Week 4 - Lift Up Your Eyes and Look at the Field

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1 Monday Scripture Reading: Gal. 5:6; 3:1-2; John 2:23-25; Heb. 11:1 For indeed we have had the good news announced to us, even as they also; but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed together with faith in those who heard. (Hebrews 4:2) The Realm of Faith and Spirit In Galatians 5:6 Paul says, For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything nor uncircumcision, but faith avails, operating through love. A spiritual heart has two main functions. The first function is to believe and the second function is to love. We can see our own physical heart. It is a pump, a motor, that receives blood and immediately giving blood to the whole body so that the entire body can be healthy. The heart is the fountain of life. All of us need a healthy heart. That s why in the gospel of John, the key, the most important word, is to believe. To believe is totally related to the spirit and to faith. In the New Testament, the way is the way of faith. At the end of the first century, tradition and doctrines annulled vital functions in the service of the Lord. Faith is our cooperation with the Lord. Faith needs to be restored. John s help to us, chapter after chapter, is to show us cases with the Lord s speaking in each case. These cases help us to have faith, to believe in the Lord, to believe in the Scriptures, and to believe in His words. When we believe we receive the Spirit; the Spirit has life and this life is God Himself. God is love, and this life of love desires to flow. We also see that in these cases some believed and some others didn t. The only thing trustworthy is the divine life. The Lord doesn t trust in human nature, as we saw in John chapter 2. After the Lord transformed water into wine, the disciples trusted in Him. He entered into the temple, expelled the merchandisers, and then His disciples remembered what had been written, and believed in the Scriptures and in His word. Verses say, Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed into His name when they saw the signs which He did. But Jesus Himself did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew all men, And because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man. Human nature is not trustworthy to fulfill God s work, so we need to be born anew to receive His Spirit, to receive His life. When we believe, we receive the Spirit. Galatians 3:1-2 says, O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed crucified? This only I wish to learn from you. Did you receive the Spirit out of the works of law or out of the hearing of faith? When we believe we receive the Spirit, the Spirit brings life, and life is the instrument the Lord uses for His work of building up. Of course, the Lord wants to help us to believe. We need to break through into the organic realm, so that the Lord can recover us, and more than this, so that He can work in us to bring us to the condition of Philadelphia where we have brotherly love. We are weak but we have an open door because we don t deny the Lord s name or His Word. We have His promises that He will keep us from the hour of trial and that we will be able to keep our great prize which is the crown of life. The crown of life means the growth in life, the maturity, the qualification of life, the overcoming life. So the Lord desires that we would exercise. Hebrews chapter 11 tells us the meaning of faith. Verse 1 says, Now faith is the substantiation of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. The substantiation of things hoped for is related to the Word; the conviction of things not seen is related to the Spirit. Faith has everything to do with the Word and the Spirit. Hebrews 4:2 says, For indeed we have had the good news announced to us, even as they also; but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed together with faith in those who heard. The word they heard did not profit them. Why? It is because the word didn t come together with faith. In order for the word to be profitable we need to receive the word with faith. Where is faith in us? It is not in our mind! It is not in our soul. But praise the Lord we have within us something called spirit, the spirit of faith. When we listen to God s word, we need to listen to it exercising in faith. Where is faith? Faith is in our spirit. We need to exercise our spirit. First, the apostle John s help is to bring us to the spirit. So saints, we need to exercise our spirit by calling on the Lord s name, pray-reading the word, ruminating the word, prophesying, and singing the hymns. Then we all can be transferred to the realm of faith, to the realm of the spirit, and put all these things into practice. Mix the word with faith Your What are the functions of a spiritual heart? HE WHO BELIEVES, OUT OF HIS INNERMOST BEING SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER - Out of His Innermost Being Shall Flow Rivers of 1Living

