August 19, 2024 • 40 mins
The fruit of those who are right with God is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise. (Proverbs 11:30) In this inspiring episode of "Revealing Jesus," host Christina Perera is joined by missionary evangelist Daniel King to discuss the importance of evangelism and soul-winning. The conversation delves into practical steps for effective evangelism, the role of the Holy Spirit in ministering to people, and the transformative power of personal testimonies. Daniel shares insights from his extensive ministry experiences, including miraculous healings and life-changing encounters with Jesus.
Daniel King highlights the essence of evangelism through the lens of the biblical story of the woman at the well, emphasizing the importance of starting conversations, turning them towards God, and relying on the Holy Spirit for guidance. The episode also covers Daniel's efforts to equip the next generation of evangelists through teaching and mentorship, with a specific focus on addressing atheism in America. This compelling discussion is designed to inspire and equip listeners to actively participate in evangelism, whether in their local communities or beyond. "The harvest is ripe. People are ready to come to Jesus if we will just go and tell them about Jesus,” Daniel King. Listen to the end for a powerful prayer.
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Welcome to Revealing Jesus. Are you hungry to learn more about our beautiful Savior Jesus?
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I am your host, Christina Perera, lover of Jesus, apostolic leader, licensed and ordained
minister, author, podcaster, and Kingdom Party planner. Did you know that the Bible declares
that grace and peace are multiplied to us in the knowledge of Jesus? And that simply
means the more we learn about our beautiful Savior, the more we will experience all He
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died to give us. Join me for all things the King and his Kingdom, including revelatory
teaching, interviews with Bible ministers, media leaders, authors, and more. Come discover
the beauty of God displayed all across the body of Christ. Together we are revealing
more of Jesus to a hurting world today.
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Hey everybody! Thanks so much for tuning into this week's episode of Revealing Jesus
with Christina Perera. I am your host Christina, and I'm so happy to have you with me here
today. I hope and I pray that you are doing well right where you are and enjoying the
continuously flowing favor of grace pouring from our beautiful Savior and Father in Heaven.
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I've got a great show for you today. We're going to continue doing our summer throwback
series and in case you're just tuning in, these are my favorite conversations that I've
had with amazing leaders in the past four years of doing this podcast. And it has just
been so fun to go back and remember all of these amazing conversations and I'm so thankful.
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Today I've got a great one for you. We're going to throw it all the way back to a conversation
I had with evangelist Daniel King and we had this amazing conversation all about how our
testimonies we can use to inspire others. And our conversation, the Holy Spirit led,
centered on the woman at the well, the story of the woman at the well. And it was just
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such a beautiful conversation about how we can invest in soul winning for eternity. And
the truth of the matter is, is that when you give to the kingdom and you give to organizations
and ministers that are engaging with the gospel and engaging with soul winning, you are investing
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in eternity. You know, we're so good at investing for retirement, investing for a rainy day,
investing in our families, investing in all these things, but we have to invest in the
gospel because the scripture says, how can they hear unless they are sent? And the truth
is, is unless we are funded and we are sent, we can't go. That's just how it is. It takes
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money to fund the gospel. So you can invest in eternity and win souls. And the Bible says
that he who wins souls is wise. So this is an encouraging conversation and it's going
to bless you guys so much. And I would encourage you, if this ministry has been blessing you,
if these conversations have been helping you grow and understand the Lord more, sow back
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in. Um, you know, we can't do this without the faithful support of the people who love
us. And Daniel Cain can't do it either. So if the Lord calls you, then please go, then
please. So amen. But before we get started, I want to give a quick shout out to our Christina
Perera Ministries and sponsors go for ministries who provides all of our equipment, rental
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life changing productions, who helps put together evangelistic events to reach our city for
Jesus harvest family network through which I am licensed and ordained and Davis financial
services who does all of our financial accounting. I hope and I pray that these episodes have
blessed you. I pray that as you're listening, your faith is encouraged and inspired and
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I invite you to sow back into this ministry so we can keep bringing you these faith building
episodes. You can find out more information on how to sow back into this ministry at christina
perera.org slash donate or link in the show notes. Without further ado, let's jump back
into my conversation with Daniel King. Wow, Christina, it is so wonderful to be on the
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program with you. Thank you so much. I love your mission of revealing Jesus because when
we reveal Jesus, it is so special when people get to start that relationship with God. Oh,
well, I'm so honored to have you with me here today. I just I love your heart. I love your
ministry that you founded King Ministries International and I am a missionary evangelist.
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I've gone to over 70 nations preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and we've seen over
two million people pray with us for salvation in our altar calls. And so I am passionate
about revealing Jesus to the world. Oh, I love that so much. I can tell this is already
going to be a really fun conversation because I'm all about Jesus. I've told our listeners
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so much about you. Is there anything that maybe you'd like to tell them? Maybe something
personal just to help them get to know you? Yeah, my parents were missionaries in the
country of Mexico. They moved there when I was 10 years old and so I grew up working
with them in Mexico. But my heart, my passion was always for evangelism. And so when I was
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young, I would read the books of T.L. Osborne or Roberts, Billy Graham, Reinhard Bonke and
look at the pictures of all the people that they had led to Jesus. And when I was 15 years
old, I was reading a success book. It said if you want to be successful, you need to
write down your goals. And one of the goals that this success book said would be good
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for young people is to try to become a millionaire by the age of 30. But I realized that because
of my upbringing as a missionary in Mexico, that money was not what was important to me.
What was important was souls. And so at the age of 15, I wrote down, I, Daniel King, want
to lead one million people to Jesus before I turned 30 years of age. Instead of trying
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to become a millionaire, I wanted to lead a million heirs into the kingdom of God. And
so God started opening up doors in different nations. And I'm excited to tell you that
before I turned 30 years of age, we had successfully led over a million people to Jesus in a salvation
prayer. And now we've gone over the two million mark. And I was asking God recently what comes
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next. I felt like God say go for a million souls every single year. And so that is my
passion is going to the least reach parts of the world, places where there's many Muslims,
there's Hindus, even here in America where there are atheists and reaching the onreach,
telling them about Jesus and bringing them into a relationship with God.
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Oh, that's so amazing. I love that goal. I think, yeah, as young people, it's easy to
get caught up in the systems of the world. But I love that you were able to look at that
and say, Oh, that that goal is too small for me. You know, because I've, you know, I've
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seen so many times in the world where people will achieve the big job, they'll achieve,
you know, the millionaire status. But then what do they do? They find that they're empty.
