Wonderful Holy Spirit, we welcome your awesome presence in revealing your word to our hearts for this hour. Move upon the hearts of the hearers of this message. Stir the hearts of your people, Holy Spirit, for the time that we're living in. In Jesus' name. To the book of St. Matthew's, chapter nine, verses 35. And Jesus went about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. Then said he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. Very simple teaching. It's harvest time. Don't you see it? It's harvest time. A former, at a certain time of the year, knows when it's time to plant crop, plant seeds. And he knows after he plants seeds, there come another time to harvest or to bring in what he had planted. In Matthew chapter nine, we notice how Jesus went about all the cities and villages. He was observing. A lot of things that was happening in different cities. And even today, there's so much happening in cities around America. Things are happening now in inner cities, in States, in countries on the planet. But I want to bring it home to America, inner city trouble. There's a harvest in cities right here in America. And just like Jesus, what about all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues and preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing every sickness and every disease among the people? Note something. The gospel consists of teaching, instruction, preaching, inspiring, and then healing, demonstrating. Oftentimes, people hear teaching and they hear preaching, but they don't see the demonstration. Because oftentimes, people can teach and preach and don't believe there's something greater beyond that. Well, when Jesus went about all the cities and villages, he was instructing the people, informing them. Then he was preaching, he wasn't, mm, mm, mm. He wasn't doing all that kind of stuff, putting his finger in his ear because his ear was itching. He was preaching, inspiring them. And then he healed or demonstrated the word. But note something. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with what he saw. It's harvest time. Don't you see it? It's harvest time in communities. I had a chance to go to New Orleans one weekend. And while out there, I began to just ride around the city and the conditions I was seeing in the city. I know in every city, you're going to have places where it looked like Hollywood and you got palm trees and you got mansions and stuff. But then when you flip the script, you go to other parts of that same city. It's dangerous. You need a hand grenade. You need a tank. You need a machine gun to walk in certain areas. Well, that's in every city on the planet. But this time when I went to New Orleans, I rode around the city for a reason. Because my mind went back when I was growing up. A lot of things I've seen now in the city is so deplorable. But I'm also seeing it's harvest time, but I see it. It's harvest time in communities because it's a new generation now. It's a new era. It's a new dispensation. It's a new people that have emerged on the planet. And when Jesus saw the multitudes, when he saw the massive crowds of people in the cities and the villages he went into, He was moved with compassion. It knelt at the heart of our Savior. It knelt at Jesus' heart to see the condition that people was living in, as well as under. I've seen so many people, even growing up, would be in parks, under the trees, sleeping, and on the newspaper. But now today, it's almost like it has multiplied. I see people just about on every corner with a sign saying, help. Help me. Give me $0.50. I'll work. I'm hungry. Under the Claiborne Bridge at Claiborne and Canal Street, they actually have pup tents laid out there with people laying on the ground like they think they're on the beach. But what moves my heart is to see how there are so many functions happening in the city. Football games they're raking in millions of dollars and yet people are still sleeping in the street now I know that many people are out there by choice Let me kind of bring balance here I know you can't make people come off the streets, but I believe that there were places where people can go if people can afford to go because if they don't have nothing I Who's reaching out to the people that can't afford to put $2 or $5 in a place to spend a night? I think cities are raking millions of dollars and doing nothing with it. And it's sad to say in this hour that in cities all across America, there are people that's homeless, outside, pushing baskets, not making groceries, they're picking up junk and garbage and stuff, and half the people don't want to be out there. Because what happens sometimes, and I met a guy, and he said, man, it's so hard now to get disability, whatever, because they got to bring you to all kinds of stuff. You got to go through here, you got to have this, you got to do that. But can't you see the condition of people's lives? Well, Jesus walked into the cities, he saw the multitudes, and he was moved with compassion on them because they fainted. It's harvest time. Don't you see it? Saints of God. Don't you see it's harvest time in communities? It's harvest time on our jobs. It's harvest time in our families. Because know something, Jesus saw the people fainting. They was giving up. They was quitting. I remember reading the article in the paper, up north somewhere, this young man who actually just took his life because of pressure he was under. And there's so many things that you see on the news today that's so disturbing and so discouraging if you're not careful. You see it's harvest time and half the time the church don't see it. Sometimes people come to churches and they may not be