Welcome Again,
I welcome you again to another PathSeeker Weekly. I am glad to have an opportunity to be able to bring these Good News (Gospel) messages to the world. One of the few commands Jesus had given to us as His followers, is to go throughout the world spreading the good news and make disciples. Through a multiplication process the belief and following of Jesus Christ has grown and spread throughout the far reaches of the earth. From the earliest of missionaries like the apostles Paul, and Barnabas, to missionaries who place their lives at risk everyday in some of the most hostile anti-Christian nations in the world today.
Like weeks past I will begin with my main topic scripture reference Romans
12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will
of God.
I am still on phase two of this verse which is “but be transformed by the
renewing of your mind”. What I am trying to get to here is that transforming
and renewal of your mind makes it possible for you to have access and be transformed
to the Mind of Christ. I am taking key aspects of the character
or the life of Jesus and focusing on these behaviors and teachings from Him and
showing how you and I can become and help others to become like Jesus.
Last week the topic was how we can be like Christ and through Him be sheep and find sheep to come to the flock, God has sent Him to Shepherd over. This week I am going to carry on with this and go on to another part of the calling Christ has called us all into.
Matthew 9:36 But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. 37 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. 38 “Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”
The harvest is ripe and God would love nothing more than for you and I to be able to go and bring in a bountiful harvest. Jesus sowed seed that sprout and has been carefully tended by those who have come before us. All of the goodness and truth that Jesus has handed down to us can be used today as the tools we need to be prepared and able to harvest or bring in new sheep to the shepherd. We can be as children of light and show the dark world who Jesus truly is.
Like Jesus has said here in these words “Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.” Every day people face life threatening and even life taking oppositions in their efforts to carry the Word of God to people throughout the world. Everyday God hears prayers that fund and supply the needs of those in the foreign mission fields. God hears the prayers of those who are in danger for their lives and He also hears the joy of those who have been given a new life in Jesus from the words of one of His missionaries. God has not turned His back or given a deaf ear to those who have given their lives in the name of Jesus Christ. Instead God has given them the promise of an eternal life of joy and peace without the pain and suffering they had both witnessed and received. God has a place for all those who will call upon the name of Jesus.
God has a place for you to be use in this body He has prepared for Christ to be the head. Again I would like to point out what Jesus has said here “Therefore pray” . Jesus knows the importance of prayer. He also knows their is a plentiful harvest on the horizon and the workers are few. He knows the hands are missing fingers and feet are missing toes and all He is asking here is to pray that the body may become complete with enough fingers to gather and enough toes to carry the load. Jesus knows that whatever you ask in His name will be given unto you.
John 14:12 ” Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. 13 “And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 “If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. 15 ” If you love Me, keep My commandments. 16 “And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—17 “the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
If you believe in Jesus and keep His commandments He knows that anything you ask in His name, will be given unto you. God the Father will be pleased that you have listened to Jesus and believe that He truly is the Son of God. God has given Jesus the power over all (angels, demons, and even Satan our adversary):
Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Nothing can separate you from the love God has given you. All you have to do is, do as Jesus has commanded. Not what Moses commanded, not what the religious leaders of Jesus’ times had commanded, not what I or any leaders today command, but what Jesus has commanded. Did you notice in John 14:12 that Jesus said if you believe in His works, you will be able to do even greater things. “...and greater works than these he will do”” Yet still He asks that you ask in His name and He will do it. Keep His commandments, ask in Jesus name to send workers for a harvest and He will.
notice Jesus said in John 14:16 Jesus says He will pray for God to send another helper. Can you believe that Jesus will pray for you to have help. He is not sending you out alone. He is sending you out with “the Spirit of truth”, not only to be with you and help. The Spirit of truth will live with you and He lives inside you. Wow a full time helper that knows the truth and will help you speak the truth.
Acts 4:13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.
Peter and John were not educated men, they were common everyday fishermen, they had no degree’s from college or any seminary training. But yet the Pharisee’s and Seduces were amazed at how courageous and intellectually they spoke. The religious leaders remembered these men had been with Jesus. Not only had they walked and talked with Jesus, they now had something that lived with them and lived inside them. The Spirit of Truth”. Jesus said He would not leave them alone and He did not. A few days prior to this particular verse The Holy Spirit came down upon those who were gathered and became what we know as the Day of Pentecost. Because of the Bible (Gods Holy Word) you too can walk with Jesus. The Spirit of Truth will give you the boldness you need to speak boldly the words of truth.
When it comes to questions and being prepared, please pray for workers in the upcoming harvest. Give the Spirit of Truth inside you the opportunity to speak.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
And
Romans 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
In closing I would like to say, that it is my hopes and prayers that all who read this to please take this into account and test these words to the words of God. Allow the Holy Spirit to be your guide in all of your studies of Gods word. And please ask of and always remember, to have Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior
*All scripture quotes are from the New King James Version (NKJV) of the Bible unless otherwise noted
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