I love that you took that goal and you made it something for God. Well, when I look at
the picture of someone that needs Jesus, there's something in my heart that just goes out to
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them. You know, Jesus told us in Mark 16, 15, go into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature. And so as Christians, we are called to go and to reach the lost to
tell people about Jesus. And so when I see a picture of a family member, I often ask
my my friends and partners to send me pictures of their family members that they're praying
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for that need Jesus. And I begin to pray for them. And when I see their picture, it just
really moves me to pray that God would send someone across their path to introduce them
to Jesus. Or when I see a picture of people in different nations around the world. And
if you go to my website, King Ministries dot com, you can see hundreds of pictures of individuals
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that have been saved in our services, testimonies of people whose lives have been changed, pictures
of people who who have received healing testimonies, their bodies were sick and Jesus supernaturally
healed them. And all of those pictures, I look in the eyes of the people and it just
gives me such compassion. You know, it says when Jesus saw the crowds of people, he was
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moved with compassion. And so my prayer every day is that my heart would be filled with
the same compassion that Jesus felt for people.
Yes. And so has that major life way more abundant and fruitful and meaningful than simply following
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the ways of the world as as a young kid?
Yeah, absolutely. An investment in souls is an investment in eternity. Like people are
often asking like, you know, where should I put my money to get the best return for
retirement? But really, if you think about all of eternity, our life here on earth is
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very short, but eternity is forever. And so when we invest souls, it gives us a tremendous
return and an eternal return. And so that becomes what is important is investing in
those things that are going to last forever and ever. You know, so many things here on
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earth are temporal. You buy a new car, you love the smell of the new car, but then after
a while it wears off and you get a fender bender or you get a scratch on the side of
the car, you don't want that car anymore. Well, that is a temporal blessing. But eternity
is so long that I think that we should keep our focus and our passion, our prayers on
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how to effect all of eternity.
I love that. You know, I have such a heart of an evangelist and I always when you first
started speaking, I kept hearing that verse, he who wins souls is wise. And I like how
you equated that almost to investing. So you took what could have been an opportunity for
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you to go out into the workforce and invest in the ways of the world. But you saw it as
an opportunity to invest in the kingdom of God and invest in eternity. And I think that's
really beautiful because you're right. You know, we get that new car, we get that new
thing or whatever, and we're happy about it. But then there does come a day where we want
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something new. And for me, you know, working in the kingdom of God is, is has been really
fulfilling in a way that really nothing else was. I always think about Jesus when he was
do you remember the story of the woman at the well and he was so tired. He sat down,
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his disciples went into town to get food. And they came back and by the time they came
back, he administered to the woman at the well and he and he was refreshed. He was revived.
And his disciples were like, where did you get food from? And he was like, I have food
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that you do not know of. My food is to do the will of my father in heaven. And and even
though work in the kingdom is work, we receive that eternal inheritance and we receive even
now in this life that we lead, you know, a refilling back of the Lord into what we've
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poured out. And I love that about Jesus. He's he's so beautiful. Even even when we pour
out for him, he's pouring back into us so much more. Have you seen that play out in
your life? Yeah, absolutely. Let's let's talk a little bit about that passage of the
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the woman at the well. It's found in John chapter four. And I think it's really interesting
what Jesus does in relating to the woman. And there's so much that we can learn from
his example. You know, he was so tired. He got up early in the morning. He walked. And
now it's noon time and he's hungry. He sends his disciples into the town to get food. But
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he sits down by the well, but he's thirsty. Well, here comes this Samaritan woman. And
the first thing Jesus says to her is, will you give me a drink? And so he starts a conversation
with her. And so I really think that's the first step to people leading others to Jesus.
You know, as believers, we often want to lead others to Jesus, but we don't know how. But
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I think the first step is just to open a conversation and to start talking to people. And if you
don't talk to them, you'll never be able to lead them to Jesus. And then the woman says,
will you give me a drink? And then Jesus starts talking about living water. So he turns the
conversation towards the things of God. So the first step is to start a conversation.
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The second step is to turn the conversation towards God. And so you can start a conversation
talking about weather or talking about the good deal you got at the store. But then look
for an opportunity to turn the conversation towards the things of God. If Jesus is inside
of you, Jesus is what's going to come out of you. So if you have a water balloon and
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you prick the water balloon with a pen, water is going to come out. The same thing if you're
full of Jesus and you start talking to someone, Jesus is going to come out of you. And so
Jesus starts the conversation, he turns the conversation towards God. But then he taps
in to the Holy Spirit's help in order to minister to him. So he says, go call your husband and
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come back. And she says, I don't have a husband. And Jesus says, that's right. When you say
you don't have a husband, you've actually had five husbands. And the man you're living
with now is not your husband. And so Jesus had never met her before. He didn't know anything
about her, but he listened to the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit gave him what we would
call a word of knowledge about her situation to help him to minister to her. And so I think
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that's the third step to leading people to Jesus is to listen to the Holy Spirit. The
Holy Spirit will give us the words to say and give us the leading, the guiding to say
exactly the right thing to help someone come to Jesus. And then this woman does something
that's very interesting. A lot of people do it. They start a spiritual argument. You start
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witnessing to someone or telling them about Jesus and they want to argue with you. And
Jesus doesn't really argue with her. He just continues to love her. And he says, God is
spirit and true worshipers must worship him in spirit and in truth. And so our goal is
not to win arguments. Our goal is to win souls. And so even if people try to start a spiritual
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argument, it's important to continue to love them. And then the thing I love that Jesus
does that is just perfect for talking about on your podcast, the woman says, I know that
Messiah is coming and Jesus declared, I who speak to you, am he. And so Jesus revealed
himself to the Samaritan woman. Your podcast is all about is revealing Jesus to people.
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And so if we want to bring people to God, what we have to do is we have to reveal Jesus.
The more we can introduce people to Jesus, the more likely we are to bring them into
a saving relationship with God the Father.
I love that so much. You said so many things that got me so excited. So number one, starting
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a conversation. You know, we lead street teams out on the street and I always tell people,
you know, we don't start with tracks. We don't start with, you know, that kind of thing.
We just start with a human connection, a human conversation. And what I found in my experience
is that people have names, believe it or not, they have stories, they have backgrounds,
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they have experiences. And when we start with that human connection, you know, then we,
we can earn the opportunity to really then bring Jesus into the conversation.
Jesus was all about loving people. That was his main agenda, you know, and he does that
with the woman at the well and he uses the Holy Spirit to speak to her. How would you
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help them use the Holy Spirit to speak to potential people to witness to? What's one
thing you found in your past to help you do that?
Yeah, I actually wrote a whole book in order to answer this question. It's called, You
Can Become a Master Soul Winner, How to Lead People to Jesus. And so that book can be found
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on our website, Kingministries.com and also on Amazon. You Can Become a Master Soul Winner
by Daniel King. And in the book, I talk about some of the different fears that people face
when they're witnessing. I also give them some things that they can say to make it easier
for them to start conversations. And so I love encouraging people to look for opportunities
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to share Jesus with people, even if it's something simple like going on Facebook and sending
someone a message and saying, Hey, I want you to know that I'm praying for you today.
