This is the fifth in a series of eight short posts. They are direct quotes from the last few pages of John Piper’s book Don’t Waste Your Life and I have found them to be informative, stirring, challenging, and/or motivating and so wanted to share them with you.
The remaining posts will appear each Friday for the next 3 weeks. If you enjoy reading them as much as I did you can download a free copy of this book here (link sourced from this page).
So “pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Matthew 9:38), and ask him if you should be one. Expect this prayer to change you. When Jesus told his disciples to pray it, the next thing that happened was that he appointed twelve to be his apostles and sent them out. Pray for harvesters, and you may become one. God often wakens desire, and gives gifts, and opens doors when we are praying and pondering real possibilities and real needs.1
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1 – John Piper, Don’t Waste Your Life, (Wheaton, Illinois: 2003), 176.
