JESUS AND PRAYER #7
PRAY FOR LABOURERS
Lets look at a statement Jesus made concerning who we are to pray for. We've seen that we are to pray for those who despitefully use use us (in #6). But there is something else we are to pray for.
(Matthew 9:36-38): "But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest."
Jesus came to the earth to die for the sins of mankind, and man has to accept this salvation that is so freely provided for him through Jesus' work on the cross, and he must confess the Lordship of Jesus. (2 Cor. 5:19,21, Romans 10:9). But the lost can't be saved unless someone takes the gospel to them, they need to hear the gospel. (Romans 10:14) thats why Jesus said we should pray for laborers into the harvest.
Someone said, "Well, if the Lord wants to send forth laborers into His harvest, why doesn't He just send them?" But God can't do any more on earth than we will permit Him to do. We permit God to move in our lives and in the earth by obeying His Word and by praying.
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