Day 5 of 10 Days of Prayer

Day 5 of 10 Days of Prayer
By: Pastor D. Karl Thomas

Bring In The Harvest!!!

At the end of the month we begin our Saturday Night Service! We are promoting this service in a variety of ways in our community.

Four Digital Billboards / Papa John’s Menu (30,000) / 18,000 flyers in the London Free Press / Facebook boosts / Faith FM / Invitation Cards

The best way to get people to attend one of our meetings is not to invite them but to BRING them!!!  A farmer can’t just invite the grain to come into the barn, he has to go get it and bring it.

We believe that we have a responsibility to the revelation that God has given us. We want to represent Him well. Gos is good and His love is unconditional. He wants everyone to be reconciled to their gracious loving heavenly Father. He has chosen us as the vehicle to secure His wonder filled purpose.

Take the time to read through this list of quotes below about reaching the lost.

Praying For The Harvest!

We can do more than pray for the lost. But, only after we have prayed for the lost. A genuine vision of ETERNITY will include your neighbour.

John 4:34-35(The Message)
“Jesus said, “The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work he started. As you look around right now, wouldn’t you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest? Well, I’m telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what’s right in front of you. These Samaritan fields are ripe. It’s harvest time!”

2 Peter 3:9
“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

“Your will be done, Your Kingdom come.”

EVERYTHING vital to the success of the world’s evangelization hinges on prayer. John R Mott

The Son of God had five thousand when He was feeding them with the loaves and fishes, He had a multitude when He was opening the eyes of the blind, but when He was sweating the death sweat for a lost world, He was alone. Charles Stalker
A secularized or self-centered church can never evangelize the world. John R Mott

It is possible to evangelize the world in this generation, if the church will but do her duty. The trouble is NOT with the heathen. A dead church will prevent it, if it is prevented.John Griffeth

If we don’t pray, we serve no purpose in God’s framework of eternity. Charles Stanley

My own conversion is the result of prayer; long, affectionate, earnest, and importunate. Parents prayed for me; God heard their cries, and here I am to preach the Gospel. Charles H. Spurgeon

God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercessionA.T. Pierson

Perhaps there are no conversions in our churches because we have not seen how impossible it is for the non-Christian mind to believe. It is only when God opens their hearts to understand the message of Christ that they can accept Him. Hearts will be made receptive only as we pray.
Hearts are prepared to receive the message of Christ through prayer. The gospel is eternal and spiritual in nature. Man in his natural, fallen state cannot comprehend such a message; it is foreign to his natural state of being. Therefore, we must pray that their spiritual eyes be opened. Sammy Tippit

God alone can save the world, but God cannot save the world alone. God and man unite for the task, the response of the divine being invariably in proportion to the desire and the effort of the human. This cooperation, then, being necessary, what is the duty which we, as co-workers with God, are required to undertake? First of all, and most important of all – the point which we desire particularly to emphasize – we must give ourselves to prayer. E.M. Bounds

Some have zealously used truth to convert men, and laid very little stress on prayer. They have preached, and talked, and distributed tracts with great zeal, and then wondered that they had so little success. And the reason was that they forgot to use the other branch of the means, effectual prayer. They overlooked the fact that truth, by itself, will never produce the effect, without the Spirit of God, and that the Spirit is given in answer to prayer. Charles Finney

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His name and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is. Charles Spurgeon

The heart of God hungers to redeem the world. For that He placed in human hands the mightiest of all forces-prayer, that we might become partners with Him….There is no thing we need so much as to learn to pray.
The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is to pray. It is not the only thing. But is the chief thing….you can do more than pray, after you have prayed. But you can not do more than pray until you have prayed.  S.D Gordon

Intercessory prayer is the Christian’s most effective weapon. Nothing can withstand its power. It will do things when all else has failed. And the marvel is that we turn to other agencies in order to accomplish what only prayer can bring to pass. God has placed this mighty weapon in our hands, and He expects us to use it. How disappointed He must be when we lay aside and substitute natural means for supernatural work.Oswald J. Smith

If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for. Charles Spurgeon

 PRAYER DIRECTIVES:

1. Pray for the Harvest

2. Make a list of people that you can pray for every day. People in your sphere ofinfluence who you can be impacted by your life.

3. Pray for the launch team for the SNS (Saturday Night Service).

4. Pray the Lord of the harvest send out labourers.

5. Pray for each special guest at Impact to be embraced by the presence of God and to make Impact their home. We want to serve more people. We want to disciple more people. We want to see London come into a working revelation of the Grace of God!