We can begin to pray, and God will shake this neighborhood, and I believe we need to do that.  There are people that touch our property that need to be here being built up as disciples, being prepared for the soon coming of the Lord Jesus; amen?  They’re on their way to a devil’s hell, and we can almost touch their homes.  “Well, they don’t want to hear…the affluence…people are busy.”  Those are all excuses.  We need to pray.  We need to get a fresh burden for these people that are going to a devil’s hell, that Jesus died for; amen?  We need to pray and ask the Lord, “Let me lift up my eyes and look on these lost multitudes as sheep without a shepherd.”  The point being, it’s one thing to pray for all the world, but we need to pray for people that we’re rubbing up against every day; amen?  The people we’re working with on the job, they’re watching you; amen?  And we need to be able to pray effectually; there has to be compassion.

We’ve all heard the old story.  I think it was—it’s been told so many ways and changed over the years.  I don’t know if anybody has the pure rendering anymore.  But the one of the prisoners—I think it was somewhere possibly in Great Britain years ago—a guy on death row.  We all know how so often the clergy would walk before them and read some verses as they’re going down for the execution.  And the man (priest) turned and asked him, “Is there anything that you would want God to do for you at this time?  Would you like to have an opportunity to make a decision for Christ?”  And his response was something like this, “No, I’m not interested.

I can’t believe that what you’re telling me is real, because if it were, people would be crawling across Great Britain on broken glass on their knees to reach one soul.  And the church just doesn’t care.”  Hell’s real.  The Great Commission is real.  The fact that we are getting distracted in the last days is very real.  That song, when we finally stand in heaven, to be approached by one person and hear, “Thank you for giving to the Lord / I am a life that was changed.”  Let us be burning in our hearts with that kind of a zeal in these last days, for a church, with Jesus adding daily, that we might make disciples and prepare a people for the soon coming of the Lord Jesus.  God is “not willing that any would perish” (2 Peter 3:9) but “how shall they hear without a preacher” (Romans 10:14); amen?

Father, we thank You for Your Word.  And we just ask that You would move upon our hearts to intercede for the lost, to take authority over principalities and powers that have them bound and blinded, lest they should believe the “light of the glorious gospel” (2 Corinthians 4:4).  Move on our hearts.  We were reached by one of Your vessels, let us reach others, in Your Name, Father, we ask it.  In the mighty Name of Jesus, amen.