We're in 1 Kings tonight, 1 Kings chapter 19, and we're going to pray before we study God's Word together. Father, we thank you so much for this time. Thank you for your Word. Thank you for all that we've heard already today in the singing and in the praying, in the leading as well, Lord, of the service. We thank you, Lord, that you are calling people into foreign lands. And as we consider your word tonight, we pray that you would continue to speak to our hearts, Lord, if there's one here present who doesn't know you, that you would convict him of sin, Lord, and bring him to repentance and faith in Christ. And Lord, perhaps another who you're going to call into ministry, we pray, Lord, that you'd speak to their hearts and make your will very clear to them tonight as we hear your word. In Jesus' name, amen. So tonight we're in 1 Kings chapter 19. We're going to read from verse 19 down to verse 21. And the title of tonight's message is, Pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest. And so we're going to read together these three verses. 1 Kings 19 verse 19 to 21. So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again, for what have I done to thee? And he returned back from him, and took up a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave them unto the people. And they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him." And so tonight we're going to consider together this topic, this theme of, pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, recognizing the call of God in a person's life. We skipped on a little bit from this morning's message. We finished with the prophets of Baal who were slain in the Kishon Valley. And from there, of course, we know that Elijah went in the strength of the Lord. He outran a horse over 31 miles to go all the way down to Jezreel. And then he heard that Queen Jezebel, she had heard all that had been done and how the prophets of Baal had been killed in the Kushan Valley. And she was furious. She was so furious, in fact, that she put out an edict that Elijah should be found and killed as quickly as possible. And so, whenever we arrive in chapter 19, it's really interesting how the mood so drastically changes from that mountaintop experience where Elijah had known God's power, known his victory, known the hearts of the people turned again to God, Now he is afraid. He is afraid for his life and he runs. When Elijah hears about the bounty that's been placed on his head, he falls into that age-old trap which we call the fear of man. The fear of man. He runs and he runs and he runs. We could criticize him. We could say, Elijah, how silly have you been? God proved his faithfulness. Why couldn't you believe in him to continue to prove his faithfulness to you despite how much Jezebel wanted to kill you? And yet, isn't it so often the case for us? that we fall into this age-old trap that we call the fear of man. When people ask us for the hope that is in us, we shy down and try not to say too much in case we're not appreciated or people change their opinion of us. Or it has happened to me before when buying a vehicle and someone asks me, you know, are you a Christian? I shy down because he might not negotiate as well if he knows that I trust in the Lord. It's what we call the fear of man. The fear of man, which is this terrible illness which impedes us from sharing God's love and God's truth with people. And so instead of trusting God and clinging to Him, he flees for his life. He runs from Jezreel all the way to Beersheba. around 100 miles. So I looked on Google Maps today and found out that would be about from here to Washington, DC. He fled for his life on foot. And from there, he goes into the cave. And well, first of all, he stops, and he eats, and he's strengthened by the Lord for an onward journey. And that brings him all the way to that cave on Mount Horeb. And once again, we could criticize Elijah and say, Elijah, you're still running away. Why are you running away from the Lord? But in fact, Mount Horeb was the mount of God. And so he was running to the one place where he knew that he would know divine help, there where God had manifest himself to the children of Israel already, and where he was hoping to meet with God. And so there again, there's a wonderful lesson for us before we get into the meat of the message. going to the place of prayer, going into the presence of the Lord when we're fearful for our lives and our situation. looking to him instead of looking to our own strength. And so as Elijah sulks in the cave, despondent, discouraged, troubled in his heart, God meets with him and proves once again his divine power by showing his glory to the downcast prophet by several means. You remember that he came by in the wind, in the earthquake, and in the fire. And then after all of these wonderful displays of God's power, The Lord talks to him. He meets him where he's at, gently, in that still, small voice. He gives the prophet several instructions to follow, one of which, of course, was to anoint the man who would replace him as prophet Elisha. And so as we look at God's calling in Elisha's life, let us consider the question this evening, how are people sent into God's harvest field? Because it's easy to say, pray you there for the harvest. It's even easy to pray, Lord, send people. But how exactly does God do it? and to what end. And so tonight we're going to look at these three verses that we've read together. We're going to look at four things that can be found in the text. First of all, we see that labourers are sent when we are attentive to God's voice. Labourers are sent when we are attentive to God's voice. And we're going to go back up a little bit and look at 1 Kings 19, verse 15 to 18. Now let's read that together. 