#346 – Lift Up Your Eyes (John 4:34–35)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 22 July 2018

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The fields are white for harvest. Let us pray to the end that by God's grace we will take living water to the thirsty.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net.
0:06.0	John chapter 4 verse 34 and 35.
0:09.5	Jesus said to them,
0:11.3	my food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do you not say there are
0:18.0	yet four months then comes the harvest? Look I tell you lift up your eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest.
0:27.0	These verses come at the end of Jesus' conversation with a Samaritan woman at the well in John Chapter 4.
0:35.1	And the disciples come out, she goes back into town to talk about who she has met.
0:41.7	Jesus is having this conversation with the disciples. They're saying, hey you haven't
0:45.2	eaten and he says, oh I've eaten. I have much better food than you've eaten. My food is to do the will of him who's sent me to finish his work.
0:57.0	Basically what sustains me is obeying the Father, accomplishing his will, doing the mission he sent me to do here in John
1:08.2	4 to bring living water to a woman at the well. And then he says, open your eyes and look, there's so much
1:17.4	work to do. There's so many people, the Harvest Language here, who are in need of the grace and mercy of God the
1:26.1	living water that Jesus has come to offer so Jesus says this is food this is
1:31.9	sustenance giving your life making this living water known to those who are thirsty and they're ready to hear it.
1:41.0	Open your eyes and look, don't say later, like the fields are ripe for harvest.
1:46.5	And oh, I pray for this perspective in my life in each of our lives that we would have open eyes, that we would realize all around us there
1:54.8	are people in need of living water.
1:57.5	There are people in need of salvation in Christ all around us.
2:01.5	Right now, today we will be surrounded by people, all around us. Right now today we will be surrounded by people all of us in different
2:06.3	parts of the world where we live and we work and we carry on with life there are people around us who are in need of the grace of Christ.
2:15.6	So God help us to open our eyes and see that they're white for harvest, that they're ready to hear.
2:21.6	Certainly not everybody is going to respond favorably when we share the gospel,
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