{"id":10436,"date":"2013-10-16T09:55:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T13:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=10436"},"modified":"2013-10-16T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:02:39","slug":"the-key-to-the-masters-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=10436","title":{"rendered":"The Key to the Master\u2019s Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"555\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dchSpOZnh-M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><em>Pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest \u2014Matthew 9:38<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nThe key to the missionary\u2019s difficult task is in the hand of God, and that key is prayer, not work\u2014 that is, not work as the word is commonly used today, which often results in the shifting of our focus away from God. The key to the missionary\u2019s difficult task is also not the key of common sense, nor is it the key of medicine, civilization, education, or even evangelization. The key is in following the Master\u2019s orders\u2014 the key is prayer. \u201cPray the Lord of the harvest . . . .\u201d In the natural realm, prayer is not practical but absurd. We have to realize that prayer is foolish from the commonsense point of view.<\/p>\n<p>From Jesus Christ\u2019s perspective, there are no nations, but only the world. How many of us pray without regard to the persons, but with regard to only one Person\u2014 Jesus Christ? He owns the harvest that is produced through distress and through conviction of sin. This is the harvest for which we have to pray that laborers be sent out to reap. We stay busy at work, while people all around us are ripe and ready to be harvested; we do not reap even one of them, but simply waste our Lord\u2019s time in over-energized activities and programs. Suppose a crisis were to come into your father\u2019s or your brother\u2019s life\u2014 are you there as a laborer to reap the harvest for Jesus Christ? Is your response, \u201cOh, but I have a special work to do!\u201d No Christian has a special work to do. A Christian is called to be Jesus Christ\u2019s own, \u201ca servant [who] is not greater than his master\u201d (John 13:16), and someone who does not dictate to Jesus Christ what he intends to do. Our Lord calls us to no special work\u2014 He calls us to Himself. \u201cPray the Lord of the harvest,\u201d and He will engineer your circumstances to send you out as His laborer<\/p>\n<p>Journal DJR<br \/>\nGood Morning Lord,<br \/>\nYour message is clear &#8230; stay connected thru prayer such that I hear your voice and see what you see &#8230; and then be quickly obedient.   This can be done without programs or agendas.  Actually our own programs and agendas will complicate things and we will get less (of your work) done, rather than more.   But we seem to be lacking something in seeing this really work out.  It&#8217;s like a piece is missing.  We have looked around and tried lots of things, surely all the common Christian advice, read the Word more, etc.  So today we seemed  to hear that our responsibility is simply be loved by You and recognize that love, absorb it and let it energize whatever you direct next.   So help us in that today, we pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest \u2014Matthew 9:38 The key to the missionary\u2019s difficult task is in the hand of God, and that key is prayer, not work\u2014 that is, not work as the word is commonly used today, which often results in the shifting of our focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10439,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10436\/revisions\/10439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}