Shalom,
I LOVE this from today's "My Utmost For His Highest" devotional by Oswald Chambers!
The Key To The Master’s Orders
Pray ye therefore the Lord of the
harvest, that He will send forth labourers into His harvest. — Matthew 9:38
The key to the missionary problem is
in the hand of God, and that key is prayer, not work, that is, not work as the
word is popularly understood today because that may mean the evasion of
concentration on God. The key to the missionary problem is not the key of
common sense, nor the medical key, nor the key of civilization or education or
even evangelisation. The key is prayer. “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the
harvest.” Naturally, prayer is not practical, it is absurd; we have to realize
that prayer is stupid from the ordinary commonsense point of view.
There are no nations in Jesus
Christ’s outlook, but the world. How many of us pray without respect
of persons, and with respect to only one Person, Jesus Christ? He owns the
harvest that is produced by distress and conviction of sin, and this is the
harvest we have to pray that labourers may be thrust out to reap. We are taken
up with active work while people all round are ripe to harvest, and we do not
reap one of them, but waste our Lord’s time in over-energised activities.
Suppose the crisis comes in your father’s life, in your brother’s life, are you
there as a labourer to reap the harvest for Jesus Christ? “Oh, but I have a
special work to do!” No Christian has a special work to do. A Christian is
called to be Jesus Christ’s own, one who is not above his Master, one who does
not dictate to Jesus Christ what he intends to do. Our Lord calls to no special
work: He calls to Himself. “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest,” and He
will engineer circumstances and thrust you out.
AMEN! When we realize that God's #1 priority and desire is that ALL BE SAVED, we will become more sensitive to His leading and direction concerning OUR part in His great plan!
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
So let's truly be about our Father's business and bring Him JOY! Here is Brandon Lake with "Graves Into Gardens":
Shalom in Him!