And then that can open up a conversation to begin talking about the things of God. And
so there's so many different ways that we can use to reach out to the lost, just our
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family members, our friends, our coworkers, even people on the other side of the world.
There's ways that we can, if we'll begin looking for them, that we can tell people
about Jesus and help bring them to having a relationship with God.
I love that so much. And you know, one of the things I found about ministry is it's
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wonderful to have these goals for ourselves, but it's also important that we empower and
we raise up the next generation of evangelists going out into the world.
Yeah. I want to talk about raising up the next generation because that is something
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that's so important. I have had the opportunity the last couple of years to teach at the evangelism
boot camp, which is hosted by Christ for All Nations, led by Daniel Kalinda, the ministry
that was founded by the great evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke. And so last year they had
50 students, this year they had a hundred students. And we go and teach them how to
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preach the gospel, how to have a compassion for the lost, how to clearly communicate the
gospel. And so right now, those evangelists that we trained this year are in the country
of Tanzania and they're going out into the marketplaces. They're going from school to
school all across the nation of Tanzania, working on setting up large evangelistic crusades.
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And in the last two weeks, Christina, they have led over half a million people to Jesus,
a team of a hundred evangelists has led over half people to Jesus over a two week period.
And so all over the world, people are hungry for God. They are ready to come to Jesus if
someone will just go and tell them about Jesus. You're raising people up to even go out to
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the streets and show love to people and to bring Jesus, reveal Jesus to those who are
hurting the most. I just love what God is calling you to do and what your ministry is
doing.
Oh, thank you so much. Well, it's a pleasure and it's an honor. If you listen to what I
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write, what I preach, what I teach, I just really believe Jesus is worthy of it all.
I do what I do out of an abundance of gratitude and just in awe, in a wonder, in an absolute
ridiculous love that He first loved me with. And I love what you're equipping. And it's
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so funny because before we talked, I was like, if you have testimonies from Tanzania and
I had no idea that's where you guys were working. Wow, that is so cool.
Yeah, I'll actually be going to Tanzania. I just bought my plane tickets yesterday and
we're doing a large evangelistic campaign in a city where we'll have anywhere from 40
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to 50,000 people each night coming to hear about Jesus. And I go to different nations
all over the world. Just recently I was in Ethiopia and we did a large crusade. One night
we had about 7000 people there and I preached on the paralyzed man who was let down through
the roof. And I remember that when I finished the sermon, I saw some people that left the
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back of the crowd. And as a preacher, you always kind of feel bad when people leave
like that because you're, oh man, I didn't write. Yeah, I saw them leave. But then like
10 minutes later, I saw those same people come back and they were carrying a bed. And
so the same way that the four friends brought someone on a bed to Jesus, they brought a
bed and carried it over across the top of the crowd and laid that bed right in front
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of the platform because the person that they brought needed healing. And so we prayed and
God did a tremendous miracle. I was in February, I was in Sierra Leone in Africa and we were
in a little village. There was a boy, he was about seven years old and he was deaf in his
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left ear. And I told all the people, I said, take your hands and place it on the part of
your body where there's pain. And so the mother of this little boy, she took her hand and
she placed it on her son's ear. And we were praying for the sick. And as we were praying,
a black growth or like a black rock fell out of the boy's ear into her hand. And she shook
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it off her hand and it fell to the ground. And then she tested her boy's hearing and
her boy that had been deaf for two years in that year was completely restored. He was
able to hear. And he showed in front of the whole crowd that he was able to hear. And
every one of the village started clapping and dancing and shouting because they knew
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that God had done a miracle in that little boy's life. They all knew him. They knew the
problem that he had had. And so it was really a creative miracle. As we were praying, God
caused this growth to fall out of his ear into his mother's hand. And so we've seen
miracles like that and all over the world. And what I like to say is that miracles are
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like the dinner bell that draw people to the banqueting table of heaven. And so people
see the miracles. They see what Jesus is doing. It reveals Jesus in a very tangible way to
them. And then people are willing to give their lives to Jesus. Even people that are
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from other religions, Muslims and Hindus and other religions, they see the miracles and
they say, wow, Jesus is real. And so I've got all kinds of pictures and testimonies
on my website, kingministries.com. If people want to go there and look at all the pictures,
they can see videos. You can see the miracles with your own eyes, what God is doing in different
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parts of the world.
Oh, I love that so much. I love that Jesus is still so relevant today. Some people try
to make him not relevant or he's not healing or he's not doing miracles. As long as humanity
has a need, Jesus is still reaching out. He's still healing. He's still loving. He's still
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ministering. He's still calling us at the well. He's still revealing that he sees us
and he loves us despite everything. Isn't that beautiful?
It is beautiful. And I like how Jesus at the well with the Samaritan woman, he ministered
to this woman and she was a woman that had a lot of problems in her life. I've done some
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research into that story and I found out that back then women would go to the well to get
water either in the morning or in the evening and they would all go together. Like today,
you know, girls always go to the bathroom together. Well, back then they all went to
the well together. They would gossip and they would talk while they were getting water.
Well, this woman was there at the well at the noon time when the sun was high in the
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sky by herself and it was because she had had five husbands and the man she was living
with was not her husband. She had stolen half the men in the village. She had broken her
relationship, but it was that woman who was hurting, who was broken, who needed love that
Jesus was able to reach out to and minister to her. It changed her life. She ran back
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into the village and said, come and see a man who told me everything I ever did. And
she brings the whole village back to meet Jesus. And then it's really interesting to
the response of the disciples. They went into the village, but they didn't bring a single
person back to meet Jesus. And Jesus, you can tell he's a little bit upset at them.
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He says, lift up your eyes. Don't you see the harvest? You say four more months until
the harvest. I tell you, the harvest is now. The harvest is ripe. And I think that's what
Jesus would say to us as a church today, that the harvest is ripe. People are ready to come
to Jesus if we will just go and tell them about Jesus. And I actually have several resources
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that I give away for free about reaching people for Jesus. So, you know, on my website, kingministries.com,
people will go there and give me your email address. I will send you free of charge several
of my ebooks about witnessing, about evangelism, about reaching people for Jesus, just tools
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that will help you to lead other people to Jesus.
Nice. I love that so much. That's beautiful. And it's interesting because, you know, that
woman at the well really became the first evangelist. But it came from an encounter.
Absolutely. And she's a woman evangelist. God can use women evangelists.
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Yes, absolutely. And, you know, I think, you know, it's not the gender that matters, the
male or the female. It's the heart who's encountered Jesus. Those are the hearts that will, like
you said, run into the village and bring others back. You know, and it's better than these
12 professional preachers, the 12 disciples that follow Jesus. I mean, they had seen Jesus
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do all of these miracles. They saw Jesus open blind eyes and heal the sick. And you know,
there were people in the village that needed healing, and they didn't bring anyone back
to Jesus. They didn't say, hey, oh, there's a cripple man. You need to come and meet Jesus
and he'll heal you. No, but this one woman, she goes into the village and she manages
to get the entire village to come and meet Jesus.
