Seventy nations across seven continents
With the release of All My Life (To You I Bring), Argentina became the 70th nation that God has taken the first three vssls songs into.
We do not know how God opened the door into seven continents and 332 verified cities, but we know all things are created through him, and our songs and devotionals are just vessels through which he encounters people — right where they are.
Our latest devotional series is "My Life Your Vessel" — seven days exploring what it means to hold our lives as available vessels for him. The devotional series derives its name from the line in the bridge of All My Life (To You I Bring), and walks through different aspects of how the Bible talks about vessels. It’s what we've come to build our lives around when we realised what we stumbled into with the name vssls.
What we didn't realise until later is that seventy is a number Scripture already holds.
After the flood, Genesis lists the nations that came from Noah's sons, often referred to as the Table of Nations, totalling seventy. When later referred in the Bible, “the seventy nations” came to mean all nations, meaning every people on the earth.
A chapter later, as human ambition led to an attempt to build the Tower of Babel, those nations scattered, their languages confused, and the human family was dispersed across the face of the world.
By Luke 10, the chapter in which Sit At Your Feet is rooted in, Jesus sent workers, ahead of him into the harvest, he sent seventy. Seventy, sent to the seventy. Every town and place he was about to go. Two by two. Into the whole world. Under the authority and appointment of the Lord of the harvest.
By Matthew 28/Acts 1, the same Lord now promises the gift of the Holy Spirit—”Do not leave… but wait… you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
And by Acts 2, as the sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting, and the promised Friend was poured out for the first time on all flesh in the upper room, filling every space and every vessel, different languages broke out.
The nations scattered at Babel are the nations the Spirit gathers — every tongue, every place, hearing in their own language. That was always His heart. And we've been given a window onto a little of it, from the Adelaide Hills.
Seventy is a number. Seven is a number. But behind it are people we may never meet, in cities we'll never see, with a story we may never hear — in Argentina, and sixty-nine nations besides — each one someone God is reaching for by name.
The count was never the miracle. That He wants to fill every willing vessel is.
We say yes in putting it out. The harvest is His.
My life your vessel, come fill completely.
Let us know where from the seventy nations, seven continents, 332 cities you’ve listened from.
In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. — Joel 2:28-32; Acts 1:17-21