2 Tuesday Scripture Reading: John 14:25-26; 3:1-8; 7:48-53; 2:24 And having the same spirit of faith according to that which is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we also believe, therefore we also speak. (2 Corinthians 4:13) Speaking to Supply Life Second Corinthians 4:13 is something very practical related to the exercise the spirit of faith. The spirit of faith is not exercised when we only think about things. And having the same spirit of faith according to that which is written, I believed, therefore I spoke, we also believe, therefore we also speak. We need to open our mouths. Faith is related to the word and to the mouth. We need to speak. When we hear God s word, we need to make good use of it. John 14:25-26 says, These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you; But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and remind you of all the things which I have said to you. Thus, John learned to follow the Lord closely and to pay attention to His word. He learned to not only listen with his ears, but to exercise his spirit of faith, and to open his mouth and say, Amen! He learned to call on the name of the Lord with a burning spirit, so that the words might be burned into his being. This was John s experience. Almost fifty years after he had heard the words the Lord had spoken to him, the Spirit Himself reminded him of what he had kept in his heart. When we hear the word, we need to exercise our spirit. The first generation of the church substituted the things of the law for Christ. The things of the law of Moses became a substitute of Christ. They preferred to keep circumcision, to keep the feasts, and to keep the dietary regulations, all those practices which were written in the Law of Moses, because they did not see that Christ was the reality of all things. The traditions annulled the effectiveness of the word of God and annulled their faith. Without faith there is no life and without life there is no work. The Lord cannot trust in human nature. Paul gained his heavenly vision and his ministry according to the need. When he wrote his letters, he transmitted to us what he had gained from the Lord. But we also saw that his desire to lead the saints to be constituted with his vision brought him to the school of Tyrannus where he reasoned daily with those who came to hear him. In Acts chapter 28, we see Paul was imprisoned in Rome where he also remained two years receiving all those who wanted to know the things of the kingdom. This kind of practice influenced all Christianity. It gave the impression that to serve God one needs to go to school to learn and study the truth and revelations in the scriptures. But what happened? Studying the truth became a substitute for the person of Christ; it became a substitute for a living touch with the Lord s name and the Word. Interpretation, studying, and the pleasure of discovering new things, became a substitute for the living contact with the name and the Word of God. Little by little, they hindered people from a living contact with the person of the Lord. That s why John wanted to bring us back to the beginning and he related the cases in his gospel. Nicodemus was a Jew, apparently a person very qualified and educated (John 3:1) but he viewed Jesus merely as a teacher sent from God (v. 2). God didn t entrust Himself to him because He knows human nature (2:24). If someone wants to be useful to the Lord, he needs to be born anew, to receive the life of God (3:3-8). The only one who is able to fulfill the work of God is God Himself. Nicodemus remained on the side of the Pharisees. There was a time that his testimony was needed, but no one knew it clearly. People should know your testimony clearly. John 7:48-53 says, Has any one of the rulers or Pharisees believed into Him? But this crowd which does not know the law is accursed. Nicodemus said to them (he who came to Him before, being one of them), Does our law condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing? They answered and said to him, Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that no prophet arises out of Galilee. And everyone went to his own house. In these verses we see that Nicodemus was one of the Pharisees. At his time, Nicodemus missed a great opportunity of changing totally the course of his story. He missed the chance to end his story as someone who believed so that from his innermost being would flow rivers of living water. Instead, his speaking did not supply life, it created controversy. Exercise your spirit of faith Your What kind of speaking supplies life and what kind of speaking creates controversy? HE WHO BELIEVES, OUT OF HIS INNERMOST BEING SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER - Out of His Innermost Being Shall Flow Rivers of 2Living

3 Wednesday Scripture Reading: John 4:7-18; Rom. 10:17 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water gushing up into eternal life. (John 4:14) Paying the Price for Living Surprisingly, in chapter 4, John presents the case of a totally unqualified woman, a sinner, a Samaritan, but the Lord entrusted Himself to her! The Lord will not entrust Himself to us because we are good but He will entrust Himself to us if He sees His life in us! We need to be born anew and we need to drink of the water He offers us. This unqualified woman became qualified, not because she had five husbands, but because she repented. She saw that Jesus was more precious than the five husbands and than the one who was not her husband. Chapter 4 shows God s team, the Samaritans, Galileans and strangers. Why? It is because they received what we need to be qualified and chosen for this team. We need to receive life. This life is in the Spirit and