BLESSINGS FROM LABOR

My Dear Precious Child,
    In Paul's second letter to the Thessalonians he reiterated some truths to the church members, that being the instructions for the men in ministry to work in order to feed their families and help in feeding the homeless and the sojourners.  In the second letter he wrote that men should follow the examples of their spiritual leaders who worked and also ministered, like Paul.  He wrote that he did not eat another man's bread without paying for it, but instead he toiled and struggled to work night and day so that he and his fellow ministers would not be a burden to anyone for their support.  He complained in his letter that he had heard that some people were passing their time in idleness, becoming busy with the affairs of other people instead of their own because they did not work.  Paul advised them to work and earn their own food and necessities.  He wrote that if some people did not work and do other things that Paul instructed in his letters, that they should be admonished and then shunned if they did not work.  He said not to consider the person as an enemy, but instead to warn him as a brother. (II Thessalonians 3:6-15) 
      In his second letter to the Thessalonians Paul was just as adamant that the men in ministry work to earn money to care for their families.  Paul wrote that he did not want to be obliged to any person and instead he wanted to provide for his own needs.  In the first letter He had written that they should work with their own hands and to live quietly and peacefully by being self-supporting, dependent upon no one and having no need for anything.  (I Thessalonians 4:10-12; I Thessalonians 5:5-8)  He instructed the people to be sons of light who sleep at night instead of sons of darkness who get drunk at night.  He told them to admonish the people who were out of line, the loafers, the disorderly and the unruly. 
     Paul was not admonishing the people in the church to judge people outside of the church who did not work in the labor force.  There were some people in his churches  whom he was advising to work so that My image in the earth would be as a giver instead of a taker.  The unbelievers were not to be held to the same standards at the people inside of the church.  The people inside have the Holy Spirit as their motivator and their guide.  If they do not work, then they are not listening to their Guide, the Holy Spirit.  They often are yielding to traditional or customary habits which teach that leaders do not need to work, that they need to busy themselves with church work instead of doing a day's work for pay.  For people outside of the church, he did not tell the disciples of Jesus Christ to expect from them what the people inside the church should do but do not do themselves.
    Some people were so convinced that Jesus was coming back soon that they quit their jobs and waited in idleness for His appearing.  Not until years later in Paul's teachings did he have the revelation that My kingdom of God had already come into the lives of the people who were born of My Holy Spirit, baptized in My Holy Spirit, led by My Holy Spirit and interceded in prayers daily in My Holy Spirit.  (Romans 8; Hebrews 12:22-29)  His insight and understanding into the veil, or barrier, having been removed between heaven and earth in his life and the lives of other believers was earth shaking, as he described it, where My army of spiritual beings would shake the demons out of their bodies and burn those demons in the lake of fire which I had prepared before the foundation of the earth. (Matthew 13:36-43)  Jesus Christ, Himself, had told His disciples that Truth in the parable of the weeds.  That was My plan for the earth, that My children of promise would assume their responsibility and pray in intercessory prayers and become obedient to My Spirit until they are purified of the demons who so easily control them.  ( Hebrews 12:1)
    My desire is that My children of promise shine in the world like the noonday sun after having been freed from the demons who have plagued them and their ancestors for generations.  It is then that unbelievers see My good works in My children and glorify Me for having done a superior job.  (Matthew 13:43; Daniel 12:3; Wisdom 3:7-9)  
    Paul made good use of his prison time by writing to the believers in the churches where he had ministered.  My Holy Spirit knew that they needed encouragement to hold steadfast to the truths that they had learned.  
    Your Father of the Truths That Make You Free