Prayer Pointers - Changing the Spiritual Climate

For this milestone 20 weeks, I will be sharing more of Ed Silvoso’s Marketplace Transformation Conference this few weeks, for we are marketplace ministers, ready to bless others!

“When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.' If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you. Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
"When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is set before you. Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.'
-Luke 10: 5-9, NIV

If we were to study the book of Luke, we’ll find that from chapters 1-9, there is a very hostile spiritual climate. However, in chapters 11 onwards, there is a much more favorable spiritual climate. What caused the change? Luke 10! What is in Luke 10 that caused the change of the spiritual climate? The event was Jesus sent out the seventy two. But was it just about sending out the seventy-two? No! Jesus gave them specific instructions. What were those instructions?


1) Bless - “When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.'

2) Fellowship - Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you

3) Minister to felt needs - Heal the sick who are there

4) Proclaim - tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.'



What have we done with this order? We have reversed it! We cannot go share the gospel first, then minister to felt needs, then have fellowship with them, then bless them! It does not work that way. This would not change the spiritual climate, unless it is done correctly. When we change the spiritual climate, there will be more lives transformed by God!



He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

Luke 10:2, NIV



Let us start by blessing people. Fellowship with your friends, find out their needs. Pray for them and then proclaim the kingdom of God coming to them. The harvest is plentiful! If you do not act on your faith and do not overcome all the fear and shyness, you cannot reap the plentiful harvest! God’s time has come for churches around Singapore, God’s time has come for our school! Let us invite the Lord to become Lord of our school!



Prayer Pointers this week:

- Pray for empowerment and courage to bless, have fellowship, minister and proclaim to others

- Pray for the Lord to become the Lord of the school

- Pray for salvation to work in 1D, 1L, 1P and 1Q.

- Pray for Satan’s works to be destroyed in the students as we bless others