Ripe fields, willing hands (A Bumper Crop)

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I may be students, please speak to Carrie, Sue's lady worship, great job, carries or speak to the. She's going to take him around at Shane's. One of those, I want to introduce the moon. I will do that, probably next week, but let's get round Harvest. Tennessee Stud is a farmer. So right now he's working him and he's brought her brother are working 14-15 hour days sitting in the tractor by Hud a brother on the phone, talking to him, driving to the other day. Now, he's working Hardware in the middle of harvest and most of us have no idea. Most of us have no idea. That is a Hobbies going on. We were sitting there, comfortably nice weather. I'm on the phone was going to be able to go to get the Harvest in before it starts raining. Guys, do you know there's a hobbyist? Do you know there's a harvest? Have you noticed? There's a lot. I'm not just talking about wheat and barley, I'm not just joking about the picture says, the fields are white unto Harvest. Pray for The Harvest. No. Pray for the hobbyist, go to already sorted out the Harvest. Pray for the labor is pray for the wicked. So in my example, pray for brother that's been sitting in. Traxxas my theme for theme for this month, is Phoenix. A bumper crop on my title. For today's, right? For your words willing hands, I want to say God is Lord of the Heart, Another receipt, that's a season, that's gross. And then there's a hobbit that needs to come in. Do this time of year, many tractors are celebrating hobbies and in the Jewish calendar, and Israel's how calendar, there is a whole season of activity, you might not know some of these things but there's a festival of best fruits. That's a festival of weeks. That's a festival of an ingathering. It's all about Harvest. And they're also offering says, there's a first about making a fuss fruit suffering, but you know what, the prince, they're all some principles around Harvest that I wanted us to get hold of, as we step into this new time for you students, please settle down, make yourself at home. We want the plug people in as quickly as possible. We want to see you. Leave Royal Holloway not just equipped with a degree, but it quit for the kingdom. My dream for every every student in this room is that you leave here, equipped and ready to be the man or woman got schooled you to be. And if we've done a little piece of that, we've done what we should have done and will will Journey with you on that is plenty of open doors and opportunities. If you have a desire to get involved in any part of church, speak to Charis has two students speak to me. We'd love to play. Plug people in the room. Who's sitting on the type that still I first thought on that strike GoPro.

No, we want to punch people in Jonathan, Scotty's job because he saw it on the tech desk, Eric Church not because the church gave me in that kind of industry is the next spell. I'm proud of you baby but it won't stop it in chest and it's on them. Yeah, absolutely. So number one Belongs to the Lord Genesis 8:22. As long as the Earth, Angels seedtime and harvest will never stop happening. It's just like, I don't know why you like to start some people like to start with Spring Cove Springs when you get here. Then you guys bring some oil to winter but that means you end the year with that the bit. We don't like actually I believe we might stop because winter is where all the hard work.

It's a lot of things that go on in the winter that we do not even seen. That is, what was I going to do with you and me? Well, when we are going through tough times that when Good Foundations are being laid down, so the Harvest begins with a promise, The Harvest begins with a promise cuz whenever we plant seed, There's A promise, is a promise that in the hobbyist, he's God's gift to us, it's not a treatment, any farmer you speak to will say, okay, we can, I can prepare the soil, I can do everything that I can do, but the Harvest is ready. Outside of my control. Harvest is God's promise God's gift to us. If we care for the land and water it and in Psalm 65 verses 9 through 11 says, he will bless it with his bouncy Harvest leads us to Joy. The Lord will bless you in all your hearts and your joy will be complete Deuteronomy 16:15, we do not create the Harvest. We stupid. What God is already growing zucchini.

God, commands the increase. The Harvest follows God's principles Hosea, 10:12 righteousness for yourselves. Reap the fruits of unfailing, Love on, break up the fallow ground Ortiz time to seek the Lord. We probably about that is not free. We could look at all Kyle make it look it all up and you could look at your life. I could look at my life and they'll be part of our life, it's a bit. We d.c. cannot take root in hard ground. So one of the things we need to do is just let go and let God we reap. What we sow. Righteousness, son brings a harvest of unfailing love. He's the principal when you might have never thought about this, but you don't read before you. So, I know, it's pretty obvious, but sometimes we do. We expect respect fruit immediately afterwards. He was a baby.

Yeah, it takes time. I went. Patient people out. Who's anybody in the room patient? Not many hands going up there. I don't know, I don't put my hand up there, either. We reap off the we. So, I'll be going to be patient with all. Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. We really only where the ground is being prepared. All we willing to allow the hot areas of my life to be broken up and forgot to do something that seed can take roots. We will only reap. If we act Proverbs 20 verse for sissies sluggards, do not plow in season. So it's Harvest Time by look but finds nothing. It's like, it's a really interesting but I'm not going to get into that today, but if you want to look it up, it's not what we used to much. I need is an even better. What's slugabed?

