July 11 – 18, 2025

LET GOD THROW YOU

Matthew 9:38 “‘Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.’” The Greek word for “to send out” here literally means to thrust forth or to throw out!

Matthew 9:36 says that when Jesus saw the multitudes in the towns where He taught and healed, “He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.” The world is the same today. There is only one cure: Jesus. 

Earlier, in Matthew 9:9 (NLT), Jesus “saw a man named Matthew sitting at his tax collector’s booth. ‘Follow Me and be My disciple,’ Jesus said to Him. So Matthew got up and followed Him.”  Yes, Jesus told His disciples to pray for laborers, but He also wanted them to be laborers! We are His disciples, and we are to pray and to be. When He says to us, “Come!” “Go!” “Do!”—we should be as willing and as quick as Matthew to respond. Most of all, our decision should be that easy!

Satan will try to distract us to keep us from sharing Jesus and the message of salvation with others. We must be careful that we don’t get distracted from taking Jesus to a lost world that so desperately needs Him! Pray that you will be faithful to the call and the commands of Jesus to be a living, breathing witness of Him to others. 

Jesus asks His disciples in John 4:35, “Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” We may say, “Oh, there’s no rush—it’s November and harvest isn’t until spring!” But the harvest is NOW, Jesus said! What should we pray? That God would thrust forth laborers, that He would give them an impartation of the Holy Spirit, that He would give them wisdom to win souls. Have you become a laborer in the harvest field of the world? Bringing people to Jesus that they may know Him? Opening their eyes to Jesus that they might follow Him?

Pray for God to throw you into the harvest field where you can be best used for His glory!

This is an excerpt from a 90-day devotional written by Emil and Karen. To order the full devotional, click on the TO ORDER DEVOTIONAL page.