The Call of Jesus
Welcome to this lesson 7 called "Believe that the Harvest is Ready".
Last time we talked about how the harvest is ready, the harvest is plentiful,
as Jesus is saying In Luke 10. And what we also see in John 4.
But we need to believe it.
It's not enough to just hear about it. We need to believe that the harvest is ready.
I will start with reading from John 4 this time. Let me read here again.
Jesus is saying this (John 4:35):
"Do you not say, 'There are still four months and then the harvest will come?'
Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields,
for they are already white for harvest!"
So, what I want us to understand is that we need to believe this.
It's not enough to hear that the harvest is ready, that the harvest is plentiful,
as I talked about last time. We need to believe it.
And then we need to act on it, and then we need to experience it.
I want to share more testimonies.
I can share so many, many, many testimonies about this,
how important it is, that we not only hear about it,
but that we believe it or act on it,
and how the harvest is ready, as Jesus is saying.
The best way to teach somebody something is to show it.
And we tried to show you out there through our videos
and through testimonies, through our moves,
that the harvest is ready.
We tried to show people at our kickstart weekends and training,
that the harvest is ready, the harvest is plentiful, as Jesus is saying.
But now we need to start to believe it.
One testimony I can share, it's many years ago now,
but it's a good testimony still, which shows how important it is
how we look at the harvest.
Some years ago I went to Poland. I first came to a church there,
a big church, and I was telling testimonies about what God was doing in Denmark,
and all over the world. And they were like: Wow, it's so beautiful! It's so beautiful,
Torben, what God is doing in Denmark, and all over the world, where you've been.
It's so beautiful what God is doing there, there, there and there.
But, but, but, but, but... Then it always comes the "but".
Buuut... This place is not ready.
The grass is always greener on the other side. But this place... No, no.
And they said: No, no. Here in Poland people don't want that. No.
It's beautiful in other countries, but in this country people are not ready.
No, no, you cannot just go on the street and share Jesus.
You cannot do all of that because the harvest is not ready here.
I've heard that so many times. I almost get tired of that.
I get tired of hearing pastors and leaders always blame the harvest
for why things are not happening.
Blame the harvest for why there is no newborn believers in the church, for example.
I've never heard yet, a really honest pastor.
It could be nice one day to come to a place and meet a very, very honest pastor
who says something like this: Welcome!
Welcome, welcome, welcome to our church!
As you can see around us, we don't see any people come to faith.
And the reason is, not because of the harvest, because the harvest is ready.
The reason is that we are so lazy.
We are so lazy, and we don't go out, and we don't do what Jesus has said to us.
I've never heard that, but... That is more the truth...
then to say that the harvest is the problem.
Because, as we read last time, the harvest is not the problem.
The problem is the workers, and we are going to look more about that later.
But here I came to that church in Poland. They came with same excuses again and again.
You cannot do it here in Poland. They are too religious.
Sometimes they say they are too non-religious, or they are too rich or too poor.
And they just said: You cannot do it.
Have they tried it? No. They haven't.
But they know. They know it still. They tried, but not the way I do it.
The next day I went to McDonald's with some of the young people in the church.
And there I sat in McDonald's and I asked some of the young people:
Hey, have you ever experienced God? Yeah, yeah. Have you? Yeah.
Do you want to experience God? And they said: Yes.
Do everything I tell you the next ten minutes and you will experience God.
Are you ready? And they said: Yes. Come, let's stand up. Let's go out.
And I took them out. I kickstarted both of them in ten minutes and they got so excited
because they experienced this, and they were on fire.
What happened?
They just kept doing. Kept doing.
And that night we spoke with a young girl who got healed.
The next day in church that young girl came to the church
with her big brother, small brother, and her parents,
and they all gave their lives to Christ, got baptized with the Holy Spirit
and God transformed their lives.
And it was a big, big, big testimony for the whole church. Why?
Because the leadership, the pastors, before that said: No, you cannot do it.
You cannot do it, you cannot do it, people are not ready,
the harvest is not ready, you cannot do like that in our city.
And then we went out and did it.
And their eyes opened.
And that is the problem. We sit in our small cages, we sit in our little box,
filled with fear, and with crazy ideas, ideas that the harvest is not ready,
ideas that we cannot go out and ideas that we cannot share Jesus
to our neighbors, to our friends, out of our homes, in our homes.