Conditions are never completely perfect. We have some years when the weather is better some years when it's worse. But if I listen to Jeremy Clarkson, I don't know how many pastas have ever said. Jeremy Clarkson in a, in a sermon on not collecting his theology or anything else, but he's tried to do farming. I'm one of the things he says he's never quite right is always something that could be better weather. It's the quality of the soil when it rains. When it's sun, shines excetera, Who's the thing Harvest will not wait.

Some of us are very busy people and we kind of think of that can wait. I don't know whether you got a little project, a little something that you want to do right now and waiting to do it for three months. Four months. You can I come by the Harvest candle light farmers farmers. Do not go on holiday in Harvest. Time is the hardest part of the Harvest has a window. It has a window. If we leave the green for too long, it will spoil wisdom. Recognizes this moment I missed. Harvest, is a message that the Harvest is past the summer has ended and we outside, that's what he says in Jeremiah 820. What about the hobbies to people? What about your friends? What about all those people on campus? Who need to hear the good news of the Gospel. That's the same with Rudy and cabbage in. There is a good news for everyone. Not just you and me, not just a good people for everyone. The good news of the Gospel is for all

I want to encourage us to declare and be ready for Harvest and we had a, I guess we could just a couple of weeks ago to climb Pharisees covering is a check on Friday. Buddy was praying for him disappointed cuz he had really bad. So I have to go. When he was with us, he flew back to the States and he's now in the play school trance. Nice. Try, which is near Moldova and I decide my back's. Okay. Thanks for praying cuz it was really in a lot of pain so I can go help some with some practical treatment as well. Things to go to school teacher. So, the Harvest needs willing Harvesters. Isaiah 6:8 says this. Whom shall I send and who will go for us and I said, Here I am. Send me. If some of us a price we see a situation. I'm maybe you've got a friend who desperately needs some change of circumstance and we pray the best price we can pry. Sometimes I sense the Father the people. Okay. You price. Your pie is the plan. You got it. I understand. Praying that you sort this out for my friend and goats guy, but I'm praying that you go I'm saying that you got you go to your friend. Don't stand with them in that trouble gun stand with them most necessary. So I can give me a thousand pounds or anything like that but go and stand with them and be with them and see that I will do what I will do. The Harvest needs willing Harvesters and that means a number of things. Number one, a willing heart. You got to be willing to say yeah, I'm willing,

And I want to challenge us this morning. So I are you willing. Are you ready? Are you willing to walk across the room sometime this week? Most of us will sit in the room and we will find ourselves and they'll be people sitting in the other side of the room. Looking Oakwood. Maybe it's the first time they've been through it like to maybe it's the first time they've been in a meeting. Maybe it's the first time that having to join a key for certain thing and they really don't know what to do. If you see someone who's looking a little lower especially but you're refreshingly. Why don't you just go and join them and say hi? But, whatever your name is just going. Introduce yourself. We live in a world where isolation is such a social media has no help things. Social media is an oxymoron in my opinion. It's not social at all and we rely on it too much. I think sometimes you just pick up the phone, right? I like to go and talk to people just find out what they think about a billion stops. We willing Hearts but it's Then followed very quickly by willing hands. Willing to do something. If you got winning hands. The first thing we got to do is put down what we holding on to. Quite a lot of us including may have our lives. And go. Don't let me. How about 3 weeks old I don't know how you view it. How God speaks to you, for me Kingdom, principles are built in charge Captain Jesus. Now if anybody wants to join the military in the long time or in the future or maybe you're a Cadet now. If your cat to know your lieutenant or Sergeant says something to you and says, okay, go and fetch the water. It's not a request. Can you call Ton round to someone like that. If you're in the military and go, I'll think about it.

Amazon. How you listen to God speaking to you? But for me, if God says to do something and I sent he's ready him, I need to do it, I need to put down what my hands are full of. I'll be ready for a sudden. So willing Hearts willing hands a willing generosity that starts with R I want to encourage everyone of you to think about it. Look at your daughter is so some of you or were you working at your time tables for the first time, what does Week 1 look like? You don't even know what the shape of your week is yet young and you don't know, quite how intense it will be. Let me encourage you make some time in your diary to be. Still come before God. Make it a priority. Make it probably doesn't have to be first thing in the day if you're not a morning person and find another time, but make some time in your diary to sit and listen to God, have a chat with God and see what he wants to say. Cuz that means we're ready, we're ready with willing hands and a wedding generosity and that sometimes requires willing surrender. What did I read for my 6:8 whom shall I send who will go before us and I said here I am send me that says surrender moment I'm not interested. My job sometimes what the scripture side do the work of an evangelist and evangelism and evangelist go out and share the good news of the Gospel with somebody else. Come and show them the kingdom.

