Life Capsule for Today Date: 5th November 2025
Theme: Soul Winning (4)
Text: Luke 4:18
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, NKJV
Matt 28:19-20
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. NKJV
Topic: Setting the Captives free
Memory Verse: John 3:16-17
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. NIV
Words of the Ministry
One of the fundamental thoughts we must have when we see an unsaved is that he or she is a captive or slave of the devil and sin needing deliverance (John 8.34). An unrepentant person is not himself, he has been bound regardless of what he says, he is a slave to sin and his master the devil wouldn’t want him free. The devil has his three-fold goal for all mankind, to steal, to kill and destroy. This we must not let happen by acting as God’s rescue team, by approaching that captive using our weapons of warfare. That brings me to the point of prayer and soul winning.
For souls to be won, we need more than preaching right, we must realize that this is a spiritual battle and the success is also dependent on prayers. As a witness, prayers for the souls we intend to share with or those we may encounter as we launch out to the deep must be deliberately and intense. We cannot have a loose approach towards such and expect to get good outcomes. Whatever does not move you does not move God. We must be deliberate concerning the salvation of souls just as we are concerning our personal needs.
The devil also has plans for that individual you want to preach to, he wants to as soon as possible kill the person before he or she can receive the light of the gospel. In Mark 3:27 “27 No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house” We can see that the strongman the devil would not leave his spoil without a fight. Most times the resistance you encounter from the unsaved is a fight back from the devil that has stolen his soul. Such captives may be violent, full of self-deceiving argument or reluctant to listen, most times it is the devil that has held him bound that instigates that reaction, once we realize this, we can be sure to rebuke the devil and re-approach that individual. We should not be reluctant or discouraged. The mistake many make is that we see the person but we don’t see the slave master behind him. Once we bound the slave master, the captive becomes free.
The human soul is worth much more than the world put together, no amount of sacrifice is too much for a soul. Mark 8:36-37 “36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” The author compares one soul to the whole world and concludes it’s a bad deal to exchange the soul for the whole world. So as Christian soldiers, we need to realize that our rescue mission is a must and highly demanding, it requires intense prayers and deliberate commitment as our arch enemy the devil as a wounded lion is seeking who to devour. May God grant us light.
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