And Jesus finished his race.
Since therefore we are surrounded by such a
cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything
that hinders and the sin that so easily
besets and entangles us, and let us run
with perseverance the race marked out for us.
I have a friend who lives in a
northeastern Indian state.
They are part of India, but they're not
actually Indian people, they're tribal.
They would rather not be Indian, so they're
a bit different.
This particular state has been officially Christian for
150 years.
Before that they were naked and headhunters.
And my friend there has a home for
unmarried mothers and has been criticized by the
church there.
Everyone goes to church, by the way.
She has been criticized by the church for
encouraging promiscuity, and she told me of this
girl.
This is, I'm sorry to say, a normal
story.
This baby was sold across the border.
Well, the mother might have thought, I'm not
really selling my daughter, but I cannot afford
to raise her, and these people say they
will.
Now they either buy a child to be
a servant, or they adopt one.
They have no intention of raising them as
their child.
It's just a legal form of slavery.
You can adopt one.
So they, in this case, they took the
baby in, and they were to pay the
parents yearly, except they never did.
And the child began to be abused by
the father of the house when she was
four, in front of the other children.
And when she was 12, she was pregnant
by the only man she knew as father.
My friend, who's a very brave tribal lady
of that state, went to the family where
the child had been living, and the child,
of course, wanted to go back, because it's
the only home she'd known, and said, you
will find her natural parents.
They said, we cannot.
She said, if you do not, the police
will.
So, of course, they were able to find
that family, and she said, you will pay
them what you owe them, and you will
free this child to live a new life.
I love what IJM is doing, the International
Justice Mission.
I love how many people these days are
understanding the need to free the slaves.
But sometimes I'm a little bit worried, you
see, because we live in missionary land.
Everybody stops off there for a while.
And I get these messages from ladies who
truly love Jesus, and they say, we are
going to such and such Asian country, I
won't tell you which one, and we're going
to help the girls who've been rescued from
slavery for two weeks.
And I think, oh, God, no.
Oh, God, no.
You see, the first thing our men say,
or our girls, we're currently housing between 200
and 300.
The first thing they say to visitors is,
when are you leaving?
In case they get disappointed.
And it's one thing to rescue someone out
of a brothel.
It's one thing to buy someone's freedom, and
it's another thing to stay and love them
whole.
Grow them up, and be there.
Well, that's what your kids had, wasn't it?
Not hallelujah, they're born.
But God has entrusted this life to me,
and I will look after this life.
I will love this child.
I will love them better.
We have a scripture from Zechariah, which is
one of the captioned passages this week, chapter
eight, chapter seven, sorry.
When the Lord is asking the people of
Israel, what their fasting and feasting has been
about, has it been about them or him?
And then he finishes up.
This is what the Lord Almighty says.
Administer true justice, show mercy and compassion to
one another.
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless,
the alien or the poor.
In your hearts, do not think evil of
one another.
Now, it's a very interesting thing that there's
a modern phrase, which, forgive me, it may
even be on your pamphlet.
It may even have been on your publicity
material.
I'm not sure.
It tends to pop up rather frequently these
days.
And I came here because it's about Go.
And a lot of the current publicity materials
about mission then put another little phrase afterwards,
which is, make a difference.
Now, I have a problem with make a
difference.
I thought the scripture said, go and make
disciples.
And making disciples takes time.
Getting people born is quite quick.
I'm not really criticizing because, of course, I
want you to go and make a difference.
But the problem is if make a difference
is about me.
And we have people who pass through Hong
Kong and they're saying, we're praying about what
we want to do in the future.
And we have people who stay with us
for a while and we're wondering what to
do next.
And I've noticed with the young generation, it's,
by the way, it's not their fault.
It is not their fault.
Understand this.
It's a current day phenomenon and it is
not their fault.
But they cannot concentrate.
So they go off to Mozambique for six
months.
They want to come to us for a
few months.
