My Yoke
Baby Girl,
Get out of bed or turn off your alarm. My time with you is not supposed to cost your family anything. Your husband should not have to hear your alarm go off multiple times a night followed by the glow of your cellphone as you turn it on to write what I’m telling you in bits and pieces. That is not how this is supposed to work. I’ve told you that if this is an inconvenient time for you to get up to meet with Me, say the word, turn off your alarm, and I’ll leave you alone.
If you’re going to commit to this time, do it with your whole heart. That means when the alarm goes off, you roll your legs off the bed and quietly slip out of the bedroom. Turning off your alarm and deciding to stay in bed is an acceptable decision because it only affects you. When your alarm goes off multiple times and your phone screen lights up in bed multiple times, that disrupts your husband’s sleep and that is unacceptable.
I woke you up a couple hours ago with a message for your friend. What was it?
“My yoke is easy, My burden is light. Carry My message, but not the burden of it. You will ‘sense’ a burden in your spirit - that’s My burden. Bring it back to Me. If you ‘feel’ burdened, you’re carrying something you were never intended to carry. Bring it back to Me in prayer, dust your hands off, and get back to work.
People burn out quickly when they attempt to carry a burden that they were never meant to carry.”
Yoke = a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals attached to a cart they are to pull.
Stop. You have read that verse in the gospels many times but do you REALLY get what that means? I told you the other night that you are My daughter because I adopted you but you are My partner when you obey. We’ve talked many times about the fact that you have free will. That means that taking on My yoke is your choice.
As My child, you ARE called to work in the field.
You are called to share the gospel.
Gospel = teaching or revelation of Christ
You are called to make disciples.
You are called to baptize and you are called to teach.
All means all. All of My children have this calling on their lives - few obey. Many of those who do obey, obey from self-will and do so self-empowered. These rebellious little ones- please tell Me you’re tracking - I’m now talking about you…
These rebellious little ones…
Rebellious = showing a desire to resist authority, control or convention; a person engaged in opposition or armed resistance to an established government or ruler
These rebellious little ones insist on doing things their own way and therefore make things incredibly hard for themselves. They are working in the field where I placed them but, rather than partnering with Me, they are attempting in human power to impress Me with what they accomplish. They accomplish little with great effort and every time they burn out. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Look up the power of an animal that is yoked with another animal.
A yoke is a wooden beam sometimes used between a pair of oxen or other animals to enable them to pull together on a load when working in pairs, as oxen usually do; some yokes are fitted to individual animals.
Stop. You are all born with a yoke on you; it is the yoke of sin. It is a heavy burden and you were not created to pull this life on your own but, with the fall of Adam and the introduction of sin into humanity, a single yoke is what you are born into.
When I adopt you into the Kingdom of God, you are offered the opportunity to take off that yoke and put on My yoke which was created and intended for us to partner together.
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Weighing up to a ton, a single draft horse can haul up to 8,000 pounds. Such strength is difficult to imagine! You would imagine that two draft horses could pull 16,000 pounds or twice the weight behind them, but these two horses can move up to 24,000 pounds – three times the weight one can tow.
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This alone illustrates the value of teamwork but more impressive is the fact that when two draft horses are trained together and labor alongside each other, their pulling capacity increases to 32,000 pounds – four times the weight either could have moved alone!
Are you understanding the benefit of choosing to join My yoke?
Many of My children partner together in My work. They will put on a shared yoke with each other, and they do indeed accomplish more than they would alone, but they still inevitably burn out.
At your church, how many people have you seen burn out? At your recovery program, how many people have you seen burn out?
How many times have you felt on the edge of burnout?
Last night at your recovery meeting, I started to talk to you. You felt the stirring. You even spoke up and admitted to the group that when you were the training coach, you complicated the snot out of the position. You took on the role of training coach from a place of pride.
Pride = a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are admired; consciousness of one’s own dignity; to be especially proud of a particular quality or skill
Because you lived under the consistent influence of the enemy, you wanted to make a name for yourself as a teacher. Teacher is the calling on your life. Because you felt ill-prepared, ill-equipped, and unworthy of the calling, when you had an opportunity to step into the area you are called to, you took it on with great enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm = intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval
You set out to PROVE YOURSELF worthy of the position you were called to and that I equipped you to perform.
Who told you that you needed to prove yourself and to WHOM were you attempting to prove yourself? The enemy. He is the one encouraging you to step out in self-will and prove yourself worthy. Remember what I said about the games he plays? He doesn’t rig the game so that he can win. He created the game so that the game will never end.
Rude, right?!
Last November, when you were struggling with some of the concepts and terminology used in the recovery community, those were conversations I was having WITH YOU. Those were convictions I was giving YOU. I told you that I was not calling you out of the Christian recovery community but calling you deeper into it.
Two trained oxen can pull 32,000 pounds. Imagine what one well-trained ox yoked with God can do!
LOVE you, Little One.
Daddy
Romans 3:27-28
