Harvest

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Harvest

 

Mar 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

 

John Wesley once said;

 

“As a Christian you have only one business here on Earth, to save souls.

 

We are called and summoned even required to reach out our hands and pull those drowning out of their deadness.

 

At the Tuesday night prayer meeting ‘The most important meeting you will attend all week’ I was praying for youth and God to move in a powerful unprecedented way. Than I found myself in tears crying out. “God I’m sick of playing church, tired of playing ministry fed up with the whole Christian lifestyle. I just want YOU only You nothing but You. Anything else is a complete waste of time and energy. So don’t just give us another youth night with feel good praise and worship, entertaining games, comfortable preaching a goose bumps at the right time. I want an encounter that will bow my mind I want to be immersed with your glory for no other reason except I desire you.

 

In fact let me say this “Where else are you going to go to get the bread of life?”

 

That was Peter’s response to Jesus when he was asked if he was going to leave Jesus. This should be your response when you feel like quitting.

 

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Tuesday this week I was driving back from a meeting and I was praying fervently that God would use me. I wanted Him to bring someone across my path that I could impact. I begged Him, I was so desperate to be used.

 

·      Are you desperate or don’t you care?

 

·      When was the last time you prayed for that?

 

So I pulled up in the church car park and I went inside. I had just sat down when a man walked in the door…

 

1.             God is waiting for someone to seek him, He is seeking people who will earnestly pray for opportunities.

 

2.             God is looking for someone who will pay whatever price.

 

3.             God is completely willing.

 

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I was talking with a workmate this week in the office and I asked him;

 

“If he could choose anywhere in the world to spend three years of his life where would it be?”

 

His response was “Maybe Switzerland ”

 

I was intrigued and than I thought about it and realised that I don’t think I could handle living anywhere else in the world except Australia . Than I said “How about Heaven, that’s where I would choose to live for three years Heaven.”

 

But than I thought about it and I said “No forget that I want to go to Hell for three years because only than when I return will I be able to witness and live Christ like he deserves.”

 

“My colleagues both gasped as if to say “You wouldn’t” but I can think of no better inspiration than to be cast into the flaming pits of damnation for a short while. Nothing would motivate me as much as that.

 

Than I realised there was something that would inspire, motivate and encourage me more than having to experience hell and that’s experiencing God’s heart.

 

Paul said in Rom 10:1

 

“Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.”

 

How serious was Paul???

 

Paul knew what this meant that’s why he wrote.

 

Rom 9:1-3   “In the presence of Christ, I speak with utter truthfulness-I do not lie-and my conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm that what I am saying is true. My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters.* I would be willing to be forever cursed-cut off from Christ!-if that would save them.”

 

Paul says with utter conviction that he would rather go to hell if it would mean others would go to heaven. Can you imagine saying such thing. ‘Forever cursed” not just three years not just a lifetime he would be willing to suffer the horrors of hell for others.

 

I want to go to heaven and because I have a small inkling of what heaven or hell are like I would never trade my seat for nothing.

 

Paul had so much more than an inkling he knew of what he spoke. It was him that had an real life experience with heaven and the spirit realm. God took him up to heaven and showed him things he says “Can’t be uttered by human words”

 

I cant for the life of me comprehend what it would mean for him to think that.

 

Paul didn’t say that if God begged or pleaded with him he might consider it he said “If it were possible” in other words “If only it were possible I would jump at the chance.” “If the opportunity arose even for an instant I would throw myself at the chance.”

 

Such love I know not of. Such love I have never experienced. I do not understand.

 

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Craig C. Ireland

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