Has God entrusted a word to your spirit?

 

I greet you in the name of the Lord Jesus.

My name is Rev Dr Howard Sands, I am the international director of Beautiful Feet Task Force, an Australian missions and leadership training organisation.
 

The purpose of this message is to inform & invite you to participate for unity & leadership development in Africa.

The internet platform social media network of validated ministry members in or concerned for Africa has never had a month without growth in new members for over 14 years. Since 2009 there have people on Africa Network BFTF that want what you have in terms of spiritual muscle, skills and development application.

You see, you have something to give that could make a difference to others, maybe many others, maybe thousands of others. Often we are unaware of our own virtues, but I want to encourage you to get the word out, that God has entrusted to your spirit. 

In addition to that, over 4,000 other members may have something that will help you and as they share it you can be taught, challenged, improved, corrected, encouraged, strengthened and taken to a new level of closeness to Jesus and networked with keen, mature leaders that want to network with you. 

Let me share with you just a few of the many benefits you could appropriate for your ministry if you join Africa Network BFTF and start to mix with a group of leaders who want the same things you do - to grow in your relationship with God and impact in ministry. 

 

You will find here:-

· A free training program, Pulpit Rock Training with 3 certificates that show you exactly how and why to use platforms like this and other social media for growing your ministry impact. 

·      Free networking unity group for many African countries, we are still waiting on the numbers to grow from a few countries before launching their groups but already 20 African country groups are there. 

· A prayer platform where you can share your prayer needs and get the intercessors to pray for you as well as giving you the chance to be at the forefront of praying for African ministry needs. 

·     Dozens of great teachers sharing their inspiration both written and video adding to our library of over 3500 blogs, over 800 discussions and nearly a 1000 videos. 

·    Thousands of free resources, places to promote your books, music, training etc and your events as well as stay up to date on major events happening around Africa. 

·    Members from 45 African countries and 50 others and hundreds of denominations.

You may have already joined, and that's great, please visit again and share something; if not join over 4,000 Christian leaders and participate in Africa's premier leadership, training and unity network.  The whole network of over 15,000 pages can be read in over 100 languages. If you are not yet a member Sign UP here. 

https://bftfafricanetwork.ning.com/

The network has ministry students and those just starting in ministry all the way through to bishops and denominational leaders with hundreds of churches, there are locals, missionaries and ex-pats and diasporia, their are organisations with skills to share, all wanting to make an impact on Africa for Jesus.  

I am just passionate about seeing you grow into and fulfil your whole potential. Let’s work together to take the Kingdom ever onwards and upwards, especially in Africa. Let's do this. Sign Up and share your teaching and passion. https://bftfafricanetwork.ning.com/

Blessings to you 
Howard 

 

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Rev Dr Howard Sands

https://about.me/HowardSands

International Director,
Beautiful Feet Task Force,

Africa Network BFTF.  

Rev Dr Howard Sands is the International Director of Beautiful Feet Task Force, is available as a speaker for churches, outreaches, business & missions. 

INTERESTED IN INVITING HOWARD SANDS 
to speak at your church, College or organisation? 
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This World Needs You – WHY MISSIONS?

I make no apology for sharing with you the need of missions

Missions was Jesus Life  -  a mission to earth

Matt 4.23-25 Teaching -  Preaching  -  Healing every disease

23Jesus was going throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people. 24The news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them. 25Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.

       

Jesus Taught

Matt 5.13 You are the salt of the earth

Matt 5.14 You are the light of the world

We are supposed to affect the earth

Teaching educates, He taught the word of God, not religiously like the scribes and Pharisees, but as God intended for it to be understood. People need to KNOW what they are putting there in faith in.
They BELIEVE

Jesus preached

Lk 4.42/4 I must preach in other towns also, ...that is why I was sent. 
Preaching lifts faith to personally believe that God can do for YOU what He said He could and would do. Preaching personalises the gospel message to receive. 

For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1John 3.8

He came to destroy the works of the devil 

LIFTS FAITH 

 

Jesus Healed

Mark 5.21-24  and   35-43 Jairus Daughter
35While He was still speaking, they came from the house of the synagogue official, saying, “Your daughter has died; why trouble the Teacher anymore?” 36But Jesus, overhearing what was being spoken, said to the synagogue official, “Do not be afraid any longer, only believe.” 37And He allowed no one to accompany Him, except Peter and James and John the brother of James. 38They came to the house of the synagogue official; and He saw a commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing. 39And entering in, He said to them, “Why make a commotion and weep? The child has not died, but is asleep.” 40They began laughing at Him. But putting them all out, He took along the child’s father and mother and His own companions, and entered the room where the child was. 41Taking the child by the hand, He said to her, “Talitha kum!” (which translated means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”). 42Immediately the girl got up and began to walk, for she was twelve years old. And immediately they were completely astounded. 43And He gave them strict orders that no one should know about this, and He said that something should be given her to eat. 

Jesus healed the sick, He raised the dead. Many other examples in the gospels.

