【双语灵修】为收割的工人祈祷PRAY FOR HARVEST WORKERS
马太福音 9:35-38
耶稣走遍各城各乡，在会堂里教训人，宣讲天国的福音，又医治各样的病症。他看见许多的人，就怜悯他们，因为他们困苦流离，如同羊没有牧人一般。于是对门徒说：「要收的庄稼多，做工的人少。所以，你们当求庄稼的主打发工人出去收他的庄稼。」
2月25日
为收割的工人祈祷
「于是对门徒说：『要收的庄稼多，做工的人少。 所以，你们当求庄稼的主打发工人出去收他的庄稼。』」 -太 9:37-38
我们有曾住在北京，学习中国的官方语言——普通话。我们本来没打算做其他事情，但我们参加的教会的英文圑契，邀请我们开始一个新的查经小组。这个小组发展迅速，很快就有人信主了。
这些初信者需要接受洗礼，所以我们也带领了一班预备浸礼课。然后，他们需要接受门徒训练，于是我们又带领了一班门徒训练课。教会还请我们培训其他人来带领小组。工作开始越来越多，超出了我们的能力范围。这是一个令人欣喜的问题，但仍然是一个问题。
人们对福音的回应，表明了许多人已经预备好（或几乎预备好）被收割加入神的大家庭了。但是，收割的工人不够，正如耶稣在两千年前所说的一样。
有研究显示，一般来说，未得之民（很少有机会或根本没有机会领受福音）中，在听到福音时，相对其他未信群体的反应更为积极。跨文化宣教工作者需要训练，和动员来满足这个巨大需求。
让我们恳切祷告，求神——庄稼的主——兴起收割的工人。
祷告
主啊，在祢预备人向祢敞开心门时，请向我们各人显明，祢要如何使用我们成为收割的工人。奉耶稣的名求，阿们。
PRAY FOR HARVEST WORKERS
[Jesus] said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” —Mathew 9:37-38
We were living in Beijing to learn Mandarin, the official language of China. We weren’t planning to do anything else, but the English fellowship in the church we were attending asked us to start a new small group Bible study. It grew rapidly, and soon people were coming to faith in Christ.
They needed to be baptized, so we also led a class for preparation for baptism. Then they needed to be discipled, so we led a discipleship class. The church also asked us to train others to lead small groups. The work was beginning to pile up, becoming more than we could do. It was a happy kind of problem, but still a problem.
The responsiveness to the gospel made it obvious that many people were ready—or nearly ready—to be harvested into God’s family. But there were not enough harvest workers—just as Jesus said 2,000 years ago.
Research has shown that in general, people in unreached people groups (where there is little or no opportunity to receive the gospel) are more responsive than other nonbelieving populations when the gospel is presented. Cross-cultural mission workers need to be trained and mobilized to meet this great need.
Pray faithfully and diligently that God—the Lord of the harvest—will raise up harvest workers.
Lord, as you prepare people to open their hearts to you, show each of us how you want to use us as harvesters. For Jesus’ sake, Amen.