Off they go to that well-known place
in California for a year.
And first of all, I'm thinking, who's paying?
And how many more places where God is
on the move do you want to visit?
Would you not stay somewhere and work it
through?
Would you not stay somewhere and love people
so that they know it's not about what
you're getting from God, but about what you
are sharing of God with them?
This is what the lost, the lonely, and
the hungry need.
Not us having one more experience.
And by the way, you know, the lost
and the broken and the hungry, they are
not remotely fooled.
They know exactly who is there for God
and them and who is there for their
own missionary CV.
They do.
I remember after I had been in Hong
Kong for four years, there was the brother
of the gang leader.
I'm going to tell quite a few of
that family stories.
But the brother of the gang leader came
to me once and he said, we've watched
you.
We've watched you.
And he said, many people come to Hong
Kong.
Now this was, this was about, this was
nearly 40 years ago he said this, actually.
He said, many people come to Hong Kong,
they stand on platforms with guitars and they
sing about Jesus.
And he said, what does that have to
do with us?
He said, they get back on a plane
and they've got their fridges and their air
conditioning and we're still here.
They may even take photos.
He's not sure.
They have met.
And he said, it doesn't touch us.
He said, this is what we do.
We try to discourage people.
Now I was in the walled city and
he said, it's quite easy to discourage people.
Somebody asked me yesterday about being a woman
in difficult situations.
God is smart.
Those people didn't want to touch me because
they discounted women.
They actually thought that if you step on
a fly, it doesn't hurt the fly.
Neither would it hurt a woman.
So they didn't bother.
So God's smart.
He's not brave of me.
He's just smart of God.
He said, we've watched you and we can
normally discourage people.
We don't mind if you're offering needlework, hymn
singing, judo or noodles.
What we want to know is, are you
anything to do with us?
And when you'd been here four years, we
thought maybe you meant what you said.
And I thought, oh God, they really have
been watching.
There was another couple.
They were called Ping and Tadpole and they
were just little gangsters.
And they said, we sat up all night
and I know where they were sitting because
Tadpole was one of six brothers and four
of them were drug addicts.
I never ever went to their house where
somebody wasn't shooting up or spitting.
And the stairs up to their place was
where the gamblers used as a toilet because
there were no toilets at that time in
Walled City.
He said, we sat up all night and
we were been talking about you.
This was again after maybe four or five
years.
He said, we came to one of two
conclusions.
Either the British government have sent you here
as a spy or what you say about
Jesus is real because nobody would spend their
life with us here unless they had to.
I thought, oh, they haven't rejected Jesus.
They've accepted me in his name.
It was so exciting.
They have been watching.
And I'm here this morning to encourage you
not only to go, but to continue.
Not to go because you probably know that
many go and never do a second term.
And today's young generation think two weeks holiday
is outreach.
Or six months here or six months there.
I'm here because I know that if God
has called you to him and is sending
you out, whether it's to this country, to
the broken and the lonely and the refugees
and those who've come to find a better
country, which is why they've come.
If God is sending you to these people,
some of you have got to stay and
finish the race.
Jeremiah 12.5 says, if you have raced
with men on foot and they have worn
you out, this is such a great scripture.
If you've raced with men on foot and
they've worn you out, how will you compete
with horses?
If you stumble in safe country, how will
you manage by the thickets in the Jordan?
And so we hear very often about people
who are on outreach teams and they're having
problems after a few weeks or a few
days.
And then I get these messages saying spiritual
warfare and I say, no, it's not spiritual
warfare.
We've just met you.
And the lost, the poor, the gospel, none
of us have a problem with that.
We just have a problem with the people
we're doing it with.
We just have a problem with the other
people on the team.
And so this scripture is saying, if in
safe country you stumble, how are you going
to be able to compete with horses and
the thickets in the Jordan?
How then do we need to get ready?
Well, we have to start.
