A friend of mine challenged me about five years ago to pray Luke 10:2b on a daily basis.  Jesus tells us in this verse to "Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest."   So I took the challenge seriously and prayed this prayer to the Lord of the harvest.  Guess what happened?  He answered it.  He is still answering it whenever I cry out to Him for laborers.  It seems to simple to be true, but it is true!  The Lord will build His Church and will raise up incredible laborers around you if you simply pray this prayer.  I have even taken this prayer to such an extreme more recently that I am praying for specific types of laborers.  This may sound a little selfish, but hear me out.  For example, we have been blessed over the last four years with many young people (laborers) attending and starting new churches.  The young people and young families have been awesome, but we began to ask God last fall to send some laborers our direction that were older/mature/elders our way.  Last night during our leadership gathering, God said look around the room.   I answered your prayer again.  There was a room full of leaders and over half of them had been walking with God for 25 - 50 years.  Wow, I told God He was incredible.  Thank you Lord for sending us wise, mature laborers who we can learn from and journey in this next season of RiverChurches.   My challenge to you is to pray Luke 10:2b daily and expect Jesus to answer it.


Lee