Here are verses on three storehouses: earth, heaven, and heart: “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break, in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matt. 6:19-21). “You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him” (Matt. 12:34-35). The first has to do with where your treasure is—on earth or in heaven. Where that treasure is, that is where your heart is. The second passage is talking about the storehouse of your heart and what you put in it. What is stored up in your heart determines what comes out of your mouth. “Since, then, you have been raised with...
“Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few’” (Matt. 9:37). “Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest?’ I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying, ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor” (John 4:35-38). I believe these statements of Jesus are still true today: · The harvest is great. · There are few reapers. · The harvest is ripe. · We are to pray that God would send forth reapers to the harvest. Unless we pray, as God commanded, we are facing a great tragedy, an...