When Others Seem to Hinder Your Growth in the Lord
Sunday, 6. June 2010, 12:51:51
As Jesus, we do not impede our personal wills upon others. The Lord has decided that each man has his own
free will, and may choose as he wants.
If it seems that year after year your dreams are dampened, or that walls that shoot up and block vision because of others that do not love and respect the Lord as you do, or if it seems that they refuse to listen to the voice of the Lord, and all this touches your life, it can bring about hopelessness and despair. It becomes a classic of 'one man running another man's life.' It can open the door to bitterness in your life, which in turn, opens the door to the adversary for destruction. It becomes an element of control. We know that Jesus was placed in control over matters in heaven and on earth, but it seems that sometimes that those who have control in our lives are becoming an obstacle in our life.
The example of Jesus planning on going to one town but being prevented due to the disobedience of one whom Jesus had healed is good for us to ponder. In Mark 1:40, we are told how Jesus healed a leper, and then Jesus told the healed leper that he should go and tell no one. In verse 45, it says that the man went out and told everyone, and because of this, Jesus was no longer able to enter the city. Jesus had to re-direct His steps. He did not like it that the healed man's actions changed His path, but neither did He wish the man to be removed and out of the way. Jesus learned obedience by yielding His way, His feelings, and His directions to our Father above.
When the Lord has a path for a person, and He has a person willing to walk that path, He will move Heaven and earth to bring about His perfect plans. No person on earth is strong enough to stay the hand of God.
He may decide to ping pong His vessel through hindrances, or He may bust through walls head on, allowing the consequence to fall where they may. The choice is determined by the Lord who is directing the steps.
Walk the path you are called to walk, but remember to walk it with faith.
Walk the path with the joy of the Lord who holds heaven and earth in His hand.
Walk the path and enrich the one who be a hinder-er. Jesus never sat down on a rock
and pouted that He was unable to go to the town where He was headed toward when His
path was change. He went on, busy about the Kingdom and it's business. So do likewise.
Jesus did not pretend that He was never suppose to go to that town. He knew what He knew.
Jesus never justified His diverted steps by saying it might not have been the Father's will to go there
in the first place. Jesus knew His path. Jesus never cursed the disobedient one for changing His path, He kept His eyes on the Father above. Ours is to pray the perfect will of God for that person, as it is written by God in that person's own book of life. We can not pray our book of life over their lives without opening the door to the enemy to bring about confusion and evil spirits operating through manipulation.
The man who needed healing and Jesus' paths crossed, and then the paths departed from each other.
Such will be the way of anyone, or anything that stands in the path that God has ordained for His faithful
servants.
If it seems that your husband, or boss, or pastor, or even the prayer group that you are a part of will not yield to the will of God, and that they are hindering you. Do not give into helplessness. Do not yield to the other person's will with thoughts that there is nothing that can be done to change it. We yield because it is the way the Lord tells us to do. We come into agreement with the Lord,
and give it to God. We do not try to manipulate the circumstances, nor do we curse the decision maker. We use the two edged sword of the Lord by having faith that the Lord is in control and guiding our steps, and by blessing the decision maker (husband, pastor, prayer group leader, song leader.. ect) we are commanded to yield to. This is our exercise in handling the weapons of God. The shield of faith, and the Word of God. This is a perfect walk.
Keep your heart clean, a vessel of light, and filled with the joy of casting your burdens upon the Lord.
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