Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Fields are white unto harvest

Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.  Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."  Matt 9 v 37 & 8
 
The above is the driving verse that makes me tick and such a pain for the leaders of any church which I would belong to.     I see out there in the world great need which only Christ can meet and my constant prayer is that He sends out the workers.     The question of course is what is the definition of “harvest”    Is it as evangelists see it outreach and  making Christians   Or hurting souls whose lives are in a mess which only Jesus can put right and in the process may become Christians.     I believe it is both although I would major on the needs which scream out for the church to be meeting.       The problem though is,  I see the great needs out there and I want to run out into the field and as the old song says  “Rescue the perishing  care for the dying” whilst the leaders want to walk or even dawdle.   
 

Leaders constantly  keep saying I need to spend time with Jesus and listen to what He is saying.   This I constantly do although they don’t seem to believe me.      Although I have to ask my heart's yearning is something which God has said is not for me.     Or something God has commanded and now He just keeps saying “I have told you what I want you to do so why do you keep asking me. 

 My desire is to be part of the workers in His harvest field but the leaders will not let me be sent out as as part of their workers.   Or they see the needs of those outside their “cabbage patch” not of any of their concern.      God I believe has heard our prayer and provided the workers few as they may be in the grand scheme of things and I want to send them out into the harvest field.     Mighty men of God come regularly to church to worship Him and study His Word and yet do not see the men around them    Men crying out in pain and despair which we can be trained to reach out and draw into the church so that God can heal them.”     Men are suppressing anger and do not know why.    Relationships have broken down or on the verge of doing so,  who need help in repairing.    Men who are lonely but do not know how to talk or if they do,  who would listen.     Do you not know the UK has the highest suicide rate for men in Europe whilst we sit in church “worshiping” God    Yes I know we go out regularly with Street Pastors but where do you send the people you meet out there,  especially the men macho and tough but broken inside

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