God's Blessings

Psalm 127:1, 2

Unless Jehovah builds the house, Those who build it labor in vain. Unless Jehovah keeps the city, The guard watches in vain.

It is vain for you to rise up early, To lie down late, To eat the bread of toil; All the same, He gives to His beloved while they sleep.

These days as many saints including me are praying for the Lord's move all over India and especially the cities the Lord burdened us to go and preach the gospel of the Kingdom, I have been personally looking to the Lord in prayer. The outward environment so far does not seem to go well in line with the burden and goal within. But as the Lord encouraged me deeply concerning His blessing and spoke His rhema words to me from Psalms 127 I resigned myself in Him in utmost rest and bliss.

The work of the Lord belong's to the Lord; He is the husbandman of His vineyard and He knows how to take care of it well. I need not worry nor doubt an iota of His word. It is Jehovah who will build His house; otherwise its all a vain labor. Yes, we need to toil and labor in Him, in His time, in His will and in His way. But not trusting in our own labor but on the Lord's blessings upon our labor in Him. It is indeed vain to rise up early and lie down late, and toil; the Lord gives His blessed REST. What a comfort! 

The city I am burdened for, this time, is Guwahati, the leading city in the North East of India. Many seeds have been sown by way of ministry books distribution, gospel preaching for years, yet still after a decade not a significant and solid pillar for the Lord's testimony in His recovery. The saints' prayers and burden will never be in vain. The divine seed cannot die, it must sprout to be the church-tree!

Initial preparatory work is not very satisfying though. But I cease to see and believe the outward; I'd rather turn to the Lord in trustful prayer. At this juncture of preparation, the word of the Lord is that if He blesses, it will be blessed. The footnotes of the Recovery Version on Psalms 127:2 says, 

"If the Lord does not do anything for us, whatever we do will be in vain. We need to labor in the Lord and by His grace (1 Cor. 15:10, 58; Col. 1:28-29), but what the result will be depends not on our labor but on God's care and blessing. Instead of toiling and striving in ourselves, we need to trust in Him and rest in Him, for He gives to His beloved even while they sleep."

The ministry of the word has supplied me richly over and over again. By the Lord's speaking my faith has been strengthened very much. I am now fully at rest. If the work is of the Lord's, He will accomplish it by all means, come what may. On the contrary, if the work is not of the Lord, I would also be most happy to meet with failure as it is not of the Lord, and I would not bother even, because it is not of the Lord. O what a rest to know and simply trust in the Lord and rest in Him. Yet at the same time, cooperate with Him in His move against all odds.

God's works done in God's way and in God's time will always meet God's blessings.