Blessed Burdens

Since the time I got saved, the Lord has been blessing me with burdens after burdens to pray for people. In fact, I used to maintain a prayer book where I wrote down these names for my prayer. I had been doing that until the past few years when the burdens were too many to handle, and I kind of filter many out. Then gradually, I ignored these burdens and concentrated on something more solid and tangible than praying generally for so many people.

Last week as I was fellowshipping with the young people on prayer, the Lord reminded me again of my need to maintain a proper prayer book to pray for people to be reminded of the burdens the Lord blessed me with.  Since then, I started praying for some of the old burdens the Lord gave me many years ago. One of them was my classmates who were not fully saved yet until today. Then, many other burdens got revived. So night after night I would bring them before the Lord for prayer last week. 

Last night, as I was praying for over an hour, the Lord strongly reminded me again of all the burdens He blessed me over a decade ago. The Lord's speaking was so strong that last night I could not resist the burden anymore. Because I had ignored most of them as the list was too heavy to bear. But the more I tried to ignore the burdens, the burdens became stronger and clearer. In fact, new burdens were added; list after list. I eventually told the Lord, I could not handle these burdens anymore, it's too heavy. But the Lord, enlightened me to see that the burdens are from Him and not for me to bear. I am simply the carrier of the burden. The source is the Lord and He will accomplish it, my only responsibility is to take the Lord's grace and bear these burdens. 

Then I made an excel sheet with different worksheets with categories of prayer burdens and named it "Prayer Book 2020". My prayer burden list has been updated, and now I must maintain the list and continually pray for these ones.

Today, as we were fellowshipping, a brother ministered on the mater of burden. Immediately, I realized the Lord confirmed the burdens He blessed me with these days, especially last night. The Lord clearly confirmed the burdens are His and it is a blessing for me to be able to receive them. Some key points from the brother's fellowship on burdens are below.

Burdens are the Lord's visitation; His commissioning me of a specific task to accomplish His will. These burdens are the speaking of the Lord; the word of God. I must learn to treasure the burdens. He will not speak or give burdens lightly or vainly. So I must not ignore the Lord's blessed burden, lest He take it away, and perhaps it may never come back. Even if it does come back, it must surely be of the Lord's mercy.

In fact, the burdens that I ignored have come back, and it is surely the Lord's mercy upon me. Now, through prayer, I must uphold the burdens. To work out the burden is secondary. The Lord will find a way to do it in His own way and in His own time, but I must be faithful to bear these blessed burdens from the Lord. Sometimes we don't even know where the burdens came from. But surely they are from the Lord, from the ministry of the word, and even from reading the saints. Finally, all these burdens must be brought into fellowship into coordination for the building up of the Body of Christ. 

Having been blessed with the burdens, I now must be faithful to bear them in my prayer, and I must also be faithful to bring these burdens for fellowship with the brothers I am coordinating with. So that these burdens may be established and made solidified. And the carrying out of these burdens must be for the building up of the Body of Christ and for the fulfillment of the Lord's will. Now the blessed burdens the Lord blessed me with is clear, and the way to carry it out is even more clear. 

Praise the Lord for His speaking in the Body! Praise the Lord for the blessed burdens! The will, and in fact, He has already accomplished it by faith! Halleluijah!