Rescue the Perishing: Personal Work Made EasySeibert, Fred R.
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Rescue the Perishing: Personal Work Made Easy
Seibert, Fred R.
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Personal Work.
*Use of the "PRAYER LIST" Card.*
*Pray for your friends*!
THERE are few people who do not have a special influence on at least one
other person. Make a list of twelve of your acquaintances—very carefully
and prayerfully.
BE careful for nothing; but in *every thing by prayer* and supplication
with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
_Philippians 4:6._
By so doing you will receive a blessing and see your friends saved.
DON’T wait until the meeting is nearly over, hoping they may get in on
the “tidal wave,” or that the evangelist will “shake the tree" so hard
they can’t hold on longer. But *pitch in* and do your *best*.
(*Hand-picked fruit always keeps better*.) Get them started early so
*they* can *work* for *others* during the revival meetings, and also
have the help of the meeting to establish their faith.
SHOULD others seem to be working on your list, *say* nothing but
tactfully co-operate and work with them.
As a rule select those of your own age and sex. Head your list with
*your own name* and then begin with the unsaved person you know and love
best, and most desire seeing saved. If all are not converted during the
meetings *follow them up afterwards until they are*. Add new names to
replace those who become converted and work this plan all the year, “in
season and out of season.”
PRAY in private earnestly and aloud for each one by name at least twice
a day. *Study* how to bring the most helpful influence to bear on them.
Be very careful of your daily life before them and the world.
Keep your list confidential so that none but the Father and yourself
know the names you have. Don’t be satisfied unless you see them
converted and in the church of *their* choice. Ever afterwards look upon
them as your *spiritual children*, assuming *responsibility* for
*keeping them from falling*.
Personal Work.
*1st. WHERE to Find Them.*
EVERYWHERE; by our side, in the *home*, in the *school, shop* and
*mill*; behind the *counter*, where we stand; on the *street*, where we
walk; in the *pew* where we worship; in the *service*, where we sing in
the *prayer meeting* and *inquiry room*, at the *altar*, kneeling with
us at *family* devotion; yes, *everywhere*. Oh, reader, whatever way
your eye shall turn, there stand the lost ones whom Jesus came to save.
Find them *quick, quick*! for eternity is drawing nigh.
*2nd. HOW to Reach Them*.
*YOU CAN WIN THEM BY LOVE*.
SAY “God give us hearts big enough to let Jesus and all our neighbors
in. Ask the spirit of God to be your guide, for there is an open window
to every soul. In many instances, they await your coming, for they have
no peace, as God says there is none for the wicked. Go to them in love
as Jesus would have gone, take His manner, choose His words. Go and
delay not. Here is where courage plays so great a part.
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