When God Interrupts Your Life You Can’t Go Back | Mike Brewer

When God begins to take a body of believers from where we are now to where God's taking us—that's change. That's risk. That's stepping into something new. But it also means God has prepared you as a body to carry more. He's entrusting His desires to us. And with that comes the grace to walk it out. THE HARVEST IS PLENTIFUL Matthew 9:35-38: "Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, 'The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to EKBALLO laborers into His harvest field.'" I spent all last week talking about what that word EKBALLO means in the Greek. It's not just "I'm going to send a letter." It is a word of power. It carries divine thrust. It carries almost a violence with it—but not a violence. There is a sense of deep urgency, power that is pushing something to move forth, to go from one place to another. It causes one to depart and move in haste with the implication of force behind it. WHEN GOD EKBALLOS YOU That's the stories you read about when a missionary is called. Their lives, everything's normal, and they go to a service and they have a divine encounter. Sometimes there is an encounter with God that goes so deep that when you get up, the world has changed and you can't go back to the way it was. There's a gentleman in Florida—he was in banking. God touches him in a service. He gets up from that touch and begins to feel called to China. It doesn't make sense to our natural mind, right? But he was EKBALLOED. That means there were people of prayer praying to the Lord of the harvest that He would thrust forth missionaries into China. If Jesus walked into their bedroom and said "follow Me," and they walked out and asked their neighbor "Who is Jesus?"—they could travel for miles and no one would know. THE RADICAL PROBLEM The laborers are few. Only 1.8% of missionary efforts are allocated to focus on unreached people groups. We have to feel the Father's heart. We have to say: "God, don't let the cares of this life distract me." Our greatest warfare is not being beaten and dragged out of our homes and put in prison. Our greatest warfare is the cares of this world rock us to sleep like a little baby. THE RADICAL PRAYER "Therefore PRAY the Lord of the harvest to EKBALLO laborers into the harvest field." That's not the normal typical word for pray. This word literally means to beseech, to beg earnestly. To plead with the Lord of the harvest. "Oh God of the harvest, would You PLEASE send laborers into the harvest field?" There's a desperate urgency upon that word. Think about the leper who fell before Jesus: "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean." This man knew if he didn't fall before Jesus—what if he missed his one opportunity? The only man he'd ever known who could heal leprosy. So he fell before Him. And with everything in him—his pain, his agony, his faith, his hope—he cried out: "Lord, heal me!" That's what that word means—to pray to the Lord of the harvest. Both words carry such divine urgency. The leper broke the law to get to Jesus. He broke out of the norms. People said: "Where are you going? They'll kill you! They'll stone you!" But he couldn't hear the logic anymore. He was captivated by a testimony that there is One who will hear his prayer. THE CALL Jesus said: "Look, the harvest is ready. Therefore BEG, PLEAD, IMPLORE the Lord of the harvest that He will thrust forth, that He will EKBALLO laborers into the harvest field." The harvest field is not just going to the harvest field. It's also giving your life to pray that God will send them forth. Many are sitting there thinking: "What does this have to do with me?" Only Jesus can answer that. You have to look to the Lord of the harvest and say: "God, what are You requiring of me?" When I went to Wales, I was praying: "God, why did You bring me here? I want to know You more. I want to experience you further." And He said: "I brought you here because I require more of you. You came because you thought you wanted more of Me." The time is now. Ready to go deeper in missions and unreached people groups? Get equipped for the harvest at: 👉 https://theequippingcompany.com/ Follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ApostolicPer... Instagram:   / apostolicperspectives