Mrs. D PRAYS for Stacy Kocur to have safe trip as she goes to visit her mother; and for her neighbor John Carr’s health
Kristen PRAYS for her uncle who in the hospital
Michael PRAYS for all the interns who will be working with us this summer
Michael PRAYS for God to send us the right person for our new Educational Specialist position and for the next year in general-that it’s an important growth year and gets us closer to our core purposes.
Ramon PRAYS for the Summer JAM program and that we have a productive, educational and spiritual summer with the kids.
Robert PRAYS for his DTS application and that God opens up doors of opportunity to fund the things in his life he is working towards.
Brittany PRAYS for her brother and his wife as they prepare for their first child.
by Ramon Smith
Matthew 9:36-38
Seeing the people, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and dispirited like sheep without a shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”
Matthew 10:1-The Twelve Disciples; Instructions for Service
Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.
What an honor it is to be called on as Christ’s solution to His compassion. For the first 10 chapters of Matthew, we hear all about the lineage of Christ, the baptism of Christ, His teaching. His disciples have been right there learning from Him, watching His miracles and hearing His teachings.
In Chapter 9 of Matthew, when His compassion is expressed, the first thing He teaches is for His disciples to pray that the LORD of the harvest would send laborers into the harvest. The next thing that we hear from Matthew after this request is Jesus commissioning His disciples to go to the house of Israel, with the message of the kingdom, to cast out evil spirits and to heal diseases…the very work that Jesus was doing.
Working in ministry in general and with “inner-city youth” specifically, we can easily see Jesus’ compassion if we open our eyes. Just as Jesus saw, they are helpless and confused like sheep without a shepherd. They are following anyone who seems to have an answer.
Pray that Christ and His teachings be presented in a way that is easily understood, and will that out youth will choose to follow HIM. We are Christ’s solution to Christ’s compassion.
May we be faithful,
Quest