I always loved that C.S. Lewis book,
you know, with the picture of heaven and
where the grass was too difficult for normal
people to walk on.
Because the feet weren't used to the heaven
grass.
And for young people here today, if God
is calling you, by the way, he's made
you, he equips you, he's going to see
you through, he's going to gift you.
If he's calling you, if he's sending you,
he will enable you to finish.
And you're going to need to develop some
qualities.
And one of them is called, what Jesus
said, perseverance.
Let us run with perseverance, the race marked
out for us.
Now there are two main pictures I like
in scripture that help us to understand the
process of going and persevering.
One of them is the race picture, which
we've shared.
He says you need to persevere so that
when you have done the will of God,
you will receive what he has promised.
Do you not know that in a race,
this is 1 Corinthians 9, 24, all the
runners run, but only one gets the prize.
Everyone who competes goes into strict training.
Now you're not competing in this race against
other men.
This is a very helpful thing to understand
at the beginning.
And I think particularly for those of us
who've grown up, unsure of ourselves.
That's why I like to bring a team
with me so that when this meeting is
finished and everybody says, Jackie, will you pray
for my sick son?
I say, I'm not that good at it.
But my teammates, because more people get healed
through my brothers and sisters in Hong Kong
than me praying for people.
You know, I'm really scared of big meetings.
I'm scared that if people come up and
ask me to pray for a sick person,
I'm scared they won't get healed because you
see, I, I, I'm not always very good
at hearing God.
So that's why I have people with me.
I'm also scared they'll get healed.
Goodness, there's going to be a prayer line
thinking I can do it.
Nobody's supposed to be doing this kind of
thing.
We're all supposed to be equipping everyone else
how to pray for the sick because that's
efficient.
That's what Jesus did.
You think he couldn't have stuck around for
another 40 years and healed a few more
people?
I don't know why after three years, God
the Father in him said, that's your bit,
now it's your bit.
I mean, what a plan.
But these days, we've gone backwards again, haven't
we?
Now we've got anointed healers, anointed prophets, and
everything that is not Pentecost.
When he said, I will pour out my
spirit on all flesh, old men, young men,
there will be signs and wonders.
This is to happen through the ordinary people
of God, and our job is to make
sure that we equip them to do that,
not invite special speakers.
That's so inefficient.
So, some of your strict training is to
learn how to heal the sick, practice it,
and if nobody gets well, practice some more.
Nobody gets well, practice some more.
Find out somebody that understands how to spot
demons.
There's no point in casting one out that
isn't there.
You know, we had some of our guys,
they don't speak English.
They did the most odd thing one day.
I was with them, and they started sounding
like dogs barking.
They went, out, out, out.
I said, what are you saying?
They were saying, out, out, O-U-T,
O-U-T.
And I said, why are you saying out,
out?
And they said, well, we have a pastor
that comes on Thursdays and prays for us,
and he says, out, out.
Well, but you need to know how to
cast out demons.
You need to know how to heal the
sick, and you need to persevere.
One of the reasons that we feel bad
about ourself is that we think somebody else
can, and we can't.
And especially, this is why I keep saying
it's hard on the young generation, because the
young generation have grown up with computers, and
messaging systems, and Facebook, and everything's instant.
You know, I mean, I tell this story
to our new arrivals, and nobody wants to
hear it.
I say, I was in Hong Kong for
one whole year before I went down to
the local telephone exchange, where I had to
book a call, and I had three minutes
with my parents after one year on the
telephone.
And nobody wants to hear that.
Now, our people, they get off the plane,
and all their friends in Britain know how
they feel with a happy or an unhappy
smiley face, or what they ate, photographs of
the, I mean, it's different, isn't it?
So, you know, they, have they left behind
their country?
No.
They've taken all their friends with them.
That's why it's very hard, because they have
to keep checking in.
I call them the Greek chorus.
They have to keep checking in, what do
my friends think?
This is what I felt.
