The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
Matt 10:1
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out and to heal every disease and every affliction.
Good morning, so I preached part of this text last Wednesday night but the harvest wasn't my topic so to speak. This is one of my few favorite scriptures of the Bible because Jesus is talking about the harvest! As someone who spent some time in he middle of Illinois and surrounded by corn fields I got a revelation of harvest. Being in a small town of about 1700 people there were 2 times in which people disappeared, planting season and harvest season.
What I mean by disappeared is that any farmers were out planting in spring and getting the harvest in the fall. They worked very long hours in both seasons. God really showed me something while I lived there, and it is my hope that I can bring some light to what God is doing here today, in this time!
Jesus a few verses up was grieved because He was doing His thing, meaning He was healing the sick, casting out demons, preaching the kingdom like always, but as He looked around He saw sheep but no shepherds. Jesus saw a huge gap in what He was doing. It's one thing to preach, to heal, but what do you do with all these people after that?
This is where His disciples came into play. This was the process where Jesus has to mentor and disciple His guys to mimic what He Himself was doing. Let this be a revelation to us all. Our churches can't be a 1 trick pony, every church needs those who can help the Pastor, share the vision, and more. So what does Jesus do? He mentors and disciples and sends out His guys to do the same thing.
We, as the body of Christ are lacking in this area today. In fact, it's a huge problem. Our thing today is that we don't want to mimic what Christ and His disciples did, we want to hide our congregations and keep sinning. Can I just be real? The Lord is trying to send people out into His harvest field and the majority of the church is hiding out and hanging out. We were never meant to hide out and to hang around in the church... if you want to look at the model of the new testament it was all about getting discipled and being sent out. Church is great for a refill, but it's not a home, it's a service station, a rest area. You don't see beds at rest areas or service stations because you are supposed to go to the bathroom, get a little food in your belly, get something to drink and sent back out to get on the highway.
The church is no more that that! The church is a rest area, a service station not a home! This is a huge problem! We have great preachers and teachers in the land. We got TD Jakes, Steven Furtick, Jensen Franklin and the list goes on... too any to speak here, but we got people parked out and people who are not growing in their faith but are literally parked.
Jesus is healing the sick and casting out demons and in Matthew 10 He sends His guys out to do the same exact thing. Let me get prophetic here for just a moment. There is a harvest that is ripe and ready for the taking, but it takes us, the body of Christ to get on the stick and go get it. We have all these false religions, new age garbage, white magic, witchcraft stuff going on.... and people are falling for this. Look in the New testament... look at the book of Acts, look in the gospels Jesus used men to do great things. Jesus said in John 14:12 that we could do even greater things than He did! It's His desire.
I said I would get prophetic and I am. There is a harvest and it's ready! This is both the season of Holy Spirit, power and than it's going to be the season of the harvest! I mean souls will come in by the truck loads. Thing is, will you be a part of it or will you be parked in your church? Will you choose to be like Isaiah and be sent or will you choose to be one of the parked? The choice is yours!
It is my prayer here today that the body of Christ wakes up. It's time we stop licking our wounds, stop being a victim and move on 100% with Gods plan. We have sat around long enough. Our butts are getting to numb from sitting. We have to stop sitting and start doing! The harvest is ripe! You are the laborer that God is waiting on.
Be blessed!
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