Genuine Burden : In The Body

Since my regeneration, the Lord has been blessing me with burdens, for people who are saved and not doing well, and also who are not yet saved. He further graced me to pray for them continuously. Many prayers have been answered and many more prayers have been added over the years. Now my list are becoming longer by the day, as burdens increases. At times, I wonder if I alone have to bear all these burdens. But since I was very clear these burdens are all from the Lord, I honor them, treasure them and pray for them as many times as I can. 

These personal burdens are very good. But from this week the Lord led me to a higher degree of bearing all these burdens. As I was fasting and praying, as usual, for all these burdens, one by one, every time I mentioned a name and prayed for, the Lord spoke to me that my prayer for that person has been answered in the Body. This was something very new I experienced recently. Every name and every matter I prayed for, the Lord's answers were, its all done in the Body.

As a confirmation, last Monday, a brother whom I have been praying for and in fellowship with for the past two years, called me and informed that he is going for a blending meeting with the saints in the nearby local churches. When he called I was physically resting as I was sick with body-ache and cough. But on hearing the glad tiding that he is going to blend with the saints out of his own will, I was so happy, I woke up from my bed and prayed with him over the phone; praising the Lord for His move. Because, I have been so burdened by the Lord for this brother to be brought into the fellowship of  the Body. Later, I texted him that the Lord may blend us and build us up into the oneness and reality of the one Body of Christ. 

Whatever I have been praying for, the Lord's answer henceforth, was, "in the Body" its all done. I have the burden for prayer, but the answer of my prayer will be carried out and fulfilled in the Body, by the Body for the Body.  

Not that now I have no more burdens any longer, but the burdens I am bearing are very light and vital now. Even in matters of prayer, I must be in the Body and be blended and builded up in the Body. All the burdens are still intact, but the way I pray and uphold them has totally changed. The same burden, but burdens are borned not by me alone, but carried forward in the Body. What a release! What a comfort!

Recent experiences confirmed this. Almost all those whom I bore in prayer alone, are all in fellowship with the saints now, and they all are in the process of recovery. I feel so release and so joyful to subjectively discover and recover this great truth that "genuine burden is in the Body." Halleluijah!