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Love it. Love it so much. You know, just that one encounter with Jesus. It's beautiful.
Yes. Thank you so much for mentioning those resources. And again, I will totally put them
up on the show notes for our listeners to help them get there. And that's beautiful
because I think sometimes we want to run into the village, but we're not always sure how,
you know, and I think just realizing that our own starting place with Jesus, our own
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moment of the well is our starting point.
Yeah, I'd like to mention another resource that I just published that's really been on
my heart lately. It's a brand new book called Proof God is Real. And I wrote this book specifically
to help people to reach atheists. And the reason I wrote it is we go to all these different
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nations around the world and we see thousands of people pray with us for salvation. But
I began to ask God, what can we do to reach people here in the United States? And I was
at one little church in Missouri and this mother came up to me and she was crying, saying,
please, could you pray for my son? And I thought her son was sick or something. So I said,
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let's pray. And I said, what's the matter with you? He said, well, he started looking
at some videos on YouTube and following some atheists on Twitter. And because of that,
he has decided that he is an atheist. He was raised as a Christian, but now he's decided
to be an atheist. And so my heart just broke for that mom. And I began to ask her for his
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phone number. I reached out to him and ministered to the to the son. But then because of that,
I began to research what can we do to reach atheists, people that in our own society that
have decided that there is no God. They're looking for proof that there is a God. And
if they don't find proof, they're willing to turn their backs on Christianity. Even
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young people sometimes raised in Christian homes, they go to college, they face someone
who has a few doubts, and then they decide to turn their back on God because they don't
have proof that God is real to reach atheists here in America. And I also want to help protect
our young people to inoculate them against the spirit of atheism. And so if you know
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someone who's an atheist, this would be a great book to get for them. Or if you have
a young teenager in your home and you want to give your teenager reasons for why we believe
this would be a great book to put in your teenager's hand before they go to college.
They need to read it before they leave for college. And so that book, Proof God is Real,
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it's available on my website, Kingministries.com, or you can find it on Amazon. Just look for
Proof God is Real by Daniel King, and you'll be able to find it. But this is hot off the
press, and it's something that's really on my heart because we need to do something to
reach the people here in America, around the world. But when you look at what is happening
here in America, it just breaks the heart of God. And I believe we need a new great
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awakening of people turning back to God, that God can do it, He will do it. He needs us
to go after atheists and to love them back into the kingdom of God.
Yes. And I always tell people that one of the greatest mission fields is right here
in the United States. People may have been raised in Christian homes, but they've never
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encountered a real Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit. And I think that that
is one of the best ways to inoculate against some of that thinking. It's hard to say to
somebody that God's not encountered Him yourself. Nobody could ever say to me, Jesus, you know,
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Jesus doesn't exist. I'd be like, dude, you're crazy.
Because you know you have a relationship with Him.
Exactly. And just encountering Him just like that woman did at the well through the power
of the Holy Spirit and her seeing that she is known and loved anyway, despite her failings,
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is so powerful and is beautiful. Before we go, is there anything that you would like
to pray for our listeners? Just bless them and encourage them. It would be amazing if
you'd like to.
Yeah, absolutely. We have talked today about the Samaritan woman at the well that Jesus
ministered to and talked about people who are atheists and talked about people in different
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nations that don't know Jesus. But what I'd really like to pray for for your listeners
is, is anyone in your life that doesn't know Jesus. Maybe it's a family member, maybe
it's a friend, whoever it is, if you would just speak their name out loud to God right
now and let's lift them up to God and pray for them to be saved. Pray that Jesus would
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be revealed to them. And I believe that as we pray, our prayers will be powerful and
that God will send someone across their path. And so let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, I
pray for all of Christina's listeners right now. Lord, I pray right now as you're listening,
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just speak the name out loud of the person you know that needs Jesus, your family member,
a friend, someone that is close to you, someone that has turned away from God. Just speak
their name out loud right now. Father, I pray that you would bring someone across this person's
path that would reveal Jesus to them. And Lord, I pray that these atheists, these people
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that have turned away from God would come back to God, that they would come back to
the Father's house, that they would turn back to Jesus. Lord, I pray that you would make
yourself real to them, that they would have a divine encounter with Jesus, with the Holy
Spirit. And Lord, I pray that you would give us the passion and the boldness to be a witness,
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to tell others about Jesus. Fill our hearts with your compassion, Lord, that we would
have the same compassion that Jesus felt when he looked at the people who were lost and
helpless like sheep without a shepherd. Father, fill our hearts with compassion for the loss
today and use us to bring many people to Jesus. In Jesus' name, amen.
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If you want to help us lead people to Jesus, go to my website, kingministries.com, and
you can find lots of information about how you can be a part of helping us to lead people
to Jesus in order to go to different nations around the world. Often, it's expensive to
do crusades. And so, we have partners and friends that help us out. And I've found that for
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every dollar that people give us, we're able to lead at least one person to Jesus over
the course of our ministry. Every time someone's given us a dollar, we've been able to lead
at least one to Jesus for that. And so, I ask people, I say, if you just become a like
for $1 a month, you could be responsible for starting a party in heaven every single month.
And so, I ask people, you know, just go to my website, kingministries.com, you know,
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give at least $1 a month. You know, some people can give more, but if you could do at least
$1, you could have a massive impact in someone's life for eternity.
So good.
For inviting me on the podcast. It's such a privilege to talk to you today.
Oh, thank you so much for being here with me today. And I hope and I pray that this
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has blessed our listeners and I hope it's encouraged them to just take their stories
and encounter people right where they are.
Beloved, let me introduce you to my King. He is altogether lovely. No matter which way
you turn him, he is perfection personified. He is velvet and steel. He is meekness and
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majesty. He is glory and humility. He is kindness and strength. He is altogether lovely. And
he is my King. And he can be yours as well. All day long, he holds his hand that you might
take, that you might turn, one step, one grasp, one yes, one breath away from the arms of
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your loving Savior. Beloved, if you hear him, do not harden your heart. The Bible declares
that not one of us is guaranteed another moment upon this earth. So pray this prayer with
me today and run into the arms of the one who loves you, who knows you best.
Father, I ask you to forgive me for all of my sin, for all of the places that I have
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fallen short, God, of your glorious standard. I ask you now to send your Son into my heart
to be the forgiveness of my sin, to be my redemption, to be my righteousness, to be
my holiness, to be my sanctification. I ask you to forgive me, to cleanse me, to fill
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me with your Spirit, your power, your glory, that I might bring glory to your name, Father.