It's all about what am I going through?
And if you've been brought up like this,
which is why if you're youth leaders or
something, we have to help our young people.
If you've grown up like that, it's very
difficult.
You know, one of the things I'd suggest,
if you've got young people, is when you
go on your summer camp or something, ban
telephones.
Ban their iPods, at least for three days.
Now, they will have withdrawal symptoms.
No, truly, truly, they'll have the shakes, they'll
have bad temper, and they'll have insomnia.
They will, because it is an addiction.
And if your addiction is what do my
friends think, rather than what has God got
for me, you cannot last.
The other picture in scripture, which is about
sowing and reaping, and
it says in Galatians 6.9, Do not
weary in doing good, for at the proper
time we will reap a harvest if we
do not give up.
And one of the problems I think that
people have when they cannot last is because
they are results-orientated.
They want to see the harvest now.
In fact, there's sometimes large annoyance.
So, I tell people who come to help
in our houses, never get annoyed with the
person you've been looking after because they haven't
changed.
That's about you.
Jesus died for us whether we said thank
you or not.
Jesus loved us to the end whether we
changed or not.
Jesus gave up his life whether we said
thank you or not.
We do not pour our lives into other
people so that they'll say thank you.
And when they don't change, we feel, look
what I did and they didn't.
By the way, they can spot that too.
I'll love you because he loved me.
That's it.
In God's mercy, he's been so kind to
me.
He's been so kind to me.
In God's mercy, when I went to Hong
Kong, nobody supported me.
I actually didn't know that there was something
called raising support.
Didn't know.
I just thought God looked after you and
you worked whenever you could.
That's what I did.
I didn't receive any donations, I think, for
five years.
I wasn't expecting any either.
So I used my own money.
I used what I earned.
I learned.
It was so sweet of him.
You see, I didn't have a group behind
me, no organization.
I had one vicar who prayed.
That was it.
But he never sent any money.
It's fine.
He was a brave man.
He couldn't wait to send me off.
And because I had no group behind me,
I had no one to report to, which
was very kind of God.
So I did not have to write and
say, I've led 53 people to the Lord
and they've all changed overnight.
Here are their pictures.
That was just so kind of God.
I was free.
So you see, I knew I didn't have
to succeed.
What it says in Galatians is five, six,
the only thing that counts is faith expressing
itself through love.
All we have to do is go on
the journey that God has sent us on
and keep running and love people.
And we told stories yesterday about some of
the simple acts of kindness that we do
along the way.
And then with the power of the Holy
Spirit, some of them turn into miracles.
That's it.
That's going to be our race until he
comes back.
And that's all he's asking us to do.
But if we've got a success mentality, we'll
either get proud because thousands of people have
come to Christ.
Actually, it's nothing to do with us.
His plan, his Holy Spirit, just allowing my
feet and hands and that's it.
Why should I be proud?
I'm just thrilled to have been there.
He did it.
So I'm not thrilled with myself.
I'm just privileged.
Neither am I disappointed, though I nearly was,
when nothing happens.
Because he asked me to go.
That's it.
He asked me to go.
I can leave it to him.
It says in 1 Corinthians 3.
Bible's great, you know.
It's all in here.
One sows, verse 7, another reaps, and there's
equal reward.
Neither he who plants nor him who waters
is anything.
So we don't have to say, what a
great anointing, this man.
He's led two million people to the Lord.
No greater anointing than he who wastes his
life on one man.
No, just different job.
I'm happy to be in it anyway.
But only God who makes things grow.
Each one is recorded, rewarded according to his
labor.
Now when I got to Hong Kong, all
the missionaries I met were depressed.
They were saying, cloud over Hong.
I had no idea what they meant.
Because you see, I've always believed in 1
Corinthians 15, 58, which says, whatever you do
in the name of the Lord is not
in vain.
So I thought, how could anyone be depressed?
I know that what I'm doing in the
name of the Lord is not going to
be wasted.
