"Do Your Work for Me and I will Intercede." --God
This was just a little something that God spoke to me today that I felt like I had to share with others who most likely are feeling or going through the same thing.
We all have so many projects and activities and responsibilities in life that sometimes they can become overwhelming. We get so burdened by our "to-do" list that our hearts become flooded with resentment and weariness in feeling like we are doing them all alone. That feeling of resentment comes when we feel like we are drowning and we are desperate for someone to come and save us from ourselves.
I've noticed that sometimes good intentions, which are started with a servant's heart, can quickly become big problems, which end up with a bitter heart. When we lose our focus of who we are ultimately serving, everything becomes a blurry mess of weariness.
When we get to the point of weariness, we need to ask ourselves these questions:
1. Is what I'm focusing on a true calling from God at this time in my life?
2. Am I living out that Calling for God or for man?
It doesn't matter whether you are a CEO of a company, a stay-at-home mother, or a minimum wage worker. It doesn't matter whether you are simply making the bed, cleaning the toilettes, or curing cancer---EVERY activity we do has the potential to be done with a servant's heart for God.
I asked God this morning..."Lord, how do i have a heart of a servant and not a heart of resentment?"
and God quickly responded back to me, "Do your work for me and I will Intercede."
It was a bit of a zinger because more often then not we are crying out to God with a poor-me mentality, just waiting for him to answer back with, "awe, poor you." God seems to always answer back to that kind of cry with, "change YOUR attitude and YOUR mindset, and work for me and not yourself."
It's hard to accept that more often then not WE are the problem. It's so easy to want to blame others or want to lash out at others to help us, but God calls us to have servant's hearts (not a popular label for this world).
How much easier would it be if we allowed God to intercede?
A change of heart might just change our life and the lives of those around us!
This was just a little something that God spoke to me today that I felt like I had to share with others who most likely are feeling or going through the same thing.
We all have so many projects and activities and responsibilities in life that sometimes they can become overwhelming. We get so burdened by our "to-do" list that our hearts become flooded with resentment and weariness in feeling like we are doing them all alone. That feeling of resentment comes when we feel like we are drowning and we are desperate for someone to come and save us from ourselves.
I've noticed that sometimes good intentions, which are started with a servant's heart, can quickly become big problems, which end up with a bitter heart. When we lose our focus of who we are ultimately serving, everything becomes a blurry mess of weariness.
When we get to the point of weariness, we need to ask ourselves these questions:
1. Is what I'm focusing on a true calling from God at this time in my life?
2. Am I living out that Calling for God or for man?
It doesn't matter whether you are a CEO of a company, a stay-at-home mother, or a minimum wage worker. It doesn't matter whether you are simply making the bed, cleaning the toilettes, or curing cancer---EVERY activity we do has the potential to be done with a servant's heart for God.
I asked God this morning..."Lord, how do i have a heart of a servant and not a heart of resentment?"
and God quickly responded back to me, "Do your work for me and I will Intercede."
It was a bit of a zinger because more often then not we are crying out to God with a poor-me mentality, just waiting for him to answer back with, "awe, poor you." God seems to always answer back to that kind of cry with, "change YOUR attitude and YOUR mindset, and work for me and not yourself."
It's hard to accept that more often then not WE are the problem. It's so easy to want to blame others or want to lash out at others to help us, but God calls us to have servant's hearts (not a popular label for this world).
How much easier would it be if we allowed God to intercede?
A change of heart might just change our life and the lives of those around us!
