PrayerBits for Sunday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Sunday: Luke 10:1-11 Tough conditions

Time to Reflect: Proclaiming the Gospel has always been difficult and of limited effectiveness. Not everyone is interested in the message or willing to listen. In our culture the manner of not listening is different – modern apostles are not beaten or killed, just ignored. But we are called to not get discouraged but to persevere. We are to reach all that can be reached, regardless of what we have to go through.

Moving through the day: Who or in what way do you need to carry the good news to others?

Scripture:

Jesus Sends Out the Seventytwo

 1After this the Lord appointed seventy-two[a] others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. 2He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. 3Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. 4Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.

 5"When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.' 6If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you. 7Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.

 8"When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is set before you. 9Heal the sick who are there and tell them, 'The kingdom of God is near you.' 10But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, 11'Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.'