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Suddenly, I had a new plan, a new way of looking at ministry. God had commissioned an army – not a group of converts, but an army, trained to march forward and decimate the ranks of the enemy; but instead of taking prisoners of war, this army would be trained to free the prisoners of the enemy – a new breed of God’s people. I had heard the cries of the world for help. Every day, those cries echoed in my spirit. I remembered the anguished cries of the millions of souls I had seen in hell, and I knew this new way of ministry would help me reach many more to prevent them from ending up there. I knew I could not preach enough in my entire life to reach as many souls as I needed to reach. I could preach morning, noon and night, every day, seven days a week, until I was one-hundred years old, and I still would not make a significant enough impact on the world. There were more people being born every hour. Those were people who eventually would need to be reached. I knew that even combining the efforts of all the world’s major evangelists – Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, A.A. Allen, T.L. Osborne, myself, and others – we would never be able to reach the world as thoroughly as it needed to be reached. Each man could draw crowds in the tens or even hundreds of thousands, but this earth is crowded with six BILLION people! To put that number in perspective, the entire nation of the United States has only about two-hundred and seventy million people. That means there are twenty-two people in the rest of world for every one person in the United States. On that floor in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in my pool of sweat, I had seen the key to a closing world – how we literally could reach the world. Think of every person you can think of in the United States…your mother, your father, your children, your spouse, your cousins, your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, the people you see on television, the people you read about in the newspapers... Download and read the rest of this chapter:
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