I thank you that I receive all of this by faith and the Son of God, who loved me and
who gave himself up for me. I thank you that I am now a child of God, fully forgiven, fully
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righteous, fully holy in your eyes. And I ask you to help me walk out this life in a
way that pleases and honors you, Father. I thank you, Jesus, for all that you've done.
I thank you for your love, for your kindness, for your great joy in saving me. And I thank
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you, Father, and I thank you, Holy Spirit. And I pray all of these things in your beautiful
Son's name. Amen. If you've just prayed that prayer for the first time, I want to congratulate
you. You are now a child of God, and all things are now yours. Keep listening to Revealing
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Hey everybody! Thanks so much for tuning into this week's episode of Revealing Jesus
with Christina Perera. I am your host Christina, and I'm so happy to have you with me here
today. I hope and I pray that you are doing well right where you are and enjoying the
continuously flowing favor of grace pouring from our beautiful Savior and Father in Heaven.
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I've got a great show for you today. We're going to continue doing our summer throwback
series and in case you're just tuning in, these are my favorite conversations that I've
had with amazing leaders in the past four years of doing this podcast. And it has just
been so fun to go back and remember all of these amazing conversations and I'm so thankful.
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Today I've got a great one for you. We're going to throw it all the way back to a conversation
I had with evangelist Daniel King and we had this amazing conversation all about how our
testimonies we can use to inspire others. And our conversation, the Holy Spirit led,
centered on the woman at the well, the story of the woman at the well. And it was just
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such a beautiful conversation about how we can invest in soul winning for eternity. And
the truth of the matter is, is that when you give to the kingdom and you give to organizations
and ministers that are engaging with the gospel and engaging with soul winning, you are investing
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in eternity. You know, we're so good at investing for retirement, investing for a rainy day,
investing in our families, investing in all these things, but we have to invest in the
gospel because the scripture says, how can they hear unless they are sent? And the truth
is, is unless we are funded and we are sent, we can't go. That's just how it is. It takes
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money to fund the gospel. So you can invest in eternity and win souls. And the Bible says
that he who wins souls is wise. So this is an encouraging conversation and it's going
to bless you guys so much. And I would encourage you, if this ministry has been blessing you,
if these conversations have been helping you grow and understand the Lord more, sow back
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in. Um, you know, we can't do this without the faithful support of the people who love
us. And Daniel Cain can't do it either. So if the Lord calls you, then please go, then
please. So amen. But before we get started, I want to give a quick shout out to our Christina
Perera Ministries and sponsors go for ministries who provides all of our equipment, rental
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life changing productions, who helps put together evangelistic events to reach our city for
Jesus harvest family network through which I am licensed and ordained and Davis financial
services who does all of our financial accounting. I hope and I pray that these episodes have
blessed you. I pray that as you're listening, your faith is encouraged and inspired and
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I invite you to sow back into this ministry so we can keep bringing you these faith building
episodes. You can find out more information on how to sow back into this ministry at christina
perera.org slash donate or link in the show notes. Without further ado, let's jump back
into my conversation with Daniel King. Wow, Christina, it is so wonderful to be on the
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program with you. Thank you so much. I love your mission of revealing Jesus because when
we reveal Jesus, it is so special when people get to start that relationship with God. Oh,
well, I'm so honored to have you with me here today. I just I love your heart. I love your
ministry that you founded King Ministries International and I am a missionary evangelist.
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I've gone to over 70 nations preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and we've seen over
two million people pray with us for salvation in our altar calls. And so I am passionate
about revealing Jesus to the world. Oh, I love that so much. I can tell this is already
going to be a really fun conversation because I'm all about Jesus. I've told our listeners
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so much about you. Is there anything that maybe you'd like to tell them? Maybe something
personal just to help them get to know you? Yeah, my parents were missionaries in the
country of Mexico. They moved there when I was 10 years old and so I grew up working
with them in Mexico. But my heart, my passion was always for evangelism. And so when I was
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young, I would read the books of T.L. Osborne or Roberts, Billy Graham, Reinhard Bonke and
look at the pictures of all the people that they had led to Jesus. And when I was 15 years
old, I was reading a success book. It said if you want to be successful, you need to
write down your goals. And one of the goals that this success book said would be good
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for young people is to try to become a millionaire by the age of 30. But I realized that because
of my upbringing as a missionary in Mexico, that money was not what was important to me.
What was important was souls. And so at the age of 15, I wrote down, I, Daniel King, want
to lead one million people to Jesus before I turned 30 years of age. Instead of trying
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to become a millionaire, I wanted to lead a million heirs into the kingdom of God. And
so God started opening up doors in different nations. And I'm excited to tell you that
before I turned 30 years of age, we had successfully led over a million people to Jesus in a salvation
prayer. And now we've gone over the two million mark. And I was asking God recently what comes
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next. I felt like God say go for a million souls every single year. And so that is my
passion is going to the least reach parts of the world, places where there's many Muslims,
there's Hindus, even here in America where there are atheists and reaching the onreach,
telling them about Jesus and bringing them into a relationship with God.
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Oh, that's so amazing. I love that goal. I think, yeah, as young people, it's easy to
get caught up in the systems of the world. But I love that you were able to look at that
and say, Oh, that that goal is too small for me. You know, because I've, you know, I've
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seen so many times in the world where people will achieve the big job, they'll achieve,
you know, the millionaire status. But then what do they do? They find that they're empty.
I love that you took that goal and you made it something for God. Well, when I look at
the picture of someone that needs Jesus, there's something in my heart that just goes out to
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them. You know, Jesus told us in Mark 16, 15, go into all the world and preach the gospel
to every creature. And so as Christians, we are called to go and to reach the lost to
tell people about Jesus. And so when I see a picture of a family member, I often ask
my my friends and partners to send me pictures of their family members that they're praying
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for that need Jesus. And I begin to pray for them. And when I see their picture, it just
really moves me to pray that God would send someone across their path to introduce them
to Jesus. Or when I see a picture of people in different nations around the world. And
if you go to my website, King Ministries dot com, you can see hundreds of pictures of individuals
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that have been saved in our services, testimonies of people whose lives have been changed, pictures
of people who who have received healing testimonies, their bodies were sick and Jesus supernaturally
healed them. And all of those pictures, I look in the eyes of the people and it just
gives me such compassion. You know, it says when Jesus saw the crowds of people, he was
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moved with compassion. And so my prayer every day is that my heart would be filled with
the same compassion that Jesus felt for people.
Yes. And so has that major life way more abundant and fruitful and meaningful than simply following
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the ways of the world as as a young kid?
