Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
January 11, 2025: SOAP #5518:  Genesis 27-28; Psalm 4; Luke 11

SCRIPTURE:  Luke (NIV) 11:9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

OBSERVATION:   Sometimes we have but to ask.  With simple faith believing and receiving from God.  

At other times, it is for us to seek out the answer.   To search the scriptures, to find what God has promised, to find what God has done in similar circumstances, or to see if God will emphasize a verse upon which we can place our faith.  Waiting for an answer can be a good time to search our hearts to see if we have missed something He has spoken to us.    

And there are times some action is required, so we knock.  Some personal involvement comes as we invest our time and resources into the matter for which we need His involvement.  Of course, our involvement is only like knocking on the door.  The opening of the door comes from Him.  The answer in the open door where we find His wisdom, power and resources. 

APPLICATION:  First:  I must not stop asking and believing.  Second:  I must not stop seeking until I find.  Do I desire it enough to seek?  Third:  I must not stop knocking until the door is opened and God is revealed in the situation for which I am praying.  Am I desperate enough to keep on knocking?      

The level of my faith can be seen in how quickly I stop asking Him and stop seeking Him and stop knocking on His door and I start looking elsewhere.  Of course, when God speaks, it is time to quit asking and seeking and knocking and start obeying and doing what He tells us to do.  Obedience leads to answers. 

PRAYER:  Holy Spirit, continue to teach me to pray and how to pray.  May the Heavenly Father enjoy hearing from me in prayer.  Teach me how to ask, how to seek, and how to knock.  Amen

Pastor Leon
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On Facebook:  Today’s SOAP from Pastor Leon

Dear friends, 

This is a praise report and a prayer request.  Yesterday Pastor Andrew went from Sierra Leone to Liberia to meet with Bishop Emmanuel.  The Bishop has vision and plans to spread the SOAPs further on the continent of Africa.  He already has contacts in many countries and friends in the Liberian government.  In the following letters you can catch his African vision to have SOAP conferences, to install computers and printers, and to distribute SOAPs.  Pastor Andrew sent me the following email yesterday and I received the last one from Bishop Emmanuel today.   (personal note continued below…)

———————————————————————————————————————–(received from Pastor Andrew , Sierra Leone 1/9/25)  God bless you Daddy. 

this is the expenditure and the budget of the SOAP MINISTRY conferences in 17 West Africa countries and four East Africa countries, this is the biggest project which the SOAP Ministry is undertaking right now which is going to start on the 10th February to the 31th March 2025.

These are the 17 countries that we will be going in West Africa, (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo), And also five East Africa countries, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe,

Each of those countries we will be having SOAP MINISTRY conferences, distribution of the SOAPs  and also installation of computers and printers for the SOAP MINISTRY in those countries.

We need $58,000 to on the take this great big projects in the SOAP MINISTRY God have already provided $48,000 to God be the glory Amen 🙏 this money was donated by a group of people which love the Lord, So they.SOAP MINISTRY team still need to raise $10,000 to complete the project in the next two weeks.

This is the breakdown of what we are going to buy for this project:
1. 100 computers, each one cost $250 * 100 is $25,000.
2. 100 printers, each one cost $200 *100 is 20,000
3. 150 cartoon of papers,each one cost $50 *150 is $7,500.
4. 100 button of ink, each one cost $20 * 100 is $2,000.
5. Cost of flight ticket is $2,000.
6. The remaining of $1,500 is for hotel bills and food.

This is the entire project budget, we thank us so much $45,000 have been received for this project so it’s only $10,000 now remain we are trusting God for it in the next two weeks.

I will be leaving for Sierra Leone Freetown tomorrow morning God bless you Daddy pray for us..  

 Yes   Faithfully servant Pastor Andrew

—————————————————————————————————————————(received from Bishop Emmanuel in Liberia 1/1/25) 

Good morning and God bless you sir Pastor Leon and your family. 

To God be the glory Pastor Andrew have left this morning for Sierra Leone but thank God that he came and we have a wonderful successful meeting for the SOAP MINISTRY project and also you meet with the minister and some of the SOAP MINISTRY team members  I was really happy when Pastor Andrew pray for the minister who gave the money.

So i and Pastor Andrew had their last meeting last night before he left this morning, we have a meeting concerning the remaining $10,000 that we need to raise so me and my team here in Liberia we have decided to raise $5,000 to wash the $10,000 and presently we have started raising the $5,000.

So Pastor Andrew said it’s going to meet with the SOAP MINISTRY team in Sierra Leone and also you for the remaining $5,000.

I and one of my pastor will be going to Sierra Leone on the 5th February 2025,to buy the computers and printers, paper and ink to brother Joshua, then me and my pastor will be leaving from Nigeria on the 8th of February 2025 that is where we’re going to start the SOAP Minister conference.

Thank you so much and God bless you Pastor Leon and also God bless Pastor Andrew.

Your Faithfully  Bishop Emmanuel SOAP MINISTRY in Liberia.

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(continued from above…)  Just like a gust of wind can turn a small flame into a raging fire, so the Holy Spirit blows on the small SOAP flame and is turning it into a mighty fire in Africa!  

So, praise the Lord for what He has done, AND for what He is doing today!!!  Join me in prayer for God to supply the remaining finances.  We pray in faith, for we know that God will provide.  SOAP is His ministry.  It was started at His direction.  It has continued with His provision.  It will grow as He provides.   😊 

Leon
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