1 Kings 19, verses 15 to 18, And the Lord said unto him, Go, Return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus, and when thou comest, anoint Hisiel to be king over Syria, and Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeola shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. And it shall come to pass that him that escapeth the hand of his ill shall Jehu slay, and him that escapeth the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay. Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him. And so what we see in these verses is that labourers are sent when we are attentive to God's voice. The calling of God in Elisha's life did not originate at the moment in which Elijah placed his mantle on his shoulders. It began before that, whenever Elijah was still in the cave, communing with God and listening to the instructions that God would give him to carry out. And so we can see three things in these verses. First of all, he listened to God's instructions. He listened to God's instructions. You know, in the Christian life, we can be so good at busying ourselves with talking to God, laying before Him our needs, laying before Him our troubles, as we ought and as it is good to do. But sometimes we can do so much of that that we don't take time to simply listen to what God has to say to us. You know, whenever I was in the States back in June. It was my first day visiting Calvary Baptist Church in Norfolk, which has become our sending church. And I was so warmly welcomed by the folk there. I was so happy talking to one brother, and another brother, and a sister. And I was sharing them this, and that, and the other. And then whenever Uncle Pete came and picked us up to bring us back down there to Grandy, North Carolina, he was asking me in the car how we had got on. And I was saying, yeah, I talked to this brother, and I talked to that brother, and we're sharing this need, and that need, and that burden. He said to me, Andrew, that's wonderful. It's wonderful. But did you listen to them? You know, sometimes we just need to be still and to listen to God's voice speaking to us. We need to be still. And listening to God is done when we read His Word, isn't it? Whenever we open the pages of Scripture and we discover exactly what God has to say to us. It's his primary means of communication, as well as the leading and convicting of the Holy Spirit. And so this is what happened in Elisha's life. His calling began as Elijah listened to God, listened to God's word, became convinced, and then went out to do exactly what God had given him to do. The second thing that we can see is that he obeyed God's instructions. Sometimes we manage to listen and to let God speak to us. And then we may even listen well. But what we see in these verses is that Elijah was not just a listener of the word. He was not just a hearer of the word. As Pastor shared earlier, it's not just a case of listening, but also being a doer. And so Elijah went out of the cave And he went, as soon as he had received God's instructions, he got up and got to work. This is a theme in scripture which has really been impressed on my heart recently. During the summer with the teenagers at camp, we were looking at how Joshua took over the call of leading the children of Israel into the Promised Land after the death of Moses. What's really interesting is that we so often focus on the verses 5 to 9 of Joshua chapter 1. Be strong in the Lord. You know, trust in the Lord with all thy heart. I can't remember the exact reference. Turn with me to Joshua chapter 1. I wouldn't want to misquote. Joshua chapter 1 there. The problem is that I know these verses in French, but I can't remember them in English. There shall not be, chapter Joshua 1, verse 9, have I not commanded thee, be strong and of good courage, be not afraid, neither thou be dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest. And so often we focus on that verse, and it's good to focus on that verse, but what I love is looking at verse 10. Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, It's not a big thing that he does, but what he does is he obeys God's word as soon as God has finished speaking to him. As soon as he has finished communing with God, he goes out, he speaks to the people and tells them what needs to be done. That's a wonderful lesson for us as we seek to obey God's instruction. You know, so much of gospel work is missed whenever we are idle and lazy. Too many opportunities to witness slip through our fingers. when we just don't care, when we are not thinking about eternal things and the priorities of heaven and life to come. I had a friend who was called to the ministry. He became burdened for ministry. He was a farmer, and on his farm he received cereals and so on, grains for feeding the cattle. And this delivery man, he would come by very often, and he would talk to him about his family, about his wife, about his kids. He would even witness to him very, very well for the gospel. And then one day, the farmer, well, he heard that the guy had cancer. The man hadn't shared it with any of his family members, but because he was so often delivering cereals to the farm, he shared it just with the farmer and asked him not to share it with anyone else. And so the farmer continued receiving his deliveries and so on. And one day, he was out in the field cutting his