"For I have come to have a lot of satisfaction and solace in your affection, on the grounds that the hearts of the holy people have been invigorated through you, sibling."
— Philemon 1:7
Have you seen what number of individuals there are strolling around pushed, discouraged, and troubled down? Bunches of people you and I hobnob with consistently are confronting the unrest of supposed lay-offs, feared ailment, conjugal issues, mixed family conflict, money related difficulty, profound questions, passionate bafflement, and the rundown goes on. Nobody ever said that life was simple, since it absolutely isn't. What's more, many are breaking under its heaviness.
Perhaps you are perusing this reasoning, "Minister Jeff simply depicted me. I am so pushed and troubled at the present time... what's more, I don't have the foggiest idea what to do." Well, Jesus gives an incredible greeting to those of us who are concerned, exhausted, and pummeled, "Come to Me all who are fatigued and substantial loaded, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28).
The Greek word for rest (anapauo) is a similar word deciphered invigorated in Philemon 1:7. Intriguing. The Lord needs to give you rest from your exhaustion and invigorate your spirit to give you a fresh chance to take life by the horns. He is genuinely a brilliant Savior and "a companion who sticks nearer than a sibling" (Proverbs 18:24).
COLLABORATING WITH JESUS
Likewise, the Lord needs to utilize you to be a represetative of rest and reward to fatigued, stressed spirits. He needs to lift your spirits with the goal that you can lift the spirits of others.
Philemon was an individual like that. He had been spared and changed by God's astonishing elegance. The Holy Spirit was grinding away in him, and all could tell. Paul had extraordinary love and esteem for Philemon in light of the fact that wherever he went he was reviving and empowering substantial hearts. He was letting the Lord radiate through Him. He was having such an effect as he cast his own weight on the Lord and collaborated with Jesus to lift the weights of others.
You should?
Is it accurate to say that you resemble Philemon? Do you cast your weights on Jesus and let Him use you to help unburden others? You would be stunned at the effect you could have on the off chance that you would basically request that God make you touchy to the damages and cares of individuals and mindful of the occasion to revive their hearts with an expression of expectation and sympathy.
Isaiah 50:4 says, "The Lord God has given me the tongue of supporters, that I may realize how to continue the fatigued one with a word."
My better half, Debbie, conversed with a companion who was experiencing horrible, progressing sessions with vertigo. God gave Debbie an expression of would like to provide for her—and it had such an effect. Subsequent to conversing with Debbie for a couple of moments, she truly felt empowered and invigorated in her confidence. Not exclusively was that experience a gift to Debbie's companion, it was a gift to Debbie, realizing that God had utilized her to serve His consideration and solace.
Will you ask, "God, if it's not too much trouble give me profound affectability to consider troubled to be as You see them. Give me a word for the tired one that would energize, invigorate, and get recharged trust their trouble. I need to be a breath of reviving air. Use me, Jesus, to have any kind of effect today."