During an evangelization campaign, a Christian told one of her interlocutors that it is not only to Men and even less to her that the power of persuasion belongs but rather to the Holy Spirit of God who is in her.

His interlocutor asked him: how is it that you are doing a work of evangelization work which is also a call to conversion and you say that it is not you who is acting? She answered him by saying: it is me and the Holy Spirit in me. So it's you anyway? Asked his interlocutor! I cannot act by myself she replied! The servant acts in the name of a master who gives the grace of conversion to whomever He wishes. While it is true that I act in the name of God, it is not I who lead the person to change or to respond favourably to the call addressed to him.

The different terrains and the acceptance of the word of God

Whether Christian, Muslim, Jew and others, the child of God is called to proclaim God's salvation in a well-disposed, ill-disposed, refractory, unbelieving and sadistic world. Not everyone receives the word of God in the same way. There are some who convert immediately after hearing it while others prefer to put off their conversion or simply refuse to be persuaded. But what message is it and for what purpose? It is not necessarily for a Christian to try to convert non-Christians and vice versa. It is a question of preaching by acts which truly reflect the goodness and the omnipotence of the one whom we have chosen to serve, not necessarily so that the other embraces the same religious obedience as us, but so that our way of life be a daily sign of God's love in the world.

He who has a good seed of love in him is called to work so that this seed bears more fruit in his environment. The conversion of sinners interests a child of God in particular and every citizen in general because one has lived an experience of love that he wants to share with others so that they may be in communion with him, and the other because he must contribute to social cohesion and peace in the world and his country in particular. Even if the world does not always receive favourably what we want to share with it, this should not prevent us from continuing to do what we have to do with the help of the Holy Spirit.

The Role of the Child of God and of the Holy Spirit in Proclaiming God's Salvation

How is it that despite the fact that the word of God is proclaimed in the world, men continue to show cruelty? Why don't men want to break with these habits that sow chaos in the world after multiple calls for change? Why do men refuse to be persuaded? Can Men change the world on His own?

It turns out that to proclaim the gospel of salvation or the word of God to the world requires humility. I do my part with the help of the Spirit of God and let him continue his work. Men cannot do His part and that of the Holy Spirit at the same time. Men cannot change the world by Himself. It can only contribute to change it. To pray for peace in the world for instance, is to contribute to the advent of a climate of peace that God is the only one capable of granting at the time He has deemed appropriate. This pre-eminence of the holy will of God in no way detracts from the importance of the contribution of Men. To help and save Men in the world, God need His daily efforts.

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To believe in God is to put oneself at the service of a God who pursues the same objective as us. The good seed prepares the ground by the strength of the Holy Spirit of the Lord so that this same Spirit continues the work He has begun through his servant who cannot afford to perform an act to which he is not supposed to without the prior consent of the one in whom he believes. if Men indeed always tends to want to impose His will in the name of His free will, God always reminds Him of the limits that the exercise of this freedom should not cross not to glorify Himself but to give all the glory to the one in whom He believes, through all what that person in whom He trust allows Him to do every day.

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