SEPTEMBER 4

LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GO

“So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are labours together with God.” (1 Cor. 3:7-9)

Is it not for the purpose of becoming a “door within The Door,” to be “saviours in The Saviour,” that the sons of God are being berthed in God’s scheduled plan of the ages? Becoming His “labourers” to take the evil of earth, judge it, correct it, and restore to usefulness again. When all has been brought into this operation of THE WORD, and restored, then shall the kingdom “be delivered back to God, that God may be all in all.” (1Cor. 15:28).

The ministry is the ministry of THE WORD, not of preaching, with the emphasis only on utterance, but rather a fulfilling of the thoughts, intents, purposes of God. The doing is the result of BEING, for having become His will, it follows that whatever action is taken is then a fulfilling of His will.

There has been such a distortion of it all, with man’s doctrine of “working FOR God.” The WORD does not work “for” God, it does the work “OF” God. Therefore there has been much stripping, until we have been brought to nothing in ourselves, that He might fill us with Himself, and instruct us, equip us to do His work as He purposes for it to be done.

God chose to manifest Himself through the WORD, His Son, Jesus Christ, and He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, back to the Father again. God also chooses to manifest Himself through “His sons,” all those who have been conformed to the image of The Son. One thing is sure, we are gaining an experimental knowledge of the fact that “the son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do.” (John 5:19). Only in the measure that the Father shews His sons, can they do His work. “Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets.“ (Amos 3:7).

Ray Prinzing