harvest. And as he was out there in the tractor, the delivery driver phoned him urgently, wanting to speak with him. Well, you know, my friend, he didn't take the time to answer the phone because he was too busy taking up his harvest. And what he discovered a few days later was that that man was on his deathbed. He wanted to talk about spiritual things. He wanted to get right with the Lord. But because my friend was too busy, that opportunity slipped through his fingers, and we don't know where that man is today. And so there is no excuse for idleness in God's work. When he gives us instructions to do, lest we be quick to obey and to do what God gives us to do. Third thing that we see is that when we listen and obey, God's will comes to pass. At the end of verse 17, we have that wonderful statement, that wonderful statement, and it shall come to pass. That's a detail that I find so encouraging because God gives Elijah the instructions, he tells him what to do, and then he says, it shall come to pass. And that just reminds us that when we are actively seeking God's will, seeking to live it out in our lives, putting him first, obeying his word, then the promises that he makes to us will come to pass. Sooner or later, they will come to pass. And so we can take encouragement in that as we seek to live for him. And so laborers are sent when we are attentive to God's voice. Another thing that we can see is that laborers are sent when God calls them. Labourers are sent when God calls them. Look again in verse 19. So he departed thence and found Elisha, the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. And Elijah passed by and cast his mantle upon him. Now this might seem to you like a very obvious point to make, but it is important to underline that service for the Lord should always come from a place of genuine and confirmed calling. Labourers are sent when God calls them. Operating outside of these parameters is dangerous for both the Christian who puts himself in that position, and for the church, the country, or the people to whom he ministers. As we observe God's calling in Elisha's life, there are several elements that characterize this genuine calling that we can observe. First of all, we see the instrument of the calling. Elijah found Elisha. God used his prophet Elijah to communicate his calling to this young man who was working in his father's fields. Now, we don't know much about Elisha apart from the fact that he was the son of Chapat. And it would seem that Chapat was a very rich and wealthy farmer because there was 12 yoke of oxen out there ploughing in the field. Now, if you were to put that into modern terms, that would be equivalent to 12 tractors out in the field. I don't know how that compares in America, but in France they would say, wow, that is a big farm. And so this was a man that was obviously going to have a big inheritance, big responsibilities, an exciting and very prosperous future if he considered and continued to work in the family business. And yet God comes using his instrument there, the instrument of the calling, Elijah. and calls him out from the fields and into the gospel ministry, into the prophetic ministry of the Old Testament. In the case of the local church, it is often the pastors, the elders, or the deacons who will prayerfully observe that a person may have a calling from God to exercise a particular ministry within the local church. And often as believers, we find God's calling and we receive God's calling as we read and are attentive to His word. The verse, for example, that God used to call me into ministry way back in 2013 was there in Isaiah chapter 6, verse 6. Isaiah 6, verse 6. Wonderful words that you will know well. Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then I said, here am I, send me. And over the course of several months, the Lord brought that verse back to my heart through the word, through a song that has those words in the chorus. And more and more, I became convinced that God was calling me into ministry. And so there was a calling, and there was an instrument in the calling. Second thing that we can see is the means of the calling. God made his calling very clear in the life of Elisha. It was an Old Testament tradition. It would seem at the time, there's no other examples of it in the Old Testament, but it would seem that at the time, This was the means by which God would show a young man that there was a calling on his life. It was that the one who would train him up and who he would eventually replace would come by him and cast his mantle or his cloak over his shoulders. And that would be the very sure sign and call that he was being called of God into ministry. And so there is the means of the calling. God makes his calling very clear in the life of a faithful believer. There is no doubting, or there ought not to be any doubting in a general calling. God makes his will very clear when we are attentive to his word. And then the content of the calling. Look back up at chapter 19 verse 16. The second half of the verse, and Elisha, the son of Shaphat of Abel Meola, shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room. And so this was the content of the calling. God had a very specific task for Elisha to accomplish, which was made plain and simple when Elijah passed him by. As soon as he would have seen the prophet coming, and as soon as the cloak fell on his shoulders, it would have been very clear to Elisha what was being asked of him, to follow after and to enter into that ministry. And so it's interesting, just as a