re·lent·less — adjective — incessant. continuing without becoming weaker
What if unreached peoples and cities everywhere were depending primarily on our prayers to prompt the raising of harvesters to take the Good News of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection to their regions. Would workers rise up to the task? Would the Lord of the Harvest hear your prayers and turn his ear toward the people group or city for which you are praying?
“…The time is up for chasing shadows. You gave the world a lot to follow….”
I Thess. 5:17 could be translated “Pray relentlessly.” Continuously. Without ceasing. Never stop praying.
In Matthew 9:38, Jesus instructed us to, “Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” In the original Greek language here, the word for “Ask” is in the aorist imperative. Funny thing about the aorist imperative. If someone tells you to plow and uses the present imperative then they expect you to go and do some plowing but they aren’t too bothered about how much you do. If they say plow that field and use the aorist they are giving you a task that they will expect to be completed. Jesus expected us to pray this entire project through to its completion. He meant business. He was envisioning the end in mind.
Let’s finish the task. Let’s pray this through to completion. Let’s truly ask the Lord to raise up harvesters once and for all.
