A Cry For The LOST

The apostle Paul spoke of this burden when he wrote, "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart" (Romans 9:1-2).
And as we walk with the Son of God, we too, will receive the "weight" of souls that Paul experienced. When we follow and commune with Jesus we will know the feelings of His heart. As He proclaimed, "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10).
Jesus's burden will become yours as you follow Him---just as it did for these well-known soul winners:
Billy Graham. The great evangelist often related how he became overwhelmed with a burden for the lost in his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, after he received Jesus Christ into his heart.
Oral Roberts. Long before he was known around the world as an evangelist and educator, he suddenly and inexplicably felt this same urgency for souls when he turned his life over to Christ in rural Oklahoma.
Kathryn Kuhlman. After asking Jesus into her life at the age of fourteen, she began preaching the Gospel throughout the western United States within a year.
Rex Humbard. While still a young man in Arkansas, he received this same calling for souls. He told about walking through the streets of his small town and crying over lost humanity.
A heart-cry for the lost was given to each of these believers by the power of the Holy Spirit. Others, such as Dwight L. Moody and Charles Finney, were used mightily to reach the unsaved. They, too, experienced an unexplainable burden for souls which fell upon them.
Once a believer begins to understand that only the Lord gives this glorious calling and burden, he will ask Him for it in prayer. It is the only way a person can receive an all-consuming passion for lost souls.