Empowered and Supplied for Godly Work
“God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 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.” (Genesis 1:27-29 WEB)
When God created the heavens and the earth, He made everything before making man on the sixth day.
This shows us His fatherly love, that He wanted man to enjoy His finished work.
Adam didn’t have to toil for food. The trees in the Garden of Eden already had fruits growing on them as a result of life.
If Adam felt hungry, he only needed to reach out and pluck the fruit to eat it. He could eat anything he wanted and as much as he wanted—except for the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Adam did work: he cultivated the Garden of Eden, sowed seeds which sprang up easily without toil because there was no sin in the world at that time, and Adam named the creatures in the garden and God told him to be fruitful with Eve and fill the earth.
Adam was tasked to grow mankind’s population and to lead them, as well as all other living creatures on earth, as a ruler.
However stressful labor was never part of God’s design for man.
Although there was much work assigned to Adam, coupled with a grand vision of splendor, it was meant to be easy and enjoyable work.
After all, Adam was perfectly healthy and abundantly supplied with everything he would ever need. He had authority over all creatures which could assist him in any way he needed. Adam also had close fellowship with Yahweh God (the pre-incarnate Christ).
Stressful labor was a curse upon mankind as a result of Adam’s sin.
“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)
Fast-forward to today, through the cross, Jesus has already redeemed us from the curse of stressful labor by shedding His precious blood to make atonement for our sins.
God assigns a calling to each of us, but we aren’t supposed to fulfill it in a spirit of heaviness or stress.
Abba God’s will is for us to enjoy life through Jesus’ finished work at the cross, to freely receive everything we need in life, whether it be provision or health.
Out of that rest and blessed state, we can go forth in the anointing and power of the Holy Spirit to grow the population of the “new mankind” on earth.
A new race born of the Spirit and not of the flesh.
Abba God still wants us to be fruitful, multiply, and fill the whole earth with a church that’s holy and prepared for Him.
A royal race of priests that are adopted into His family.
What was lost in the Garden of Eden is being progressively being restored to even greater glory than before.
Dear child of God, you have meaningful work to do, and it’s not for the sake of trying to get provision.
See yourself as being planted by Abba God in a garden. Wherever you are working, reframe it from being just a job, to a realm you’re meant to exercise dominion over in Jesus’ name.
Feel free to receive as much provision and health as you need to fulfill your calling—see abundance of supply all around you.
You have been redeemed from stressful labor, so enjoy your work and fulfill your destiny of growing the new human race through impregnating the hearts of men: sow the seeds of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
God gave Adam herb-yielding seeds to sow if he needed food. Remember to set aside a portion of your finances as seeds for sowing—don’t eat all the seeds.
Be a blessing to those whom the Holy Spirit directs you to.
The seeds you sow will bear fruit and produce food for you by causing abundant harvests of provision to come your way.
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Spiritual Tools for Spiritual Things
“But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18 WEB)
A tool can’t do more than its limited capabilities. A physical mirror can only show you what is physical—your flawed body.
However the Scriptures are like a spiritual mirror that allows you to see beyond just the body—it discerns your soulish thoughts and even reveals your spirit which is as perfect and complete as Jesus Himself.
When you see Jesus in the word—how glorious, excellent, beautiful, majestic and perfect He is, that is how your spirit is like—remade in His image!
When you gaze at your perfected spirit, your soul and body can’t help but also be transformed into its likeness—attaining that godlike quality, free from the taint of sin and death.
The word “transformed” in the verse above is metamorphoó in Greek, from where we get the word metamorphosis.
When the Holy Spirit transforms you, you are like a a caterpillar breaking out of its cocoon, becoming a beautiful butterfly.
You can’t revert back to your ugly form, and you just become more and more glorious, shining with Jesus’ glory!
Just as the Scriptures are a spiritual mirror, we cannot use our eyes of flesh and heart of flesh to see and believe it.
Many times, the New Testament is talking about our spirit’s eyes and heart. Our spirit is the one that has God’s genetic code (His seed).
Scan your body and you won’t find it—it’s all in your spirit.
We have to use the eyes of our spirit to see and then believe what the Scriptures tell us about who we are and what we have in Christ.
“having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,” (Ephesians 1:18 WEB)
Everything starts in the inward spirit before it is manifested in the outward body.
Look beyond the veil of your flesh and see the glorious truth which is your glorious spirit—as Jesus is, so are you (the spirit) in this world.
Your body is not you—it is the temporary tent you live in. The power to renovate and beautify your house comes from seeing and believing in the spirit!
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“But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”” (Matthew 17:27 WEB)
When Jesus was on earth, He didn’t live in a palace, He didn’t own lots of land and He wasn’t considered a rich man.
He wasn’t poor or destitute either. He earned a living as a carpenter and owned His own house in Capernaum.
Whenever there was a need, He never lacked.
When there was no food in the deserted countryside, He multiplied loaves of bread and fishes.
To pay the temple tax, He received a supernatural word of wisdom from His Father that He would send a fish with a coin in its mouth to provide the payment.
This is Biblical prosperity that every believer can experience—to have no lack and always be supplied for every need.
Not every Christian will be a multi-millionaire—there is a special calling for rich believers and that is to be generous givers towards the work of the Gospel.
Notice that God the Father didn’t create a silver coin for Jesus out of thin air.
God provides for our needs through legitimate channels—He gives us the power to obtain wealth by giving us creative ideas and knowledge that will result in income if we act on them as led by the Holy Spirit.
God knows where all the ‘fishes with silver coins in their mouths’ are. He can direct them to swim towards you and tell you when to reel them in.
This is the special advantage we have as children of God—we have insider info from the all-knowing, all-powerful God.
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Actively steward God’s gifts in your life
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Align yourself with His purpose
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Beat burnout and discouragement
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