We shall never be able to fathom the goodness and mystery of the 11th hour packaged as (Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard) into the Gospel of Matthew 20:1-16.
1For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
2And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
3And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
4And said unto them; Go you also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.
5Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.
6And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and said unto them, Why stand you here all the day idle?
7They said unto him, Because no man has hired us. He said unto them, Go you also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall you receive.
8So when evening came, the lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.
9And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
10But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
11And when they had received it, they murmured against the owner of the house,
12Saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day.
13But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do you no wrong: did not you agree with me for a penny?
14Take what is yours, and go your way: I will give unto this last, even as unto you.
15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?
16So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many are called, but few chosen.
I have always said that the above scripture is for those I called “LATE-COMERS”, why should people recruited at the last hour of a full working day be the first to be paid and paid 12times more than what they should naturally earn for one-hour labour?. I was one of the super late-comers in my youth, I spent 9-years in the university before I could obtain a degree, but I came out as the best graduating student in my Discipline (a case of Mr. Last being Mr. First).
The Lord raised a profound question in verse 6 that challenges stagnation to the roots saying: “… Why stand you here all the day idle?” That means, in the agenda of heaven, stagnation is a forbidden item on the divine list. When you judge Verse 16 in the natural, it sounds ‘crazy’ and ‘irrational’ but as far as Heaven is concerned it is an uncommon verdict for promotion… bringing the last man or woman on the queue of blessing to the first in line as recipient! God’s ways are past finding out.
One of the most scary Goliath of our present day is the Goliath of youth unemployment there is no better way to stagnate a person that to render them idle in the midst of activities of the market-square of life.
I noticed that the 3-hour cycle of visitation was broken, the pattern that would have excluded the chosen of the Lord from blessings. After the 9th hour, the 12th hour closing time would have been the next visitation, the Lord broke that pattern by suddenly and unexpectedly appearing at the 11th hour. At this point I pray concerning every one reading this message that every where your matter is about to be closed, the angel of the 11th hour shall be assigned by the Lord to open your case for uncommon favour and promotion in Jesus’ name. Shout this prayer with conviction in your heart: O God of the 11th hour, break the evil pattern of stagnation and appear suddenly in my situation, in the name of Jesus.
please Pastor pray for me and my husband concerning our traditional wedding that is coming up on 31st December 2011. that He should take control for everything we are going to do that day. and that He should not allow any wicked man or woman to come there that day. Let every thing that we are going to do that day to move successfully in Jesus name Amen.
Hallelujah to the God of the 11th hour…
please pastor i want u pray for me in my educational carrier for knowledge,success,breakthrough and favour in thy name of Jesus and let me be favour by great men of God and people that have achvied greatness in the world in Jesus name.
This is awesome, especially the comment about the unemployed youth. I join you in praying for jobs for all those who need and want them, for productive employment, small business growth, and good stewardship of our resources. Amen Praise you Lord that You can help us fix this mess.
Prayers for a breakthrough for God to grant me accompanion to be my husband very soon a person who is God-fearing. Thanks in advance for ur intercession prayer and be blessed with your work.
Thank u for the 11th hour message i recieve it in the name of Jesus,pray for me,i want an uncommonbreakthrough in my spiritual and financial life
I ask for the support in prayer for my uncommon favor and protection on my jobe. That my promotion which was blocked will again be delivered to me multiplied. And that when it comes that I will be even more prepared in skills and knowledge to succeed for the honor and glory of God , for my love ones and myslef.
I also asked for prayer support in finding a life companion….who knows God in a wonderful way , is blessed with the favor of the God and is willing to share his life with me.
Heavenly Father thank you for this word in season in my life. I receive promotion and uncommon favour in my life. Teach me Lord to stand and wait upon you Lord. To walk in the spirit and never to doubt your power, for your ways are higher than mine. Here I am sitting at the feet of the master, ready to receive my portion, like the woman with the issue of blood, when the world gives up on me and turn their back at me as an outcast, I will gaze at the sky and know that all of my help cometh from above, all of my help cometh from thee Lord.
Please pray for my teenager daughter struggling with depression, upcoming GCSE exams, very rebellious, smoking, lying and letting herself and me down, Also for my 5 yr old who ihas a language delay, help me to find ways to bring out her full potential. Please pray for me to carry my baby to full term, and have a healthy pregnancy and financial betterment.
Dear Elisha, l Thank God for the gift of the Holy spirit that has opened our eyes and delivered us from the jaws of the devil. Its two weeks since l landed on your website by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. l got call to go back to my small par time job and managed to pay my children’s rent, the suprising thing was he offered twice as much and paid in advance this brought about a huge breakthrough, 1000 dollars a month, however, l am not improving in health as the demonic spirit place fibroids/cysts in my womb that are painful and keep bleeding. Effort for permanent employment are fruitless that renders me illegal in this country where am a foreigner. My bills and debts are sky rocketing. My graduate son with a 1st class degree is not employed, they showed interest in him in a big bank in Dubai but didn’t get back to him after. l keep dreaming demons form his family(fathers) which l think he inherited. l fire prayer bullets every midnight and rebuke the devil but l feel there id something not moving. l keep seeing the man who said to me 10yrs that he has cursed and even God will never rescue me. l dreamt a serpent inside a whale that got trapped while one man finishing in his net and both serpent and whale were chopped of their heads as he tried to clean the fish. Am in bondage of staying illegally in a foreignness country yet l want to go back home for treatment. l cant raise 10,000 dollars needed for fine and my treatment too. How to ever get that kinda money while jobless, let God reverse my situation a and a miracle drops on my hopelessness.
l keep praying hard every midnight requesting God for spacial Angels with weapons of mass destruction to arrest and burn all the demonic work to ashes in Jesus name and recover my blessings.
Prayers for me please.
Blesings
I am believer and I accept Jesus as the Lord and saviour of my life. I RID MYSELF OF IDLENESS AND STAGNATION IN JESUS NAME. AMEN