Luke 10:1-7
"After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, 'The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
Go! I am sending you out...'"
If the harvest was plentiful back in those times, then how about today? This is the time when a lot more harvest is ready. Looking at God's work around the world, ripe harvest is indeed everywhere. The great revival in Argentina has continued for more than 20 years; before the revival, a church with a few people was considered good, but now there are many churches with hundreds and thousands of people. Mainland china also has a high-growth in the number of new salvations, as on average tens of thousands of people accept the Lord there everyday. In Africa, God has been using German evangelist Reinhard Boonke to bring many to Christ wherever he went. The Spirit of God is moving around the world, so we can clearly see that this is the time of harvest. Let us ask the Lord of the harvest to send more workers out; not just sending someone else, but to bring ourselves before Him and ask the Lord to send us to gather His harvest.
In John Chapter 4, the Lord said that the ripe harvest was turning white. The crops are supposed to turn yellow when it's ripe, not white, so why did the Lord describe it that way? Actually, the crops will turn white when they are about to be rotten. That is the time we are in right now; the crops are turning white, so we must quickly gather the Lord's harvest. When the crops are ripe in the field, everyone will stop working on their jobs and all the schools will close, because everyone must focus fully on gathering the harvest. When we do it together, the crops can be gathered in a short time and to be stored in the barn.
Today, there is also urgency in the Lord's will. When we see the work that God is doing around the world, we know that He's moving fast. The Lord said that when the Kingdom of Heaven is preached to the end of the earth, then the day of Lord will come. The day of Lord is indeed coming ever quickly; when we make an effort to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth, we are speeding up the return of the Lord. Let us keep a heart of hope and eagerly expect the Lord's return, and also do our best to spread the gospel to speed up the pace of the Lord's return. We ask God to encourage us and be willing to pray before Him: "Lord, we know that your harvest is ready, so please send us!"
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