Pastor’s Desk

All over Australia people are looking for answers. Many are hurting, lost and broken. T.S. Elliot said ‘we prepare faces, to meet the faces that we meet’ but behind the smiles pain often lurks.

Jesus brings hope to these issues, in his heart of compassion he saw the lost and said

“Do you not say, it is still four months until harvest time comes? Look! I tell you, raise your eyes and observe the fields and see how they are already white for harvesting” (John 4:35 MKJV).

The harvest is ready. It’s ripe and ready to be brought in. Jesus wanted us to look at the harvest with eyes that see where people are at, and how needy they are, as we all are, for the answer the gospel brings. God has called us to so much more, a life abundant that Jesus promised – a life that overcomes pain & sorrow with faith & joy

Jesus said, “The Spirit of the Lord is on me; He has anointed me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,” Luke 4:18 (MKJV).

Look at those key words; they describe pain in people’s lives. Jesus is saying that He has come to heal, save and deliver people from those very things and the Holy Spirit has anointed us to be ministers of reconciliation between God and man, so let us be about His business – Works for me!

Pastor Larry Blackmore