All of that is lies. And we need to brake out of that
and we need to understand what Jesus is saying,
because His words are the truth.
Another example from Poland. I traveled around Poland
and then I came to a man called Michael.
He was the pastor of a small, small church.
And he did not have much faith, when it came to the harvest.
How did I know that?
Because what the hart is full of is running over.
And his words were just like: No, no, nothing is happening in my church.
Nobody wants to receive the Holy Spirit. No one is open for healing,
no one wants deliverance, no one wants to go out. My church...
And he was just full of unbelief, when it came to his own church.
And I came there and I tried to encourage him: Come on, Michael.
God can do it. God can do it. I've seen it there, there and there.
But he just kept going. No, no, my place, oh...
And he had so much unbelief. What your heart is full of - is running over.
But I had a meeting in his church and I took a woman in his church,
who wanted the Holy Spirit.
Michael has never seen one person in his church receive the Holy Spirit.
I took that woman up and then I called Michael up
and instead of me praying for her, I took that woman there, Michael there,
and said: Michael, now you pray.
And there Michael prayed and that woman received the Holy Spirit
and spoke in tongues. And what happened?
Michael's eyes were opened.
The harvest in his church did not change,
or, the people around him, in the city, did not change.
Michael changed. His eyes were open
from that one experience,
as I call it, he got kickstarted there.
One year later I received a message from Michael and this is what he wrote to me.
I will read it here. He wrote:
"Torben, I would like to share something with you.
This year, eight persons in our church have been baptized with the Holy Spirit,
and they're all speaking in tongues now.
When you came to us, you showed us something very important,
and this started something inside of me and it has just grown and grown.
God is good, and we now expect even more things to happen.
God bless you." Michael.
Hallelujah! I have seen so many testimonies like this, the last years.
Don't build on your experience.
Never build truth on experience.
Why? Experience can change over night.
Build on the Word of God.
What did Michael do? Michael has been building on his experience
and his experience was: no one wants the Holy Spirit, no one is open,
and he came into a very negative way of thinking.
But what happened that day I came?
His eyes got open. He learned something very, very important.
Instead of building on his experience, lack of experience, bad experience,
he got that one kickstart and he started to believe what the Word is saying.
And the next year everyone in the church was filled with the Holy Spirit,
eight people there, and it just started to grow, grow, grow,
and it has grown since and keeps growing.
And this is the same with you. Don't build on your experience.
Build on the Word of God. The Word of God is the truth.
Not your experience. The harvest is ready, like Jesus is saying.
I want to read more from my book:
"When a Christian is awakened and starts to live the life God has called them to,
they will see that the harvest is truly ready, as Jesus says it is,
and this is what I call revival. The problem is not the harvest.
No, the problem is the workers, but we can do something about that.
Think about what would happen if the whole body of Christ
had their eyes opened so they could start living life the way Jesus has called us
to live it. If this happened, the world would be changed in a few years."
Hallelujah! I love it! I love it!
If you who see this just start to believe this,
and lead four or five people to Christ, and lead them experience the same,
in a few years the world would be changed. It can go so fast.
If we start to see it and teach it to other people
and we all start to lead people to Christ in our everyday life.
We don't need one super evangelist. One super evangelist cannot do it.
We need a husband. We need a wife.
We need you who are older. We need you who are younger.
We need you to see that where you live the harvest is ready.
Your neighbors, your workplace, people around you.
When you start to see the harvest the way Jesus is saying it,
and start to believe it, and act on it...
this will be a normal life for you,
where you also start to lead people to Christ, heal the sick, cast out demons,
baptize people in water and Holy Spirit.
I want to continue reading from my book.
"So, believe what Jesus is saying. The harvest in your city is plentiful and ready,
waiting for you. We are not talking about it being ready in three months
or three years. It is ready today.
The harvest is not the problem and will never be the problem.
It is time to open your eyes and to see this.
Take Jesus' words and meditate on it.
Pray that God will open your eyes to see the truth.
When you start believing what Jesus is saying here,
you will act on it and end up experiencing it.
Then you will also be able to testify together with us and many others
that the harvest is truly ready and plentiful, just like Jesus is saying.
Wow, what amazing news!"
