Steadfast and Unmovable

STANDING STEADFAST AND UNMOVABLE IN YOUR SERVICES TO GOD, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
(1 Corinthian: 15: 58)

Beloved, I want to encourage and remind you that the Lord knows all your battles. He has fought and will always fight for you. So many times we are tempted to think that we have labored in vain, and we get cast down with a sense of failure over our shattered expectations.

Prophet Isaiah once thought like that, and many of us feel the same today (Isaiah 49:4 – 6): 
I replied, “But my work all seems Useless! I have spent my strength for nothing and to no purpose at all. Yet I leave it all in the Lord’s hand; I will trust God for my reward.”

And now the lord Speaks –
He who formed me in my mother’s womb to be his servant, who commissioned me to bring his people of Israel back to him, the Lord has honored me, and my God has given me strength.

He says, “You will do more than restore the people of Israel to me. I will make you a light to the Gentiles, and you will bring my salvation to the ends of the Earth.”

It is possible for the lies of the Devil to penetrate our minds and weaken our hearts. Isaiah could not stop thinking and judging himself as being ineffective, until he eventually surrendered the judgment to God. I think God is telling us through these verses to stop judging or passing verdict against ourselves while serving him. It is not our business judging how effective we have been.

You have no right calling your self a failure, because you may not be able to know the extent of your influence or impact of your ministry. Not seeing the fruit of your labor earlier does not mean that you have failed, and in God’s timing he will faithfully and mercifully judge your work, bless and multiply the fruit of your labor – and that may not be far from now.

Prophet Isaiah was not seeing himself fulfilling what God had told him to do. God had called him to bring Israel together but he was not seeing it anywhere coming to pass, the way he had expected. So, he thought his labour was in vain. But God was seeing it different and was not judging him as a failure, because he was still empowering and working with him to fulfill the mandate he had given him for Israel and beyond. (See again Isaiah 49: 4-6)

You may be among those the Devil has lied to, that all your Labor is in vain and will not see your expectations fulfilled, and perhaps your faith is almost overthrown and you are almost throwing in the towel (giving up). But around that very time, God is preparing a greater blessing and has better things beyond and above what you could think about or ask.

So Beloved, I encourage and pray for you not to listen to the Devil’s lies. Whenever you feel frustrated or disappointed, rest in the Holy Spirit, believing him to empower you to fulfill your ministry which will greatly be rewarded, I therefore pray for you to arise from your despire and stand firm on God’s word as Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15: 58.

Be Steadfast, Unmovable, always abounding in the work of the lord as much as you know that your labour in the lord is not in Vain.

Together in the Harvest Field,
Steven Sebyala