Command 21: Pray for Laborers
Bible verses for meditation
In addition to meditation on Matthew 9:37–38, meditating on the verses below will provide you with further insight and understanding of Christ’s command: Pray for Laborers.
John 4:35–36
“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. And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.”
I Corinthians 3:9
“For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.”
John 9:4
“I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.”
Luke 4:18–19
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”
Romans 10:14–15
“How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!”