Bible reading for 40.Day 2025 | Luke 19:1-10

In Luke 19:10, Jesus said,

“For the Son of Man has come to seek and save the lost.”

You know, God’s heart is for the lost. And I believe that God the Father wants to touch at least one person a day.

In John 10:11, Jesus personally said:

“I am the Good Shepherd. I lay down my life for the sheep.”

Jesus is All In for that one person, the one a day whom the Father wants to touch.

A heart for the lost

In John 3:16, the Word of God says, “For God so loved the world, He gave His only Son.” His only son! God gave us everything! He’s All In to save the lost.

In Luke 19, Jesus was walking through, passing by Jericho when He stopped. The crowd was around him. He looked up that tree, and suddenly He said, “Zacchaeus, come down.”

He knew Zacchaeus by name.

Zacchaeus was such a sinner; the Word of God says he was a chief tax collector. The people around started grumbling, being critical of Jesus. They said, “Why has He gone to the house of a sinner?”

Jesus was not bothered by it, and the reason why is because Jesus is All In – All In to touch the one whom the Father wants to touch.

You see it in Mark 5 as well. There was a day when Jesus was walking, and this synagogue official by the name of Jairus came up to Jesus in public. He knelt down before Jesus. He didn’t care whether people would talk or judge him – he pleaded with Jesus. He said, “Jesus, please, please come and heal my daughter. She’s dying now.”

Jairus and his daughter were the ones Jesus wanted to touch that day.

Jesus was on the way to Jairus’ house. There was this woman who had a haemorrhage for 12 years. She had spent everything that she had, but there was no healing. She thought to herself, “If only I can touch Him”, and she squeezed through the crowd.

She did not even touch Jesus. The Word of God says that she touched the hem of Jesus’ clothes, and she was healed. The Lord knew that the power went out from Him, and He turned around. She was that one who needed the boost of faith, the word of encouragement. And Jesus said, “Woman, Your faith has made you well.”

Praise God! She’s the one whom Jesus stopped for.

In John 4, you see again that Jesus was about to go from Jerusalem to Galilee, and He had to pass through Samaria. In those days, Jews would walk around Samaria because of many unpleasant reasons, but Jesus had set his heart and his mind on the Word of God, and He said He had to go through Samaria.

He stopped at a place called Sychar, sent His disciples away and sat beside the well of Jacob. He was waiting for the one whom the Father wanted to touch that day. That lady came, and Jesus spoke to her. She was divorced five times, and she was living an adulterous relationship at that moment with the sixth man. Jesus ministered to her because she was the one whom God wants to touch that day.

Watching for the one

God is in the business of saving people, and Jesus went beyond the culture. All he did was to go All In, just to touch that one whom the Father wants to touch.

Now I believe that every day God wants to touch somebody in Singapore. I believe that you and me, we are born in Singapore for the reason that God wants to touch and bring somebody into our lives. So we must be ready.

When Jesus said in Matthew 28:18-19 – “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.”

He said, “All authority has been given unto me, go.”

Therefore you know He is not just speaking to Pastors or Bishops or leaders. He is speaking to every believer – you and me – that we are called to watch out for that one, the one whom the Father wants to touch.

I encourage you to go into a time of prayer and fasting these 40 days to cultivate that culture of looking out for the one whom the Father wants to touch. I believe that every day God wants to touch at least one person.

Let us ask the Lord to move within our hearts, to set our hearts on fire for the lost. Let’s pray for the one whom the Lord is going to bring into our life. Let’s be ready. You are carrier and courier of God’s presence, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Amen.

Let’s pray:

Father, we want to thank You and praise You that You love us so much. You have anointed us to bring the Gospel to the one you want to touch. Every day we believe You want us to bring one person to be touched by you. We open our hearts: Baptise us, Father, with the spirit of evangelism, to reach out to them.

Lord, in Jesus’ name, we pray prophetically for the one whom You are going to send into our lives – may it be in the army camp, in our school, or in our workplace. In the name of Jesus, we pray prophetically and bind the god of this world that has blinded the eyes of the unbelieving; we tear it down. In the name of Jesus, we declare eyes wide open right now as You send the one into our lives. Help us to be All In with our time, our finances, and our talents in reaching out to love this person, to engage this person, and bring him into the love of God and the body of Christ.

By faith we receive what we pray for right now, and we declare this will be a culture in our lives. Singapore shall be saved.

We declare this in Jesus’ name and everybody say, Amen.

Reflect:

1. Has God been putting certain people on your mind? Would you diligently pray for them and ask the Father for the opportunity to reach the one He wants to touch

2. Jesus commanded us to “Go therefore and make disciples.” How seriously have we taken His command? How can we start obeying today?

3. As we enter into a season of prayer and fasting, what do we need to humble within ourselves and what do we need to seek the Lord to do in us?

Pray:

1. That we will daily ask the Lord who He is sending us to reach out to, who needs a touch from Him, and that we will do what He tells us.

2. That we will receive the spirit of evangelism during these 40 Days and boldly proclaim the Gospel to our friends and colleagues.

3. That we will have God’s heart for the lost and be faithful to reach out to one person every day that He has put on our minds and hearts.

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