{"id":1523,"date":"2018-04-12T18:31:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2018-04-12T18:31:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T18:31:08","slug":"jesus-commandments-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Commandments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/?attachment_id=1525\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Wheat-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1525\" \/><\/a><strong>Pray for Laborers<\/strong><br \/>\n<i>\u201cThe harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest\u201d (Matthew 9:37\u201338).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Evangelist Paul Mershon says \u201c\u2026prayer is indeed a power on which the gathering of the harvest and the coming of the Kingdom do in very truth depend.\u201d In America, we live in a time where darkness is expanding.  Though we claim to be a \u201cChristian\u201d country, the moral condition of our country continues to grow contrary to God\u2019s standards. We are becoming more self-absorbed, disconnected, and slothful. We desire more governmental assistance and believe that \u201cfreedom of speech\u201d gives us the right to criticize anyone and everything. We want \u201cfree\u201d stuff at the expense of those who honestly work hard. We are more concerned about our personal comfort than our neighbor\u2019s pain and suffering.  Mershon\u2019s point about prayer strikes at the core of Truth. It takes a self-denying, cross-bearing heart to labor in the field of souls. This type of heart eternally sees the horror of \u201clost souls\u201d and moves into the action of prayer, and willingly offers their body and life to service the Harvest.  <\/p>\n<p><i>Lord Jesus,<br \/>\nPlease don\u2019t let me underestimate the importance of this commandment! Work in me, so I may work the field of souls. May I never grow weary in laboring for Your kingdom.  Amen.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pray for Laborers \u201cThe harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest\u201d (Matthew 9:37\u201338). Evangelist Paul Mershon says \u201c\u2026prayer is indeed a power on which the gathering of the harvest and the coming of the Kingdom do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfZYJd-oz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sing2jesus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}