WE ARE LABOURERS TOGETHER WITH GOD

This year has been hectic for those whom God has called to minister to others. It could be those in your family, colleagues at work, or on the sports field. The children at the schools where you teach, those in the care units of the hospital, daycare centers, or even at their homes. 

It could be those you serve in the church or community as a pastor, bishop, or chaplain of the nation. You may be called to be a street sweeper, a trash truck driver, or a helper. Always labor as onto the Lord. 

You may be called to serve God's people in your country’s business or hotel sector of your country. A police officer, firefighter, customs officer, immigration officer, army officer, prison officer, doctor, nurse, mechanic, janitor, volunteer, politician, premier, or even the governor, etc. Always look upon your labor for others as unto the Lord.

Today, the Apostle Paul's message to the Corinthians is for you. He states, "For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building." 1 Corinthians 3:9.

This is a powerful statement that is worth looking at in detail. This message is to encourage the hearts of those for whom Christ has given His life. Secondly, it is to lead us to understand that we are not to depend upon our surroundings or people for our righteous experience in God. 

As you seek to help others. Remember, it will cost you effort to help make people realize their responsibility to become laborers together with God like you. "But consider that Christ, during the years of His earthly ministry, toiled all day, and often without success. 

Yet don't stop urging upon souls the eternal loss that all must sustain who refuse to give their heart, mind, and soul unreservedly to God through Jesus Christ. Every day passed in, which God is refused admittance to the soul, is a day lost. Don't give up showing those for whom you labor how much is to be gained by their full surrender to God.

The end of another year is right upon us. Many are still going through the same old thing they have gone through in years past with no change. 

Yet, don't stop praying for those you are trying to help. 

1. Prayer will help save them and you. 

2. Prayer will give you spiritual strength to be renewed in the conflict of life. Here is the source of your greatest strength.

Today, God is looking from His place in heaven, watching with living interest those who labor for Him, and waiting to impart His grace to those who supplicate His throne through prayer. 

As you go forth, never forget that you are laborers together with God and that it is your privilege to be constantly shielded by His grace. God is watching with interest every reformatory movement carried forward on the earth. He calls upon everyone who has named His name to be converted daily, so that they may work intelligently in His cause, under the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit. Angels are watching over you and are surrounding you. They even come to your aid at times as you need assistance. 

S. N. Haskell once said, "It is the purpose of God that His people shall be a sanctified, purified, holy people, communicating light to all around them. 

But only as they keep the standard uplifted, only as they reveal that the truth they profess to believe is able to influence them for righteousness and to sustain their spiritual life; only as they make the principles of truth a part of their daily lives, can they be a praise and honor to God in the earth. It is the privilege of every Christian to receive grace to enable them to stand firmly for the principles of righteousness in the service of God." May this be our prayer today. Blessings, Blessings, Blessings. 

By GARDEN MINISTRY