Oh let the Son of God and found you with his spirit and his life,

let him fill your heart and satisfy your soul.

Oh, let him have the things that hold you

and his spirit like a dove will descend upon your life and make you

home.

Welcome to the Word for today,

featuring the Bible Teaching of Pastor Chuck Smith,

founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a verse by verse study through the entire

Bible. And on today's edition of the word for today,

Pastor Chuck continues with the 12 apostles as we pick up in Matthew chapter 10 first one and now with today's

message here's pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the 10th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew?

In the beginning of the 10th chapter we find Christ sending his disciples out, telling them to go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But in the fact that he is sending them to go in the first part of chapter 10 makes the last verse of chapter 9 quite significant.

For in the last verse of chapter 9 Jesus said to his disciples,

Pray ye therefore the Lord of Harvest that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. And having told them to pray that the Lord will

send workers into the harvest, the next thing he says is go. So many times as we pray the Lord speaks to

our own hearts.

So many times we see a need

and we think, oh, what a need.

You know, the church really should be trying to fulfill that need and we become all concerned with the need and the Lord says well pray about it and as we pray about it suddenly we realize that God has called us

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