Yeah, absolutely. An investment in souls is an investment in eternity. Like people are
often asking like, you know, where should I put my money to get the best return for
retirement? But really, if you think about all of eternity, our life here on earth is
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very short, but eternity is forever. And so when we invest souls, it gives us a tremendous
return and an eternal return. And so that becomes what is important is investing in
those things that are going to last forever and ever. You know, so many things here on
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earth are temporal. You buy a new car, you love the smell of the new car, but then after
a while it wears off and you get a fender bender or you get a scratch on the side of
the car, you don't want that car anymore. Well, that is a temporal blessing. But eternity
is so long that I think that we should keep our focus and our passion, our prayers on
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how to effect all of eternity.
I love that. You know, I have such a heart of an evangelist and I always when you first
started speaking, I kept hearing that verse, he who wins souls is wise. And I like how
you equated that almost to investing. So you took what could have been an opportunity for
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you to go out into the workforce and invest in the ways of the world. But you saw it as
an opportunity to invest in the kingdom of God and invest in eternity. And I think that's
really beautiful because you're right. You know, we get that new car, we get that new
thing or whatever, and we're happy about it. But then there does come a day where we want
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something new. And for me, you know, working in the kingdom of God is, is has been really
fulfilling in a way that really nothing else was. I always think about Jesus when he was
do you remember the story of the woman at the well and he was so tired. He sat down,
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his disciples went into town to get food. And they came back and by the time they came
back, he administered to the woman at the well and he and he was refreshed. He was revived.
And his disciples were like, where did you get food from? And he was like, I have food
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that you do not know of. My food is to do the will of my father in heaven. And and even
though work in the kingdom is work, we receive that eternal inheritance and we receive even
now in this life that we lead, you know, a refilling back of the Lord into what we've
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poured out. And I love that about Jesus. He's he's so beautiful. Even even when we pour
out for him, he's pouring back into us so much more. Have you seen that play out in
your life? Yeah, absolutely. Let's let's talk a little bit about that passage of the
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the woman at the well. It's found in John chapter four. And I think it's really interesting
what Jesus does in relating to the woman. And there's so much that we can learn from
his example. You know, he was so tired. He got up early in the morning. He walked. And
now it's noon time and he's hungry. He sends his disciples into the town to get food. But
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he sits down by the well, but he's thirsty. Well, here comes this Samaritan woman. And
the first thing Jesus says to her is, will you give me a drink? And so he starts a conversation
with her. And so I really think that's the first step to people leading others to Jesus.
You know, as believers, we often want to lead others to Jesus, but we don't know how. But
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I think the first step is just to open a conversation and to start talking to people. And if you
don't talk to them, you'll never be able to lead them to Jesus. And then the woman says,
will you give me a drink? And then Jesus starts talking about living water. So he turns the
conversation towards the things of God. So the first step is to start a conversation.
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The second step is to turn the conversation towards God. And so you can start a conversation
talking about weather or talking about the good deal you got at the store. But then look
for an opportunity to turn the conversation towards the things of God. If Jesus is inside
of you, Jesus is what's going to come out of you. So if you have a water balloon and
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you prick the water balloon with a pen, water is going to come out. The same thing if you're
full of Jesus and you start talking to someone, Jesus is going to come out of you. And so
Jesus starts the conversation, he turns the conversation towards God. But then he taps
in to the Holy Spirit's help in order to minister to him. So he says, go call your husband and
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come back. And she says, I don't have a husband. And Jesus says, that's right. When you say
you don't have a husband, you've actually had five husbands. And the man you're living
with now is not your husband. And so Jesus had never met her before. He didn't know anything
about her, but he listened to the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit gave him what we would
call a word of knowledge about her situation to help him to minister to her. And so I think
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that's the third step to leading people to Jesus is to listen to the Holy Spirit. The
Holy Spirit will give us the words to say and give us the leading, the guiding to say
exactly the right thing to help someone come to Jesus. And then this woman does something
that's very interesting. A lot of people do it. They start a spiritual argument. You start
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witnessing to someone or telling them about Jesus and they want to argue with you. And
Jesus doesn't really argue with her. He just continues to love her. And he says, God is
spirit and true worshipers must worship him in spirit and in truth. And so our goal is
not to win arguments. Our goal is to win souls. And so even if people try to start a spiritual
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argument, it's important to continue to love them. And then the thing I love that Jesus
does that is just perfect for talking about on your podcast, the woman says, I know that
Messiah is coming and Jesus declared, I who speak to you, am he. And so Jesus revealed
himself to the Samaritan woman. Your podcast is all about is revealing Jesus to people.
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And so if we want to bring people to God, what we have to do is we have to reveal Jesus.
The more we can introduce people to Jesus, the more likely we are to bring them into
a saving relationship with God the Father.
I love that so much. You said so many things that got me so excited. So number one, starting
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a conversation. You know, we lead street teams out on the street and I always tell people,
you know, we don't start with tracks. We don't start with, you know, that kind of thing.
We just start with a human connection, a human conversation. And what I found in my experience
is that people have names, believe it or not, they have stories, they have backgrounds,
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they have experiences. And when we start with that human connection, you know, then we,
we can earn the opportunity to really then bring Jesus into the conversation.
Jesus was all about loving people. That was his main agenda, you know, and he does that
with the woman at the well and he uses the Holy Spirit to speak to her. How would you
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help them use the Holy Spirit to speak to potential people to witness to? What's one
thing you found in your past to help you do that?
Yeah, I actually wrote a whole book in order to answer this question. It's called, You
Can Become a Master Soul Winner, How to Lead People to Jesus. And so that book can be found
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on our website, Kingministries.com and also on Amazon. You Can Become a Master Soul Winner
by Daniel King. And in the book, I talk about some of the different fears that people face
when they're witnessing. I also give them some things that they can say to make it easier
for them to start conversations. And so I love encouraging people to look for opportunities
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to share Jesus with people, even if it's something simple like going on Facebook and sending
someone a message and saying, Hey, I want you to know that I'm praying for you today.
And then that can open up a conversation to begin talking about the things of God. And
so there's so many different ways that we can use to reach out to the lost, just our
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family members, our friends, our coworkers, even people on the other side of the world.
There's ways that we can, if we'll begin looking for them, that we can tell people
about Jesus and help bring them to having a relationship with God.
I love that so much. And you know, one of the things I found about ministry is it's
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wonderful to have these goals for ourselves, but it's also important that we empower and
we raise up the next generation of evangelists going out into the world.
Yeah. I want to talk about raising up the next generation because that is something
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that's so important. I have had the opportunity the last couple of years to teach at the evangelism
boot camp, which is hosted by Christ for All Nations, led by Daniel Kalinda, the ministry
that was founded by the great evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke. And so last year they had
50 students, this year they had a hundred students. And we go and teach them how to
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preach the gospel, how to have a compassion for the lost, how to clearly communicate the
gospel. And so right now, those evangelists that we trained this year are in the country
of Tanzania and they're going out into the marketplaces. They're going from school to
school all across the nation of Tanzania, working on setting up large evangelistic crusades.
