Was kept awake one night last week just thinking… and praying. .. must confess, mostly thinking. It happens a lot.
I have been so excited since yesterday! I heard from one of the brothers that there is a opening to take a team into C- Prison almost immediately! I can’t stop thinking about it. It’s so wonderful! It’s even going to be subsidized by a company! Just think, every week maybe 5 or 6 believers will be welcomed into the prison to teach 20-25 year olds how to play the guitar, talk about life, and encourage them about the future! Who is better equipped to encourage someone about he future than a believer! They are being thrust into the harvest!
I was thinking and wondering how many of us have been thrust out into the harvest and are just not paying attention because we think along the lines of what we know as “traditional” missions? (Which actually has only been traditional for a few generations.) I fear we can make people feel like they are not “doing it right” if they don’t do it in a pre-prescribed manner… this robs the servant of the reality of the priesthood of the believer should the LORD lead them in another avenue. If they reject the LORD’s leading, it makes him a pleaser of man and not God. This “lid placing” has to be avoided at all costs!
Sometimes the enemy just keeps us too busy… Christmas programmes, annual parties, building projects, school activites, church activities/ministries, arguments, church seminars on this, that, and the other thing–all added to work, school, and family–no time left if He should send you into the harvest to volunteer with Hospice, be a hospital or prison chaplain, take or volunteer to teach a swimming class to meet people not associated with your church or school, join a worthwhile community group to have influence on people in your world!
Sometimes we look down on the people who do this and say they are not commited to church because they can’t come for work day on a Saturday as a result of a possible “harvest field commitment”, etc. etc. God’s harvest field is big, but you have to be in it to sow and reap.
I think there will be lots of rewards for the person, who in his or her senior years, takes on a job and sows and reaps in the harvest field of Walmart or MacDonalds…
We are praying for labourers, God is faithful, has He thrust you out and you don’t realize it? Has the LORD opened a door you are ignoring? Take a check won’t you? 
Over the last week I was privileged to take a couple trips to other places of interest in the northeast. As we drove across the land to our destination, I looked out upon miles and miles of well-manicured corn rows. No land is wasted; every square inch is used to grow something that is useful for living; very little if any land is left to grow just plain grass. Everything… Read More....
“He that drinks of the water that I give him shall never thirst again.”
HE THAT DRINKS OF THE WATER THAT I GIVE HIM SHALL NEVER THIRST AGAIN!!! HEY!!!
That is my freedom! What is this searching in my life? What is this restlessness? What is this thirsting for something more? Jesus is all that I need.
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I had a good last-time with Class A on Thursday. We played Jeopardy with a review of things we had studied. They make everything fun and hilarious!!! It’s hard to explain it – just little actions like J & M slapping the desk (part of the game) to answer at the exact same time. I can’t even remember the super-funny thing we were laughing about. It was so cute! So… Read More....
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