the word. We need to believe, but more than that, we need to practice! Faith comes out of hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ (Rom. 10:17). We also need to follow the Lord. The more we follow the Lord, the more our faith grows. The barriers of our heart are removed. The river needs a course to flow. The Lord is in our spirit; He needs to spread to our soul, He needs to cleanse our soul, and He needs to cleanse our heart. In these days, the Lord has worked in us, but He wants even more. He wants to entrust Himself to us to the point that He can send us to cooperate with Him. He used the Samaritan woman, an unqualified person, but one who saw the gift of God and who was speaking with her. We all need to see God s gift and who is speaking to us. The gift of God is His own life. God s gifts are His riches and He wants to make us heirs of everything the Lord has. Saints, the Lord has an extraordinary future for us. The Lord has a wonderful career for us, and it is not limited to this life. The Lord wants to make us His heirs, for the manifestation of His kingdom, for the manifestation of His glory. We need to see God s gift and who is speaking to us (John 4:10). The Samaritan woman was thirsty and the Lord prepared a place to meet with her. Her thirst brought her to God. I won t say her thirst was a spiritual thirst, but it was a thirst for satisfaction, joy and peace. She was seeking but she couldn t find it. So, the Lord went exactly to the place where she needed to go. These messages are exactly what you need. Woman, if you drink of the water that I will give you shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give you will become in you a fountain of water gushing up into eternal life (John 4:14). The Lord was saying that He Himself would be transplanted into her inner being by faith. She became happy and said, Give me this water so that I will not thirst nor come here to draw (John 4:15). But there is a price to pay to get the living water, you need to bring your five husbands. The Lord wants to entrust Himself to us, but with five husbands there is no way. More than that, You live with someone who is not your husband. We need to make a decision! Many young people are married to the computer. You say that this husband is useful. Yes, it is useful, but what you search in the computer can be your husband and this husband has nothing to do with the Lord. It s a substitute. Actually, it is like Thyatira, fornication. Do you think that you are trustworthy to the Lord if you have another husband? I hope that you can enter into the book of John and be like the Samaritan woman who realized that the One speaking to her was Christ. He was the Christ who would come and save Israel from their sins and who would bring people back to God! The Lord wants to bring us back to Him! But in order for us to come back to Him we need to be like that woman who left her waterpot. She had been using her waterpot to try to quench her thirst. It represented the husbands she was using to try to find satisfaction, peace and joy. When she realized who was speaking with her, she left her waterpot. Leave your waterpot Your What is a substitute for the Lord in your life? HE WHO BELIEVES, OUT OF HIS INNERMOST BEING SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER - Out of His Innermost Being Shall Flow Rivers of Living 3

4 Thursday Scripture Reading: John 4:19-31 And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they loved not their soul-life even unto death. (Rev. 12:11) A Living Testimony John 4:19 says, The woman said to Him, Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. The revelation about the Lord is advancing from the first message up until now. Maybe we have realized that the voice which we are hearing is of a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, yet you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men must worship. Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is of the Jews. But an hour is coming... (vv a). The faith about which we are speaking is not in the past or in the future, but it is now! But an hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truthfulness, for the Father also seeks such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness (vv ). In spirit and truthfulness! The spirit is the substitute for the place where the sons of Israel went to praise God. The true sons of Israel needed to go to a temple to give their offerings, but now the place changed. True worship is neither in Jerusalem nor at the mountain. Now it is in our spirit! In spirit is both the proper place and truthfulness. The sons of Israel brought cattle and doves to offer to God, but we bring the reality of all offerings, the Christ whom we enjoy in our daily living and in the church life. The true worshiper has Christ to present as an offering. If we came here with nothing to present, is this the true worship? For the Father also seeks such to worship Him (vs. 23). The Father is seeking, do not hide from Him. There are so many places we can hide ourselves. Where is the place the Lord can find what He is seeking in us? In the spirit! There He can find the true worshippers. That s why we need to call on His name, that s why we need to pray. We want the Lord to find us. Lord, find us! Lord, find me. Lord, find me. The woman answered, I know, I already