The Word for Wednesday, 1 May 2024
Jesus said to the disciples:
Do you not say, “There are yet four months, then comes the harvest”? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.
John 4:35 (ESV)
Pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.
Matthew 9:38
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Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. |
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Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. |
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Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. |
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Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; |
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therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” |