Matthew chapter, 9, verses 37 and 38 east of foundation behind everything that I'm sharing this morning. The Harvest is plentiful, but the work is, if you ask the lord of the Harvest at 4 to send out workers into the Harvest field, please notice, it doesn't say. Send them out for training on how to do harvesting. It doesn't say that it says, send them out to get on with doing some of us will I need to go on another call? So I need to have another Bible study guys. You ready? You only have to be a Christian of Wheat and you already know something. You know, Jesus loves you and you can share that with somebody. If you being a Christian that yeah, you know a lot more if you being a Christian 40 is, you know, a lot of stuff and how much of that stuff if you used. Yeah, we can get more and more qualifications. We can read more Bible verses we can put ourselves in more and more Bible studies but you know what we're ready to harvest now. You don't need any more than what you've got it cuz he's the real answer. You just put your hand up. Say, I don't know the answer to that. Let's go and find out together, notice Shane 20 questions, it's got lots of questions. A sign perfectly. Okay, please don't. Look at that. I even got a positive. They will know the answer cuz sometimes like that.

So he is the response. I want us to think about. The question is not, is there a harvest? God's promise there is a harvest. The question is, are we willing to be part of bringing it in? Now I don't know what, you'll get some tile and saw that we some people to go to bring it in cool in there. Other people will be good at picking sweet corn, they'll be other. People who are good at picking strawberries, I want us like picking strawberries, picking strawberries and eating them. I mean, picking them for Harvest. One of the problems I have before I have to pick strawberries. He's quite a lot of them end up in. Hell no in the basket cuz I like to do because it's okay to know what in the world where we are harvesting. There is a benefit in being a harvester. Pick up picks to bring the lead someone to Christ. There is a benefit for you to, it's not with you giving. I tell you what, one of the most exciting things I've ever done in my life is lead someone to Christ. It's exciting, but I'm having a party inside. Yes, it's exciting. And there will be people who come to Fight Before Christmas in this place. And he will be populated them to Christ and then they'll need baptizing. Because I'm coming up next month. How do I respond? Number one priority. Oscar, the lord of the Harvest to send workers, but be ready. Be ready cuz he might be it might be easiest to you, okay, I want you to go into this classroom and stand up and be counted. Prepare break up the fallow ground. Let your heart be ready. One of the things you will find it. If you expose yourself and come along so I people in needs, they will stretch you a little bit, just a little bit, but I'll ask you a question that I asked you to pry.

I'll tell you a little story have and I'm very, I'm a scientist by training and I'm very comfortable with dealing with things that you cannot say. I was very comfortable to be unchristian, people are just upset stomachs to go. Put them away cuz I couldn't see anyting. I couldn't see when go to the out, to the priority. My people said, my stomach, the pain, stopped the problems. That was that was easy to pray for. You know what? The first time I've seen you can do not have to apply for a lady with a goiter in the neck. And I looked at it and she said, please pray and I'm looking at is goiter.

Do how are you going to do this? And so I close my eyes. And that's my pride, I felt her neck changing shape. I'm by the time we've finished playing and haven't completely gone, but they were flaps of skin on the neck. And so I'd learned, I could pray for things that I could see and go to take them away where they needed to the story. I'm guessing to resist because some of you will have to make this that let's see who's not here to die. She's in Mexico. She she leads a Spanish fruit that makes on Saturday. Night's the overnighter me to go to Mexico and I ended up buying this very very very traditional Methodist Church because of some last-minute changes please. Please pray for anybody makes the best message you have. It was the kind of church all the mens sounded so I told the lady sat on this side, the ladies at Dorothy's on the head it was very very

And I got to speak and I finished. Now what my shout is Wherever I Go by submit myself to look relationship. So I woke up like finished, but if you would like me to pray for anyone, I'm submitting to him. So, if you'd like me to pray for anybody, I'll be happy to do. So, you guys, the back of the church, he brings a lady for what he's under a show.

