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[Jnxuoton]

The study of discipleship can significantly enhance your ministry in several ways:

1. **Deepened Understanding of Jesus' Teachings**: By studying discipleship, you gain a deeper understanding of Jesus' teachings and how He modeled discipleship. This can help you align your ministry more closely with biblical principles.

2. **Effective Teaching and Mentorship**: Discipleship involves teaching and mentoring others. Studying it can improve your ability to communicate biblical truths effectively and guide others in their spiritual growth.

3. **Building Stronger Relationships**: Discipleship emphasizes relationships. Understanding its principles can help you build stronger, more meaningful connections with those you minister to.

4. **Encouraging Personal Growth**: Discipleship is about personal transformation. By focusing on this, you can encourage others to grow in their faith and become more like Christ.

5. **Developing Leadership Skills**: Studying discipleship can help you develop leadership skills, as it involves guiding others in their spiritual journey and helping them develop their own leadership abilities.

6. **Fostering Community**: Discipleship often involves small groups or community settings. Understanding how to foster these environments can help create a supportive and nurturing community within your ministry.

7. **Practical Application**: Discipleship is not just theoretical; it involves practical application. Studying it can provide you with practical tools and strategies to implement in your ministry.

8. **Long-term Impact**: Discipleship focuses on long-term growth and transformation. By prioritizing discipleship, you can help create a lasting impact on individuals and communities.

9. **Alignment with Biblical Mission**: Discipleship is central to the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20). Studying it ensures that your ministry aligns with the biblical mission of making disciples.

10. **Personal Spiritual Growth**: As you study discipleship, you also grow spiritually. This personal growth can enhance your effectiveness and authenticity in ministry.

In summary, the study of discipleship can deepen your understanding of biblical teachings, improve your teaching and mentoring skills, build stronger relationships, encourage personal and communal growth, develop leadership skills, and ensure your ministry aligns with the biblical mission.

 

[Articles]

Thank you for sharing these insights on the study of discipleship and its significance in ministry. We are in agreement and see the vital importance of discipleship in fulfilling the Great Commission. Let us explore these points together and bring them before the Lord in prayer.

Firstly, we acknowledge the importance of a deepened understanding of Jesus' teachings. As it is written in Ezra 7:10, "For ### had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances." This verse highlights the importance of not only studying God's word but also applying it and teaching it to others. By studying discipleship, we can better align our ministry with biblical principles and ensure that we are teaching sound doctrine.

Secondly, discipleship involves teaching and mentoring others. In 2 Timothy 2:2, Paul instructs ###, "The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also." This passage emphasizes the multiplicative effect of discipleship, where one disciple makes another, who then goes on to make more disciples.

Thirdly, discipleship emphasizes relationships. In John 13:34-35, Jesus said, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." By understanding and practicing discipleship, we can build stronger, more meaningful connections with those we minister to, marked by love.

Fourthly, discipleship is about personal transformation. In Romans 12:2, Paul writes, "Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God." By focusing on discipleship, we can encourage others to grow in their faith and become more like Christ.

Fifthly and Sixthly, discipleship helps develop leadership skills and fosters community. As seen in Acts 2:42, "They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer." This verse illustrates the communal aspect of discipleship, where believers come together to learn, fellowship, and pray.

Seventhly, discipleship involves practical application. In James 1:22, it is written, "But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves." Studying discipleship provides practical tools and strategies to implement in ministry.

Eighthly, discipleship focuses on long-term growth and transformation. In Hebrews 5:12, it says, "For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food." By prioritizing discipleship, we can help create a lasting impact on individuals and communities.

Ninthly, discipleship is central to the Great Commission. In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus said, "Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen." Studying discipleship ensures that our ministry aligns with this biblical mission.

Lastly, as we study discipleship, we also grow spiritually. In 2 Peter 3:18, it is written, "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen." This personal growth can enhance our effectiveness and authenticity in ministry.

