And He said to them, Come after Me, and I will make you fishers of men. Matt. 4:19
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would realize that there are many sinners, many “fish” around them in the place where they live, and would “go fishing” — go contact them consistently week after week until they eventually gain someone (Matt. 4:19; Luke 5:10b).
The Bible uses the illustration of fishing. To get sinners saved is like catching fish (Matt. 4:19; Luke 5:9-10). If we do not go to the sea where the fish are, how could we get any fish? The principle, the secret, to gaining a sinner is to “go fishing.” There are many sinners, many “fish,” around us in the place where we live. If we go to contact them consistently week after week, we will eventually gain someone. We do not like to go fishing, however, because we do not have enough patience. A fisherman will fish patiently until he catches some fish, and we need to be the same in our labor in the gospel. We may go out for almost a year without any result, but at the end of the year we may gain a whole family. We need to labor consistently and look to the Lord that each of us could gain one person yearly as remaining fruit for the church life. (Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1993, vol. 2, “The Training and the Practice of the Vital Groups,” ch. 1, pp. 270-271)
More details via Beseeching.org, day 359.
