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A VISION FOR 2020 AND BEYOND
One of the things I loved and admired about Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke was that he was a visionary. He was a forward-looking and forward-thinking man.
On more than one occasion, I remember Reinhard, while preaching a sermon, stopping mid-sentence, turning toward me sitting on the front row, pointing his finger at me and saying in a commanding tone, “Daniel, you are not to become the custodian of my legacy. Preach the Gospel!” That was his admonition to me. What he was saying—and what he did say many times—was that this was not about his name or his legacy. It wasn’t about building some kind of a monument to him. Although we love Reinhard Bonnke and we never want to forget the extraordinary way his life impacted our generation, we honor him most by pressing forward with the same spirit that characterized his life, which was embracing the heavenly vision for the sake of souls.
I think it is very appropriate here, by way of tribute to Reinhard, to talk about the future of the ministry he founded and invested his life into. Reinhard has passed on, but this is not the end – we are just getting started!
In 1987 (for the purpose of our local Church followup system) Christ for all Nations began tracking the individual new converts being saved in our crusades. Thirty years later (in 2017) the ministry reached a 75-million milestone. That’s when the Lord began to clearly speak to me about a “DECADE of DOUBLE Harvest.” In other words, if would grab ahold of this word by faith, we could see the number of people saved double from 75 million in the first thirty years to 150 million in the next ten!
You might ask, “How is this possible? Do you plan to conduct larger crusades than ever? Or more crusades than ever?” The answer to that is actually, “Yes.” We will conduct more crusades this year than ever before. Also, I do believe we are going to see the largest crusades we have ever seen. I believe that even in this coming year the crusades will go to a new level, and there are some really exciting things happening on that front. But what’s more—and this is really what I want to tell you about— the Lord showed me that these results would come, not simply through addition, but by multiplication. We are going to multiply by training, equipping and launching thousands of evangelists. In fact, we’ve already been doing this on a small scale for the last couple of years; and the results we’ve seen have been astonishing.
In this next season, God will use this incredible platform that Reinhard and many others spent a lifetime building to launch that new generation of empowered Holy Spirit evangelists.
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