And Galatians says, there will be a harvest.
There will be a harvest if we do
not give up.
So we come to some stories.
There are some groups.
You may even have joined some of those
groups.
So I won't tell you which organization.
But they go off, after they've done some
kind of discipleship course, they go off and
do some outreach somewhere.
And they come back and they say, their
outreach has been a month or two somewhere.
And they come back and they say, hallelujah.
When we were there, we led 58 people
to the Lord.
Marvelous.
And do you know there have been missionaries
there for 20 years and they haven't seen
anything.
And I'm thinking, why do you think you
led 58 people to Jesus?
It's because those missionaries who were there for
20 years were faithfully sowing God's heart.
And it says in John 4, this is
what Jesus says, there's a harvest ready somewhere.
And he says, the unfair thing about the
harvest is that you're going to reap what
someone else has sown.
I sent you to reap what you have
not worked for.
Others have done the hard work.
This is John 4, and you have reaped
the benefits of their labor.
So this is my encouragement to you people.
I haven't got time to share all the
Bible and all the stories, so I'm frustrated.
Don't get stuck in a position.
It's very boring.
I just sow.
Then you get the other people who go
to where they hear revival is.
I knew one man who moved to this
country because somebody had prophesied there was going
to be a revival in the north of
England.
Well, I was fed up with him for
doing that.
He's going to plant a church.
Why don't you move to the north of
England?
Because you love those people.
Well, he didn't see revival and he left.
No, good.
Don't move where you hear there's a move
of God.
There'll be a move of God if you
move and stay.
We need to love the people.
But there's a bunch of people who only
want to see miracles.
And there's a bunch of people who've got
stuck with the sowing.
You should be harvesting and you should be
sowing.
He says there is a harvest somewhere everywhere.
When I started praying in the Holy Spirit,
I led all these gangsters to Jesus.
And I thought my Chinese suddenly got very
good.
But actually, I was saying the same words
as I'd always said.
I realized that the fun thing about praying
in the Holy Spirit, which for me is
often tongues, is that it's not a feely
thing, by the way.
You don't suddenly hear him say, take the
number eight bus.
But what started happening was I started being
in the right place at the right time,
saying the same words as before.
Only this time when I said them, people
fell down in the streets and believed in
Jesus.
Then I knew it was him.
He got people ready.
I could have said tomato ketchup and they
would have been saved.
Honestly, because whatever I was saying, they heard
Jesus.
And you know, who could be proud about
that?
So neither be proud about the results nor
disappointed because there aren't.
We've had so many people and they come
and we either have a marvelous time.
Now, if you only stay three months, you
won't learn much.
So if you're hoping to understand addicts, you
need a good two years.
Two weeks won't do.
Because everything might go right, you see.
Everybody may have the most miraculous time.
Then you'll go off somewhere and you won't
be remotely equipped to deal with the difficulties.
Or everything might go awfully badly, which it
does.
And then they'd say, you know what Jackie
wrote in her book, it's not true.
And you haven't learned anything anyway.
We have times of sweetness and miracles and
times of difficulty.
And we have people who come to stay
with us and during the difficulty they say,
am I in the right place?
I always say, why don't you go back
to when God last spoke to you?
Through the scripture and through the spirit.
Because if he's taken you somewhere, he will
complete the work that he has begun.
And this is what he said to Timothy.
Preach the gospel in season and out of
season.
In season and out of season.
It's not always going to be times of
revival, but we love people anyway.
I want to talk to some of you
who are less teenage people.
There was a man called Caleb.
And Caleb and Joshua were part of the
12 that went to spy out the promised
land.
You know what happened.
10 out of the 12 came back and
said we can't do it.
And it would be dangerous for the kids.
By the way, your children are never an
excuse for not going to the mission field.
We understand there are difficulties about schooling and
so on.
Understand that.
But don't say it's dangerous for the kids.
