Search and Rescue, don't let them die

Proverbs 24:11 

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. 

What are your thoughts of the picture above? You may say why in the world would you use it because it's creepy and reminds me of death. Just think about it, dead people are placed on this table and embalmed. 

Here is my goal, I want you to start thinking about others. I want this table and this picture to be engraved in your mind forever. We are so focused on us it's ridiculous. We are focused with our comfort, our money, our car, our home, my problems, my issues, my struggles that we forget about people that we walk past every single day! 

Can I be real to you? I am talking to myself here. I am not exempt from anything. Sometimes I get this way. When we face tough trials we tend to just focus on us, but if we can just get our eyes on others and just keep pushing we will see breakthrough in our own lives. 

We are about to experience the greatest outpouring that this world has ever seen. Actually we are right at the very beginning of it right now. We are just barely starting to see some things happen. Let me say though we can't be so focused on us that we forget about others. We will see people who do not look or dress like what the church is used to for the very first time. The unchurched will be entering the church in droves. We will actually get back to what the early church had witnessed in the book of Acts, but it will be greater, yes much greater. The signs and wonders, the miracles, the healings that will take place will actually draw them, and the presence of the Lord will keep them. We will see people from all walks of life and we can't be acting like Pharisees people, we got to act like Christ. 

Now, with this like I said we will see people from all walks of life, it will also attract the enemy. Walk in the Spirit. Pray for discernment because the enemy is going to try to snuff it out. The enemy is going to try and extinguish the fire. Your church better be a praying church, a discerning church, so if your not there this is the time to start. You need prayer warriors on the front lines praying for the lost, praying for discernment, praying for the Pastor and the leadership that they walk in the Spirit and that the thoughts and the plans of the enemy are seen in advance. We must be prepared for the harvest. 

The scripture used above is for the church. The model of the New Testament was not to try and get people to church, to fit in and to sit. The New Testament model was, get saved, get under a good church or covering, get discipled and launch out. Do you see the vast difference? The goal is not to get someone to church ,it's for you to get saved, get filled with the Holy Spirit, get under a covering and you launch out and get the harvest. No farmer plants in spring and prays that the harvest comes to them in the fall right? No, the farmer has to get on that combine and go get the harvest. He has to have the right tools or equipment or else his harvest will die! Same with us folks, there is a harvest of souls that is ready, but we do not want to take the responsibility and go get them. Where is the scripture? It's right here in Proverbs! Please look up and read it again! Rescue those who are being taken away, hold those back who are stumbling to the slaughter! What are we doing? 

We must be a spiritual search and rescue team for the kingdom of God! We aren't meant to sit on our hind end and just sit under all this word for nothing! Yes we got to grow but we also got to go do something with the things we are learning from the Word of God. If you don't care about seeing others turning their life around and all you care about is yourself God help you! We must be people and soul minded. Think about all the people we walk past every day. We have the life changing, life altering, transforming gospel. We got to give a hopeless generation hope! That hope isn't in money, or a car, or a house, the hope is in Christ. 

Today as I end this, it is my goal that you pray for those around you and those you walk by every day. This isn't about condemnation because that is not of God, but rather awareness. Keep your eyes open at all times. The Lord is going to have His way, and He uses the church to do it. 

Be Blessed!