know this message. I already have this message in my notebook. In verse 25, she says, I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when He comes, He will declare all things to us. Jesus said to her, I, who speak to you, am He. The Lord is speaking with you through His Word, through the gospel of John, through the organic ministry, but He wants an answer. He wants to know what we will do with our waterpot. And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, What are You seeking? or, Why are You speaking with her? Then the woman left her waterpot and went away into the city, and said to the people, Come, see a man who told me all that I have done. Is this not the Christ? They went out of the city and came to Him (vv ). At this point, the woman really touched the Lord. And many of the Samaritans from that city believed into Him because of the word of the woman who testified, He told me all that I have done. (vs. 31). Here the woman not only announced but she testified. The Lord wants us to be overcomers. Overcomers are those who overcome because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they love not their soul-life even unto death (Rev. 12:11). We need to give our testimony. We will only be used if we open our mouths. We need to break the waterpot and testify. They believed because this woman came back to her city a different person. She was different and for sure she did not come back to the one who was not her husband or to be with those who had nothing to do with the Lord. The Lord used the Samaritan woman who had the courage to end the improper relationships. The Lord trusted in her. Samaritans, strangers, Galileans believed in Him. A man who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness believed Him. This is the Lord s team that will bring Him back! The word of their testimony Your Who are on the Lord s team? HE WHO BELIEVES, OUT OF HIS INNERMOST BEING SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER - Out of His Innermost Being Shall Flow Rivers of 4Living

5 Friday Scripture Reading: John 4:31-34, Gen. 1:28 Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. (John 4:34) The True Food The Lord said to His disciples, I have food to eat that you do not know about (John 4:32). The disciples did not know about true food. Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work (v. 34). The first reason we eat food is to sustain us, to give us satisfaction and to give us energy. Good food, there is nothing better! But when we don t eat, what happens? We are not satisfied. The second reason we eat is to grow. The more you eat, the more you can grow. The true food is to sustain our spiritual life, to give us the spiritual satisfaction which is the base of all things and to grow. The third reason we eat is to give us energy to do God s work. If we do not eat, we cannot go out. If we do not eat, we don t even want to go and preach the gospel. The will of God is the kingdom! When you enter into the realm of the kingdom, you get satisfied and God gets satisfied. The kingdom is the church, and the kingdom must be established on this earth. The will of God was given to a couple: a man and a woman. It wasn t that He sent them to college and after seven years of schooling, He told them His will. No! Man was created to comprehend, to receive, not in a school, but by being taught of God. It is written that all will be taught by God. We don t need any school. All will be taught by God. God said to Adam and Eve, Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it (Genesis 1:28). Now, we just need to choose, This is the tree of life and that one is the tree of knowledge. You choose, the tree of life gives life and the other one gives death. What do you want to choose? It is so clear, so obvious. Then the serpent began to speak to the woman, Look at this tree; it is so nice, so desirable. What did God say? Oh yes, that s right. Did God tell you that? God is deceiving you; He doesn t want you to be like He is. The woman said, I never thought about it like that. She ate and gave it to her husband and he ate it also. So sin and death came into them until the Lord raised up a new couple. Do you know why Christ didn t get married? Because He is already married! He has His bride, which is the church. And this couple is to bring in the kingdom. It is to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. It is to conquer the earth not with strength or violence, but with the rivers of living water. But how can we have a river if there is no inner fountain? Everything begins from our inner being. In the New Testament, this fountain doesn t begin from outside, but from inside. Many didn t believe in the Lord because of His appearance. He was not according to what people were expecting. Today the Lord is using His team, the Samaritans, the Galileans, the strangers, the paralytics, the young ones and the little ones, and the people who are idle. Many are so busy. I need to do this, I need to do that. Go and preach the gospel! No, first I have three years of studies, then three years to do I don t know what. Then I need to get married, and when I turn 49 I will go. Maybe many may think that after 35 years when they are old they can go and serve the Lord. The Lord calls the ones who are not busy. What do you want? The Lord is not looking at our capacity, rather, He