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Proverbs chapter 10, verse 5.

He who gathers in summer is a prudent son.

But he who sleeps and harvest is a son who brings shame.

It's a pretty simple proverb when you think about it.

If you sleep in the middle of harvest time as a son, you bring shame to the father.

You do not honor the father to stay inside sleeping all day when it's harvest time outside. You go. So a simple proverb

that I want to apply to what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 9, verses 37 and 38. He said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful.

The Bible just finished saying that Jesus was looking out at all the multitudes around

him, how they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd.

He's looking at people who are separated from the father by their sin in need of grace and love

and redemption. And Jesus turns to his disciples and he says, there's a plentiful harvest and he goes on to say the problem is not there's

not a great harvest the problem is the workers are few in other words the people who should be

working in the harvest are asleep in the house so he says ask the lord of the harvest to send out more workers into the harvest field.

See it.

And we see the same thing in John 4.

We could talk about that.

But the reality is, in the world today, the harvest is plentiful.

There are so many people who are waiting to hear the gospel.

Over two billion of them who have little to know knowledge of the gospel.

All throughout this Pray the Word podcast, we oftentimes pray for unreached people.

And I'm using an app called Unreached of the Day from Joshua Project that just,

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