ARE YOU BEING LED OR DRIVEN

ARE YOU BEING LED OR DRIVEN

No matter how you you approach life, if you are moving forward you are either following or being pushed. It is not possible to advance on your own without an outside influence. If it were possible to live from the cradle to the grave inside four white walls and never have contact with fish, fowl, beast or human or anything that came from the outside world, you would vegetate to an early death for lack of stimuli and motivation. "The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again." Proverbs 19:24 (AMP)

You must be aware of which direction your motivation to advance, is coming from. It can be a matter of life or death. Here is another kingdom rule that will keep you protected. "I lead ... satan pushes", there is no pressure in being led, it is a gentle process, filled with patience and loving anticipation. "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. [15] For the Spirit which you have now received is not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption the Spirit producing sonship in the bliss of which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!" Romans 8:14-15 (AMP)  It always gently draws from the front. When you are being led, the pressure is always on the leader and the follower simply rests in the leaders ability  to make the right choice. When I am your leader, because I am fail safe, you can be at rest, the entire journey of life. "Commit your way to the Lord roll and repose each care of your load on Him; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass." Psalm 37:5 (AMP)

Now here is a problem, the inability to discern which direction your motivation is coming from. Hell also has a motto, (if you cannot get the believer to do the wrong thing, get them to do the right thing wrong). This is the point where the switch from front to back takes place. Without knowing it, extreme pressure to preform, starts to build up. Before long, joy gives way to fatigue, what was once a pleasure becomes a drudgery. Points of contention begin to pop up everywhere. What was once a ministry of love unto Me, becomes a system of works, trying to impress Me through your own efforts. "Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? [5] He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?" Galatians 3:3,5 (KJV)

When you realize that there are no quotas to meet in the kingdom, because I met them all for you, you can rest in that fact. Overcoming is not meeting quotas, but simply remaining faithful to the end. Remaining faithful means you do not stop trusting in My work and go back to yours, which leads you back into sin and bondage. Any leader who places guilt on you because you are not performing and uses hell as a threat will suffer judgment. "they preach, but do not practice. [4] They tie up heavy loads, hard to bear, and place them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger to help bear them." Matthew 23:3-4 (AMP)

When other people begin to remark that you are a driven person, it should be major STOP sign to you. Driven people, drive other people, and soon drive them away by becoming judgmental, of all who will not join them. Driven people suffer burn out, but people who are led endure to the end. "he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." Matthew 24:13 (KJV) Do not be mistaken My Spirit will never bless laziness and will lead you to sweat and hard work, but the sweat will be on the outside not inside. It will always be a, "want too sweat, not a need too sweat". ..."by grace are ye saved through faith; ... [9] Not of works" ... Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJV)

Even down to overcoming fleshly habits the works of willpower will fall short. It is the following of My Spirits leading that will lead you out of bondage. Too often the word, "break" is misinterpreted and is shifted to your feeble attempt to break the chains, instead of Me. You cannot break habits, you may stop doing something, but your hearts desire is still not broken and a system of works will begin. Your only work is to remain in a position of rest, trusting and loving Me. You need to, ... "strive diligently to enter that rest of God, to know and experience it for yourselves, that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience into which those in the wilderness fell." Hebrews 4:11 (AMP)

As soon as you start to feel pushed, STOP IMMEDIATELY, get alone with Me until you feel My gentle leading from the front again. The enemy is attempting to push you out of My rest, and back into the condemnation associated with works. You will never do enough to satisfy him and he will burn you out by driving you night and day, making you think you must earn My approval. By simply following My leading you automatically have My approval. Your sin is washed away by My blood and I have given you the power so that you will not sin, but ... "if any (of you) sin, (you) have an advocate with the Father, (Me) Jesus Christ the righteous: [2] (I am) the propitiation for your sins: and not for yours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. [3] And hereby (you) know that (you) know (Me), if (you) keep (My) commandments. 1 John 2:1-3 (KJV)

Check to see today which direction your motivation is coming from, are you being pushed? Or led? Never let him push you again My child. Follow, follow, and keep following Me and sweat only on the outside, while your inner man remains at rest in My work.


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Jim Hammerle

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