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24/7 Harvest Prayer Chain – Day 1

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PRAYING FOR PERSONAL SPIRITUAL CLEANSING AND PREPARATION FOR THE HARVEST

  1. Worship God
  2. Read the scriptures
  3. Pray

  1. Worship
  2. Read the scriptures (Let God speak to you as you read)
    1. Mat 9:37-38 KJV  Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;  (38)  Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.
    2. Jos 3:5 KJV  And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
    3. Isa 59:1-2 KJV  Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:  (2)  But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.)
    4. Mat 6:9-15 KJV After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.  (10)  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.  (11)   Give us this day our daily bread.  (12)  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.  (13)  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.  (14)  For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:  (15) But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
    5. Pro 28:13 CEV If you don’t confess your sins, you will be a failure. But God will be merciful if you confess your sins and give them up.
  3. Pray

On the first day of this prayer chain, we want to focus on the labourers that Jesus spoke about. God will not work through an unprepared vessel. God will not use a man with unrepentant sin in his/her life. If we must be channels of the harvest, we must empty ourselves of any sin so that we can be effective labourer for the harvest.

So pray

  • That the Holy Spirit will right now begin to search your heart and life to bring to your attention any sin/s you need to repent from.
  • Look at the following list of sins:
    1. Gal 5:19-21 ISV Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity, (20) idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, rivalry, jealously, outbursts of anger, quarrels, conflicts, factions,  (21)  envy, murder, drunkenness, wild partying, and things like that. I am telling you now, as I have told you in the past, that people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
    2. Col 3:5-10 ISV So put to death your worldly impulses: sexual sin, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).  (6)  It is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming on those who are disobedient.  (7)  You used to behave like them when you were living among them.  (8)  But now you must also get rid of anger, wrath, malice, slander, obscene language from your mouth, and all such sins.  (9)  Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old man with its practices (10) and have clothed yourselves with the new man, which is being renewed into full knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.
    3. Mar 7:19-23 ISV For it doesn’t go into his heart but into his stomach, and is expelled as waste.” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)  (20)  He continued, “It is what comes out of a person that makes a person unclean.  (21)  For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil thoughts come, as well as sexual immorality, stealing, murder,  (22)  adultery, greed, wickedness, cheating, shameless lust, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.  (23) All these things come from within and make a person unclean.”
    4. 2Co 12:20 ISV  I am afraid that I may come and somehow find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. Perhaps there will be quarreling, jealousy, angry feelings, selfishness, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.
  • Which of these sins does the Holy Spirit convict you of? Would you humbly ask God for the to repent and for cleansing.
  • That God will give you the power to repent from any sin/s He reveals to you without justification, especially the sin of Unforgiveness and gossip.
  • Ask God to ignite in you a passion for the lost.
  • Ask God to give you divine strategies to reach the lost.
  • Ask God to destroy laziness in your life. Lazy people waste God’s destiny/plan for their lives and live in poverty.  (Pro 12:24 CEV Work hard, and you will be a leader; be lazy, and you will end up a slave. Pro 19:15 CEV If you are lazy and sleep your time away, you will starve.)
  • Ask God to prepare you to receive from Him during the harvest Anniversary week
  • Ask God for personal revelations about your own life and future.
  • Ask God for revelation about Jesus Christ.
  • Ask God for revelations about Buea Community Church. What is God saying to you about the Church?
  • Ask God for strength to faithfully pray throughout the week.
  • Resist the forces of evil that the Devil is bringing against you. (Jas 4:7 CEV Surrender to God! Resist the devil, and he will run from you.)
  • Be thankful to God for your life and all He has accomplished in and through you. (1Th 5:18 KJV In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.)

B C C Baptizes 4 of its Christians

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Last Sunday 13th day of September 2009 was a memorable Sunday. Coupled with the presence of the senior pastor Genesis Tinshu, was the Baptism of four members of the church. All started at 7 am in the morning when those to be baptized and friends accompanying them met with the Pastors at the church auditorium. They then moved together to the Koke stream located in a small village called Bokwai in Buea. There the baptism took place. Those who instituted the baptism were Ps  Simon Njock and Ps Manga Ade. After the Baptism all went to their respective houses to prepare for the service in church.

Then came the time for the church praise and worship  service which started with prayers, then some wonderful praises to God for the many good things he is doing in the lives of his children. The service was full with joy as all were happy to see the daddy of the house back safely from his U S A trip. There were some wonderful testimonies.  Then came the word of God from Ps Manga Ade, he spoke on the topic In the Fullness of time ( Gal4 :1-7). After the word the microphone was handed over to the senior pastor who did the blessing of the lord supper which was shared by the other two Pastors Manga and Simon. After the lord supper he gave certificates to those who were baptized. They were, Sis, Evelyne, Martha, Priscillia, and Bro Kelvin. After that activity the Senior Pastor announced 4 birthdays. One thing wonderful about the birthdays was the birthday of the set of twin who were born  last year, Jack and Julius Wemei. Finally the Senior Pastor explained how his Journey was. He after that did the closing prayers.  What a great Sunday.

