"NOT" HARD WORK

[K2K]

We should all be growing in our relationship with Jesus Christ! Yet developing that relationship is not "HARD WORK". It is spending time with Him!

Is it "hard work" to spend time with someone? Oh, maybe there are people who are hard to spend time with, so that you might considering spending time with them "hard work". I personally don't know how preschool teachers can do their job. Yet if it was really 'hard work' to them they probably shouldn't do it.

I would say that would be true with Jesus Christ too. If it really was 'hard work' to spend time with Jesus Christ and do what He tells you perhaps you might stop serving Him. He knows that. So in the Bible we see that His burden is light! We also read that He gives us life and that more abundantly. So God made it clear that it is not 'hard work' to follow Him, get close to Him, and do what He asks.

So let's use a little discernment of spirits with this issue!

There are religious spirit which are spirit who want to turn you away from seeking Jesus Christ and get you to stop hearing what He says!! They say "Hard Work" so that you will not want to spend time with Him. Suddenly, instead of actually seeking Jesus Christ and walking and talking with Him, it becomes about "Works".

Now the Lord has indeed asked me to do lots and lots and lots of things for Him. But none of them were hard work. Even if He asks me to go do some physical labor, it is not hard work.

The hard work is that work that you shouldn't be doing!

So while someone should be working at a pre-school and that would not be hard work to them, because of the joy they would get out of that work, it might be hard work to me. The Lord created different people for different purposes, and if you listen to Him He will tell you that things to do that are not hard work to you. He will indeed give you life and that more abundantly.

We don't battle with flesh and blood but powers and principalities. We do battle with them, and religious spirit are part of that group. If we at our churches start to make it about works instead of about deeper fellowship with the Lord, it is going to turn into 'hard work' for others in the church, and ourselves.

It's the Lord's church! He provides. He provides the people. He provides the instruction. His burden is light, and He gives us life and that more abundantly. While walking and talking with Him, He has had me doing many things for Him. Hah - He even had me - yes me - working with little kids a couple of times for months at a time. It is not my great skill, to be sure, but He made it fun for me during those times. He told me games to play with the kids, Had me make projects to show the kids. Gave me little parables for the kids. It was fun, not hard work, for me during the times He had me doing it. But I had been doing it without that close relationship with Him, it would have been "HARD WORK".

So let me suggest, that if you do get into a situation where things seem like 'hard word', you are indeed in need of a deeper relationship with the Lord!

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Anything that you don't really want to do is hard work.

 

[Grip Docility]

Anything that you don't really want to do is hard work.

We should do what we Love and Love what we do... otherwise... what we do is in conflict with our very Soul!

Thank God for Jesus Christ, Soul specialist!

 

[K2K]

Anything that you don't really want to do is hard work.

Yes - the above is generally correct - so they Lord tends to get your permission - then He makes is nicer than you though it would be even then!g

I've experienced this often and also have heard numerous testimonies for those actually hearing from Him; where the Lord will ask them/me to do something. Sometimes I/they testify about not wanting to do what He is asking. At that point the Lord kind of just keeps asking. You can talk to Him about it during that time.

We have freedom in Jesus Christ, so we can just say 'no', and He will not violate that, but He might keep asking. Often you finally get around to saying ok. If you do you find that it was not "Hard Word" or something that you really didn't want to do after-all. That can be for a variety of reason, but it generally comes under the fact that the Lord knew how it was going to be even though you didn't and had some concerns.

Now, I sometimes talk to Christians with a testimony about "Hard Work" which they got into by requests from people, even other Christians (the church). The Lord had me in a Christian healing ministry for about five years, and there I would come across Christians involved in what might be described as "Hard Work". I would have them seek the Lord and ask Him about it, trying to get them to listen to Him. I did that because I had learned this problem. If they did hook up with His small voice they would find out that it was never them who asked them to do this "Hard Word" that they took on.

There was one specific case that really stood out to me. Without getting too specific, One of the pastors at my church had come across a very bright young man at our church. That pastor needed a secretary and went about convincing this young man to help him out as a way to serve the Lord. That young man, however, had wanted to get a certain high level of education and employment in that field. Indeed the young man had recently just gotten married. The wages they got from the church had them extremely poor and living with his parents in a small room.

This had gone on for a while before I was helping in a prophetic help and prayer ministry. The man came into the ministry. We have a big church and I had never seen the young man before but instantly the Lord started talking to me. The Lord told me that this man was doing some work in the church office, but had a problem with it. So as soon as the young man sat down I put to him and combination question and statement saying, so you work in the church office? He confirmed he did. So I confirmed that other things the Lord was telling me. As we (I was with another minister at the time also) talked it came out that the Lord had never wanted him to take on the job at the church, but had wanted him to peruse the desire of his heart. The Lord was going to use him in that field, but first the young man need to learn that we follow the Lord and not even another important person in the church.

Neither that pastor nor that young man had actually talked to the Lord and listen to what He actually had to say about this man working in that position, though both could have. The result was 'hard work' instead of life and that more abundantly for the young man.

We - people - need to seek our Lord and listen to Him! We need to develop a relationship or "deeper relationship", with the Lord and put our trust in Him. He loves you. That doesn't mean that persecution isn't guaranteed, but even persecution is a completely different thing than "Hard Work". Persecution is the works of the devil coming against you. That might be where your "Hard Works" are coming from.

 

[K2K]

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We should do what we Love and Love what we do... otherwise... what we do is in conflict with our very Soul!

Thank God for Jesus Christ, Soul specialist!

I would say "We should do what the Lord tells us - and in that way we will love what we do because we will be doing to Love tells us" God is Love - if so then He knows what we love to do even if with don't!​

 

[K2K]

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