RHEMA 7/25/11  MORE ABOUT THE BURDEN OF THE LORD

I have been pondering this week about "the burden" of the Lord.  The phrase is mentioned several times in the OT regarding the burden of the Word of the Lord concerning an issue.  It is also mentioned as simply a burden against something, as well as just a burden.

I think that this has been stirring in my heart since I listened last week to Jesse Duplantis' testimony of when he went to heaven. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okPyyHjJBRc

The Lord told Jesse how He dreaded the day that He would have to tell people that He loved and died for to depart from them, He never knew them.  His eyes were filled with tears.  Jesus mentioned that when tears would be wiped away, they were His tears.  It touched me that Jesse wanted to reach out and comfort the Lord in His pain.

Rev 21:4

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Then as I was listening to Anna Roundtree's book, The Heaven's Opened, she mentions how the Lord said, "Before the cock crows, Anna, three stages of betrayal will have been accomplished against Me in the world.  Betrayal is multiplying, and many will be deluded by their own fear and need for survival. They will betray to save themselves." 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZekYRSb9zJw&feature=related

I could feel the Lord's heart as I heard this, knowing the pain He suffers already knowing who will betray Him, especially in the tribulation where men must deny Him in order to worship the beast and receive his mark to buy and sell.  Such a thought is so sobering when Judas was called to be an intimate part of His disciples and experience all that they did; even given authority over the finances.  And yet there came a time when the devil entered Judas and he set in motion the Lord's betrayal.  (Luke 22:3)  He was lost as the son of perdition.  How painful to have loved and lived with one who eventually betrays!  Even still, the pain of love is much deeper than the pain of betrayal.  It is the pain of losing a loved one, and knowing they are headed for destruction.

Matt 10:33 NKJV

But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.

Rev 20:4-5 NKJV

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

John 17:12-13 NKJV

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

As I have been pondering these thoughts along with Words I have heard the Lord say to me, I understand on a deeper level that the phrase, "the burden" of the Lord is literally a burden; it is what He literally feels in His emotions, upon His heart, soul, mind, heart. 

We have all suffered pain where our heart feels like it is breaking, and we all have suffered levels of grief which feels like the life is being squeezed out of us with such a heavy heart.  Jesus experiences this daily as He always lives to make intercession for us.

Heb 7:25 NKJV

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

Heb 4:15 AMP

For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.

To be the Lord's friend and help carry His burden is not only an honor, but something too amazing to communicate.  Our Lord God has chosen to make Himself vulnerable, to share His heart with His friends.  When He does this, He reveals to us Who He really is and why He says and does the things He does.  He is so miserably misrepresented on earth and perverted through the enemy's wicked demise.  And when He shares a portion of Who He really is with us, He takes the veil away and we see His goodness and love like we have never known before.  Love simply does not control or demand anything.  Love is vulnerable to both giving and receiving on a completely volunteer basis.  Oh Lord bring us to the place where we can become Your friend and comfort You!

John 15:13-16 NKJV

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.  14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.  15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

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