You are a solution giver

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God always good once more strengthens his children of the B C C to come worship, praise, thank, and listen to his direction and correction from his word. The prayer meditation scripture for the day was Isaiah chap 43 vs 17-19.  The coordinator was Ps Manga. The preacher of the day was Ps Simon Njock. He spoke  on the topic ” You are a distribution center in other words You are a solution giver” (Matt;5:13-15).

Thus it holds that we are a solution to our families, friends, town, country etc. You are the light in any society of life you find yourself with others. Ezekiel;37:1-11, reading this scripture tells us that  nothing is impossible with the ultimate one as demonstrated to Ezekiel by him. That is to say even though you may be dry in some aspects that will make you not be a solution,  you are still a solution because God does not look at you that way he looks ahead  so he sees you fresh.

God has called us out for a purpose and has  assigned us to be solution givers. 1Pter;2:9,10, says we are percular people. 2Cor;9:19-20, we are ambassadors of Christ, we are also his representative wherever we find ourselves. Heb;1:1-3, says as you recieve his glory you become more like him. When God calls a man he blesses the man, therefore everything that the wolrd gives is in us it’s left for us to exploit it by hardwork and devotion to God.When he calls you he blesses you all round so that you can become a solution giver. So we have to work towards the blessings of God.

Seeking The Leadership of The Holy Spirit

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Sunday August 30,  2009

What makes people do extra-ordinary things?

BCC is moving forward in ministry by the Grace of the Almighty. Last Sunday was wonderful, there was serious prayers  and declartions by the christians to themselves and to the church as they enter the month of September. The service was coordinated by Ps Simon Njock who also led praise and worship with Sis Pamela. It was a wonderful praise time as the christians praised and thanked God for taking them through the month of August. There were a lot of touching testimonies from christians.  Four birthdays were celebrated in church.

The word for the day was by Ps Manga Joseph, he spoke on the theme “Seeking The Leadership of The Holy Ghost” (Romans 8:14).

Who is the man that is so hidden that can cause a change in your life? He is the Holy Ghost. People go astray because they dont know this person.

The holy Ghost is a person , he is the gaurantee of our eternal inheritance. He characteristics like;

-He is all k nowing  that’s to say he knows evrything about you and me. If you get him you will be all knowing too.

-He is emotional, that’s why with him in us we are joyful. He is also a worker so we don’t need to struggle when we have him. He is a distinguisher, a solution maker. we have to distinguish oureslves in all we do and he is the great distinguisher so we have deeply fall in love with him. Why sin overcomes us is because we dont know the person of the Holy Ghost. ( Gal;3.3, Romans;8.11).

Winning The War of Sin

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Sunday August 16,  2009

God is great.

By his power and grace the christians of BCC came together again last sunday to  worship,  praise and listens to Him speak words of  wisdom and directions into their hearts through his wonderful servants. The man of God for the day was Pastor Arung Bate he spoke on the theme “Winning The War Of  Sin”  From Romans 6. He gave some three things to fight this world of sin which were.

i) Knowing who we are . We really run away from the word sin and put other words, the way you persive sin is very propotional to the way you are close to God. The more we get to God the more he reveals to us where we are weak. We are not sinners because we sin we were born sinners. You are still a sinner till when you come to the cross because the blood has dealed with the sin. But the cross deals with the person in sin. When you come to the Jesus the old man dies and the new man comes forth.When Christ came to our lives it didn’t change it was exchanged. Rmns 6:6.

ii) We have to reconcile Rmns 6:7.  To reconcile means to always acknowledge the fact that we belong to Jesus, because  that’s what will cause you not to misbehave when you meet tempeting situations. We behave ordinary because we don’t recognice who we are and who you are will cause you to do what you do. In salvation there is a part we have to play to be saved. Christianity is practical. You must come to a place were you are not resisting you must flee.

iii) Lastly we have to render our all to Jesus Rmns 6:13. If am a Christian i have to agree that this body is not mine i was bought with a prize and I am His temple. Don’t be conformed to this world. You have to metamorphose from a caterpillar which is dirty and harmful  to a  butterfly which is clean and gentle  and sin will not have dominion over you.

What shows that you are a believer

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Last Sunday was  yet another day for the Christians of the B C C to come together in one spirit to praise the Lord Almighty. As usual there was an awesome time of praise and worship from the praise team comprising of sisters Enanga, Hannah, and Anita. Thereafter, there were some testimonies from Sis. Pamela about her exams; how God turned her situation round and gave her success Br Cyril also  testified about his American Visa and exam successes.

The choir then came on stage and sang to prepare hearts and minds for the word of God. The preacher for the day was Mr. Vincent.

