Doing the Greater Works

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.  (John 14:12)

How can we outdo what Christ has done on earth, when He has divinely declared from eternity’s beginning to eternity’s end that ‘It is finished’? The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Rev 13:8) is the testimony that Christ has already accomplished all in the spiritual realm of Heaven, a realm without bounds. Hence if we ‘work’ from the basis of our definition of meeting needs or completing that which we perceive as incomplete, we are heading for burn out. What greater works is Jesus telling us?

The subsequent verse Jesus beckons us to ask with all of Heaven’s backing and authority, in His Name, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Hence the greater work is the work of prayer. Not work as in a burden, but work as in a delight because we ask from the vantage point of being more than conquerors (Rom 8:37). We ask in order that we may be included in the eternal purposes of the Almighty. What should we ask for but for His Kingdom that have already been establish in Heaven’s realm to manifest itself as an earthly reality (Matt 6:10). Prayer exercises our faith to substantiate God’s promises (Heb 11:1) that are already in existence in Heaven on earth.

Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.  (Luke 10:2)

Christ coming is determined by the extend of the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom in all the earth (Matt 24:14). How could Jesus leave mere men to complete a seemingly impossible task? He left the destiny of His Kingdom on earth, as it were, into the hands of men. Can we fathom that? How to accomplish such a gargantuan task? Jesus said pray we therefore and He will work out the rest. God answers mightily to the prayer of the saints (Rev 8:3-5). The saints can be unassuming individuals who hide in their prayer closet, unheard by men but reach the golden altar before the Throne. Men, women and children who may not be lauded by men, but their very existence is a proclamation ‘unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places’ (Eph 3:10).