little aside, if you look down in verse 21, and we're going to develop this, but whenever he arises, he goes after Elijah and ministers on to He doesn't minister unto the people just yet. Before taking on the full reins and the full responsibility of that ministry, he begins by being the servant to the servant, if you like, the servant to the prophet. And so training is important. As we recognize God's call in the life of a person, and as we recognize God bringing and setting apart people for ministry, training has an important role to play. As a believer reads his Bible and prays faithfully, and the local church leadership does the same, God's plan will always become plain and evident in the life of a believer. And then we see, as a final thing, the certainty of God's calling. Now what's interesting is that as you're hearing all of this, you're probably thinking of it in the sense of a very particular ministry, as it was in the life of Elisha. God was calling him to leave the farm and to go and be full-time in the ministry. But the calling that God places in our lives is a certain call. He gives to the believers, he gives to the church, and to everyone who places his faith and trust in Christ as Savior, a mission to do. There are, of course, some who are called apart into full-time ministry, but the certainty of God's calling is that all those who are new creatures in Christ have got a role to play. That is to share the gospel to all creature, wherever we find ourselves. Your sphere of influence will be different than mine. A young person's sphere of influence in their school and their friendship circles will be different from mine. And so God is calling us all to participate in his service, to be a witness. And that is a very privileged task and ministry to have received indeed. I think it was David Livingstone, because someone said to me this morning, Dr. Livingstone, I presume. I believe that it was David Livingstone that said, if the calling of an earthly king is considered a privilege, why would we consider the call of a heavenly king anything less? And so may God use us in his service. So that's the second thing. Third thing is that laborers are sent when decisions are made for God. Look again at verse 20. So Elisha, he has the mantle placed upon him. And then he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said to him, let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and mother, and then shall I follow thee. And he said to him, go back again, for what have I done to thee? And so having received God's call, Elisha had a critical decision to make. He had a very critical decision to make, to follow God's leading and enter that ministry that God had given him, or to continue farming at home. And to be totally honest, as you weigh up the pros and the cons, humanly speaking, you would be more inclined to stay at home, because staying at home meant financial security, future security for the family, it meant having a great inheritance which could be passed down from generation to generation, et cetera, et cetera. Whereas following Elijah would mean not only forsaking all of that, but also becoming public enemy number one. Don't forget that Elijah was being sought after by Jezebel to be killed. And so if he become Elijah's associate, he was immediately going to become public enemy number two, the man being trained in Elijah's place to take over from him. So which sounds the better of the two? But this is a critical decision that he had to make. Stay at home where things were easy, where life was very routine, very normal, very secure, or to walk out by faith into the unknowing, trusting God for what he had called him to do. We can observe several things in this verse pertaining to the decision that he made. First of all, he leaves the oxen. We're going to say a little bit more about that on the last point, but he leaves the oxen. He runs after Elijah with this initial burst of enthusiasm, showing that he is ready to go. But before abandoning his own life completely, he asks to go and say goodbye to his parents. Now, there are some commentators that would criticize Elisha for this. They would say, well, Jesus said that if any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and his wife and children and brothers and sisters, Even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. And they would say, well, based on that verse, Elisha, he was kind of stuck between two decisions. He wasn't totally decided what to do. I think personally that it was totally normal for him, given the situation that he was in. Being behind the 12th yoke of oxen meant that he was the eldest son, the one in command, the one who was going to be the inheritor. And so it would be normal that he would go and say goodbye and cut the lines you know, continuation in the family business to go after the Lord. God was calling Elisha out of the comfort, the security, and the riches of his home life to become the apprentice of a prophet that was hated by the king's wife and public enemy number one. And so he decides to go. He makes a decision for the Lord. Now tonight, as we apply that principle to our own lives, it's important to know that before anybody can be called by God to do anything for his service, there is first a decision that needs to be made. To trust Christ or not. This is a message of the gospel, to trust Christ or not. God cannot call someone into his service who has not first put his faith and trust in Christ for salvation, and who has not been born again. It is impossible. There are, unfortunately, denominations