Lord! Help Me Finish Well

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Esther 2:8-18

Gleanings

Queen Vashti’s disobedience caused her throne to be vacant; she was put aside and a search started for someone else.
Some young virgin women became fortunate by selection to enter into the palace. An opportunity that would have otherwise be non existent.
These young women amidst others were offered a fair chance to become queen. A status they never laboured for.
They only had to meet the requirement of 12 months of preparation to qualify them to meet with the King.
It appears these young women lost sight of the only reason that enabled them come to the palace.
They were presented with whatever they requested after their 12 months was completed before going unto the King. But the preparation seemed merely as an external exercise.
Their appetites; shallow character; passions; ambitions were tested and it seemed they saw an opportunity to satisfy their lusts.
None of them found favor with the King; they were sent to the other house as concubines, the living dead; women who may never fulfil their destiny or call etc.
They started off as young virgins but ended up as discarded and displaced concubines.

 What About You?

Was it not grace that hand picked you, out of many other who were wallowing in darkness?Was it not grace that afforded you, a nobody, the privilege to enter into Light?

Was it not grace that upgraded your status from a sinner, to one whom the Lord will allow to touch His Work and become His Bride?

His only request is that you de-clutter? That you make sure this is simply not an external exercise. That when you are tried and tested- Your only request is Christ, No more, No less!That when presented with an open cheque - ALL traces of the old nature (sin, sinful habits and the world system) finds no root or resting place in you.

May my one and only desire be, to gain Christ, nothing else will do.De-cluttering must empty me of the man of sin; the products of sin and the habitation where sin reigns! Only then will I find favour before my KING!!!!

 Prayer Points

• Jesus, be my focus, my goal and my inheritance. Help me never to forget the reason I was born again and called to de-cluttering:- to be made fit for my KING and prepared for holy use.
• My de-cluttering must not merely be an external exercise but a progressive renewing of the mind until I look like Jesus.
• Let the proof of my de-cluttering be a progressive emptying of Self; hatred of Sin and Sinful Habits and death to the World System.
• Grant me grace like Esther who post de-cluttering requested nothing but what the King’s eunuch advised.
• Let nothing of the World have any root in me. May I genuinely only hunger and thirst for righteousness. 
• Forbid it Lord, that post de-cluttering; I will still be discarded.
• Lord!, I want nothing else than to be ready when the bridegroom comes!!
• Lord, help my life so that at the end I will gain and inherit Jesus. Let the privilege given me of a divine heart transplant not be wasted or abused.

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Busy! But not Feeding the Sheep

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Today’s prayer is for the following people:

• The one servant the master trusted to give the other servants their food and supplies at the right time (proper time) as we wait for Christ’s arrival.
• The one person his master has put in charge of his household (the home front)
• The one Teacher in academics to the students
• The one Sunday school teacher to the children etc.

 John 21:15-17Amplified Bible (AMP) ¹⁵ So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these [others do( other men)—with total commitment and devotion]?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You (Phileo) [with a deep, personal affection, as for a close friend].” Jesus said to him, “Feed My lambs.” ¹⁶ Again He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me (Agapao) [with total commitment and devotion]?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You (Phileo)[with a deep, personal affection, as for a close friend].” Jesus said to him, “Shepherd My sheep.”(Other version says Take care of my sheep) ¹⁷ He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love Me (Phileo)[ [with a deep, personal affection for Me, as for a close friend]?” Peter was grieved that He asked him the third time, “Do you [really] love Me [with a deep, personal affection, as for a close friend]?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know everything; You know that I love You(Phileo)  [with a deep, personal affection, as for a close friend].” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.

In the above scriptures we can see Jesus addressing two types of love: Phileo love which is love with a deep, personal affection, as for a close friend and Agapao (Agape)love which is love with total commitment and devotion. 

