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For virtually seven years now I’ve carried a prophetic phrase God gave me in July of 2017. You can examine that right here.
Over the previous virtually seven years, I’ve personally confronted quite a few religious assaults on myself, my household, and my management in pastoring and main Vanguard Church in Colorado Springs.I let you know all that, to let you know this. What we feature for God, issues to God! And what we feature for God impacts all the pieces about our lives, particularly {our relationships}.
Now, none of us will carry what God asks us to hold completely, however nonetheless, if God asks you to hold it, do not cease! God spoke a prophetic phrase to me in 2001 and I needed to carry it for nearly six years. I speak about that within the ebook, “The Mystery of 23: God Speaks.”
I discover myself at occasions now begging God to launch me from the burdens He has requested me to hold for Him. Maybe you possibly can relate. Maybe He hasn’t given you a prophetic burden to hold however as a substitute you carry the burdens of a ministry you lead, associates who’re struggling of their marriage or perhaps it is your marriage that’s struggling, a member of the family who hates you, a toddler who will not hearken to you, a well being difficulty you possibly can’t get reduction from, a monetary woe that will not let up, perhaps a battle you’ve by no means shared with anybody else. Maybe you might be like me, perhaps you might be bored with carrying that burden. Weary, dare I say!
Nehemiah understood this dilemma of burdens for the Lord and weariness within the journey of carrying them. Listen to how He described it: “The burden bearers carried their masses in such a means that every labored on the work with one hand and with the opposite held a weapon” Nehemiah 5:15.
It is normally not only one burden we feature however a number of burdens. We labour within the work with one hand and struggle to guard what’s been entrusted to us with the opposite hand. Maybe you might be weary. Maybe you might be tempted to let go of the rope of what God has requested you to steward. Everything in you is screaming ‘surrender’! Fear is mounting. Frustration is rising. Fatigue is taking up. I can not let you know what number of occasions I’ve felt this cycle in my life within the final seven years. The burn from the tug of the rope in my hand and the burden that bears down on my shoulders has brought on me usually to query whether or not I need to carry this for the Lord. And then amid this weighty second, perhaps you ask somebody to hold it with you and also you expertise not simply the burden of the burden however the disappointment and rejection from these you’ve requested to hold it with you. Or perhaps there are individuals who as soon as carried it with you, however now not are keen.
Nehemiah understood this combo of weighty discouragement and the frustration and rejection from these he requested to assist him carry these burdens.
Nehemiah 3:5 says, “But their nobles WOULD NOT put their shoulders to the work of their Lord.”
Sometimes the Lord permits us to battle and really feel as if the burden of the burden will destroy us after which on high of that now we have “nobles” who refuse to burden themselves with us for the Lord. I do not know the place you could be within the cycle of your burden and discouragement proper now, however I need to remind you of what Nehemiah informed his folks.
“And I stated to the nobles, the officers, and the remainder of the folks, tThe work is GREAT and broadly unfold out, and we’re separated removed from each other on the wall. Rally to us wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet. Our God will struggle for us!” (Nehemiah 4:19).
Then Nehemiah prayed this prayer: “Remember for my good, O my God, all that I’ve executed for this folks. (Your folks, God)” (Nehemiah 5:19).
Look at what occurs.
“So the wall was completed …And when all our enemies heard of it, all of the nations round us had been afraid and fell vastly in their very own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been achieved with the assistance of our God” (Nehemiah 6:15).
I like these assured phrases of Nehemiah and I invite you to hope this too…
“O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who enjoyment of revering your title. Give success to your servant TODAY and grant him mercy within the sight of this man! At the time, I used to be cupbearer to the king. And the king granted me what I requested, for the gracious hand of my God was upon me. The God of heaven is the one who will give us success” (Nehemiah 1:11).
Whatever God has requested you to hold for Him, say “sure” once more to Him as we speak.
“Forty years you (God) sustained them within the wilderness in order that they lacked nothing; their garments didn’t put on out, and their toes didn’t swell” (Nehemiah 9:21).
The burden the Lord has requested you to hold will not kill you, however quitting on God simply could. Oh, you’ll in all probability maintain respiration and your coronary heart beating, however your calling might be gone, and your goal might be mute, and your life might be massively unfulfilled because it fades into the gray matter of nonexistent existence whereas nonetheless respiration. Don’t let go of what God has requested you to hold. Hebrews says it finest:
“So take a brand new grip along with your drained palms and strengthen your weak (praying) knees. Mark out a straight path on your toes in order that those that are weak and lame is not going to fall however (by your instance) develop into sturdy” (Hebrews 12:12-15).
Can I provide you with a phrase of encouragement? Say sure to no matter God is asking you to hold and watch Him improve the power of your assets. Pray Ezra’s prayer:
“For He (God) is nice, for His steadfast love endures endlessly!” (Ezra 3:11).
When you might be frightened, burdened, terrified, consumed with fear, weary to the purpose of quitting, pray this and watch God work by you, round you, and sure, for you.
