The
Encourager
Harris
Temple COGIC Outreach Ministry
Pastor, Superintendent W.K. Ellison
November, 2009
“Take Another Look”
Say not ye, There are yet four
months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and
look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
(John 4:35)
On last week I went to visit my son Earnie; in
Jesus saw the same picture concerning lost souls. He used an earthly proverb in order for them
to understand a heavenly meaning. Say not ye there are yet four months and
then cometh harvest? Paraphrasing—can’t
you see the fields are white and ready for harvest? The Lord works on His timetable. If we are still sitting around waiting on the
troubling of the water like the lame man at the pool of
Take another look at your surroundings.
What do you see? Can you see the
pain and sufferings of others? Somebody
is crying out for help out of the dilemma they are in. Ask God to touch your eyes that you may see
clearly, your ears that you may hear the cries, and your heart that you may
feel the pain.
I would like to share a small portion of my testimony; I might have
shared it before. When the Lord first
called me to Outreach Ministry, strange things began to happen to me. I saw people in a different perspective. When I looked on the faces of those in pain,
I began to feel that pain. Later on as I
look on those hurting, I could hear cries; will somebody help me? At first I didn’t understand, but when I
began to seek the Lord for understanding, He let me know what was happening.
God impregnated me with this ministry, I gave birth and the Outreach Ministry
is really who I am. I had to take
another look in order to see clearly.
In order for us not to lose this harvest it takes teamwork. Paul states in (I Corinthians 3:6-8) I have planted, Apollos watered; but God
gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he
that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are
one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own
labour.
Don’t be like the disciples concerning this statement, “there are yet four
months, and then cometh harvest”, a proverb signifying that there is no need to
rush in performing a task. Their
spiritual eyes were blinded by what they saw in the natural. They failed to take the second look.
They were still hung up on the fact Jesus was talking to a woman of
If we allow the Holy Spirit to lead us in all the ways of the truth,
we’ll be able to present the gospel in an effective way. Jesus began His conversation with the woman of
She was a little sarcastic at first, she replied, you being a Jew asks
me a woman of
She was confused, Sir, thou hast
nothing to draw with, and the well is deep, from whence then hast thou that
living water? Jesus knew she was
looking in the wrong directions. Like Jesus, we must present the gospel in a
simple form that others can understand.
Jesus answered and said unto her,
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I
shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting
life. She took another look and said, “Sir, give me
this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.”
Receiving the living water was not enough; Jesus had to prepare her for
ministry. Jesus made a simple statement,
Go call thy husband, and come hither. The
woman said I have no husband: Jesus said, thou hast had five husbands and he
whom thou now hast is not thy husband.
The woman said, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. The conversation continued. The end results were just marvelous.
The woman left her water pot, went into the city and started a
revival. Her message was very simple;
“Come, see a man, which told me everything that I ever did: Is not this the
Christ? Her message was so effective
until the people left the city to go where Jesus was. And many more believed because of His own
words. And said unto the woman, Now we
believe, not because of thy saying, For we have heard Him ourselves, and know
this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Revival can come when we take another look. The second look can bring salvation to us and
to others. Prayer: Lord let me take another
look at present circumstances.