A Heaping Cup

Many farmers work through buyers. They bring their harvest to these buyers and get paid cash depending on the agreed upon measure. This is a measuring cup for farmers selling nutmeg. The buyer will pay an agreed rate for as many fruit as they can fit in the cup. These buyers are very good at filling the measuring cup to overflowing.

A good day harvesting nutmeg might yield 5 or 6 of these cups at $5 a cup. When it is harvest time, the farmers do well, but the buyers do even better as they will sell the nutmeg for two to three times as much as they paid for it. Obviously the famers would do better financially if they could sell directly and cut out the middle man.

In the spiritual world it is the same for many Indonesians. When they have troubles they go to specialists called dukuns or shamans. They pay them for their advice and service, but they would be better off if they had direct access to God. Many people living on Sumatra do not realize that a way has been opened giving them free access to the Lord.

Pray that believers on Sumatra will use this free access to the Lord to meet their needs without going to the dukun.

Pray for the Gospel to be broadly and freely shared to people who have not yet heard about the way opened up by Jesus’ great sacrifice.

Pray for the lost on Sumatra to respond to the Gospel and experience the cup of blessing that overflows into abundance and leads to eternal life.