See the harvest

Read Matthew 9:27-38

GOGH, Vincent van
The Sower
June 1888, Arles

How do we really know that God loves us?
Ask…

Right now stop…take a knee and ask…Ask the Spirit to speak to your heart. Ask Him to destroy, remove, crush any obstacles that are hindering you from hearing the voice of the Shepherd. Ask the Spirit to touch your heart…

“Then He touched their eyes, saying, ‘According to your faith be it done to you.’ And their eyes were opened” (vs 29-30).

We will only see when we surrender. And it is only through the Holy Spirit that surrender is possible as through the Spirit we recognize the significance of what Jim Elliot said, “He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”

In our surrender we lose the dead weight of selfishness so as to gain the greatness of Savior. And when we are engulfed in the greatness of Savior we realize the greatness of ourselves. How does the Spirit bring us to surrender? Prayer…

In prayer we enter into the life of Christ through the Holy Spirit so as to find His heart. In prayer we are engulfed in the crazy love of Christ so as to find peace, rest, hope, laughter, life. In prayer we experience the profound joy and freedom of becoming a participant in His ministry of reconciliation.

Prayer is available to each one of us. What we need is the faith to believe and the willingness to surrender to the Spirit so as to be led deeper into the truth and the love of Christ. And the deeper we step into Jesus the more we come to share in His divine life so as to realize the greatness of what it means to be “me,” thereby recognizing the greatness of you.

The greatness of you and me erupts into the greatness of us. And truth is, there is a whole lot of us. Yes, the harvest is plenty. But the question is, "Do we see the harvest?"

Let us this day pray ferociously for the fields to be inundated with lovers of Jesus. Let us this day saturate the fields with prayer so that the heart of the world will come to know the healing power of Jesus. Let us this day fall to our knees for when we are praying for a revival, loving what God loves, we will see the harvest for what it really is: a sea of fruit that is ripe today but may be withered and dead tomorrow.

What will it take for us to believe:

That if we ask anything according to His will he hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him. (1 John 5:14-15)

Have you surrendered your heart to Jesus today?