This word is submitted by Bunnie Cleverdon (tfc@whidbey.net)
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Seeing From God's Perspective
Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord,
I felt the Lord give to me Matthew 11:28-30. "Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." "Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls." "For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." NKJV
I feel many of God's saints are very weary, burnt out and discouraged. God has anointed you to do what HE wants you to do. Many things/ideas/programs come our way that "sound good".
We seem to feel that we need to get involved because it sounds like a good thing to do. I feel that God is saying that the reason you feel weary,burnt out and discouraged is because He has not anointed you to do some/many of the things you are doing. If His anointing is upon you for a certain thing or things, you will have the strength to do what He wants you to do.
Isaiah 55:8 says: "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your
ways My ways, says the Lord." What seems good to us may be seen by God
as
bad,not His will,hurtful to His people, may draw His body away from Him,
etc. All I know is that He says in Hebrews 12:26-29 that:
"...whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying
"Yet
once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven."" "Now this, "yet
once more" indicates the removal of those things that are made, that the
things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are
receiving
a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may
serve
God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a
consuming
fire."
Since our God is a consuming fire and He will shake until things cannot be shaken; it seems that it would be better to ask God what we have picked up that He has not anointed us to do. Then ask His forgiveness and lay these things down. Otherwise He will have to shake us hard enough to free us from these things or burn it out of us. (None of those options sound fun to me.)
Isaiah 40:31 says: "But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and NOT BE WEARY, they shall walk and not faint.
One of the enemies favorite tactics to take out the saints is discouragement (to lose courage, give up). If he cannot get you there, then he will try pride. Do not let him deceive you. For, "You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world." You are MORE than able to do all of what God has ANOINTED you to do.
Ask the Holy Spirit, He knows what God has anointed you to do. May I encourage you to see yourselves "seated with Christ in the heavenlies, FAR ABOVE all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come..." (Ephesians 1:21) When we see from God's perspective, we see as we should see.
Our God is an AWESOME God.
Bunnie Cleverdon