Gospel DEMONSTRATED 
 

He sent the disciples to do the same

Lk 9.1/6 They went from village to village preaching the gospel and healing the sick. 

They followed Jesus example.

EMPOWERED DISCIPLES WITH THE SAME AUTHORITY. 

 

I heard Ps Thampy from India speak in 1978 in Australia

Cliff Beard, an Australian apostle, missionary and church planter, announced he was taking a team there, he said, "who wants to come," I put my hand up.

I went in 1979 & 1980 and we held crusades, we saw hundreds of healings and salvations, it infected me for taking the gospel to ALL the world. 

I've been going ever since to India, & then Sri Lanka, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, then many other Asian, Paciific Islands, European, American and now over 12 African countries preaching the gospel.

 

He commanded the disciples at the time of His ascension;

15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16“He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned. 17“These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; 18they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” 

Mark 16.15-18 

18And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Matt 28.18-20

Go into all the world and make disciples. 

Don't leave anyone out.

This gospel must be preached to all nations (ethnos – every ethnic group) and then will the end come.

 

It is common for us to witness healings, miracles, releases from demonic possession, oppression and affliction, release from pain and sickness just as Jesus promised, authorised and empowered wherever in the  world we go. It's not an Asian thing, it's not an African thing, it's a God thing. 

They did it

Mark 16.20 The disciples went everywhere, the Lord working with them confirming the word with signs following.

Acts 5.42 Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.

 

In 1993 we held a large crusade in Kattakada, Sth India,  Over 300 salvations, many healings,

In 2001 we were conducting ministers trainings in Sth India, my team and I stayed one location (Kovalam Beach) and went to various places,

One day I recognised the town I was in, I told Ps Thampy, he said, the 70 Pastors & leaders you taught today weren't even saved when you had that crusade here in 1993, they had planted over 50 churches in this region out of that crusade.

 

Through the centuries

Great men & women have risen up with a passion to preach Christ to their own countrymen and others.
But Smith Wigglesworth has gone, Oral Roberts has gone, TL Osborn has gone, Billy Graham has gone, Benson Idahosa has gone, Reinhard Bonnke has gone, you and I the ones that are still here. We cannot rely on some great name from the past to fulfil the great commission. It is our commission.  

 

What is the force that moved the greats of old?

• The command to GO
• The need of salvation (Hell is real) - Without Christ all men are eternally lost. 
• The Knowledge, it is possible to reach our generation - They volunteered and were sent.
• They believed God could save anybody.

 

TODAY

World Population is over 8 Billion (as at Nov 2022). 

Population net growth 184,000 people a day.

One third of the world has some form of Christian religion. 

Still 2/3 of the world has not embraced Christianity in any form. 

One third of the world has access to the gospel through people in their culture and proximity. 

One third of the world has no chance to hear the gospel. 

No Bible in their language   -    No church in their culture

97% of the unevangelised live in the "10-40 Window”

Map: https://blog.eastwest.org/the-10/40-window-and-the-great-commission

96% of all worldwide church income is consumed on 4% of the population.

Leaves 4% of the income for 96% of the population.

 

World harvest is about getting our priorities right

Doing what Jesus commanded

NOT SIT,  NOT THINK,  NOT TALK ABOUT IT,

BUT   PRAY    GIVE    GO     

Do it all

 

Are you spiritually maladjusted

What is the use of personal physical hygiene, if we have filthiness of mind & spirit;

What is the use of religious piety,                     if we have soul carnality;

What is the use of physical strength,                if we have spiritual weakness;

What is the use of worldly wealth,                    if we have spiritual poverty;

What is the use of social popularity                  if we are unknown in hell.

                               PRAYER IS THE REMEDY

 

World harvest starts where you live and reaches the whole world.

We can achieve our goals together if we all pray, give and go. 

What will you do with Jesus command?

The Power of One

Aren't you glad somebody has always believed in the power of one.

It works for good or evil, but it works

Like back in the year dot when ONE man (Adam) plunged the entire human race in to the kingdom of darkness.

Like in 1491 BC when ONE man, Moses had the courage to stand up and say what God said, "let my people go"

Like in the year zero when ONE man, Jesus Christ said, "Not my will but your will be done" and took the punishment for sin for all mankind to lead us back into God's kingdom.

Like ONE man Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi  famously led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the 400km Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. Gandhi led India to independence in 1947 and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.  

Like Rosa Parks sat on the bus on 1 Dec 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama  and the driver said, "you must move to the back of the bus, or be thrown in jail" But she stayed and stood her ground, and she brought that old law down, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement"

I'm glad that ONE man Jean Pierre Riefler had the wisdom and unction to ask me on 25 December 1974 would I receive Christ.

ONE man (or woman) makes a difference if you believe in the power of ONE.

Rom 5:17  For if by ONE man's offence death reigned by ONE;

much more they which receive abundance of grace

and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by ONE, Jesus Christ.

Remember what Jesus stood for.

