"Harvest Work"

A BLAST FROM THE WORDBY Sandra Rhynes “Harvest-Work”37 Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest." Jesus is the owner of the harvest. He is the Lord of the Harvest. Here He is talking to His disciples while He is looking upon a crowd of people. They looked like sheep to Him, sheep gone astray, and with no shepherd. Jesus was moved with compassion. Then He called them His harvest. So many people need Him. So many people without a shepherd. A farmer knows when his crops are ready for reaping. He looks upon a field of wheat that is ready for reaping and his heart yearns within him to go into the field and gather the wheat. When Jesus looks down on this old world, He sees the harvest and it is ready for reaping. His heart is moved with compassion for His Harvest. It is our job to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His Harvest Field. When we pray for more laborers in the field, He sends out missionaries, preachers, teachers, prayer warriors and ordinary people like you and me to tell others about His love and bring in His harvest. Allow the Lord to move you with compassion to go out into your “world” and bring in the harvest of souls. You don’t have to go to the 3rd world countries to be a missionary. When you step out of your home, I tell you now, YOU ARE A MISSIONARY AND A HARVEST WORKER. Don’t you love it! We have the opportunity to work as a laborer in God’s Harvest. Harvest work is not idle work, it is busy work. I challenge you to get busy. Lord of the Harvest, I pray for you to move upon me with the same compassion that moved the heart of Jesus. Lead me to Your people. “Lord lay some soul upon my heart and love that soul through me, that I may ever do my part to win that soul to thee.”