BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

2 4 : B V O V will—and it completely refreshed Him, through and through. Jesus proved that just as food will strengthen, sustain and satisfy the body, discovering and doing the will of God will also strengthen us when we're weak. But here's the key: We must be doing what God wants us to do. If we're chasing after our own plans, we'll live chronically fatigued. We'll experience pain, sleeplessness and an inability to be refreshed after we sleep. It's easy to get busy doing more and more "stu ." We look to others and see what works for them, then try to follow their example. Before we know it, we're doing a whole list of activities that God never called us to do, no matter how good they seem. When you're working hard on something, I challenge you to stop for a moment, step back and ask yourself, "Whose idea was this?" If it wasn't God's idea, then it's going to drain you. That fatigue we wear like a medal isn't going to have God knocking on our doors and thanking us, saying things like: "Thank you for wearing yourself into the ground, son. Thank you for putting yourself in an early grave, daughter. Yes, your children hate Me, but thank you. You know, you've been cranky for eight years…but thank you." No! That's not going to happen. God's not thanking any of us for doing a bunch of stu He didn't tell us to do. His will should be our only focus. Finish the Work Look once more at how Jesus responded to His disciples. He said, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to fi nish his work" (verse 34). In addition to doing God's will, "fi nishing his work" was on Jesus' mind night and day. In other words, He was mindful of time. Not long ago, as I was reading through the gospels and studying Jesus' life and ministry, I found myself frustrated. I felt like my ministry wasn't as far along as it needed to be in some areas, especially when I compared it to Jesus' ministry. In only three-and-a-half years, Jesus' ministry turned the world He was living in upside down. Two thousand years later, our world is still fl ipped on its head. "How did You do that?" I asked the Lord. He answered me in three words: No wasted time. We must be about fi nishing the work and valuing the time we have. It's one of the keys to getting rid of chronic fatigue. Redeem the Time Galatians 3:13, (NKJV) says, "Christ has redeemed us…." The word redeemed here means "to have bought back in order to save from loss." Isn't that what Jesus did for us? He bought us back to save us from loss. It's what we're supposed to be doing with our time—buying up opportunity. The Holy Spirit instructs us in Ephesians 5 to redeem our time. That word redeem is the same word found Galatians 3:13 that says, "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law,' and means to buy back and save from loss. That is what Jesus did for us and that is what we are supposed to be doing with our time." When many people hear the prosperity message, they understand it only in relation to what the Word has to say about money. That's certainly a part of it, but biblical prosperity is i Watch Jeremy & Sarah on Sun. 2:30 a.m. | 8:30 a.m. | Wed. 11:30 p.m. Thu. 8:30 a.m. | Sat. 4:30 p.m. | 11 p.m. ET Watch C H A N N E L Sarah on Sun. 2:30 a.m. | 8:30 a.m. | Wed. 11:30 C H A N N E L Chronic fatigue is a sickness to be resisted by faith, not a badge to be worn in pride. " " Jeremy Pearsons and his wife, Sarah, are founders of Pearsons Ministries International and pastors of Legacy Church in Green Mountain Falls, Colo. For more information, visit them online at pearsonsministries.com or legacychurch.family.

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