Listening to the Holy Spirit:
There are many around you who know of My Name, but there are few who follow. Choose one, that I would show you together, My heart. Two are stronger than one, and a good friend is one who also follows the Way. At your place of labor, the vision and labor is shared for the benefit of many, but outside of the workplace, it can be of My vision purely. Pray that you would see together what can be done in My Name. I have ignited the desire for service, that both will share in its weight, and more shall be done. I have given the Church, that you would not labor alone. Seek together, and what shall be revealed will not be able to be done alone. Those who labor for the Kingdom in unified step, will scatter the enemy as I go before them. Your journey in service and faith is not to be alone. Join together that My Name will be magnified, and the work of the Kingdom accomplished. The bond of those is eternal, for their work will not be forgotten.
2Cor 8:16 (ESV) – But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same earnest care I have for you.
Eccl 4:9 (ESV) – Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
Matt 18:20 (ESV) – For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.
Luke 10:1 (ESV) – After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him, two by two, into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
Taking It to Work:
In the workplace, we often work together to get things done. There is a great feeling of accomplishment where two or more people, often very different and diverse people, join together to get something done none of them could do alone. We see this all the time in the workplace.
Kingdom work is like that as well. Much more can be done when brothers and sisters in Christ come together with a common vision, especially if that vision is inspired by the Holy Spirit. We see this all the time in a church setting.
Here is what we need to see more of, and it is the core of work/faith integration: We need to see Christian brothers and sisters linking arms, with a Kingdom mindset, at work.
If instead of seeing work as just “work”, and then seeing church as a separate life activity, we need to start seeing work as the extension of our church life. Our work is not only is it a mission field for the lost, but it’s also a place to put into practice the biblical truths we hear on Sunday, and like any discipline, it is done much more effectively if were not doing it alone.
Over the years I was a part of many workplace lunchtime Bible studies. One group used to get together to pray for their city, county and state once per month. Other groups of workplace Christians would volunteer at the downtown food bank, or do service projects with the local Lion’s Club, and almost universally, these endeavors started with two or three Christians finding out about each other’s faith at work, and together they would purpose together to do something for the Kingdom. The introductions and friendships were first, and the endeavor followed.
Do you know someone at work that shares your faith, and has the same heart for ministry or service? First step: Find out. It may lead to a friendship that will last an eternity, and an eternally remembered workplace ministry that would have never come about, except for that friendship. Look around, and ask the Lord who that might be, as His Word works in you, today.