and backgrounds where unsaved men end up in pulpits, and you will know that the results are often disastrous. Unsaved men cannot serve in God's ministry. And so the question tonight goes out, do you know Him? Do you know Him? Have you come and repented of your sins? Have you put your trust in Him? God wants to use you, but first He wants to save you. And so come to Him tonight. If you don't know Him already, I'll remind you, as I reminded the kids in Sunday school this morning, that the wages of sin are death. Separation from God in a real place called hell. That is a result of the life of all those who don't put their trust in Christ for salvation. But the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Come, put your trust in Him tonight. I want to read to you some verses from an old hymn. I don't know if you sing it on this side of the Atlantic, but I grew up singing it and really enjoyed it. Above thine own, ambitions here. Another voice is sounding clear. It is the voice of God to thee, O leave thine all and follow me. Go through with God, thy debts to pay, thine life upon the altar lay. The Holy Ghost will do the best and give to you God's very best." You know, renouncing the comforts of home and the riches and security of what you have today, will pale in comparison to the riches that will come from obeying God's call of His talking to you this evening. And so, labourers are sent when decisions are made for God. And then the last thing that we can see in verse 21 is that labourers are sent when lives are consecrated to God. Labourers are sent when lives are consecrated to God. And he returned back from him. and took a yoke of oxen and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave them unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him." The last thing that we can see in these verses is really a continuation of the last point. He made a decision, and now he's going to make this decision official. by consecrating his life entirely unto the Lord. Sephora talked just before she sang about the fact that at nine years old, she gave her life entirely over to the Lord. Whatever He would ask her to do, she would be ready to do it. Oh yes, she knew Christ as Saviour for several years before that. But there comes a point in a man's life when he has to decide, am I going to desire God's best? Am I going to walk for God's best? Or am I going to treat my salvation like a free ticket to heaven that I can hold up before God and say, you can let me in. I've trusted in Christ. The decision is yours. But laborers are sent when lives are consecrated to God. And we can see how Elisha does this in several ways in responding to Elijah's challenge. First of all, he burns his bridges with his old life in a very literal way, meaning that he'd have no other option than to press on and trusting God's power to provide to his every need, Elisha trusts God and consecrates his life to him. He takes that yoke of oxen. He slays the oxen. He cuts up the instruments used for plowing. And he burns up the whole thing. He burns his bridges, very literally, with his old way of life. He burns those oxen and those equipment needed for plowing as a visual demonstration of his consecration to God. I was reading again recently in the book of Acts, my daily reading brought me through the book of Acts recently, and just seeing again, I can't remember in which town it was where Paul ministered, but to see the people who were involved in witchcraft before, who brought out all of their books into the town square and burnt them up, showing to the Lord that they were consecrated to him, that there would be no turning back, no turning back. to their old way of life. And so God is calling us to do the same if we are to serve Him. I made reference to Romans 12, 1 and 2 this morning without quoting it. We're going to go there very quickly and read it. Romans 12, verse 1 and 2. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies as living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And so what is the first place of service that God gives us? To present our bodies unto Him. To give ourselves entirely over to Him. To say to Him, God, from this moment forth, I want you to direct my every step, and I put my trust in you entirely. And then verse two, be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. And so he burns his bridges with his old life. A second thing that we can see is that he testifies publicly to his decision. That's what we see in the next part of the verse. He took the yoke of oxen. He slew them. He boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen. And he gave unto the people, and they did eat. He testified publicly to his decision for the Lord. And that feast that was made with the cooked meat and that was shared with his family and fellow labourers was a very public demonstration of the fact that he was no longer going to be continuing in the farming business. He was going to serve the Lord. And so he testified publicly to that decision. He was in God's service now and would be serving the Most High. testifying of our decisions. And this is why it's so interesting that our brother talked about the importance of coming to the altar, that altar call that goes out. Coming and testifying of our decisions in a very public way for the Lord can be a great way to solidify the reality of God's working in our hearts. You know, in 2013, in October of 2013, I trusted Christ as Savior. It'll soon be 11 years since I've been walking with Him, praise the Lord. And whenever I trusted Him as Savior, it