is looking at the capacity of His life within us. This is the life that is able to build up the house of God. This is the opposite of the culture of the world. God did not choose those who are noble or wise. God chose the despised things, the things that are nothing in the eyes of the world, to bring to nothing the things that are. We need to receive His life; we need to break our waterpot, to leave this one and to leave that one. Let us lift up our eyes. We need to be nourished by the one who was sent and brought the Father s food. We need to have the discernment to see who is the sent one from the Father. The sent one is the one who does the work of the Father. The results are the fruits, the churches, the saints who are consecrating themselves to the Lord. When we leave the organic realm, we fall into pride. We get blind because we think we are so rich. We cannot see who is doing the work of God and who is not. Do the will of God Your What is the true food? HE WHO BELIEVES, OUT OF HIS INNERMOST BEING SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER - Out of His Innermost Being Shall Flow Rivers of 5Living

6 Saturday Scripture Reading: John 4:35; 7:38; 14:12; Gen. 13:14-15; Josh. 13:1; 14:8-10 Do you not say that there are yet four months and then the harvest comes? Behold, I tell you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are already white for harvest. (John 4:35) Fully Following the Lord The work of God is the work of faith, the work of the Spirit. When we are saved, we receive the Spirit and the Spirit is life. The work of God is this, that we trust in the One who was sent by Him. He who believes into Me, as the Scripture said, out of his innermost being shall flow rivers of living water (John 7:38). Truly, truly, I say to you, He who believes into Me, the works which I do he shall do also; and greater than these he shall do because I am going to the Father (14:12). The work of God was the work of redemption. The Lord finished that work on the cross. But we, as His disciples, are continuing His work of building up. That s why we need to go out to Samaria, Judea, and unto the uttermost part of the earth, preaching the gospel of the kingdom. But more than this, we need to finish this work. We are here not only to do, but also to finish. We are here to fulfill God s will. Peter and the apostles with him started, but they didn t finish it fully. Paul started well, but he didn t finish it fully either. The 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, and the 4th centuries passed but no one fulfilled all God desired. Now it is our time, the 21st century! It is our time! He who believes, will do! He who does not believe, won t do! It is our time! It is our turn! We will fulfill God s will if we lift up our eyes to see that the field is already white for the harvest. We need, not only to eat, but to lift up our eyes. The Lord told His disciples, Do you not say that there are yet four months and then the harvest comes? Behold, I tell you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are already white for harvest (John 4:35). The time is now! This is the generation with the spirit of Caleb. He made the people shut their mouths when they were afraid to believe in the Lord. Let us go and take the land. The Lord is with us and He will make us go forward. We need to lift up our eyes and see our inheritance. What is my inheritance? Which is my city? Which is my state? Which is my country? Which is my continent? I want to lift up my eyes. Genesis 13:14-15 says, And Jehovah said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, Now lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward; For all the land that you see I will give to you and to your seed forever. Lot was a believer who wanted to have an easy life and cared only for his own things. Once he left Abraham, God was able to lift up Abraham s eyes to see all that He had prepared for him. Joshua was raised up to take God s people into the land, but he was afraid. So Moses encouraged him and God encouraged him. He was encouraged and he conquered 31 cities with 31 kings. But then in five years he asked for retirement. But the Lord went to speak to him. Joshua 13:1 says, Now Joshua was old and advanced in age; and Jehovah said to him, You are old and advanced in age, and very much of the land remains to be possessed. Praise the Lord, the Lord raised Caleb to go and encourage Joshua. Joshua 14:6-14 says, Then the children of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the word that Jehovah spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-barnea. I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me out from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I returned such a word to him as was genuinely upon my heart. However my brothers who went up with me made the people s heart melt, but I fully followed Jehovah my God. And Moses swore on that day, saying, surely the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, for you have fully followed Jehovah my God. And now, look, Jehovah has kept me alive, as He said, for these forty-five years, since the time Jehovah spoke this word to Moses while Israel walked through the wilderness. And now, look, today I am eighty-five years old. Today I am still as strong as I was on the day Moses sent me out; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for battle and for going out and coming in. Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Jehovah spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakim were there with great fortified cities. It may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I will dispossess them, as Jehovah said. So Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. Therefore Hebron has become the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day because he fully followed Jehovah the God of Israel. Finish the work Your What work needs to be finished? HE WHO BELIEVES, OUT OF HIS INNERMOST BEING SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER - Out of His Innermost Being Shall Flow Rivers of 6Living