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And in the last two weeks, Christina, they have led over half a million people to Jesus,
a team of a hundred evangelists has led over half people to Jesus over a two week period.
And so all over the world, people are hungry for God. They are ready to come to Jesus if
someone will just go and tell them about Jesus. You're raising people up to even go out to
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the streets and show love to people and to bring Jesus, reveal Jesus to those who are
hurting the most. I just love what God is calling you to do and what your ministry is
doing.
Oh, thank you so much. Well, it's a pleasure and it's an honor. If you listen to what I
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write, what I preach, what I teach, I just really believe Jesus is worthy of it all.
I do what I do out of an abundance of gratitude and just in awe, in a wonder, in an absolute
ridiculous love that He first loved me with. And I love what you're equipping. And it's
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so funny because before we talked, I was like, if you have testimonies from Tanzania and
I had no idea that's where you guys were working. Wow, that is so cool.
Yeah, I'll actually be going to Tanzania. I just bought my plane tickets yesterday and
we're doing a large evangelistic campaign in a city where we'll have anywhere from 40
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to 50,000 people each night coming to hear about Jesus. And I go to different nations
all over the world. Just recently I was in Ethiopia and we did a large crusade. One night
we had about 7000 people there and I preached on the paralyzed man who was let down through
the roof. And I remember that when I finished the sermon, I saw some people that left the
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back of the crowd. And as a preacher, you always kind of feel bad when people leave
like that because you're, oh man, I didn't write. Yeah, I saw them leave. But then like
10 minutes later, I saw those same people come back and they were carrying a bed. And
so the same way that the four friends brought someone on a bed to Jesus, they brought a
bed and carried it over across the top of the crowd and laid that bed right in front
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of the platform because the person that they brought needed healing. And so we prayed and
God did a tremendous miracle. I was in February, I was in Sierra Leone in Africa and we were
in a little village. There was a boy, he was about seven years old and he was deaf in his
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left ear. And I told all the people, I said, take your hands and place it on the part of
your body where there's pain. And so the mother of this little boy, she took her hand and
she placed it on her son's ear. And we were praying for the sick. And as we were praying,
a black growth or like a black rock fell out of the boy's ear into her hand. And she shook
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it off her hand and it fell to the ground. And then she tested her boy's hearing and
her boy that had been deaf for two years in that year was completely restored. He was
able to hear. And he showed in front of the whole crowd that he was able to hear. And
every one of the village started clapping and dancing and shouting because they knew
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that God had done a miracle in that little boy's life. They all knew him. They knew the
problem that he had had. And so it was really a creative miracle. As we were praying, God
caused this growth to fall out of his ear into his mother's hand. And so we've seen
miracles like that and all over the world. And what I like to say is that miracles are
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like the dinner bell that draw people to the banqueting table of heaven. And so people
see the miracles. They see what Jesus is doing. It reveals Jesus in a very tangible way to
them. And then people are willing to give their lives to Jesus. Even people that are
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from other religions, Muslims and Hindus and other religions, they see the miracles and
they say, wow, Jesus is real. And so I've got all kinds of pictures and testimonies
on my website, kingministries.com. If people want to go there and look at all the pictures,
they can see videos. You can see the miracles with your own eyes, what God is doing in different
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parts of the world.
Oh, I love that so much. I love that Jesus is still so relevant today. Some people try
to make him not relevant or he's not healing or he's not doing miracles. As long as humanity
has a need, Jesus is still reaching out. He's still healing. He's still loving. He's still
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ministering. He's still calling us at the well. He's still revealing that he sees us
and he loves us despite everything. Isn't that beautiful?
It is beautiful. And I like how Jesus at the well with the Samaritan woman, he ministered
to this woman and she was a woman that had a lot of problems in her life. I've done some
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research into that story and I found out that back then women would go to the well to get
water either in the morning or in the evening and they would all go together. Like today,
you know, girls always go to the bathroom together. Well, back then they all went to
the well together. They would gossip and they would talk while they were getting water.
Well, this woman was there at the well at the noon time when the sun was high in the
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sky by herself and it was because she had had five husbands and the man she was living
with was not her husband. She had stolen half the men in the village. She had broken her
relationship, but it was that woman who was hurting, who was broken, who needed love that
Jesus was able to reach out to and minister to her. It changed her life. She ran back
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into the village and said, come and see a man who told me everything I ever did. And
she brings the whole village back to meet Jesus. And then it's really interesting to
the response of the disciples. They went into the village, but they didn't bring a single
person back to meet Jesus. And Jesus, you can tell he's a little bit upset at them.
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He says, lift up your eyes. Don't you see the harvest? You say four more months until
the harvest. I tell you, the harvest is now. The harvest is ripe. And I think that's what
Jesus would say to us as a church today, that the harvest is ripe. People are ready to come
to Jesus if we will just go and tell them about Jesus. And I actually have several resources
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that I give away for free about reaching people for Jesus. So, you know, on my website, kingministries.com,
people will go there and give me your email address. I will send you free of charge several
of my ebooks about witnessing, about evangelism, about reaching people for Jesus, just tools
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that will help you to lead other people to Jesus.
Nice. I love that so much. That's beautiful. And it's interesting because, you know, that
woman at the well really became the first evangelist. But it came from an encounter.
Absolutely. And she's a woman evangelist. God can use women evangelists.
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Yes, absolutely. And, you know, I think, you know, it's not the gender that matters, the
male or the female. It's the heart who's encountered Jesus. Those are the hearts that will, like
you said, run into the village and bring others back. You know, and it's better than these
12 professional preachers, the 12 disciples that follow Jesus. I mean, they had seen Jesus
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do all of these miracles. They saw Jesus open blind eyes and heal the sick. And you know,
there were people in the village that needed healing, and they didn't bring anyone back
to Jesus. They didn't say, hey, oh, there's a cripple man. You need to come and meet Jesus
and he'll heal you. No, but this one woman, she goes into the village and she manages
to get the entire village to come and meet Jesus.
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Love it. Love it so much. You know, just that one encounter with Jesus. It's beautiful.
Yes. Thank you so much for mentioning those resources. And again, I will totally put them
up on the show notes for our listeners to help them get there. And that's beautiful
because I think sometimes we want to run into the village, but we're not always sure how,
you know, and I think just realizing that our own starting place with Jesus, our own
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moment of the well is our starting point.
