zone, we are no longer afforded the luxury of ACTING according to what we are taught, but rather our REVELATION KNOWLEDGE takes over, sometimes more commonly referred to as "INSTINCT".

In these kinds of situations you don't have the luxury of ACTING a certain way... but rather you REACTIONS are put to the test.

How do you REACT under pressure?

Your instinct to act in a certain way is read by others as CHARACTER, in other words, your CHARACTER is a reflection of your REVELATION KNOWLEDGE, and others in turn, see your REVELATION KNOWLEDGE as your CHARACTER.

How then do we receive REVELATION KNOWLEDGE, in order to build our CHARACTER? The Holy Spirit pours out the Living water over God’s Seed sown through the reading and teaching of His Word.

You as Bible Students, all have Word in you, that is a fact, but you have been standing in a “rainstorm” these last few days, so expect to harvest CHARACTER, meditate on the revelation that you have received and know that the world WILL look at you with different eyes.

You previously only had some idea of whom your fellow River Bible Institute friends where, but now you have seen a glimpse of “who” your friends will one-day become.

Know that you may be studying with the next “Rodney Howard Brown” or even the next “Andre Roebert”, and receive the revelation of the importance to love them, and to respect them, as called men and women of God.

Build relationships, because you might serve under, one of these men or woman one day, not too far into the future...