Here are some verses that inspired me as I considered my call to full time ministry. They are a good reminder to me of why I do what I do even in the hard times. Also I need to remember all the fruit is from the Lord. On the other side my identity is not in my success as a minister it is that I am a son of God through adoption by the Spirit through Christ.
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go. And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Go your way; behold, I am sending you out as lambs in the midst of wolves.
(Luke 10:1-3 ESV)
Why do I go to the college campus? Because I believe God has a harvest there in the lives of college students. And I have seen God start to bring in his harvest at CU, all glory to you Lord! This is my hope that many would know The Lord. I also pray for more workers! I pray that the students I lead would go on to become world changers for you Christ! I pray heir faith would be transformed and their hearts centered on your mission through InterVarsity. God I pray for many more missionaries and staff and church leaders to be developed through my ministry. I pray for Multiethnic and powerful staff for InterVarsity that would go to the unreached on every campus and every corner of campus. I pray that college students would then go to every corner of the world with your gospel!
For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!" But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?" So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
(Romans 10:13-17 ESV)
Paul references Joel 2 a prophecy about the day of The Lord:
"And it shall come to pass afterward,
that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh;
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
your old men shall dream dreams,
and your young men shall see visions.
Even on the male and female servants
in those days I will pour out my Spirit.
"And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the Lord calls.
(Joel 2:28-32 ESV)
And so I pray with Paul that in my ministry and life I would preach and know only Christ and him crucified.
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
(1 Corinthians 2:1-5 ESV)
Lord I pray you would use my ministry and that you would bring many to faith by your power and Spirit, I pray that their faith would rest on your power and not my wisdom or human wisdom. I pray Lord I would not build the kingdom of InterVarsity but your Kingdom Lord!
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