Scripture:
John 3 v 3: "Jesus answered and said to him, Verily,
verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of
heaven."
When we die we can take nothing with us of a material
nature but if we have won souls to God's Heavenly kingdom, we will one day meet
them all there and be blessed.
Once we are saved we are recruited into the task force of
saving others and any one of us at any time may be the only rescuer a lost soul
may ever meet. Some struggle to do their part because they don't know how to go
about it.
A sinner is one who is chained to this world by
sinfulness. Sin results in separation of that soul from God forever so before
you ever get to help him or her, the Holy Spirit is convicting that person of
sin.
This conviction causes the sinner to start hating the
sins he or she is committing and to start seeking a solution. Because sinners
have believed lies about Jesus, He is usually the last resort. So the first
thing you should do to help is make Jesus real to the sinner.
The simplest way of doing that is by sharing your
testimony of how you got saved and how Jesus changed your life and forgave your
sins. Share how clean you feel and that you now have a relationship with Jesus,
you can talk to Him and hear His voice.
This may be enough to win a lost soul to salvation and
pray with them to be born again. Sometimes the doubts and fears are very strong
and you have to water the seed sown with prayer.
Ask Jesus what is blocking that sinner from knowing Him.
He will guide you in how to pray. You may never speak about Jesus to him again
but He will send others across his path to help.
When someone is ready to be saved they could pray
something similar to this:
Heavenly Father I believe that Jesus Christ is Your Son
who was crucified to take away all my sins. I believe Jesus was raised from
death to life. Father forgive me for all my sins. I confess that I lied;
rebelled against you; was jealous, spiteful, gossipped, drank, smoked and
drugged too much, hated, committed sexual sin; was angry and aggressive; was
involved in witchcraft, occult or other false religions etc.
I repent (change my mind) against doing these things and
will turn away from them now with Your help Jesus.
Please cleanse me with the Blood Jesus shed on the Cross
amd make me whiter than snow.
I forgive everyone that ever hurt me and ask forgiveness
from those I hurt too.
Jesus please come into my heart and be my Lord and
Saviour. Thank You for saving me and writing my name in the Lamb's Book of
Life, Jesus. Amen.
Rejoice with the new born saint and encourage him or her
to read the Bible daily and pray often to build up faith in Jesus and in their
relationship with God. As soon as possible they should be baptised in water and
then experience the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This completes the salvation
and thereafter the new saint should grow in grace.
Prayer: Father God the whole of Heaven rejoiced when one
sinner repents and becomes born again of water and the spirit. I pray that
rejoicing be a continuous roll of glory until Jesus fetches us soon. In Jesus'
name. Amen.