Pastor Leon’s SOAP:  Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer
February 08, 2026:  SOAP #5911:   Leviticus 7-9; Acts 15

SCRIPTURE:  Acts (NIV) 15:3 So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren. 4 And when they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders; and they reported all things that God had done with them.

OBSERVATION:  Church growth brought its own problems.  Now that the Gentiles were being saved, some of the Jews thought that the Gentiles should go through the ceremonial process of becoming Jews, they should be circumcised.  (The new non-Jewish believers were not becoming Jews, but by the wonder working power of the Holy Spirit in salvation, they had become Gentile believers!  They had been born again into a whole new family.  It was a family known as “followers of the way,” but later began to be called “Christians.”  In this family, Jews and Gentiles are all bound together as one.) 

As Paul and Barnabas traveled back to Jerusalem to get an answer from the recognized church leaders, they reported to those along the way what God had been doing among the Gentiles, a report that caused great joy!    

APPLICATION:  What God has done, and is still doing, among the Muslims in Sierra Leon should cause great joy!  Knowing that a similar outreach is soon to take place in Liberia should be reason for increased prayer!  God loves Muslim people!  Jesus died for Muslim people!  He loves them just as much as He loved us.  It brings great joy to His heart whenever a single person acknowledges their sin and asks for His sacrifice to be the payment for their sin!   Can we even begin to understand the great joy when hundreds and thousands of Muslims make Jesus the Lord of their lives!!!  

PRAYER:  Lord, with all of heaven we rejoice with what you are doing in Africa. Your Holy Spirit is at work among your people to reach out to the lost.  We pray a special anointing on those leading the evangelistic crusade in the nation of Liberia.  Provide the money needed for printing SOAPs, Bibles to distribute, for food and lodging of those called to commit their days for this ministry.  Give them the great joy of winning people to your matchless name of Jesus!  Amen

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