FROM
THE HEART:
Fisherman or Farmer?
In
the last teaching, I quoted the command of our Lord to follow Him, in
the following verse: Mat 4:19 “And
he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”
So, if you’re not
fishing for men, you’re not following Jesus!
Jesus said it, not me!
Some would say “I’m
too hard.” I look at it this way - For too many generations, the church
has been too soft!
The
church can sing the song, “I HAVE DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS,” until
they’re dead. Yet if the
church fails to fish for men, the church is not following Jesus!
Why seek deeper things of the Bible when you refuse to fish for
men? The simplest verse in
the Bible is left undone, while the church disobeys our Lord by refusing
to fish for men. STOP
SINGING THE SONG UNTIL YOU START FISHING FOR MEN!
A
spiritual fisherman does not farm. If you claim that you are only called to plant seeds then you
are not fishing,-- you are farming.
For hundreds of years, Christians have not been in faith to lead
someone to pray for salvation, because they have been convinced that
their calling is to farm instead of fish.
If some dear lost soul asked them to pray with them that Jesus
would be their Lord, they would not even know how to lead them in that
prayer. Spiritual farmers
are convinced that they can only plant a seed here and there.
They would be shocked if God made them harvest the crop that they
have planted. They would stop and pray that the Lord of the harvest would
send someone else to harvest their crop!
Jesus
said: Mat
9:38
“Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send
forth labourers into his harvest.” He said this in response to His disciples observing, even
2000 years ago that there are only a few laborers!
The church quotes what is called “the Lord’s prayer,” and
they should! Others have
made money from an Old Testament prayer called, “the prayer of Jabez.” I challenge you to pray this prayer in Mat. 9:38 every day
until you die! Praying this
prayer will make a farmer into a fisher of men!
Let this teaching make you into something that you are not!
I pray
that you would bring in fish in even greater number than I have!
Grant it, Lord, for your glory!
10/6/08
in
depth study of what must be
restored to the modern day church before Christ can take us home.
