Topic: Making Him Real By Living Real In Him/ 6b
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Mon 01/25/10 03:03 AM
When the workplace becomes a ministry field, the weariness is broken.
When a job is seen as a seed or training place for Kingdom advancement, a whole new perspective on life emerges.

Labor is part of the curse that came through the fall of Adam.
(Genesis 3:17, 19) "in toil you shall eat"
"by the sweat of your face you will have bread to eat"

Labor toil is a curse. Sweat soaked physical labor was not the intent
of God.

Man was not created to work for a living.

Man was empowered to rule over earth and cause it to work for him.

Isaiah 61:5-7 (NAS) Strangers will stand and pasture your flocks,
And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers. v6 But
you will be called the priest of the Lord; You will be spoken of
as ministers of our God, You will eat the wealth of nations, And
in their riches you will boast. v7 Instead of your shame you will
have a double portion, And instead of humiliation they shout for
joy over their portion Therefore they will possess a double
portion in their land, Everlasting joy will be theirs.

Not only are people outside your covenant, called of God to work your
business for you, but;

Isaiah 60:9 (NAS) "Surely the coastlands will wait for Me; And
the ships of Tarshish will come first, To bring your sons from
afar, Their silver and their gold with them, For the name of the
LORD your God, And for the Holy One of Israel because He has
glorified you.

He has designed blessings to overtake you. The wealth of your enemies
coming to you. You are to be so blessed that "even your enemies
beholding, will know that it is the hand of the Lord upon you".

Isaiah 60:5 (NAS) "Then you will see and be radiant, And your
heart will thrill and rejoice; Because the abundance of the sea
will be turned to you, the wealth of the nations will come to
you.

Wealth transfer to the Body of Christ, in a manifestation greater
than, the bankrupting of Egypt.

Isaiah 60:8-14 (NAS) "Who are these who fly like a cloud And like
the doves to their lattices? v9 Surely the coastlands will wait
for Me; And the ships of Tarshish will come first, To bring your
sons from afar, Their silver and their gold with them, For the
name of the LORD your God, And for the Holy One of Israel because
He has glorified you. v10 Foreiners will build up your walls, And
their kings will minister to you; For in My wrath I struck you,
And in My favor I have had compassion on you. v11 "Your gates
will be open continually; They will not be closed day or night,
So that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, With
their kings led in procession. v12 "For the nation and the
kingdom which will not serve you will perish, And the nations
will be utterly ruined. v13 "The glory of Lebanon will come to
you, The juniper, the box tree and the cypress together, To
beautify the place of My sanctuary; And I shall make the place
of My feet glorious. v14 "The sons of those who afflicted you
will come bowing to you, And all those who despised you will bow
themselves at the soles of your feet; And they will call you the
city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

This promise must be fulfilled. Before the end comes, a whole lot of
shakin' will be goin' on. When the shaking ends, what the lost had will be in the hands of the redeemed.

Not by work, but through Covenant fulfillment.

Kingdom enterprise is different from business the world's way,
Kingdom enterprise is business guided by Spirit of God leadership,
inspiration and initiative. Kingdom enterprise, done under God, will
always produce a bumper crop. Kingdom enterprise regains the wealth
of the earth that, for a season, was lost to God and His people.

Joshua gives a look at God's pattern for success:

Joshua 1:8 (AMP) This Book of the Law shall not depart out of
your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you
may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For
then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall deal
wisely and have good success.

Other peoples, outside the New Covenant of provision are to labor for
the children of God. Inheritors do not work for their reward. Joint
heirs have equal right to withdraw from the family account. People
outside our Covenant are called to serve us.

The ruling class is not called to labor. Those outside the royal
family are.

Labor is a sorrow and a travail. But, the Blessings of the Lord, make
rich and add no sorrow with it.

History records one broke King. "He became poor that we might become
rich."

Whether a person comes out of, physical, mental or emotional bondages
as in Egypt. Or, out of the bondage of religion, tradition and vain
spiritual pursuits. When the fulness of Covenant promise comes, a new
realm of life and promised provision is made manifest.

Hebrews 3:18 (NAS) And to whom did He swear that they would not
enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?
Hebrews 4:1 (NAS) Therefore, let us fear if, while a promise
remains of entering His rest, any one of you may seem to have
come short of it.

Not labor, toil or struggle, but, rest, in the promised provision.

Hebrews 4:10 (NAS) For the one who has entered His rest has
himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.

God wants His people free. Free from all physical restraints, real
or imagined.

Hands that hang down from the weariness of labor, seldom stretch up
in praise to God, or out to confer blessings on others.