I just completed my 1st trip to Ecuador to a small village in the middle of somewhere.
When God's Eyes is in the field we always witness hundreds or even thousands of patients who wait in line for many hours, sometimes even days with hopes of being helped. We almost never help everyone who waits .... there are too many of THEM and there are just not enough of US.
This last trip all together we saw 1181 people and 204 of those prayed to receive Christ, and many hundreds can now see. I rejoice in that, I really do. Yet I mourn because so many of them were just never even seen. We saw as many as we could.... some days we were making new glasses every few mins. but there were not enough of us and we could not see them all. They waited and waited but eventually they were just turned away and sent back home with nothing. Some of them reported they walked for 7 hours with hope of being helped and all they received were tired bodies and perhaps sore feet.
In the gospels of Matthew and Luke there is a verse which says something like
" the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, ask the Lord of the the harvest to sent more laborers. "
So .... here's what I want you to do.
Ask the Lord of the harvest to send more laborers .... please!
God's Eyes " bringing vision and sometimes nothing at all to the world,"
bryan
1 comments:
Bryan,
God can not be thwarted therefore neither can your efforts in service to the Lord. EVERYTHING you do in God's will brings blessing. After reading your latest blog I immediately thought of this passage. ( I had to look it up but God brought the spirit of the word to my mind.)
Isaiah 55:11
New International Version (NIV)
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
New International Version (NIV)
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The Message (MSG)
8-11"I don't think the way you think. The way you work isn't the way I work." God's Decree. "For as the sky soars high above earth, so the way I work surpasses the way you work, and the way I think is beyond the way you think.
Just as rain and snow descend from the skies and don't go back until they've watered the earth,Doing their work of making things grow and blossom,producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry,
So will the words that come out of my mouth not come back empty-handed. They'll do the work I sent them to do, they'll complete the assignment I gave them.
The Message (MSG)
Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
You will never know what God will do with people who now know the Lord because of your intervention in their lives but it will be fruitful beyond your imagining.
I hope these verses bring you some peace.
Lori O'Bar
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