First Preaching Engagement: Lukewarm

After a long week of doing Discipleship Training, I had another major task, and that was to get ready and preach the next day after I finished the training. Something that troubled me a bit was that the youth that invited me told me only a few days in advance about this speaking engagement. I had to ask the individual of the age group that I will be speaking to. I first thought about speaking on relationships, but the Holy Spirit "nudged" me to speak on the topic of Lukewarm. I was thinking if it would be wise and that it might be too strong to speak on Lukewarm, but that was a thing that Satan wanted to assure of me and that was to not speak on something that is piercing to the heart.
Funny to know that as I preached, I remember how tired I was to begin with but later on as the time came for me to preach, I was not tired at all. Instead I was quite pumped and felt refreshed.
After preaching, I got a chance to reflect whether or not it would be a good idea to also reach out to the local churches. I really felt that preaching on Lukewarm is very important and that every one that is in the Church should hear this message. It definitely is not an easy message and I can even say that those who were in the service did not enjoy the message because it pierced their hearts. May we continue to pray that God will soften their hearts. The hardest thing about hearing this sermon is that it questions the congregation, whether they are going to say that John 3:16 is their ticket to Heaven, or maybe something else may happen in the end.

- Revelation 3:14-22
- Matthew 25:14-30