FRIDAY 08.06.2018
KEY 1
REFUSE TO BE A BURDEN
READING OF THE DAY : 2 THESSALONIANS 3:8
When we read the Bible, particularly the apostle Paul, we will notice that one of his principle in ministry was the same as his Master Jesus. He never allowed himself to be a burden to others.
We read in 2 Corinthians 12:14,
'Now I am ready to visit you for the third time, and I WILL NOT BE A BURDEN TO YOU, because what I want is not your possessions but you. After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. ( New International Version)
Again, we read in 1 Thessalonians 2:9,
For you remember, brethren, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day, because WE WOULD NOT BE A BURDEN UNTO ANY OF YOU, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
In 2 Thessalonians 3:8, the same Paul says again
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might NOT BE CHARGEABLE to any of you:
=ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. IT MUST CHANGE=
TRUTH 1 Living as a burden to others is a proof of immaturity. It's similar to living as a small child whose needs are dependent on parents.
Refuse it today and declare : "Enough is enough. It must change."
Refuse it today and declare : "Enough is enough. It must change."
Read and pray with 1 Corinthians 13:11 "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
TRUTH 2 To live as a burden to others is living like this paralytic in the Bible that people carried and deposited at the door of the temple to beg.
Refuse it today and declare : "Enough is enough. It must change."
Read and pray with Matthew 9:6 "But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house."
TRUTH 3 God's plan for you is not to live as a burden that others bear, but as the one who helps others carry their burdens.
Refuse it today and declare : "Enough is enough. It must change."
Refuse it today and declare : "Enough is enough. It must change."
Read and pray with Galatians 6:2 "Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ."
TRUTH 4 When you live as a burden, the people who carry you will be tired of you and let you down along the way as was the case of Mephibosheth in 2 Samuel 4: 4 "...and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth." Enough is enough. It must change.
Refuse it today and declare : "Enough is enough. It must change."
Read and pray with 2 Thessalonians 3:8 "Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:"
SO SHALL IT BE!
JESUS IS LORD!
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