Will you be ONE that will accept what God did,

say what God said,

and reign in life by ONE Christ Jesus?

It's also a time to be challenged, inspired, motivated to live for Him.

Ask God to challenge you to live for Him, who died for us.  

What will you make of 2023? 

Will you be a victim or conqueror?

Will you sit back under oppression or stand up for righteousness?

Will you suffer under the circumstances or change them? 

Will you be an 'also ran' or a winner? 

Will you be one with a good excuse or ONE who, in Christ, changed things.

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Rev Dr Howard Sands is the International Director of Beautiful Feet Task Force, is available as a speaker for churches, outreaches, business & missions. 

INTERESTED IN INVITING HOWARD SANDS 
to speak at your church, College or organisation? 
For more details on how to frame an invitation see here.
See ministry recommendations here. 
See products and services here.
Send your invitation here via facebook messenger

If you would like to donate to BFTF International Missions for training leaders in developing world countries donate here.  

Payment options

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or
2. Bank account Direct Deposit
Beautiful Feet Task Force
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
BSB 062 614
Account 0094 0442 

Free Kingdom Event Promotion

 

Are you planning a Christian event open to all believers (not just your church) over the coming weeks or months?

Such as Leadership Training, Prayer Meeting, Outreach, Rally, March, Conference, Unity event, Teaching Seminar, Movie or Music Launch, worship event etc.

Create an event on Africa Network BFTF and tell over 4,000 African leaders about it and promote it to your national group and others. Create your free account here and get started https://bftfafricanetwork.ning.com/

Also access free marketing tools, free social media training, spiritual encouragement (and share yours) and tons of free resources for your church, ministry or outreach.

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Your Kingdom Come

Eagerly anticipated books arrive. 

Your Kingdom Come, announced by Australian Christian leaders as "... a strategic book of very real significance for these turbulent times."  

It's a teaching on victorious living, including character, behaviour and how to conduct our relationship with God.

In the Lord's Prayer Jesus was giving more than a liturgy, but an instruction about the whole of life. 

This book is for those those wanting to progress in the Kingdom. 

  

If you want to challenge the old paradigms, experience new perspective, walk in new vistas, this will help you do that.  

A Ministry resource for :- pastors, church department and group leaders and those wanting to lead others into a deeper life.

The Lord's Prayer is commonly thought to be a prayer of hastening the day of the coming of the Lord. I suspect it's more - it's not asking God "Is He going to come?" it's not praying, "Lord, please come." It is saying, "Your Kingdom come." It's a statement, a statement of fact. It's a faith statement. It's a statement that is declaring something.

The entire Lord's prayer may in fact be far more than we have normally accredited it with, more than a religious liturgy, or request for His involvement and benevolence in our lives but an instruction for the whole of life in fact. This book explores each piece of the Lord's Prayer in this light and comes up with some amazing constructs for living a powerful, God honouring overcoming life and being part of establishing His Kingdom on earth. I want to know how God is going to impact my life here and now.  

This prayer is in fact, not some little mamby pamby prayer that we’ve repeated since childhood. Rather, this is a glorious, fantastic, amazing statement of faith with which the people of God can change the world in which they live.

This is a book for troubled times. 

There is power in a believers faith filled prayer, but are we believing that God will hear and answer when we pray. How to get the ear of God is a question many ask, but perhaps a more important question How can God get our ear. Are we listening, are we hearing and are we obeying when we do hear?  

In difficult days there is nothing more important than hearing God for daily direction, protection and provision. 

World renowned International evangelist, Tim Hall put it like this in his forward to the book.  

A Ministry resource for:- 

Pastors, 

Church department and group leaders, 

    Those wanting to lead participants in a deeper life, 

    Those wanting to progress themselves deeper into the kingdom.  

"Your Kingdom Come could be read as an extended devotional, perhaps a chapter a day, mixed with prayer and serious meditation. For slower readers, perhaps only a portion of a chapter, depending upon how much time is available. But anyone who reads this book thoughtfully, and with a mind open to the Holy Spirit, will, in my opinion, be enriched by the encounter."
Rev Dr Ken Chant

Pic: L to R, Rev Dr Howard Sands, Rev Dr Ken Chant, Dr Alison Chant

How to Get your Copy

of Your Kingdom Come

and one for your friends

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0645324507  

e-book Kobo 

https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/your-kingdom-come-5 

All books by Howard Sands 

All Author Page - all books listed
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Rev Dr Howard Sands is the International Director of Beautiful Feet Task Force, is available as a speaker for churches, outreaches, business & missions. 

INTERESTED IN INVITING HOWARD SANDS 
to speak at your church, College or organisation? 
For more details on how to frame an invitation see here.
See ministry recommendations here. 
See products and services here.
Send your invitation here via facebook messenger

If you would like to donate to BFTF International Missions for training leaders in developing world countries donate here.  

Payment options

1. PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online! 


or
2. Bank account Direct Deposit
Beautiful Feet Task Force
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
BSB 062 614
Account 0094 0442