Specific Burden

Colossians 1:

28 Whom we announce, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom that we may present every man full-grown in Christ;

29 For which also I labor, struggling according to His operation which operates in me in power. 

These day the Lord pleased to bless me with a specific burden. Though many prayers have been offered for many people, yet not many of them are real-thorough and specific. These time, it is for my own relative in the flesh who are wavering in faith and wallowing in the world. The only thing I could do was pray and pray and pray until the Lord would fully deliver them. Moreover, the Lord burdened me to meet them, one by one, one on one and have fellowship face to face; not to teach but to minister Christ. My specific prayer for these ones have been that the Lord would minister Himself richly to them by all means and gain them as He did Jacob, even transforming him to become the Israel of God.

Every morning revival portion this week is on this matter as well that I must labor and struggle to shepherd these ones and present them full grown in Christ, not by my strength but by His power which operates in me. The speaking of the Lord is real and has been confirmed in many ways. 

In my burden to carry out the Lord's burden in me, I am ready to face any opposition whatsoever. Often times, I consider to go ahead when they are ready, but the Lord reminded me last night in my prayer time that as a mother cares for her baby I must care for them. Perhaps, they are not ready to receive any care as such, as with a baby, out of ignorance and immaturity, but a good mother walks the extra mile and do what she needs to do, welcomed or unwelcomed. This is exactly how I should shepherd my relatives in the flesh. May the Lord grace me to execute His burden. The more I thought about it and prayed about it, the more I am confirmed and comforted within to go ahead.

Lord, grace me to shepherd your beloved who are also mine.