was in my bedroom beside my bed and I was all alone. And that was wonderful. I got down on my knees and I asked Christ to be my Savior. And for the next couple of weeks, I had this inner peace and I had this joy that comes with salvation. I knew that my sins were forgiven, although I didn't know how to share it in as many words. But there was something strange. It didn't feel quite real. I wasn't sure entirely if my decision was totally real, exactly what I had decided to do. And so at that time, one of my neighbors, because my parents didn't go to this church, my neighbors used to bring me there. And they brought me along. And at the evening service, at the end of each month, they would share the Lord's Supper. And as I was sitting there, the first night that I had been there during the Lord's Supper in a Baptist church, my friend leaned over to me and said, Andrew, and my friend walked with Lord, he said, Andrew, we know that you don't know Christ as Savior. And so if you wouldn't mind just letting the elements pass on by you, just don't take of them. It would be better if you didn't. And I said, well, brother, I asked Jesus to be my savior a few weeks ago. He said, well, that's wonderful. Well, they allowed me to take the Lord's Supper. It was only later that I understood that you should probably be baptized before doing it as well. But anyway, I did the best that I could with the light that I had. But on that night, on the way home in the car, My friend and his father took the time to ask me my testimony of salvation. And I can tell you, as they shared their testimonies with me, and then I shared with them that decision that I'd made by my bedside to trust in Christ, it was at that moment, I believe that I was saved the two or three weeks before, but it was at that moment that I knew without any shadow of a doubt that I was born again. And it became real in my heart. And that's why we read in Romans 10, verse 9. If you want to turn there really quick. Romans 10, 9. Another really well-known verse, but so important as we consider this topic. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. As we think about service for the Lord, let me ask you, have you shared your testimony with somebody recently? Have you taken time to explain to someone who doesn't know Christ that wonderful work that God has done in your heart? Because I can tell you, if there's one thing that gives me more encouragement than anything else, it is being able to tell people of what God has done, to give Him the glory for His work in my life, in my family's life, in the life of our ministry. And so, go from here. Whenever young people trust Christ as Savior at camp, What I always tell them before they leave the room is I say, the very first person that you meet after, whenever you leave this room, I want you to tell them exactly what you've done. And so tonight, perhaps the challenge is this, go and tell someone tonight your testimony. Tell them of what God has done for you, how he has saved you, and be a blessing to that person as they hear that wonderful work of Christ in your life. So he burnt his bridges. He testified publicly to his decision. And then the final thing that we see in the last part of the verse is that he takes up the calling. He takes up the calling. Then he arose and went after Elijah and ministered unto him. And so the final thing that we see is that he obeys God's call. And that, you know, whenever the rubber hits the road, this is the decision that comes back again and again. Are we going to obey God's call, or are we going to continue as we are? God doesn't force it upon us. He leaves us a decision, but we know. And you'll see, if you read on in the life of Elijah the Elisha, the wonderful blessings that come whenever we trust God and follow his calling. He began his training, took up his place as God's spokesperson after Elijah was taken up into heaven. And what a wonderful privilege it is to serve the Most High. You know, tonight, if you're here, you haven't trust Christ as your personal Savior, the application of this message is very simple. Come to Him. Come to Him. Trust in Him as your own Savior. Perhaps if you're here and you do know Christ, let me just ask you three questions. Are you doing what God has given you to do? Are you doing what God has given you to do? Are you reaching out in the community that He has placed you in, the circles and spheres of influence that He has blessed you with? Have you got a burden for your local area? And then secondly, are you praying for those who are serving? I was so encouraged. The first thing I saw whenever I came in this morning was that little board at the back that shows each missionary couple that your church supports. And that's such a wonderful blessing to see churches that are so burdened for foreign lands. Are you praying for those who are serving? I can tell you that we desperately need your prayers these days, especially in the land of France. And then thirdly, are you praying for Liberers to be sent? Sometimes when we pray, it ends up being that God is calling us. Perhaps God is calling you tonight. Would you answer him? Say to him, Lord, I don't know exactly what you're giving me to do, but I sense that you're calling me to do something for you. Come to him tonight. Give your life over to him. Say, Lord, listen, I don't have much to offer. I'm not particularly talented. At least that's what I said to him. Not particularly talented. But take my life. Let it be wholly consecrated to thee. Do what you will, Lord, for your glory. Let's pray.