![]() Luke 5:5-11 says: “But Simon answered and said to Him, ‘Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing nevertheless at Your Word I will let down the net.’ And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. The rest of the passage is pretty exciting… If we are not winning people to Christ and loading our nets with seekers, we may not be as “deep” as we think. Reaching the lost-fishing for men-is about as deep as it gets. Think about a simple example of what it means to be “deep.” Ever lost a child in the grocery store? Instantly, the deep love a parent has for a lost child causes them to look for that lost child with a passion unmatched! The purpose for going “deeper” with the Lord isn’t to accumulate more revelation knowledge or to parse the Greek and Hebrew…it’s to get His heart of compassion – to love Him and others deeply-and reach out to lost people with passion! It occurred to me: the deeper we go, the more it leads us to let down our nets in order to win people to Christ! The deep things lead us to evangelism! Fishing for men…reaching seekers…going after lost people! His definition of going “deeper” had something to do with catching fish…that is: reaching people that are lost without Christ. I sensed the Lord giving me a completely new and different definition for being “deep” in God. ![]() “Push out into deep water and let your nets out for a catch.” (The Message) “Now go out where it is deeper and let down your nets, and you will catch many fish.” (NLT) When He asked me, “How deep do you want to go?” I was immediately reminded of this passage of Scripture in Luke 5:4, where Jesus told his disciples… Personally, I love all of that, but somehow I knew that wasn’t what the Lord was talking about. Of course, I did! I love rich, meaty, “deep” times in my personal walk with God, in corporate worship services, in prayer, in meetings where the Holy Spirit is flowing. I knew God was asking me if I wanted to go “deeper” in Him. “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” Luke 5:4, NKJVĪ few years ago, I was sitting in the bleachers at my daughter’s basketball game and the Lord asked me this question-right in the middle of a basketball game! He asked, “How deep do you want to go?” I knew what He meant.
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