And this is what I'm saying. When you start to take these words
and believe it, and then act on it, you will, together with us,
and many other people, start to testify it's the truth.
The harvest is plentiful. The harvest is ready.
Don't say there is still four months and then the harvest will come.
Like Jesus says: Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields.
They are ready, white for harvest.
Behold, lift up your eyes.
I really encourage you to take this, believe in it and start to act on it.
It's not enough you just have faith in it. Faith without actions is dead.
If you say you have faith, you need actions.
True faith lead to action. So, the first, you start to believe it,
or you hear it first, and then you believe it, but then you need to act on it.
And when you act on it you will see
that this is the truth.
And I also say: Stop, stop praying like the harvest is not ready.
Stop confessing. Stop saying: Oh, there is still four months.
Or, the next year. Or, in two years.
Stop being used by the enemy, by saying those lies
and bring lies and fears to other people.
We have so many people who are speaking so negative about the harvest.
They make themselves blind because of their unbelief.
Yes, we will still meet people out there who don't want to listen.
And there are people where we just need to take the dust off our hands and feet
and move on, like Jesus is also saying. It's something we are going to look at later.
But for those people out there who are ready,
for those people who want God, they are many and they are so ready.
I want to say with my book "The Call of Jesus" and with this video series,
we want to help you. We are here to help you.
I am here to help you. Yes, maybe some of you have bad experience,
but maybe it's because you've did it the wrong way.
And that's why you have bad experience.
We are here to help you to give you those good experience,
so you can start to see that this is the truth.
And again, the best way to show the truth, to teach the truth,
is by experiencing it.
The best way to teach is by showing it.
So, one thing I encourage you to do,
if you've never been out praying for somebody who got healed,
never baptized somebody and lead somebody to Christ,
go to www.TLRmap.com and find somebody near you
who can help you, who can take you out and show you that the harvest is ready,
give you good experience, and then you start to see it,
and you start to believe it, and then you start to act on it,
and then you start to see the fruit.
Another way, if you can, join the kickstart weekend.
We have so many, many, many, many testimonies from people
who came to our kickstarts, and it transformed their lives.
I remember one guy, he came from Slovakia, he came to Holland.
He has been in church 40 years. In 40 years he has never healed the sick,
cast out a demon or led one person to Christ.
He came to our kickstart weekend and he got kickstarted.
He understood that the harvest was ready.
The harvest in his country did not change, but he changed.
He came home. In 40 years he had not led one person to Christ.
The next year he baptized eight people.
There were eight more than the first 40 years.
But he kept learning, he kept growing and the next year he baptized 107.
What happened? Did the harvest changed in his country?
No, he changed. And he keeps changing.
He keeps learning. He keeps growing.
So, the first step, what you can do, go to TLRmap.com,
find somebody near you and experience first hand that the harvest is ready.
Next step, if you can, come and join a kickstart weekend.
I really encourage you to go to TLRmap.com,
join the kickstart weekend near you.
The third thing, just go and do it.
Just go and do it.
Just go out. Start. That's what how I did it.
I did not have anyone to show me. I read Jesus' words: Harvest is ready.
Okay, if the harvest is ready, we need to believe that
and then we need to act on it, and now I can confirm it -
the harvest is truly ready, like Jesus is saying.
So, act on it.
And then, of course, pray God to set you free from those lies.
As I said, I know many people who have been sitting in church
for 20 years, 30 years... nothing has happened.
If that is you, then it's really, really the time that things start to happen.
It's really time for you to come out of that box, to come out of that fear
Satan put in your life, and to understand that the harvest is ready,
the harvest is plentiful, and then do something about it.
Believe it and act on it.
If you don't have people around you, then just do it yourself.
About the book "The Call of Jesus", there is so much more I'm saying
about this in my book, I come with so many more testimonies
about how the harvest is ready, and how we should look at the harvest,
and how to work with this.
I encourage you to get the book. You can get it on Amazon
or you can get on our website thelastreformation.com.
You can get the book as a e-book, as a print, hard copy book,
and I encourage you to get the book.
If you don't have the money you can send an e-mail to us,
to The Last Reformation, mail@thelastreformation.com
and we can give you a code and you can get it for free as an e-book.
God bless you! See you next time!
Share the video and let's see a revival.
Let's see that people start to believe that the harvest is ready
and do something about it. Bye-bye!