Word of the Day
Authored by Wendy Thomas, Co-authored by Brenda Craig
Beloved, I see how tired you sometimes get and how everything can seem too much for you; but, I have you covered. In fact, I have strength to spare, for I do not grow weary. I do indeed have enough strength to go around. Come, you need to learn to rest in Me in a whole new way. It doesn’t mean you have to sit still and not do anything. It doesn’t mean feeling weak equals being weak. It just means you need to be like David and encourage yourself in the Lord (1 Samuel 30:6). Encourage yourself in Me and rest by letting Me work through you. Sometimes you equate waiting with weakness or inability to do. This should not be. Waiting is a gift which in the long run protects you from unseen dangers and prepares you with wisdom in the meantime.
Resting and waiting means being able to say as Jesus said, “I only do what I see My father doing and only say what I hear My father saying.” This is true rest…true waiting. This is the secret of how one can run and not grow weary. It is only when you wait on Me that you can see with your spirit and not the flesh…that you can hear with your spiritual ears what I am saying. If you don’t hear what I am saying, how you can say the same as Me? Likewise if you don’t see what I am doing, how can you do the same? It is only when you do and say exactly what I am doing and saying that you can rest and regain your strength.
Rather than try to please man and do as they want, just be still and do what I ask of you. I will not overburden you for My yoke is light and easy. I will not will not stress or strain you. If you are stressed and strained…if you are overburdened, you are not in rest. Even good things can be stressful or burdensome.
There are many good things you could be doing; but, they are not necessarily what I want you to do. You will only know what I want you to do or not to do when you take time to talk with Me and listen to Me. I know the plans I have for you and they aren’t burdensome loaded with heaviness. Surely it makes sense to ask Me what My plans are and then do them and them only. In doing this, you will not become tired, and in fact, you will be energized by knowing you are walking in My plan for your life and doing what I want. Things will go so much more smoothly for you, for I will make straight the path ahead of you. In light of all I have spoken to you, will you take the time to be with Me and see what I am doing and saying? You can you know. You just have to be still and know that I am God. The rest will come easy, no pun intended. See, I have a sense of humor too.
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint or grow weary; there is no searching of His understanding. (Isaiah 40:28 Amplified)
And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.( Galatians 6:9 Amplified)
Prayer
Father, please help me to do only what You are doing and say only what You are saying. Draw me close as I draw near to you and my eyes will be fixed on You. Let my heart be captivated and ravished by Your great love and increase my desire to spend more time with You.
I declare that I am one who is learning to rest in You. I am one who is doing things in Your strength only and not in my own strength or according to what I think. Your Word is supreme and has precedence over my own thoughts. My thoughts are focused on whatever is pure, lovely and upright. My mouth speaks only that which edifies me and others to bring spiritual enlightenment according to the Word by the Holy Spirit.
Thank You that Your yoke is indeed easy…is indeed light; therefore, I choose to not be yoked to anything or anyone You don’t want me to. I trust that if I do become yoked in anyway You will tell me and I will respond with an obedient trusting heart. This I know, You only want the best for me and know exactly how much I can bear…how much I can take. A bruised and bended reed You do not break. You never overload me with more than I can handle. Thank You for Your love and for taking such great care of me as I rest in the secret place of Your heart…in the palm of Your hand. Amen.
Reflect and Journal
- Are you tired and weary in any way? Why not spend some time right now with your heavenly Father and let Him take your burden. See yourself giving it to Him. It doesn’t have to be major. Maybe you didn’t sleep well last night or have a headache. Maybe you do have major burdens which have made you weary. He handles them all from the large to the small. All you experience is important to Him. Remember the sparrow and let go, for He cares for you.
- Can you say that you only do what you see Father doing and say what you hear Father saying? If not what can you do to make this be truer in your life?
- Do you still try and please people rather than God? If so, in what manner do you find yourself succumbing to the whims of man most easily and why? Perhaps you fear not being loved or disappointing someone. Perhaps fear is the underlying motive of your intent to please people. The Lord tells us to fear not for if He is for us who can be against us. Please God first and He will take care of the rest. Ask Him to help you stop doing this and to put him first.