REST FOR THE WEARY
(PART 3)
Mark 11:28-30
(Continued from Part 2)
It is only those that He gave you that you can keep, even when they stray they will still come back.
Another thing in that scripture is that God is the one that gives men not by our effort or power.
Ministry is purely spiritual because it came from God and is for Him. The Lord told me some of His servants are under the weight of worry and anxiety when He has said we should be anxious for nothing, that through thanksgiving and supplication we should let our request be made known unto Him, Phillipians 4:6
Many don't worry over the things of this world like their day to day need but they worry so much about Ministry expenses, power and anointing, crowd and members, followers and likes, status and prestige, fame e.t.c
As if those ones are not part of the nothing that we are charged and warned not to be anxious for, Phillipians 4
It may not be a burden of meeting day to day need but the burden of ministry is still a burden that God said we should come unto Him with.
You can be heavily laden with ministry burden because you are labouring by your own power to get things done in the ministry so you come under a yoke and a weight too high for you to bear.
The answer is still the same, whether it is a ministry burden or the burden of this world, it is still come and I will give you rest.
When you truly encounter him, He will give you rest here and now. The bible says the effect of righteousness shall be quietness and assurance forever, that is the definition of rest, Isaiah 32:17.
When you truly encounter JESUS one of the things you will find is rest for your soul. It is impossible to encounter Him and not find rest!
If you find everything else and don't find rest for your soul, He is not there. He is the Prince of Peace.
That call to those that are weary and heaven laden is not a call to only unbelievers, you can be a believer and still be very weary and heaven laden. The call to come is also for you.
When the Lord showed me this scripture, I was already a believer that has a potent walk with the Lord, yet I was weary and heavy laden because I didn't know how to exchange my yoke for His yoke.
The key phrase in the entire verse is LEARN OF ME. You may be walking with Him but not learning of Him.
What dies this mean ? You learn from everybody else but not the Holy Spirit so your burden remains.
When you finally yield to the call to come unto Him with your burdens and yokes, you must learn to give Him your yoke in exchange for His and you must learn of Him, until that equation is balanced, rest remains only a dream.
To learn of Him, you must hear what He has to say about that burden, not what someone else has to say.
When you learn from others only, you hear what they have to say about their burden or your burden or what the Holy Spirit has to say about the burden they had at some time.
None of these three scenario will work if you don't learn of Him. You must hear his voice when He is speaking to you not only through others, Job 22:22
Many people are looking for rest in things, when rest can only be found in Him. Programs upon Programs, copying one strategy to another.
They try one thing and when they can't find rest in it, they go on to the next and then the next and then the next, all in an attempt to find rest not knowing that rest is not synonymous to things, it is a person.
When you find Him, you will find rest. Rest is not in money, not in activities or programmes, not in marriage, not in business, not in ministry, not in fame and titles.
If Jesus does not give you rest, marriage cannot give you rest, money fame power ministry cannot give you rest.
REST IS FOUND IN JESUS ALONE WHEN WE LEARN TO GIVE HIM OUR YOKE IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS AND WE SIT AT HIS FEET TO LEARN OF HIM!
PRAYER: FATHER, HELP ME TO BE FOCUSED IN MY PURSUIT OF YOU. ESTABLISH ME IN MY OWN CALLING AND ASSIGNMENT. TAKE AWAY EVERY DISTRACTION ON MY WAY TO FULFILLING MY CALLING AND DESTINY IN JESUS NAME.
PEACE
SALVATION PRAYER
Anything short of you being born again and living a life of holiness and purity hurt Jesus so much. But you can make things right here and now by saying this simple prayer and mean it genuinely from your heart:
Lord Jesus I come to you today. I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I cannot help myself. I repent of all my sins and I forsake them. Jesus, I invite you into my life, be my Lord, be my Saviour.
Wash me by your precious blood, forgive my sins and write my name in the book of life. From this day, I promise to follow you all the rest of my life. Help me Lord, in Jesus name, Amen. Congratulations you are now born again!
PEACE
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