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Joshua Daniel (1928 - 2014). Indian evangelist and president of Laymen’s Evangelical Fellowship International, born in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, to N. Daniel, a mathematics teacher turned revivalist. Saved at 15, he began preaching at 16 to students in Madras, earning a Master’s in English Literature from Madras University. Joining his father’s ministry in 1954, he led Laymen’s Evangelical Fellowship from 1963, headquartered in Chennai, growing it to hundreds of centers across India, Cyprus, Guyana, and London. Known as the “boy revivalist,” he authored Faith Is the Victory and delivered thousands of sermons, aired on TV and radio in multiple languages, focusing on salvation and revival. Married to Lily, they had three children, including John, who succeeded him. His annual retreats at Beulah Gardens drew 7,000-9,000, emphasizing prayer and holiness. Daniel’s ministry, marked by tentmaker missionaries, impacted millions despite later critiques of family-centric leadership.
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This sermon emphasizes the importance of allowing the Holy Spirit to be the ultimate communicator, convicting hearts in various settings. It challenges individuals to assess the quality of their communication and the responsibility that comes with sharing God's message. The speaker highlights the need for genuine, Christ-like communication and the significance of true repentance and moral responsibility in worship and service.
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The Holy Spirit is the best communicator. He knows how to communicate. To strike conviction in hearts when people are driving their cars or sitting before their television or sitting in a movie hall. There was silence. No questions. No questions. Listen. If you don't have a proper, joyful communication to pass on to others, and all you have is garbage which you spill into the ears of somebody whom you can, you know, kind of accost or victimize. Has anybody done that? Has anybody done that here? Be careful. Let the Holy Spirit be the complete, sovereign communicator here. Some of us little, lily potions that appear on the platform, layer of little account. No useful, joyous communication. No acceptance of responsibility. I say, if I am not Christ-like, what right have I to speak His words? I have no right. So I must humble myself that the very image of Jesus may be formed in me. Then I say, how is it plausible? That so many are worshipping images of all sorts. Am I showing Jesus? Am I showing the beauty of my Immaculate Savior? No sense of responsibility. Oh, I'll give a big offering. I will absolve my conscience. Please take your offering home. God doesn't want that money. God wants your will. Your motivation. Your heart. If you are not prepared to give Him that, walk out with your heathen heart. Don't think God is to be bribed with a little money. Have you taken your moral responsibility? I have said, I have sinned. These sheep, what have they done? They don't know any better. So they run to the rivers to absolve themselves with the water. They go through the motions of worship and their prayers and chants. And go back to their vomit. These sheep, they don't know better because I never gave them the light. Let this punishment be upon me. If you turn to the book of Jonah, it is amazing how this man who sought to run away from God's will, in the midst of that storm, what did he say to the mariners? In the midst of that storm, what did he say to the mariners? When they realized, in the tenth verse, first chapter, for the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord because he told them. Then they said unto him, What shall we do unto you? That the sea may be calm unto us. Twelfth verse. And he said unto them, Take me up. And he said unto them, Cast me forth into the sea. So shall the sea be calm unto you. For I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you. There is a terrible drought in New South Wales and parts of Australia. And I was surprised to hear that Denali Quinn, where we are working and where I have preached, where I have preached, where I have preached,
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Joshua Daniel (1928 - 2014). Indian evangelist and president of Laymen’s Evangelical Fellowship International, born in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, to N. Daniel, a mathematics teacher turned revivalist. Saved at 15, he began preaching at 16 to students in Madras, earning a Master’s in English Literature from Madras University. Joining his father’s ministry in 1954, he led Laymen’s Evangelical Fellowship from 1963, headquartered in Chennai, growing it to hundreds of centers across India, Cyprus, Guyana, and London. Known as the “boy revivalist,” he authored Faith Is the Victory and delivered thousands of sermons, aired on TV and radio in multiple languages, focusing on salvation and revival. Married to Lily, they had three children, including John, who succeeded him. His annual retreats at Beulah Gardens drew 7,000-9,000, emphasizing prayer and holiness. Daniel’s ministry, marked by tentmaker missionaries, impacted millions despite later critiques of family-centric leadership.