YOU can be one of the best follow uppers, do this as 2 did for me

On March 28, 1940, 17 years of age, I was saved. I had never held a
Bible. I did not know there was an Old and New Testament. I did not
know what a Testament was. No one followed me up with a new believers
class or discipled me. BUT, I had the best follow up one could ever
have. Jake and Dolly Lyons prayed for me, every day, for over 40
years. God answered this godly couples prayers and I am forever
grateful. Each Christian ought to pick a new believer and pray for
them every day the rest of their lives.

How to do it.
Get someone in charge and teach and train every person in the church
to pray that God would put some new believer on their heart when they
get saved. Each Sunday each person who feels a desire to pray for some
new believer that Sunday, go to the one in charge and register as this
persons prayer partner. If more than one feels led, let them talk it
through until they have assurance who should be this persons prayer
partner. You talk about a powerful ministry. This could be the best
thing in a church.

New believers class.
My joy was to teach this class during training Union before the
evening church service. I loved it. Here is a brief outline.
1. Assurance of Salvation, ralationship and fellowship, confessing of sin.
2.The Word of God
The Bible is the infallible Word of God. "As new born babes desire the
sincere milk of the word that ye may grow there by" 1 Peter 2:2. Start
reading in the Gospel of John. Why? John 20:31 and 1 Jn 5:12. Teach
how to underline verses that answer questions, and add new spiritual
knowledge etc. Then memorize verses that you give each week, such as
Ps 119:11, Josh 1:8; Ps 121:6 a vital verse for true prosperity. Key
verses for new Christians and for Christian growth.

3.Prayer
Teach how and when to pray. "Ye have not because ye ask not" James
4:2. Teach them to have a prayer list and the things Jesus taught his
disciples to pray for such as Luke 11:1,2 and Matt 6:10-13, 1 Tim
2:1-4. Pray that He will send forth laborer, from your church too.
Matt 9:37, 38.

4. Teach the ministry of the Holy Spirit
How to be filled, Eph 5:17, 18 and 1 John 5: 14, 15. "How to walk in
the Spirit" Gal 5:16 and "they will not fulfill the lusts of the
flesh" . Teach the difference between relationship which is permanent
and fellowship[ which can be broken through sin and 1 John 1:9, when
we confess the sin, fellowship is restored.

5. Witnessing
"follow me and I will make you fishers of men" Matt 4:19. "Ye shall
receive power and ye shall be witnesses unto me. Teach how to share
the gospel which is "How Christ died for our sins, paid our debt in
full, was buried , rose again and was seen by hundreds" 1 Cor 15:1-4
for the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who
believes" Rom 1:16. All four points ought to be given every time.
Teach the joy of bringing friends and family to church and to Christ.

Any other things your pastor feels new believers need to learn.

Celeste had very scarey head pains. An MRI on her brain showed she did
not have any strokes. The pains are called late life migraine
headaches. They are not life threatening and she has not one for
sometime. We praise the Lord. It scared us terribly.

Forgive me. Belated Happy Thanksgiving. Always, "Enter into His
presence with thanksgiving" Ps 100:4. In everything give thanks, for
this is the will of God" 1 Thes 5:18. Were there not 10 cleansed?
Where are the nine" only one turned to give thanks Lk 17:17. Be one of
the one. Be thankful. ABC Sumner

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What about follow-up of new believers? This is most important

I BELIEVE IN IT WITH ALL OF MY HEART. May I share with you what we saw God do when I was a pastor. TO GOD BE THE GLORY. I know it better than anyone that God did it. Studies have been made among Baptist especially and found that just above 60 % really go on with the Lord. I have carefully and thoroughly gone over our ministry and 95 % of those who were saved in our church went on with the Lord, some bearing only 30 fold, some 60 fold and some 100 fold. Next lesson I want to tell you why we had such a nigh rate. Any church can see  a much higher rate.

The Holy Spirit follows up every new believer.
The Bible says so. "Being confident of this very thing that He, (the Holy Spirit) which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ" Phil 1:6. This was Jerry Falwell's ( my boss for 18 years at Liberty University) life verse and he was the epitome of it.

Believing the Holy Spirit will and really depending on Him to do it makes the biggest difference. As a pastor, I expected people to go on with the Lord and they did. We saw 95% go on with the Lord. Some produced 30 fold, some 60 and some 100 fold. I can not stress this enough. "He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief" Matt 13:58. It was not that we had a better program or worked harder at it than others. I learned this from Dr. Chafer, founder of Dallas Theological Seminary and Jerry Falwell, we MUST Consciously walk in the Spirit and let Him work through us to see anything spiritual accomplished.

The woman at the well in John 4.
She had been married five times and now living with a man she had not married. I will guarantee you most would not have expected much from her. DON'T YOU EVER DO THAT. She brought a whole city to Christ. The Holy Spirit did a pretty good job didn't He. He always does if we will be filled and walk in the Spirit.

The Ethiopian Eunuch in Acts 8.
{Phillip led him to Christ and "the Spirit of the Lord caught away Phillip that the eunuch saw him no more and he went on his way rejoicing" Acts 8:39. Astounding. History tells us he opened the door of Africa  to the gospel. God really does make the difference in following up believers if you really operate in the Spirit.

A demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power 2 Cor 2:4 Where oh where do you see a demonstration of the Holy Spirit and power today. I am not talking about running up and down the aisles

or climbing the pews   but such a  sense of the presence of Almighty God that people are weeping for joy and in conviction of their sins of not loving the Lord Jesus enough and not preaching the gospel to EVERY person they have the slightest chance. Remember I did a series of the work of the Holy Spirit to and through believers and we found over 60 specific works of the Holy Spirit through us. How much are you seeing  the Holy Spirit do through YOU?  You must let Him have full control .  Don't miss the rest on follow up all this week.

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