A Reason a Day #54

You must be a soul winner to avoid the mistake of sowing your seed on a hard stony floor.

Stay with the ripened harvest. Go where the doors are open. That is why I love preaching to young people. Every year I hold special programmes in each of the universities in Ghana. I enjoy preaching in secondary schools. I see such a positive response from the young people. The young people are my ripened harvest.

I remember speaking with an 80-year-old man at a wedding reception. During the wedding service, I had preached a sermon on salvation. This man was in the congregation and had heard all that I had said.

He called me aside at the wedding reception and said to me, "I want you to know something."

"What is it, sir?" I asked

He answered, "I want you to know that I will never change!"

"Oh!" I responded

He continued, "I am 80 years old and I will never change! I want you to know that I will never be born again! I am a traditionalist, I belong to the Anglican Church and I will never be born again!"

I was taken aback! I had never heard anybody speak like that. This man was saying that he was hardened and resistant to the Gospel. There are many people like that. Preaching to them yields very little results.

Stay with the ripened and whitened harvests. God will bless your evangelistic efforts. The poor are often more open to receive the Gospel than the rich. Therefore, preach more to the poor than to the rich.

When you spend time on unripened harvests, you will become discouraged with evangelism. You will find it fruitless and a waste of time. Stay with the ripened harvests. God has given them to you! Win the lost at any cost!

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