7 Powered by TCPDF ( Sunday Scripture Reading: Josh 14:11-12; John 4:34-38 Do you not say that there are yet four months and then the harvest comes? Behold, I tell you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are already white for harvest. (John 4:35) Claim Your Inheritance Moses had called the leaders of the people to go to spy out the land. When they came back, they said, Oh, the land is good, look! We need two people to carry this cluster of grapes. But there are giants everywhere. In their eyes we are so small. We cannot go into the land, we are so small, like grasshoppers. But Caleb made the people be quiet because in him there was a different spirit. This different spirit is the Spirit which today we can enjoy! The Spirit today is much more complete than the Spirit Caleb could enjoy. Joshua 14:11-12 say, Today I am still as strong as I was on the day Moses sent me out; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for battle and for going out and coming in. Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Jehovah spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakim were there with great fortified cities. It may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I will dispossess them, as Jehovah said. I hope that today, you see your school, your college as a hill promised to you by the Lord. May you see today the city where you live as a hill of the promise. Even your country, can be an inheritance for you. But while there is an inheritance, the chance to possess it does not last long because the Lord is finishing His work through those who cooperate with Him. Jesus is the Lord. John 4:34-35 says, Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. Do you not say that there are yet four months and then the harvest comes? Behold, I tell you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are already white for harvest. Saints, the Lord wants to entrust Himself to us, but He does not trust in human nature. He wants to see our waterpots broken. He wants to see our testimony, so people might believe. He wants to see us testify so that the Samaritans and the foreigners may believe in the Lord. Verse 36, He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, in order that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. Our crown is the fruit and the fruit is in the field which is already white for the harvest. Let us not wait anymore. There is no more time for us to wait. The Lord has an inheritance for us. Wherever the Lord sends us, this is the place that will be our inheritance. Do you know why? Verse 38 says, I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor. Everything is ready. The Lord has already prepared people s heart. In some way most people have heard the name of the Lord; they have heard something of the word of the Lord. Their heart already has a seed. Some of them are facing a crisis or problems; they are fully ready to be reaped. Everything is prepared, so let us lift up our eyes and see the field. Amen! This field is our inheritance. This inheritance is our crown, our victory, but today the Lord wants to break our waterpots. I would like to end this meeting giving the opportunity for some brothers and sisters to come here and break their waterpots. Come and pour your heart out to the Lord. I want to make a decision. Enough of staying in my situation! This waterpots will break and the good smell will fill up the entire house. Lord, we praise you! Lord, we praise you! And we glorify you for your word that is spirit, that is life. We want to believe into Your words, which are powerful to save us. Lord, how many things separate us from You. How many husbands! Even someone who is not our husband. Lord, our waterpots separate us from You. I want to break my waterpot, to receive You so that my innermost being may have a fountain gushing up to eternal life. When I come back to my city, I want to testify. I want my life to be a testimony that the Lord is good, that the Lord is powerful to save me. Lord, gain me fully. Lord I want your life. Lord, I want You to be able to trust in me because You are the One living in me. Lord, give me a hill, a hill as my inheritance where there is my prize, my crown! Jesus is the Lord. The fields are white Your What are you waiting for? Additional Reading Enrich your reading of the Daily Food by simultaneously reading the books suggested below: Rivers of Living Chapter 4 Jasper Life Publications HE WHO BELIEVES, OUT OF HIS INNERMOST BEING SHALL FLOW RIVERS OF LIVING WATER - Out of His Innermost Being Shall Flow Rivers of 7Living

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