It sounds strange, but: God needs us, even though he is the Almighty.

This has to do with our human freedom, which he respects unconditionally.

He wants to save all people, without exception. To do so, he humbled himself into being human. This was an incomprehensible humiliation of his divinity. He wants to give us his love. However, in order for this gift to correspond to his divine perfection, it must be linked to the freedom of choice to accept this gift, or to reject it. Only through humanity‘s freedom of choice did his gift of love become a perfect gift.

If he had revealed himself to us humans as God in order to show us the way to our salvation, we would never have been able to decide against him once we had recognised his incomprehensible greatness. We would suddenly no longer have any freedom of choice. That is why God had to make himself small in Jesus in order to be able to meet us at "eye level". It is only through this human dimension of Jesus that we are able to recognise and accept the divine message of love, mercy and reconciliation, but also to reject it. When we look at the state of the world, we realise that a large number of people exercise their freedom to decide against the will of God.

So God wants to save all people, even those who have turned away from him, because he loves us all without exception. However, because of their freedom, he cannot intrude into the lives of those who do not want to know anything about him. That would be manipulation. God does not manipulate, that is why he needs us.

 Jesus has called us: The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few. So ask the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers for his harvest (Luke 10:2).

The harvest is synonymous with the people whom God wants to save and lead to their final destination, but there are only a few labourers for this task.

As with so many other passages, there are several indirect conditions inconspicuously contained in the text:

God, the Lord of the harvest, needs us to be able to bring him this harvest. As he respects our freedom, he does not send labourers into his vineyard of his own accord, but waits for us to ask. And here is the crucial point: God does not recruit labourers against their will. So he needs us, but we must first show him our willingness to work voluntarily in his vineyard. We must then also be open inwardly so that we can recognise his call and also so that we understand what we should be doing in his vineyard in the first place. This can only be experienced in the context of listening prayer.  And last but not least, we must be inwardly ready to actually do what God needs us to do. We could experience his will, but then using the freedom he has given us, refuse to cooperate with it.

So, if we are willing to allow God to take us into his service, he will make his will ever clearer to us and, above all, he will then always help us to fulfil his will. He will take us into his school and guide us step by step, and will never let us down. His actions also become a school of trust for us. When God acts, it is often at the very last moment.  (God however is never "unpunctual"). Thus our trust is often put to the test and this enables it to grow as we experience God's actions more directly. Over time, this gives us ever greater security and joy. It is an incredible feeling when we can experience and recognise by the fruits of his guidance that God considers us worthy to participate in his saving action in small ways.

So if we are prepared to place our will and our abilities at God's disposal, we can also ask him to give us his promptings and dirrections so clearly that we can actually understand them. God will never overwhelm us in the process, he is an incredibly good teacher.

God begins with small "assignments" that we can easily fulfil. When we pray, he will send us "thoughts" that could well come from ourselves and concern actions that are fundamentally familiar to us.  Such inspirations will always lead to more reconciliation, peace, justice and mercy in the family, in the neighbourhood, at work or wherever. Whenever God recognises our willingness to obey him, he responds by leading us further, step by step.

When we pray we can gain an ever clearer understanding and sense of which thoughts and impulses  do not come from us, because we know the nature of our own thoughts from birth; in this way we learn over time to distinguish them more and more clearly from God's impulses.

The longer we follow this path of listening prayer, the more directly God can use us for his purposes. Our trust that we are not "interrogating" ourselves becomes greater over time, so that we learn to allow ourselves to be led into situations that we would not enter ourselves. After all, we have no idea what tasks God needs us for. It is like being led as a blind man, we do not know where we are being led, but we know that we can trust our guide unconditionally. We are then able and willing to do things that we ourselves do not understand and would never do on our own. Also, when we  look back and realise how God has used us, we experience an inner joy that is difficult to describe. Indeed we are able to experience God's actions directly time and time again.

There are several testimonies on the website that clearly show how God leads people who have opened themselves completely to Him.  The following particular example clearly demonstrate this.