"Call to me and I will answer you, and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. " Jeremiah 33:3

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

"Then He said to His disciples, The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest." Matthew 9:37-38 NASB

I am increasingly convinced that 2012 is going to be the year for the largest harvesting of souls that this planet has ever seen. Everywhere I turn in scripture it is speaking of sharing the Good News, witnessing to the truth of Jesus Christ. And today in my quiet time the entire chapter of Matthew 10 speaks to our role as disciples of Jesus Christ! The life applications abound.

The Lord led me to select a study on Evangelism that the bible study group that I am involved in will begin the end of February. And since you can't closet yourself away with all Christians and learn how to witness, we have a very short class time and then we go out in small groups to witness, for that is how we learn to witness about Jesus Christ, we learn by doing! That is how our faith grows, by doing!

I hear people that were always leery of witnessing say they are going to be obedient to the command of Jesus this year, 2012! Jesus says in Mark 16:15; "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation." And again in Acts 1:8 Jesus says to His followers; "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth." And Jesus gives a great and precious promise to all who go out in His name in Matthew 10:19-20; "But when they hand you over, do not worry about how or what you are to say; for it will be given you in that hour what you are to say. For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you." Wow!! Are you ready to be a worker in God's harvest field in 2012? The fields have never been whiter for harvest than they are right now! Lord open our spiritual eyes and let us see what only can be seen through You. Give us Your heart for the lost O Lord.


Has the fear magically left? No but the desire to share Jesus, to be obedient to Him is triumphing over the fear!! Boldness is replacing reluctance! Do you sense the move of the Holy Spirit? I do! What an exciting time to be alive and serving the Lord Jesus Christ! If you are a born again child of God you are to be a witness to the lost for Christ. Each one of us has a testimony regarding what Jesus has done in our lives, and every testimony is unique, and different.

"Whoever believes in the Son of God inwardly confirms God's testimony. Whoever refuses to believe in effect calls God a liar, refusing to believe God's own testimony regarding His Son. This is the testimony in essence; God gave us eternal life; the life is in His Son. So, whoever has the Son, has life; whoever rejects the Son, rejects life." 1 John 5:10-12.

The lost may mock what they don't understand but God has made them hungry, the Spirit convicts them that they are sinners, and Jesus Christ is their only hope, they are more open now than ever, they just don't know it. Come on, now is the time, this is the year, you have the testimony, you have Life within you, let's all go labor shoulder to shoulder for God's glory!

The only thing that you can take to heaven are the souls you bring to Jesus Christ.

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