Day 9 of 10 Days of Prayer
Day 9 of 10 Days of Prayer, Praying For The Harvest!
By: Pastor D. Karl Thomas
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 neighbor.
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.”
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 intercession A.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. Pray the Lord of the harvest send out labourers
3. Pray for Alpha and other small groups
4. Pray for Those who need a touch from God
5. Pray for the Leaders and all those who serve at IMPACT
6. Pray for your lost loved ones … and for those who are coming to Jesus right now and those being discipled by our team here at IMPACT … Those getting Baptized next week.
Lord we lift up lost souls to you today and believe for a great harvest in London. Holy Spirit breathe on hearts and awaken them to how good you are and to how lost they are without you. We pray for Alpha to be filled with people who are searching and want to learn about you. Harvest come!
We just have to keep at it … persistence will win out … prayer really works so let’s continue to pray for our family’s, our neighbors, our coworkers, our city, our region … God’s glory will fill the earth and everyone will be confronted by the goodness of God!!!
Lord I pray for our Pastors D Karl and Cheryl Thomas, the staff , the elders, the Deacons, the Sunday school workers, the worship team, and all the volunteers who help. Thank you that you cover them, you anoint them all for their jobs, and you cause them to have great effect on the people’s hearts. I call in more workers and more prayer warriors. Thank you Lord Jesus for all you are doing at Impact Church.
Amen … Thank You!!!
Jesus, we come together as a community today and remind you of your promise in Psalm 22:27 (NLT) that says “The whole earth will acknowledge the Lord and return to him.” We love people and want more people to know you. Psalm 78 talks about each generation setting its hope anew on God because a previous generation shared with them about the goodness of God. Let us have many opportunities to share about your goodness. We know that it is your goodness that leads people to you (Romans 2:4). Use us God. Let us be the ones to share you. Let this generation set its hope on you. We are believing for people!
We thank you Lord that all your promises are Yes and Amen!! We look forward to a new fall season above and beyond any other fall season we have experienced. Refresh all those who have laboured towards this season and may all efforts be rewarded with a rich harvest. Woo and draw Holy Spirit, woo and draw!! May we stand in awe of what you are about to do….
Our two-fold mandate has always been “seek and save the lost” and ” destroy to works of the devil”. Father give us more of Your firey persistent love that overcomes all objections and a boldness that crashes through the fear of man so that all around us will know who Jesus is and receive His saving, redeeming, transforming grace!
Amen! We believe for a harvest. We decide on purpose to intentionally partner with You. To call the harvest in, and, to go out and get it.