could you play 50's on 5 weeks and I'll buy you these 3 weeks old Just be wise, be ready? I said I'm happy to pry. What's a myprimeportal? Set, the babies being born with no eyes. Can you pray for the piping? That's why I do not know that the babies ever being given ice. But I tried my best friend. Go to the baby. Still wrapped in the show, pray for the baby, gave it back to mom. Baby started crying when whoops. Take the baby back, but the miracle for me than happened was. He then turned to the church? I said, if anybody else would like prayer and let me see, Rudy traditional church was told, don't pray for people, but then prophesied return to the church and said. If anybody else would like prayer, please come on a cute phones and I said to him. So it's not just me that's kind of bright you look on the bright side and so we stood at the front of the church, we pray for nearly two and a half hours for about three-quarters of the Americas in that moment. Be ready. If you're going to pry, be ready to be part of the solution, even if it's Way Beyond your imagination. Cuz I want to encourage you, God is able to do in measurably more than we ask or imagine and now your imagination is but mine's pretty big. I can imagine this room for another thing to think about stuff, like probably be prepared and then a little story, I want to like a ruse ruse to take the first step to nine one. Nine one person this week, you will pray for yourself or sure. Cuz if you're willing to do if she walked in and she steps out and she said I'm willing to go and buy said I'm willing to get in that moment. God had all the ingredients needed for a miracle. Play Pride by prepared and they went. So I got to bring a challenge to us as we finish out all season of a bouncy Harvest. I want to pray a prayer and then I'm going to ask you a couple of questions and see if people want to respond. But let's Close Our Eyes Festival. the first thing I want to do is say this, With your eyes closed. I want you to lift up your ice. So that's a crazy thing. Why? I kept my eyes closed and because that means you will lift your head up and quite often when we pray, we bow our heads, I'm not self a sovereign. Homage to God. I want you to lift your head up with your eyes closed as if you were looking to God. Allow the light of his presence to shine upon you lift up your eyes. And I want you to think about taking out your sick or whatever you are, whatever you harvesting, Machinery is where there's a combine harvester. If you want to believe with Messy Bobby's, or whether it's just a simple nice, that you're just picking tomatoes or whether it's just a boss kit, you just put strawberries in. But I want to encourage everyone of us to say Here. I Am Lord, send me. So I'm just going to ask you to think about a couple of things and then if you want to you can stand I want to pray for Ashley for the Harvest. Not the hot is, the hottest does. That's what scripture said. You will meet people in desperate need in. Throughout this time, it will ask you questions, and you might not know the answers, but it starts with saying I'm willing Lord, I have a willing heart and then you'll put yourself in my hands. Are ready, what is it? You need me to do. and then, It might take time, it might take your energy, might cite your emotion. I got something I want you to invest in this relationship. I want to invest in this conversation. And I will surrender, I will see God's commands the increase. So,

What's the question? The fields are ripe unto Harvest. Pray for the workers. And what did they say Here? I Am send me. I don't know what your hobbies field is. Some of you will have a harvest field in Biochemistry. Some of you will have a harvest field in philosophy. Some of you will have a harvest field in the Student Union. Some of you will have a harvest field in the corridor that you live on. Some of you will have the Hobbies failed at work, some with your neighbors. I don't know where your heart is. Filled will be. But what I do know is that the Hobbies field for every one of us needs to be brought in And so, what we need to say is Here, I Am Lord, send me if I see you. I'm not going to collect knives. This is just a good thing. I thought you would you stand. I don't know why. Your hobbies pay will be, but if you are willing to say to Die, Here I Am Lord, send me some of you even is a must in this question already. Know you already know the appointment. You already see a picture. You already have a sense, somebody's being placed in your heart right now. I see somebody sitting in in the treatment room waiting for treatment and actually your Harvest, he's sitting with people who are also waiting for treatment and rather than the low and heavy-hearted you bring lights and life into that room. And people ask, how can you be like that in these circumstances you will stick last with Aldi's and I will say, please tell me more. I know who that's for, but I just showed up. So if you're willing to say Here, I Am send me, then we standing and I'm standing to it. But I was listening at home, too, cuz I was listening late. So, please stand make a choice. Make a choice before and you need to know that you made it stop. That's like all the goddess we stand before you. Right now we safe. We are willing. We are willing to be your hands and feet your ears and eyes, your heart for the service and your feet, show me the gospel of peace and say, father, we say send us, Lord, help us to remember the appointments, you going to give us help us to be ready. So what needs to be ready? We don't need to be on a training course. We just need to be ready and you can whisper in our area. And I even send Scott is Whispering, your monitor is right now. You already know I want to hear the messages you need to share. So we sideload, we're ready. Some of us might need to reach out a hand now and almost physically put down some stuff. They might be some stuff and put it down. You don't need it right now. You don't need that. You don't need the extra jumper. You don't need. You don't need to take your computer with you. You need to take your notebook with you or with you.

And see what I will do. I'm sorry. Father I I want to commission everyone who standing to a few weeks maybe a year, maybe a lifetime of harvesting. Probably, would you do your will, would you fill us equip US release Us For Your Glory in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you, please. Take the six.