Celebration

For church, we meet with a small group every Sunday. We're all white people living and serving in a foreign land, taking the time to worship in our heart language. It's a blessing - we get to sing praise songs, hold each other accountable, celebrate successes/breakthroughs, and study the Word.

For our celebration time, we go around the room and state how many groups we've met with over the past week. How many people heard the name of Jesus. Today, with only 11 people in the room, over the past two weeks, there have been 81 groups.

That's right. 81. That's how many groups have heard the marvelous name of Jesus over the last two weeks.

This verse always comes to mind - someone shared it with me recently. John 4:35-36: "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. Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together." (ESV).

Now is the time of harvest. Now is the time where we go and claim what has been promised.

Pray for those who are out there, sowing abundant seed and reaping what others have sown. And don't be that person who says "4 more months....4 more months." Claim the harvest.