Yeah, I'd like to mention another resource that I just published that's really been on
my heart lately. It's a brand new book called Proof God is Real. And I wrote this book specifically
to help people to reach atheists. And the reason I wrote it is we go to all these different
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nations around the world and we see thousands of people pray with us for salvation. But
I began to ask God, what can we do to reach people here in the United States? And I was
at one little church in Missouri and this mother came up to me and she was crying, saying,
please, could you pray for my son? And I thought her son was sick or something. So I said,
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let's pray. And I said, what's the matter with you? He said, well, he started looking
at some videos on YouTube and following some atheists on Twitter. And because of that,
he has decided that he is an atheist. He was raised as a Christian, but now he's decided
to be an atheist. And so my heart just broke for that mom. And I began to ask her for his
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phone number. I reached out to him and ministered to the to the son. But then because of that,
I began to research what can we do to reach atheists, people that in our own society that
have decided that there is no God. They're looking for proof that there is a God. And
if they don't find proof, they're willing to turn their backs on Christianity. Even
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young people sometimes raised in Christian homes, they go to college, they face someone
who has a few doubts, and then they decide to turn their back on God because they don't
have proof that God is real to reach atheists here in America. And I also want to help protect
our young people to inoculate them against the spirit of atheism. And so if you know
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someone who's an atheist, this would be a great book to get for them. Or if you have
a young teenager in your home and you want to give your teenager reasons for why we believe
this would be a great book to put in your teenager's hand before they go to college.
They need to read it before they leave for college. And so that book, Proof God is Real,
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it's available on my website, Kingministries.com, or you can find it on Amazon. Just look for
Proof God is Real by Daniel King, and you'll be able to find it. But this is hot off the
press, and it's something that's really on my heart because we need to do something to
reach the people here in America, around the world. But when you look at what is happening
here in America, it just breaks the heart of God. And I believe we need a new great
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awakening of people turning back to God, that God can do it, He will do it. He needs us
to go after atheists and to love them back into the kingdom of God.
Yes. And I always tell people that one of the greatest mission fields is right here
in the United States. People may have been raised in Christian homes, but they've never
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encountered a real Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit. And I think that that
is one of the best ways to inoculate against some of that thinking. It's hard to say to
somebody that God's not encountered Him yourself. Nobody could ever say to me, Jesus, you know,
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Jesus doesn't exist. I'd be like, dude, you're crazy.
Because you know you have a relationship with Him.
Exactly. And just encountering Him just like that woman did at the well through the power
of the Holy Spirit and her seeing that she is known and loved anyway, despite her failings,
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is so powerful and is beautiful. Before we go, is there anything that you would like
to pray for our listeners? Just bless them and encourage them. It would be amazing if
you'd like to.
Yeah, absolutely. We have talked today about the Samaritan woman at the well that Jesus
ministered to and talked about people who are atheists and talked about people in different
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nations that don't know Jesus. But what I'd really like to pray for for your listeners
is, is anyone in your life that doesn't know Jesus. Maybe it's a family member, maybe
it's a friend, whoever it is, if you would just speak their name out loud to God right
now and let's lift them up to God and pray for them to be saved. Pray that Jesus would
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be revealed to them. And I believe that as we pray, our prayers will be powerful and
that God will send someone across their path. And so let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, I
pray for all of Christina's listeners right now. Lord, I pray right now as you're listening,
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just speak the name out loud of the person you know that needs Jesus, your family member,
a friend, someone that is close to you, someone that has turned away from God. Just speak
their name out loud right now. Father, I pray that you would bring someone across this person's
path that would reveal Jesus to them. And Lord, I pray that these atheists, these people
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that have turned away from God would come back to God, that they would come back to
the Father's house, that they would turn back to Jesus. Lord, I pray that you would make
yourself real to them, that they would have a divine encounter with Jesus, with the Holy
Spirit. And Lord, I pray that you would give us the passion and the boldness to be a witness,
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to tell others about Jesus. Fill our hearts with your compassion, Lord, that we would
have the same compassion that Jesus felt when he looked at the people who were lost and
helpless like sheep without a shepherd. Father, fill our hearts with compassion for the loss
today and use us to bring many people to Jesus. In Jesus' name, amen.
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If you want to help us lead people to Jesus, go to my website, kingministries.com, and
you can find lots of information about how you can be a part of helping us to lead people
to Jesus in order to go to different nations around the world. Often, it's expensive to
do crusades. And so, we have partners and friends that help us out. And I've found that for
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every dollar that people give us, we're able to lead at least one person to Jesus over
the course of our ministry. Every time someone's given us a dollar, we've been able to lead
at least one to Jesus for that. And so, I ask people, I say, if you just become a like
for $1 a month, you could be responsible for starting a party in heaven every single month.
And so, I ask people, you know, just go to my website, kingministries.com, you know,
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give at least $1 a month. You know, some people can give more, but if you could do at least
$1, you could have a massive impact in someone's life for eternity.
So good.
For inviting me on the podcast. It's such a privilege to talk to you today.
Oh, thank you so much for being here with me today. And I hope and I pray that this
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has blessed our listeners and I hope it's encouraged them to just take their stories
and encounter people right where they are.
Beloved, let me introduce you to my King. He is altogether lovely. No matter which way
you turn him, he is perfection personified. He is velvet and steel. He is meekness and
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majesty. He is glory and humility. He is kindness and strength. He is altogether lovely. And
he is my King. And he can be yours as well. All day long, he holds his hand that you might
take, that you might turn, one step, one grasp, one yes, one breath away from the arms of
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your loving Savior. Beloved, if you hear him, do not harden your heart. The Bible declares
that not one of us is guaranteed another moment upon this earth. So pray this prayer with
me today and run into the arms of the one who loves you, who knows you best.
Father, I ask you to forgive me for all of my sin, for all of the places that I have
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fallen short, God, of your glorious standard. I ask you now to send your Son into my heart
to be the forgiveness of my sin, to be my redemption, to be my righteousness, to be
my holiness, to be my sanctification. I ask you to forgive me, to cleanse me, to fill
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me with your Spirit, your power, your glory, that I might bring glory to your name, Father.
I thank you that I receive all of this by faith and the Son of God, who loved me and
who gave himself up for me. I thank you that I am now a child of God, fully forgiven, fully
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righteous, fully holy in your eyes. And I ask you to help me walk out this life in a
way that pleases and honors you, Father. I thank you, Jesus, for all that you've done.
I thank you for your love, for your kindness, for your great joy in saving me. And I thank
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you, Father, and I thank you, Holy Spirit. And I pray all of these things in your beautiful
Son's name. Amen. If you've just prayed that prayer for the first time, I want to congratulate
you. You are now a child of God, and all things are now yours. Keep listening to Revealing
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Jesus. Find a good Bible translation that makes sense to you. And keep hearing about
our beautiful Savior Jesus. Please let us know. We want to continue to pray for you.
And we want to send you a free PDF copy of our New Believer Workbook. Just go to Christina
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to send this free gift. And continue to pray for your journey. God bless.
I sincerely hope and pray today's episode has blessed you. Now it's your turn to continue
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the conversation. We are all evangelists of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Like this episode,
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