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Greetings,
God’s church is the place of God’s habitation. We are a temple of Holy Spirit. As leaders, we lead others in becoming and living as the place of God’s habitation. This is not just for us to know the presence of God in our lives. It is that we might walk in His purpose in our lives. This is not just automatic because God wants this to happen. It involves a partnership with God. Leaders live to empower others to partner with God to become all that God wants them to be and to do all that God wants them to do in the earth.
In my Monday blog I am presently writing concerning embracing the present season of God. The seasons of God are what God determines those seasons to be. Every season has a purpose of bearing fruit to bring life to the world. Every season is an age of blessing. Harvest is a blessing of God to the world. When one season ends, another is in process. The sign of the end of every season is harvest, and every season ends to provide food for eating and seed for sowing for a new harvest.
Every season of harvest requires laborers of that harvest. There is not just a need for laborers, but laborers who are willing to seek to understand each season of harvest. Sometimes we put the emphasis upon our labors, and we miss the need for God’s presence. Sometimes we seek God’s presence and forget the need to partner with Him with our willingness to labor. Every season of harvest requires us to do works that serve that harvest.
Luke 10:1 After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go. 2 Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.
Jesus sent the seventy out into the places that He was about to go. Where is the Holy Spirit about to go today to proclaim the life and victory found in Jesus’ name? There is a new harvest in every new season of God in the earth, but every season requires laborers for that work for the life, care, and purpose of that new harvest.
Psalms 127:1 Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
God is the One who builds, and God is the One who guards, but we must partner with Him to labor in building and to labor in watching. Are we building with God or are we seeking to build something of the past or something of our own desires? Are we guarding what we have obtained from the past or are we awake to what God is doing and is about to do in our world.
1 Corinthians 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 8 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.
Laboring in the season of God requires us to do things that serve that season. The things we do are not meant to be permanent methods for every season of God. They are simply methods we receive to labor in the harvest of each season. This requires us to do new things, but also to do. We cannot be bound to the methods of a past season, nor can we reject being involved in new methods that serve the present season of God in our lives. We don’t get our identity out from what we do in life. What we do in life gets its identity from who we are. We get our identity from our Father in heaven. To get our identity out of what we do is idolatry. Life can only come from a source of life. It cannot come from works.
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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