When God Sends the Harvest

Yeah and it's understanding that there is a harvest out there and people are ready to hear Jesus and the second thing is that the Bible say you know pray to the Lord the harvest and one of the things that I've learned is that yes we have to have those minds and believe that people are ready to hear Jesus and we have to have discernment because there's some fruits that are ready to be picked and harvested and there's something that are not and as we have to be obedient to the Holy Spirit in discern welcome to the ignite with Barry Maguire podcast where Barry's book and passion for spreading God's love are guaranteed to ignite your life now listen in and prepare to have your life ignited stories great to be with you mine and I'm reminded how it's so much fun sharing stories I love your heart tell me some of your most recent experiences some that I haven't heard before me and my friend were about to go to work doorknogging to sell some products and right before we left we said hey let's pray to the Lord to help us impact somebody right before our day started and I was okay let's do this and so right before we went to a doorknock and we would stop at Starbucks to get something to drink and out of nowhere this guy approaches us out of nowhere and he's like hey I overheard you guys this conversation are you guys Christian and once again we just prayed the God uses today for your kingdom yeah and this guy approaches out of nowhere and we're like oh yes we actually are Christians and out of nowhere a kid you not he starts bawling crying hysterically and we're like what going on and he's like I just lost at Starbucks right and he's like I just lost my job I lost my wife she left me everything just going downhill and you guys talking about God and church and this is what I need in my life and and he starts bawling even more crying and crying once again people are watching us in Starbucks and so we decide to pray for him encourage him we lead him to Jesus he was all happy about it and so I took him to church on Sunday church church started at 8.30 but he was there at seven o'clock he's like I need God I need God and the interesting thing about this it wasn't that we went to go look for it we asked the Lord to give us an opportunity and he came to us and one of the things that I learned a couple things that I've learned this is great this is great stuff yeah one of the things we learn is this is that the harvest is ready we know that the scripture says it right people are ready for the gospel people are ready to hear about Jesus they're hungry we're in a pandemic they're going to some stuff and more than ever they need to hear Jesus but we have this lie of the enemy that says nobody wants to hear about Jesus nobody cares the reality is that most people do if you believe it and what the Bible says is true God's allowing all this to get our attention he's getting our attention okay if if if we weren't in chaos we'd be doing business as usual and ignoring God but ever right now he has everybody's attention yeah it's very easy to talk about God loving them and giving the peace that only you know you know you and I am yeah and it's understanding that there is a harvest out there and people are ready to hear Jesus and the second thing is that the Bible say you know pray to the Lord the harvest and one of the things that that I've learned is that yes we have to have those minds and believe that people are ready to hear Jesus and we have to have discernment because there's some fruits that are ready to be picked and harvested and there's some that are not and as we have to be obedient to the Holy Spirit in discern which is the fruit to be harvested and which is something that has to be weighed even Paul God redirected his path to a different direction because those people weren't ready or whatever it is so I think it's our job to number one believe that there's a harvest and people are ready number two be listen to the Holy Spirit to have him discerned which situation to take and like you said I've heard you say before move everybody every day move everybody and sometimes you might lead him to Jesus sometimes not but even if you share Jesus and don't get saved you planted a seed or you water still you're still moody you've advanced the cause yeah it's a team sport it's a team effort right yeah and and what I've learned is that God's already working in them so this usually people's responses like I've been praying about this or I had this conversation or somebody told me about God and you're just exposing that you're just taking it out and the third thing that I've learned is Luke 12 12 that the Holy Spirit will give you the right words to say well standing there and so sometimes we get so caught off like I don't know if I have the knowledge or the experience you don't need it you just need to be obedient so understand that the harvest is ready number two be sensitive to the Spirit and number three God will give you the right words to say there so when we trust God it does every time yeah every time you step out there he gives you the words every time yeah fail yeah and what does that do for your faith I mean sometimes you even speak stuff you don't even know where it came from oh my gosh and you're being a versus that you're like I haven't I didn't know I knew this verse it uses you to be amazing and powerful that is my gosh people don't know it's fun they don't understand that yeah it is fun it is amazing and how he directs our steps and steps to the right just a direction of the Lord but he also directs their steps oh of course he the mind encounters he knew if he could get that guy into that Starbucks right at that moment close enough to hear you pray right think all God had to do to orchestrate that that encounter who did all the word it was the Lord he did the word he did the word we're just we're just taking the harvest right love your heart we gotta keep talking I'll keep checking back with 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