Is it Your Will or Mine?
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed — or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her,” Luke 10:41-42.
“My people, why are so many of you restless?
Why do you run around doing things that you think will please Me?
Why do you join yourselves to things that are of your own making and not mine?
There are so many ’causes’ in the world, but many of them are things that man thinks that he should do; and then when you do these things you think that you are better people because of doing them.
My service is not to be a ‘busy-body.’ My service is to sit at my feet and learn of what you should be doing.
Don’t follow your own leading, but follow mine. Some of you have gotten entangled in the world’s affairs. My service is not meant to be burdensome.
Who is the one that I look for in this hour?
Who is the one who I will say, ‘Well done good and faithful servant?’
Is it because you set-up something for your own making for Me?
Is it because you implemented and started many new and unusual church programs?
I tell you that many in the church are doing their own thing. And because many are doing their own thing, their reward will not be mine but will dry up as a thing of the wind.”
Selah,
~ Stephen Hanson
Stephen Hanson of In His Truth Ministries came to the LORD is a special way in 1975 and has prophesied regularly since. In these end-time birthing pangs we are reminded that judgment must first begin with the household of God. Will we be prepared and ready?
“but few things are needed,” Luke 10:41-42.
“Who is the one who I will say, ‘Well done good and faithful servant?
Amen and God Bless you!
Some years ago I asked the Lord to give me a ‘fear’ so I would keep the narrow path.
And of course one never knows if or when the Lord will answer a prayer or if He answers one can never imagine how He will do it.
After I asked this my thoughts where that maybe He will ‘show me hell and scare me (?) but the days and weeks went on and I did not see nor hear anything and I forgot what I had asked about.
But one morning I woke up with an intense fear of that I one day should not be able to hear the words:
“Well done good and faithful servant.”
It is a blessing to ask the Lord about everything we need to walk with Him because He knows the exact words everyone need to hear or the perfect picture everyone need to see.
“In the smallest details of perfect obedience we do the greatest righteous spiritual works and a sound fear of the Lord keeps us away from doing ‘our’ ways instead of doing His ways.”
“And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord,” Matthew 25:21.