Matthew Stuckey here and I want to give you another soul winning tip and in this
video I wanted to talk to you about the importance of praying for boldness as
you're going out to preach the gospel. Now there's many aspects of prayer and
in a later video I'll talk about certain things to pray for in terms of the work
being done and the soul winning being done but I really want to gear this
toward people that are beginner soul winners that maybe you're nervous to
switch from being a silent partner to a speaker and you've been out soul winning
as a silent partner and maybe even you're kind of starting conversations
and stuff like that and you say well how do I go from you know this level to the
next level where I can overcome my fears and honestly you know it it might seem
like a cliche but prayer is really the big answer and Paul the Apostle spoke
about this he said in Ephesians 6 verse 18 praying always with all prayer and
supplication in the spirit and watching there into with all perseverance and
supplication for all Saints and for me that utterance may be given unto me that
I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel for
which I'm in which I am an ambassador and bonds that there and I may speak
boldly as I ought to speak so Paul the Apostle he prayed he asked for people to
pray for him that he could open his mouth boldly and that he could speak as
he ought to speak because we as God's people should be soul winners we should
not be afraid or ashamed to preach the gospel we should have boldness and be
excited and be encouraged in the Lord to go out and win souls the Lord both at
said so many times and in our personal lives but Paul the Apostle as great of a
soul winner as he was he still prayed he still asked people to pray for him that
he might be bold and if you're a beginner soul winner you need to realize
that God wants you out there preaching the gospel God wants you to be doing the
work and one thing that you can do is just pray to God that he will give you
that boldness now of course if you're at a good church you know hopefully there's
gonna be people that are serving God that are praying that everyone at the
church will have boldness and we'll talk about that in a later tip but you
individually if you are a new soul winner one thing you can do is just ask
God to give you boldness to overcome your fears and being filled with the
Holy Spirit will give you confidence and boldness to do things that you would not
normally do in your flesh so you might be a very shy person you might be very
introverted maybe you never looked at yourself as someone who could just
boldly preach the gospel and win many to the Lord but quite honestly you know
if you get filled with the spirit and you pray to God for boldness he can give
you the ability that you might not have naturally in your flesh and quite
honestly many of the best soul winners are people that are naturally shy people
but if they really want to serve God and love God and if you're listening to this
and you're trying to become a beginner soul winner and you're trying to
overcome those fears God wants you to be out there preaching the gospel and he
can give you boldness so I encourage you to just pray and ask God that he
will give you boldness and you know honestly I could give you a million
examples of this this is throughout the Bible that you see great characters in
the Bible that when they get afraid they pray for boldness they pray for help in
their situations you can look throughout the entire Bible you can look at Hezekiah
with the Assyrian Empire just character after character prayer is a big
part of our lives and prayer should be part of our time soul winning anyway we
should always be praying that God will bless us but if you're trying to
overcome your fears pray and ask God for boldness Paul the Apostle asked people
to pray for him because even the mightiest soul winner outside of the
Lord Jesus Christ perhaps was still kind of hesitant sometimes and he knew that
sometimes he was a little bit shy and he asked for people to pray for him so that
he could have boldness so anyways just pray and ask God for boldness and that
can definitely help you out be more encouraged and excited and bold to
preach the gospel thank you and God bless