Called To Serve Part 2 (Praying for The Workers)

Matthew 9:35–38 (ESV)

35 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction.

Keep Doing What Is Right

James 4:17 (ESV)

17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Romans 12:21 (ESV)

21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Proverbs 21:3 (ESV)

3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

We can not stop doing what is right

Churches tend to get board..... maybe complacent.... and let what they have been doing start to fall apart

they loose the excitement and the newness and it starts to show

36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.

Guide with Compassion

Colossians 3:12–14 (ESV)

12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

We are called to share the gospel with people who have been

harassed and helpless.

Who have walked through things that you can not understand

we are called to help them, pray for them

Not to inable them but to help them

not to judge them but to show them forgiveness

We can not Guide the Lost if we do not have compassion for them.

37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few;

Look For the Harvest

The harvest is here, its not about waiting its about working it

,we just have to open our eyes to see it

its easy to not see a porblem when we are choosing to ignore the problem

Its all around us

homeless

drug addiction

brokeness

lonleyness

It’s in churches too

Church Hurt

Judgmental people

Bad Example of Christ.

There is a lot of work to do and we need to chose to see it.

Proverbs 10:5 (ESV)

5 He who gathers in summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

Galatians 6:9–10 (ESV)

9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. 10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.

38 therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

Pray Earnestly

Jesus tells us how our payers should be..

Matthew 21:22 (ESV)

22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

Mark 11:24 (ESV)

24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

To Pray earnestly is to

Mean your Prayer

Believe your prayer

Think about your prayer

Continue your Prayer

Pray that God Will Send the Workers

Ephesians 4:10–16 (ESV)

10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

A church can not run by one or a few

a church needs a community of belivers (a family) to do all it is called to do

We all cant be the pastor

we all cant be a deacon

but we all can serve.

And we all can pray for people to come and serve

e in the food back, helping feed and cloth the needy

in love thy neaighbor to help feed our community

in the praise team to help lead us in worship

as a greeter to give people a great first expreance

waving at people as they pass by on a sunday morning

in our nursery and children's church department helping raise the next generation

This year is going to be a change… and we need you

Every day pray for our church and that God will send the right people

Pray that God will guide you to help serve in the right places

Find ways to help every week in aand outside of the church

But This year chould be a change greater then all that..... it could be a change in you