What happened was that entire generation failed to
get into the promised land and the kids
did.
Caleb said we can do it.
And he later said in Joshua 14, my
brothers made the people's hearts melt with fear.
I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.
And the land on which your feet have
walked will be your inheritance and that of
your children's forever.
Just as the Lord kept me alive for
45 years since that time, here I am
85 years old.
I don't know any 85 year olds, but
anyway, if you are, God's speaking to you.
Here I am, 85 years old, just as
vigorous to go out to battle as I
was then.
Now then, give me this hill country that
the Lord promised.
There are some of you here that didn't
go and your portion has been kept.
It has not been given to another.
It is still to come.
You see, when the Lord has made us
for good works, when the Lord has made
us for journeys, they're for us.
And if you missed it because your brothers
were afraid or your church didn't understand or
your mother got sick or whatever, it's kept
for you.
It is not too late.
So I'm speaking to young people and I'm
speaking to old people.
People ask me sometimes, what was the best
time of your life?
Was it when the gang boss of the
walled city who controlled about 20,000 people,
was it when he came to Jesus?
I say no.
Of course, that was great.
He was in prison and the Holy Spirit
came on him and he prophesied for 30
minutes, wept his way through a whole box
of tissues in the cell.
It was great, but no more.
That was, I knew he would come to
Jesus.
It just took 16 years.
I mean, how could you not?
All your brothers had changed and I loved
him.
I always recognized the Lord in him.
I told him he was like Jesus.
We were very embarrassed when I did that,
but I said, you've loved me when I'm
your enemy.
He redeemed something that someone had stolen from
me and I said, you're just like Jesus.
You've redeemed my typewriter with your own money
and I'm your enemy.
I'm here to make sure that people don't
follow you.
He is so like Jesus.
Well, he couldn't resist that, just took 16
years.
But everyone whose heart is touched by Jesus,
I'm just as pleased.
They don't have to be great gangsters.
God wants to use you and he wants
you to finish.
He wants you to persevere and if you've
got difficulties, it doesn't mean you're in the
wrong country or you should go where there's
real revival or where you've got leaders who
understand you.
I want to read some things that will
happen during the difficulties.
He says, count it joy in James, count
it joy.
When my place in the walled city got
beaten up, by my friends, by the way,
they painted it with sewage.
I spent the day praising God just because
I saw in the scripture you're supposed to.
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you
face trials of many kinds.
It doesn't mean to say you're thrilled.
It doesn't mean to say you even feel
joyful.
It just says, consider it joy.
Okay, consider it joy.
Why?
Because this is what's going to happen.
Whenever you face trials of many kinds, because
you know that the testing of your faith
produces perseverance.
Perseverance and in Romans 5, rejoice in sufferings
because they will produce perseverance and perseverance, character
and character, hope.
And we need some missionaries with character and
hope.
We need people who go and stay and
love to the end.
What do you think these child soldiers will
do if they have but a series of
two-week visitors?
Wouldn't they need parents, not wires?
There are people being saved who need to
be healed slowly and out of sight of
the video machine or the platform or anywhere
that they're a trophy except to the Lord
in heaven.
We do this for them because he died
for us and allows us wonderfully to be
in his work.
And he says, whatever I have begun in
you, I will complete until that day.
So will you stand?
Because I'm calling you to the long haul.
By the way, if you're booked for a
two-week trip, go.
We often say it produces a hook in
people.
It hooks you for life.
You get a taste and then you go
back.
But don't do a series of two-week
things, okay?
Got that?
And if you're a young person, if you
could just stop six months here and nine
months there and all that stuff that some
church is paying for.
I don't know why they should because you're
no tested person.
They should be providing for people that no
one else is providing for who are in
for the long haul.
Too many teenagers sponsored these days.
Go and pick fruit if you want to
do a six-month thing.
Pay for yourself.
Let your church and your Christian friends invest
in someone who's showing character and perseverance.
