30 Days of Prayer: Day 1 Am I too busy to see?
Take 5 minutes and pray for your city, Ask God to give you His eyes to see the crowds.
30 Days of Prayer: Day 2 “Jesus saw”
When Jesus saw the crowds, his heart broke. Matthew 9:36 reads When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. He had compassion on them. To put it another way, he felt compassion for them. I can imagine the heart of Christ that …
30 Days of Prayer: Day 3
Jesus saw the crowds. Jesus felt compassion for the crowds. Matthew explains why. Chapter 9 verse 36: When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Sometimes I wonder how I see people who are without Christ. I wonder if I truly see …
30 Days of Prayer: Day 4
Jesus saw the crowds. He felt compassion for them. Because they were as sheep without a shepherd. Then Matthew adds: “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest,” (Matt. 9:37-38). See the harvest. Jesus saw the harvest. For the last …
30 Days of Prayer: Day 5
Prayer sensitizes us to subtle changes in the landscape of our circumstances. – Andy Stanley, Visioneering. Seeing the harvest field A few nights ago, I took a flight home, back to the city where I live. The flight path of our final descent runs us parallel to the city. I got to sit in the …
30 Days of Prayer: Day 6
Shawn Anderson’s research into the conversion process reveals some interesting statistics about evangelism through personal relationships. (Read: Living Dangerously: Seven Keys to Intentional Discipleship) Looking at the time from when Jesus is first mentioned in relationship to the point of a person following Jesus: Fifty-one percent of the time this process took over a year. …
30 days of Prayer: Day 7 The Process of Evangelism
I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 1 Cor 3:6-7 (NIV) Paul gives us a great analogy to talk about the conversion process. It picks up on some of the parables …
30 Days of Prayer Day 8: Spiritual Blindness
Before we came to know Christ, we were sinners. Before we started following Jesus, we were spiritually dead, and spiritually blind. If we have been a Christian for a long time, perhaps we have forgotten how our spiritual eyes couldn’t see in the dark, how impossible it was to see the value of God’s truth, …
30 Days of Prayer Day 9: The Pearl of Great Price
Jesus give us a parable, found in Matthew 13, about the kingdom of God. Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. (Matthew 13:45-46) Looking for the fine pearl The merchant was …