Prayer for the Harvest - House of Prayer - Steven Gibbs | Stonecreek Church

What does your prayer life reflect about the condition of your heart? Do you pray about what you care about, or do you pray about what God cares about? This past weekend, Pastor Steven challenged us to deepen our prayer life and to take on the motivation and mission of Jesus. Our prayers have the power to build kingdoms – our kingdom or God’s kingdom, and only one of them will last. 

And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “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.”

Matthew 9:35-38

Jesus' mission is more than meets the eye.

What kingdom do my prayers build?

Jesus' motivation is what He sees in our soul.

Do I see people? 

You pray about what you care about, and you care about what you pray about.

Pray about what God cares about.

What if I got today what I prayed for yesterday? 

What if I  got in eternity what I prayed for today?

Golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Revelation 5:8

And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne, and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.  

Revelation 8:3-4