Hi everyone!
Before I dive into the details for tonight’s prayer call, please mark those calendars and join us for Community Dinner at our place Sunday, October 30th at 5 pm. See you there (text for address)!
Last week in our time of corporate prayer and praise, we centered our hearts in prayer, focusing on one word: harvest.
As shared previously, THE determining factor of every bountiful harvest is the Lord himself and the people He sends.
Therefore we prayed and asked the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers (that’s us!) into the harvest field — Fort Worth communities and campuses of TCU, UTA, TWU, TCC, and Tarleton State.
Tonight, we continue to focus on harvest, yet we’ll pray to be led by the Spirit of God in another important factor of harvest as revealed in John 4:31-38: time.
31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” 33 Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?” 34 “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.” — John 4:31-38
Yes, laborers being sent are important. But as faithful and obedient laborers of the harvest, we must never forget the importance of time and process for harvest as we do our part as led by the Spirit of God.
As Jesus expresses in the passage, the harvest is ripe for both sowers and reapers.
What we do with the time given to us by God is most critical in sharing the message of the Kingdom of God (sowing) that leads to repentant hearts professing Christ Jesus as Lord and being transformed through the Spirit of God’s salvific power (reaping).
However, ultimately it is God’s timing and presence that provides harvest growth, or paraphrasing the great Apostle Paul’s words from 1 Corinthians 3:6: I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.
We must remember there are moments when our assignment to the harvest is seeding for someone else to come along and reap. But we too will reap the harvest of someone else’s assigned sowing.
Nevertheless, no matter our assignment, it is truly only by the divinely timed grace of God that a bountiful harvest into the Kingdom is ever realized.
So let’s pray to ask and trust God for his timing in our assignments of sowing and reaping for lost souls of Fort Worth to be redeemed and made whole in his enduring love. It’s about that time…
Weekly Prayer Call from 8 pm – 9 pm (TONIGHT)
Every Wednesday night from 8 pm – 9 pm will be our corporate prayer and praise time to pray for the city of Fort Worth as well as one another and all that God is calling us to. We will start and end promptly, and look forward to everyone participating in our weekly call.
Join us at 8 pm tonight on Zoom. Let’s labor and pray to ask the Lord of the harvest to open our eyes and hearts as we sow and reap in God’s timing to make disciples for Jesus in communities and on campuses across Fort Worth.
God bless,
Pastor Alvin & Mallary Brown
alvin@makingamosaic.com :: mallary@makingamosaic.com
Prayer Requests & Updates
For evangelism to flourish so communities and campuses in the greater Fort Worth area will be reached, and the lost will see and experience the love of Christ and be drawn to his kingdom.
For signs and wonders to follow the preaching of His Word.
For team unity and laborers to help carry the load.
For finances and provisions.
For fully funded campus missionaries (2 per campus) to help reach the next generation — University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Texas Christian University (TCU), Tarrant County College (TCC), Texas Wesleyan University (TWU) and Tarleton State University – Fort Worth (TSU).

Alvin Brown, the Lead Pastor of Mosaic Church Fort Worth, brings over a decade of pastoral ministry experience and more than 20 years of operational and technical leadership expertise. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications Management from DeVry University and an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Management. He enjoys spending quality time with his wife, Mallary, and their three children and contributing as a writer to various media outlets.