Word and Spirit.

I am currently - along with some other people here at King of Love - are reading through the Bible in 90 days!

This has been and is a great journey - I have developed a whole new respect and appreciation for the Old Testament. The history that we have as Christians is so rich - reading about where I have come from - what our forefathers had to deal with, and learning more about the greatness of Gods Love!
I find that I am becoming more and more hungry for the word of God - reading the truth - renewing my mind.
the last couple of weeks I have found that a huge percentage of my quiet times with God was reading and there was not a lot of anything else.
As I stopped today to spend time with Jesus, I forgot how refreshing it is just to sit and soak in Gods spirit! To just be in the presence of God!
I realised how important it is to have the word of God in your life, joined with the Spirit! Just as Adrian Warnock wrote in one if his blogs. . .
 

  "We cannot just take the Holy Spirit bit. We must let the Word get to us. 

We must submit to the Word."

(http://adrianwarnock.com/2007/07/toam-session-7-david-stroud-on-identity/)
It is easy to have an unhealthy balance of just the spirit or just the word, but when we join them together and have the Spirit and the Word it starts to become dynamic!

Crows and Seagulls

"The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few" Matt 9:37

As I was looking out of my window today I saw a lonesome crow. He was stood in the road feasting on what looked like someones unwanted dinner. Mr Crow seemed quite focused and in control. Until a seagull comes along. The seagull was quite reserved and slowly approached Mr Crow, Mr Crow just sat there staring. Until another seagull swooped down, then Mr crow started fighting back. You see he had realized that the two seagulls were after his dinner. So he gave a bit of attitude and made a bit of noise which only seemed to create more attraction from the other birds which happened also to be seagulls! So as the seagulls overpowered Mr Crow, they took his dinner from right in front of him, and flew off laughing.

As I was watching this happen, I was watching how Mr Crow reacted, at first he was ready for the fight, he found that meal fair and square, but as the seagulls gradually started to gain in force and numbers, he became defeated. I could hear him calling, but no one came, he was all on his own.
It got me thinking about the scripture in Matthew 9 when Jesus is taking to his disciples and says that the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.
When people are ready to be harvested we need to be ready to go! Imagine if there were more crows, what a feast they would of had.

Imagine if we as Christians were really ready to reap the harvest, how willing are we to fight for souls? Do we keep perusing? or do we give up like Mr Crow? do we call for back up (the church body) or do we stand alone?

We need to be ready for the fight, the enemy is not gonna back down easily, he will send in others to reap the harvest, We need to be ready to peruse, to fight for the lost - to never give up!
And if we are working without the Church - working on our own to reap the harvest - it wont happen - you will be defeated! Jesus sent out the disciples in twos, Jesus valued community, do it together!