• In our service to Jesus as THE ONE servant who is meant to be feeding the sheep / the lamb of Jesus; Jesus is asking you today, how are you doing this? Is it with a Phileo love or with an Agapao love? Busy! But not feeding the sheep. 

Matthew 24:45 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV) ⁴⁵ “Who is the wise and trusted servant? The master trusts one servant to give the other servants their food at the right time. Who is the one the master trusts to do that work? 

Matthew 20:5-7 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV) ⁵ So they went to work in the vineyard. “The man went out again about twelve o’clock and again at three o’clock. Both times he hired some others to work in his vineyard. ⁶ About five o’clock the man went to the marketplace again. He saw some other people standing there. He asked them, ‘Why did you stand here all day doing nothing?’⁷ “They said, ‘No one gave us a job.’ “The man said to them, ‘then you can go and work in my vineyard.’

• When THE ONE servant who is meant to be feeding the sheep and the lamb did not do it, another “ONE SERVANT” gave them a job to do; whether good or bad.  Busy! But not feeding the sheep.

 Luke 13:6-9 ⁶ Jesus told this story: “A man had a fig tree (GOD). He planted it in his garden (GOD’S VINE YARD). He (GOD)came looking for some fruit on it, but he found none. ⁷ He had a servant (YOU) who took care of his garden. So he said to his servant, ‘I have been looking for fruit on this tree for three years, but I never find any. Cut it down! Why should it waste the ground?’ ⁸ But the servant answered, ‘Master, let the tree have one more year to produce fruit. Let me dig up the dirt around it and fertilize it. ⁹ Maybe the tree will have fruit on it next year. If it still does not produce, then you can cut it down.’”

• The Lord in His mercy is giving YOU THE ONE SERVANT whom the Lord has apportion a child (children) to, a home to, a business to sponsor is work, a garden to tender, a tree to cultivate so that when He comes to look for food on it, He will find food to eat thereof. This is a second chance for you before he cuts you and the tree down.
• At this junction we need to go to the Lord in prayers for help. Busy! But not feeding the sheep.

PRAYERS:

• Let’s thank the Lord for His truth which has come to us again Busy! But not feeding the sheep.

• Let’s thank the Lord because the scriptures says He whom the Lord loves, He chasten, and scourge. Hebrew 12:6
•  Let’s thank him because of His love and mercy to help us again as wise servants.
• Let’s ask him for wisdom to go about this work of THE ONE SERVANT.

Matthew 25:29-30 (KJV)²⁹ For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

• O Lord please don’t take away that which I have as a result of my negligence/ carelessness in Jesus name

³⁰ And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

• Help me O Lord, because this will not be my portion in Jesus name.

John15: 1  KJV ¹ I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.² Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

• Purge me O Lord to bring forth more fruit as THE ONE SERVANT in Jesus name.

³ Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. ⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.⁵ I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

• As THE ONE SERVANT Lord, clean me daily through your spoken word and teach me to abide in you and you in me in Jesus name.

⁶ If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

• Standing on this word Lord Jesus, I ask  as your ONE SERVANT whom you are relying on to feed you’re your sheep that I will not be a cast away, I will not wither and  men will not gather me and cast me into fire in Jesus name.

⁸ Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.⁹ As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.¹⁰ If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

• Lord Jesus, through the help of the Holy Spirit in me, help me to keep your commandments and continue in your love just like you did with the Father while you were on earth in Jesus name.

¹¹ These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.¹² This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

• O Lord my Father, in my pursuit of your commandments and love for you and my fellow brethren; please let your joy remain in me and be full in Jesus name.

¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.¹⁵ Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

• Call me your friend from today henceforth Lord Jesus and help my life to become a friend to you in Jesus name.
• Thank you Father because I will no longer be called Busy! But not feeding the sheep. In Jesus name.
• Thank you Father, thank you Lord Jesus, thank you Holy Spirit for the grace to become your ONE AND ONLY TRUSTED SERVANT in Jesus name. Amen.

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