Today’s teaching is about how to succeed in your workplace as a child of God.
Stressful toil came as part of the curse upon Adam. This was not the way before he fell.
“To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”” (Genesis 3:17-19 WEB)
Before that, God had designed for Adam to sow seeds and reap abundant harvests. God gave seeds to Adam, and when Adam planted these seeds, they sprang up quickly and bore fruits.
“God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.” (Genesis 1:29 WEB)
At that time, the whole earth had a fine mist canopy watering it. This meant that Adam didn’t even have to water the seeds. It was so restful for him.
We have to understand that we have been redeemed through Jesus’ blood. We are not meant to operate under the Adamic curse, but under the redemption we have in Christ.
If you are pushing yourself to work very hard in your job, profession, business, or ministry, in order to increase your results, this is operating by the curse: stressful toil in exchange for little fruits.
Then when your results don’t justify the hard work you’re putting in, you’ll get burnt out and angry at God, questioning why things are not moving well for you.
God has a better way for you to succeed in your workplace.
Whatever you want more of, you can sow the same thing as a seed, as unto the Lord, in order to reap it in a multiplied way.
When the little boy handed his meal of five loaves of bread and two small fishes as unto Jesus, it was multiplied to feed five thousand men (not counting the women and children), and there were twelve baskets full of food left over (John 6:8-13).
Jesus’ blood shed at the cross has made your sowing bear fruitful results. Previously before you were saved, your sowing only produced thorns and thistles. However, now that you are a child of God, you enjoy God’s favor and your sowing is powerfully effective. Sowing and reaping is a principle for the redeemed children of God.
“I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness. Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work. As it is written, “He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.” Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which produces through us thanksgiving to God.” (2 Corinthians 9:5-11 WEB)
If you want to enjoy multiplied results at work, think of how you can be a blessing to others first. If you want more business deals, see how you can bless others with deals. If you want to enjoy good relationships with your boss and colleagues, see how you can be an encourager, comforter and a good friend to others. If you want to grow your network, see how you can be a person who connects others to the people they need.
Rely on the Holy Spirit to lead you how to do these, in every situation, receiving His wisdom and power to do so.
The way of Kingdom prosperity is giving. The more you give, the more it is multiplied in abundance back to you.
Thanks to Grace, we can expect to receive abundantly above all that we can think or imagine because it is by God’s generosity and not by our limited ability.
I pray that as you operate by this New Covenant principle, that you will enjoy restful increase and unceasing fruitfulness at your workplace!
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God’s Sovereign Power to Depose Kings and Promote the Humble
“At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty? While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you. You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.” This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws. At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?” (Daniel 4:29-35 WEB)
God rules in the kingdom of men by His sovereign power. Nebuchadnezzar didn’t become a mighty king because he was the strongest, smartest or most gifted. God gave him that position and made it possible.
It’s not about how great you are, but about how gracious and powerful our God is. He can place you in a high position and supply you with all the grace you need to fulfill that role.
Without God’s blessing, the mighty king Nebuchadnezzar dressed in royal robes was reduced to a dirty madman, no better than an animal, living in the fields.
If you’re in a high position of influence and power, don’t think highly of yourself. You are placed there because of God’s grace and mercy towards you.
Try asking Him to withdraw His grace from your life and see how far down you’ll fall.
True humility is believing that you are utterly unprofitable in your own sinful flesh, but God has graciously blessed you with many good things. No credit to self but all glory to God.
I love how the passage above clearly displays the sovereignty of God.
He has the power to do whatever He wants—aren’t you glad that His true essence is love?
All the inhabitants of the earth united together against God are still counted as nothing compared to His overwhelming, infinite power!
Do you still think you are so important or great apart from God’s grace?
This amazing God who brought Nebuchadnezzar so low is the same God that came down in the form of a man to live like us and die a humiliating, cruel death on the cross.
Behold how humble, compassionate and loving Jesus is! He who has always been clothed with divine majesty and glory emptied Himself of that form and became like one of us!
“Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross. Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;” (Philippians 2:5-9 WEB)
The highest, greatest Being stooped so low on purpose, allowing Himself to be executed like a worthless, cursed criminal. No wonder Abba God has highly exalted Him and given Him the name above every other name!
Dear brethren, the Gentile kings exalt themselves and suffer from a bad fall. But it shall not be so with you.
In God’s kingdom, kings serve in love and humility.
We will be rewarded by being highly exalted in the Millennium and beyond.
No matter what station God places you in this life, there is an abundance of grace available for you to thrive and glorify Him. Stay grounded in Grace and be humble, no matter how blessed you are in this mortal lifetime!
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Live by the Blessing, Not the Curse
“God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food;” and it was so.” (Genesis 1:28-30 WEB)
Sometimes studying the first occurrence of a topic or theme in the Bible helps us to understand the principle better when it recurs throughout the Scriptures.
In the first instance of God blessing man in the Bible, we see God providing the power and authority to man to have dominion. In other words, man simply receives provision and supply by God’s Grace.
Under the blessing, Adam and Even could freely eat from any trees in the Garden of Eden. It was an abundant supply with minimal effort—they only needed to pluck the fruits from the trees, or gather those which had fallen on the ground.
“To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life. It will yield thorns and thistles to you; and you will eat the herb of the field. By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”” (Genesis 3:17-19 WEB)
In the first instance of man coming under a curse, man is subjected to stressful labor with little fruit to show for his efforts. After sweating and much labor, man only gets bread and herbs.
Today under the New Covenant of Grace, you are redeemed from the curse of the Law and you have the covenant right to live under God’s blessing.
“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,” that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” (Galatians 3:13-14 WEB)
The minimal effort you need to do is simply to believe and speak in order to have. That’s like how Adam plucked the fruits from the trees in the garden.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;” (Ephesians 1:3 WEB)
Don’t continue to depend on stressful toil to get little results. Tap on God’s abundant supply through faith, believing that all of God’s blessings are already “Yes” and “Amen” for you!
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