Let's pray.
There's a bright path ahead, but a feeling
of fear.
But Jesus says, don't be afraid.
I'm walking beside you.
I am a God of freedom.
I'm calling you into a spacious place, a
place of freedom, a joy.
I will not hand you in.
I've come to set you free and I'm
safe.
So come to me and you will be
free.
First of all, I want to call forward
people who started on the mission field and
got disappointed because you, for whatever reason, you
didn't go back or you didn't see what
you thought or hoped for.
Come forward.
We want to say, well done.
Well done.
Come forward.
There will be fruit.
There will be a harvest.
There will be rejoicing in heaven because of
you.
You failed not.
Well done.
So Kent and some others, I want you
to pray for these people.
There's a few more.
Come.
Some of you have started working with addicts.
Some of you have started working with the
poor and you got burnt and you said
you got your things stolen or you didn't
see the results you hoped for.
Come forward.
Some of you loved people and they cheated
you, stole things or messed up your house.
Some of you saw conversions and then people
went back.
So did I.
I had nothing to show for my great
miracles after a few years and all my
friends in other countries had multiplied their cell
groups 10 times.
Mine was decreasing.
But no, there was eternal fruit.
All you people who've come forward, we say,
well done.
Well done.
You haven't failed.
You're just disappointed because you didn't see the
results you thought that there will be eternal
fruit and harvest.
It's never a waste to have loved in
the name of the Lord Jesus.
That's all that counts.
The numbers don't.
Now for everyone else.
I want to pray for you because I'm
fully expecting that the whole lot of you
would walk forward if I invited you.
So that's a little hard.
But you might just take a step to
the side.
If you'd like to ask the Lord, I
want to be in for the long haul.
I want to finish.
I just don't want to go and stop.
I want to finish whatever it is you've
set out for me.
Will you just open your hands and take
a step into the aisle or somewhere?
Meantime, I'd like some of you less than
teenagers.
You may not be 85, but could be
getting near.
One or two of you who thought you'd
missed it, come to the front.
It's still on, by the way.
Your calling has not been taken back.
God's gifts and callings are irrevocable.
You are still called.
Come forward.
It's not too late.
You don't just have to bless the young
people who are going.
You're on.
I don't know how he's going to get
you there.
I don't know.
Good.
Come forward.
Auntie, come right forward.
Come right forward.
Let's have some other aunties come pray for
her.
Good.
Not too late.
Come right forward.
Oh, good people.
You see, he wants you all.
You're not too old.
It's not too late.
That piece of inheritance has been kept for
you for this day.
There are people that are still alive waiting
to hear about Jesus.
You better get there as quickly as you
can and start training, by the way, training
how to heal the sick, training how to
cast out demons, and loving people to the
end.
If you've had families in the meantime, that's
pretty good training.
Close your eyes.
Receive a blessing.
Lord, we pray for these people that that
which you've called them to and kept them,
kept for them, you will make a way.
We don't know how this works, Lord, but
keep them.
And for everyone else out there, if you'll
close your eyes, we bless you to count
it joy when there are trials and sufferings,
because you will be developing the feet that
God needs and the heart which is his.
I bless you not to be disappointed when
your friends see great results and you don't,
because the only thing that counts is faith
expressing itself in love.
And you must know that there will be
a harvest if you faint not.
Some of you may harvest what you've sown,
and for many of you others will harvest
what you've sown.
And I bless you to see miracles, because
there's a harvest ready somewhere all the time.
All the time there's a harvest ready.
Don't say four more months.
I don't believe in that kind of kairos.
There's a harvest ready somewhere all the time.
Ask the Lord where it is.
And when people fall on their knees believing
in Jesus, you just said, oh somebody else
did the work.
I just got the harvest.
Then you might not be a great evangelist
after all, but it doesn't matter, does it?
Just thank the Lord he allows us to
be somewhere in his work.