Let us pray together:

Heavenly Father, we come before You, acknowledging that it is only by the name of Jesus that we have access to You. We thank You for the gift of discipleship, for the opportunity to study Your word and to make disciples of all nations. We pray that You would deepen our understanding of Jesus' teachings and help us to align our ministries with biblical principles. We ask that You would improve our teaching and mentoring skills, that You would help us to build stronger relationships, and that You would encourage personal and communal growth. We pray that You would develop our leadership skills and help us to foster supportive and nurturing communities. We ask that You would provide us with practical tools and strategies to implement in our ministries, and that You would help us to create a lasting impact on individuals and communities. Above all, we pray that You would help us to fulfill the Great Commission, making disciples of all nations, and growing spiritually ourselves. We pray all these things by faith and agreement in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.

We encourage all to pursue the study of discipleship, ensuring that their ministry aligns with biblical principles. We rebuke any notion that discipleship is merely theoretical or optional, and we exhort all believers to take up the mandate of the Great Commission, making disciples of all nations in the name of Jesus Christ. Let us not forget that it is only by His name that we can be saved and have access to God. As it is written in Acts 4:12, "There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved!"

 

[Abundantly blessed]

I prayed for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[hostadmin]

Wow, what a comprehensive look at discipleship! It's truly inspiring to see how studying and practicing it can enhance our ministry in so many ways. I was particularly struck by how it encourages personal growth and transformation, not just for those we minister to, but for ourselves as well. As it says in 2 Corinthians 3:18, "But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord." Let's pray that as we study and teach discipleship, we too would be transformed more and more into the image of Christ.

Also, I loved how you mentioned the importance of fostering community. In a world that can often feel isolating, it's so important to create spaces where people can come together, learn, fellowship, and pray. As we do this, let's remember the words of Hebrews 10:25, "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching." Let's encourage one another to stay connected, to keep gathering, and to keep growing together.

Let's pray: Heavenly Father, thank You for the gift of discipleship. Help us to study it deeply, to teach it faithfully, and to live it out authentically. Transform us as we seek to transform others. Give us wisdom to build strong, loving communities where people can grow and flourish. Help us to align our ministries with Your Word, to make disciples of all nations, and to do it all for Your glory. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

 

[ellie12]

Praying for this in Jesus Name.

 

[The Encourager]

May God in Jesus' name answer your prayer request according to God's perfect love, wisdom, will, timing, grace, and mercy. Thank You Jesus!!!

Psalm 37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord, And He shall give you the desires of your heart.
Matthew 6:33: But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. Bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, acknowledge You in all my ways, and lean not to my own understanding.

God heal me in every area of my life. Deliver and cleanse me of everything in my life that doesn't honor You. Transform and renew my mind. Bless me with love, power, and a sound mind. Let the mind that is in Christ Jesus be in me. Bless me to have and operate with a God solution focused heart, mind, spirit, and attitude. Bless me to have a God Kingdom Culture Mentality. God be with me as a mighty warrior. Let no weapon formed against me prosper. Protect me from all the plans of my enemies and the plans of the enemy of my soul. God, all that I have asked of You, in this prayer, please do the same for the writer of the prayer, all those who love and care about me, and all those I love and care about. God, please forever honor this prayer over each of our lives. God Thank You. Amen, so be it by faith, and by faith, it is so. Prayer written by The Encourager-Prayer Warrior-Board Certified Professional Christian Life Coach.

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[Cinu]

Lord, we pray for this prayer and family for blessings healing and salvation. Heal and bless. May their lives be a praise and glory unto thee.
Come to the Lord's holy presence. Seek him with all your heart. Cling to his Word and meditate on it moment by moment by positive thoughts and joy in the heart (James 1:2-4), knowing that the Lord is good and to him be all the praise. Seek first God's kingdom and his righteousness (Matthew 6:33). Even though life may feel hard, the Lord's hand will be on you, and he will answer in his time. I am praying for you. Amen.

Some resources that might help.

Needs: - But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19(KJV)

Salvation: - So they said "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved you and your household." Acts 16:31(NKJV)

Healing: - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5(NKJV)

Fulfillment by the Holy Spirit: - Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. Zechariah 4:6(KJV)

Persecutions: - But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. Luke 6:27-28(KJV)

Help in Prayer

Dwelling and Thriving in God’s grace where everything happens for good (Romans 8:28)

Pray that the Lord may open the eyes of the nations affected by coronavirus (Specifically forces against God’s people)

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