dressed in three-piece suits and long trench coat suits with five buttons and have on a different color tie every time they come in there. They may come in there and smell like the bottom of a skunk. What are you going to do with people that come to church like that? You see, it's harvest time, but don't you see it? And Jesus was moved with compassion and because the people fainted, they were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd. Imagine sheep in the wilderness with nobody to watch over them. This is the way so many people feel today. I have nobody I can really talk to and Often time when I tell folks something, everybody find out my business. I done told Jack over there and he done told Jill and Sally and Sue and everybody else. My God, help me here. But what I'm saying, Jesus saw the condition of people and noticed something. He was moved with compassion. He wasn't moved to gossip and talk about what he saw. He was moved to do something about what he saw. My question to you that's listening to me right now, What are you seeing today in your area? What are you seeing in your community? What are you seeing in your family? What you see is it moving you to do something apart from talking about it. Jesus was moved with compassion. Jesus' heart was stirred when he saw the condition of people. And think about something, during his era, there were synagogues where people can go. But you see, just like back there, you have synagogues where people can come. But notice the scribes and the Pharisees never laid hands on nobody. The scribes and the Pharisees never prayed for nobody. Just like you got churches just about on every corner of the street. You go here, they got such and such church and onion skin church and potato head church. And they got carrot stick church over here and all of these churches and people walking past them. And you wonder why people walking past churches, Not going to that, but they go to churches, chicken. Come on, talk to me here. They pass up a church, they go to churches? Lord, let me say it back to what I'm hearing. What I'm saying is, Jesus saw the condition of the people, and what he saw really moved his heart. And this is why Jesus said, listen, the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. It's harvest time, people of God. Don't you see it? Don't you see people are walking the streets everywhere? Don't you see people are fainting and just giving up on life. People just tired of going through the motions and they feel like they've been on a merry-go-round. They're wondering, is there something better in life than this? What else can happen in my life that have not happened? That's why Jesus said, the harvest truly is plenteous, but know something, this is another sad part, but the laborers are few. It's like folk won't go to places where they won't get pat on the back. Folk gotta go places where people know their name and the light is shining on them and they're sweating and gotta change clothes and nothing happening after all that cutting up. But they got people who will pass churches up to get to places where people will just welcome them. And Jesus went into the cities and the villages and what he saw really moved his heart. He was touched with the people condition. Are you touched with what you see today, people of God? Because people may not dress like you think they should dress. My God, there are people crying out for deliverance. Don't you hear the cries of people in communities and streets? My God, they're in parks crying. They're in churches even crying. I'm not talking about churches chicken. They're in church buildings crying for deliverance. They're sick and tired of religion. They're sick and tired of denominational stuff. They're going there and getting one thing and getting them messed up twice, even worse. They're like twice dead plucked up by the roof. Oh, let me slow my horse head down. Glory to God. He said, the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. And note what Jesus said, pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. Because it's harvest time, people of God. Don't you see, if you don't see, ask God to open your eyes to see that it's harvest time. The harvest is ripe. He told the prophet Joel, put your sickle in there. See, the farmer knows. I planted seeds years ago. And when I think about individuals that was on the planet before you and I got here, how God used them to drop seeds in different parts of the world. And now that harvest is coming here. One plant, one water, but God give the increase. And we're living in a time now where people are crying out. They may not come to a church building and ask you for help. I'm meeting people in parking lots getting saved, on street corners getting saved. It doesn't matter. We could be in the supermarket. You won't give your life to Jesus, we'll drop on the floor right there. It doesn't matter today because it's harvest time. Don't you see it? Father, I pray today that you release such an anointing upon the body of Christ in this hour. God, shake us up out of laziness and wake us up out of materialism, trying to impress folk with what we know. God, there are people crying to you for deliverance. I pray that you shake up your people in this hour. God, wake us up to go back to praying and consecrating our life and give us back the burden for the Lord. give us back burden for souls God because we lost that burden because it's harvest time blessed one and I pray in Jesus mighty name that those who have a burden for souls you would intensify the anointing on their life God give them what they need to reach souls even greater in this hour in the mighty and glorious name of Jesus