RHEMA 4/05/08  FINDING BALANCE AMONG PEOPLE PROBLEMS

HEARD:  Went through some doors.  Can you imagine no problems?  Why does there always have to be problems? 

Ps 25:16-21  NLT

Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and in deep distress. My problems go from bad to worse. Oh, save me from them all!  Feel my pain and see my trouble.  Forgive all my sins.  See how many enemies I have, and how viciously they hate me!  Protect me! Rescue my life from them! Do not let me be disgraced, for I trust in you.  May integrity and honesty protect me, for I put my hope in you.

HEARD:  Grace.  Forever changed.  Into My likeness. 

Rom 5:3-5 NLT

We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they are good for us — they help us learn to endure. 4 And endurance develops strength of character in us, and character strengthens our confident expectation of salvation. 5 And this expectation will not disappoint us. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

HEARD:  Problem solver.   Redeemed and rescued. 

Deut 1:9-18 NKJV

"And I spoke to you at that time, saying: 'I alone am not able to bear you. 10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude. 11 May the LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times more numerous than you are, and bless you as He has promised you! 12 How can I alone bear your problems and your burdens and your complaints? 13 Choose wise, understanding, and knowledgeable men from among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.' 14 And you answered me and said, 'The thing which you have told us to do is good.' 15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties, leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes.  16 "Then I commanded your judges at that time, saying, 'Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him. 17 You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.' 18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which you should do.

PIX:  I saw a lovely and delicate Christmas ornament that was a heavenly cyan blue with silver linings.

HEARD;  Strength training.  Balance. 

WORD TO PONDER:  FINDING BALANCE AMONG PEOPLE’S PROBLEMS 4/05/08

When surrounded in the midst of many people with problems, determine to stay where I have called you.  Precious one, the world is full of many children all growing up into My stature.  Each and every level has its own trials and sufferings that produce character and good fruit when coming into My image. 

You can not carry all their problems and if you try, it will derail you on your own journey.  I have not called you to be their source, be watchful of those who lean and drain life from you.  Do your part by remaining simple when sharing the gifts I give to you.  Learn how to balance the boundaries I have set for your life; be loving but firm with those who resist them.  Teach them to lean on Me as their Source.  And learn how to be a helping hand by dispatching the problems to the body who are to do the work of ministry.  Many hands make light the work. 

Eph 4:12 AMP

His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body (the church).