The theme of his preaching was “What shows that you are a believer”.. he proceeded thus. “To show we are true ministers of God, we need to apply hard-work and spend sleepless nights working out lives of purity,  righteousness and love. He stated that there is nothing like the other part of “me” because a believer has to the righteousness both to left and to the right. Thus there is no “unrighteous part ” of a believer. .. The bible says you should bear fruits and fruits worthy of repentance (Gal:5). All of us are expected to bear fruits .. Its good to be born again but not enough to be born-again; but to bear fruits that will endure. To have faith is alright but useless if you have no good deeds because that’s what will impress the unbelievers and God.

Will it not be nice when believers start distinguishing themselves by having good deeds? How do you show you are a believer? By bearing fruits.

BCC Women at work

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The women ministry is an initiative of the women of the Buea community church. This is to have a way in which women can come together like a family to share ideas and get to grow in their various gifts of the spirit. This initiative was supported by all the leaders and Christians of the BCC so they went on after the support to do a formal launching of the group. This was on Sunday the 5th of July 2009. But before the launching there were some week long activities.

There were some activities which were held from Wednesday the 1st of July to Saturday the 4th prior to the launching proper on Sunday the 5th.

On Wednesday the women meet at the BCC auditorium and they had choir rehearsal and drew some plans for the launching for Sunday which included the budget for the day and all this was coordinated by Pastor Mrs. Marceline TINSHU.
Thursday was not a meeting day because it was the day for market preparations that is they all went to the market to do buying of foodstuffs for Sunday’s program.

Friday was another day of meeting at Bcc hall. This day they did the final rehearsals and also came out with the final program for Sunday all this still coordinated by the senior pastor’s wife.

Saturday was a wonderful day as the women went out for evangelism and massive distribution of invitations. They acme out in their numbers at about four pm that afternoon and went into the quarters to distribute the launching invitations and tell people about the love of Christ.

Sunday which was the deal day all started with a 9am service in the morning coordinated by Pas Arung Bate. The man of God who gave the message was Pas Manga Joseph. He spoke on the theme “crossing to the other side”. Which in detail he meant we should not wait for leaders to pursue us to do the things of the spirit that we should take up the challenge and cross over to the other side and I think this applied to the women because they are a good example to the whole church as they have taken the challenge to cross on to the other side. After the service the women stayed back and did some final preparation for the evening. And story continues with bigger pace in the evening.

BCC Womens’ Ministry Launched

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It all started at about 5 pm with an opening prayer from Mrs. Elizabeth Yeboah. She prayed and dedicated the occasion into the hands of the almighty.

Then was the introduction of the praise and worship team by the coordinator of the day Mrs. Catherine Arung. They were sis Eposi Lyonga and sis Delphine Wemei. Oh what a wonderful praise team they sang and the people thought they were in heaven. As they sang people felt the spirit of the Lord. After praise they led the congregation into wonderful time of worship in the presence of the Holy Spirit. All this lasted for about 40 minutes.

After that wonderful time the women for God went outside and they processed into the church as they match they sang a beautiful song formed by them talking about them. They processed right to the front of the church. There at the front they sang some two special numbers for the congregation. The way they sang almost beat the aroma choir. And I at one point of time thought it was some choir which has been existing for years now.

The next on agenda was animation by an acapela made up of some four boys who were invited by the women to add spice the occasion. They sang some very touching songs.

Oh oh oh what next? Some wonderful actress from the C4G came on stage and they did a play on “dorcas the generous one” taken from the bible in (acts 9:26). The women displayed and set the whole church into laughter. The play talked about a certain woman call dorcas who was very generous she always helped those in need. It then came to a point in time she was very sick and she died. Her death caused confusion in town so the inhabitants decided to called for apostle peter who prayed fro her and she came back to life and joy was restored back to the people. The drama had characters like; sis Delphine –Dorcas, sis Evelyne, sis Catherine, sis Eposi all who were the beneficiaries of Dorcas’ generosity and sis Susan Moki-the daughter of Dorcas etc.
After the drama the acapela boys animated while the offerings where collected. Thereafter the speaker of the day sis Masoh Vincent was introduced to the congregation. She went on stage and spoke on the theme “full of God’s works” (Acts 9:36-43, 1 Tim 5:5-10).she just concluded the story of the drama performed by the women.

Then was the turn of the group leader Mrs. Marceline TINSHU to read the speech of encouragement to the women from the senior pastor Genesis Tinshu who is currently in the USA. After the speech the leader introduced the different departmental heads in the group. As follows

  • Evangelism –Evelyne Ekoi
  • Prayer –Elizabeth Yeboah
  • Bible studies –Masoh Vincent
  • Socials –Delphine Wemei

Then were some words of blessing, encouragement, and prayers from Pas Manga and Njock.
Finally was a closing prayer from Pastor Alfred Wemei. And refreshment. The attendance was very interesting as we had 81 adults and 24 children that .

That was how the birthday party of the BCC Women for God went. We look forward to see a massive participation by the members to the growth of that new born baby.