Christine Caine | Your Best Work Part 1

see what we do is we go know what's gonna be my job and does that fit in with my gift mix and is that my personality profile and how many days often am I gonna get and I need to have balance and I need to be and those you if you ever seen those day laborers they're not asking for any of that they're just jumping on the truck I'm awesome I've got a job I'm so excited and we need to be a group of Christians that get up every day and go father I want to be about your business today I'm turning up and I'm a day laborer for you I'm a day worker for you I want to be about the Father's business it would change so much we've all had those mornings when we just didn't want to get out of bed or face the work that's on our plate that day but the truth is you have an important part to play in this world and if you don't get out there and do your part something important will be missing from this world I'm Christine Kane and I have a personal mission to equip and empower people like you to connect with your god-given purpose and potential I'm so glad you're joining us today let's get right into the message [Music] I am so excited to be with you today I'm so glad that you tuned in I know that God has got a powerful word for you today you know we moved to the United States several years ago and one of my friends joined the US Marine Corps and it was awesome because he turned up in this t-shirt and the t-shirt said and you can see it right now it said no one ever drowned in sweat and I remember when I saw it I burst out laughing because I thought you know what that's pretty true I don't know anyone that ever drowned in a pool of their own sweat and I thought what a great ethic what a great work ethic that it means you know what you're gonna sweat it's gonna hurt but it's worthwhile no one ever died from hard work now I'm Greek and so Greeks by and large have not yet had this revelation that no one ever drowned in sweat let let me explain this to you you know Greeks love their siesta they love a few hours of sleep in the afternoon and I remember going over there and of course we have our a 21 a headquarters in Thessaloniki Greece and there is a reason why the country was in economic bankruptcy and I love Greece you all know that and I know the Greek people watching this you know I love you and feta cheese and taramosalata so that's not the issue but truth is truth but I remember having conversations with my relatives and friends and they'd be Oh Christine you know we don't want to work as hard as you do in Australia or in America we like to have several hours off to have a sleep in the afternoon and then we like to go out really late and I'm like so would we if there's no issue who wouldn't like to not have to work a whole lot but I said there is a general rule in the Bible it's called if you don't work you don't eat and that's right and they're like no no no we want everyone else to provide for us well there is a reason why the economic crisis happened in that country and a lot of people want the benefits of work without doing the work but there is no way that you can have that and not only that we as humans were designed to work we would do designed to flourish we were designed to do good works I'm going to show you that from Scripture by the end of this series I want you to be excited to do the thing that God has called you to do people go you know Christine how do you do so much with propel or with a 21 or the books and all the traveling I go well it takes a lot of work you know I would love to tell you that the Angels just come and do all the washing on my behalf but it just doesn't happen like that and you cannot have the benefits of work without doing the input of work and so I think it is so important I want to challenge us to step up and into all it is that God has for us and you know at every season of my life when I started and I was the director of a Youth Center then I became the director of a youth movement then I started traveling and teaching and then we started a21 and then at 48 I started propel and then at 50 I started doing TV well all of it is awesome and it's the will of God and the purpose of God and God planned it for my life but it would never have happened if I didn't commit to work and so I want to encourage some of us today that there is so much that God wants to do in and through your life but if you're going to do it it's important that we all get to work now apparently it's not just the Greeks that do not want to rise up and go to work I would go in the middle of Athens and I frequently obviously go to Greece so much for our work with a21 and because I love feta cheese and the Mediterranean okay it's all true and so and I see so many building projects or businesses that are not finished and the main reason is because people just don't want to work I mean if there is a football game happening you could be standing at the counter waiting for your coffee for like an hour and he's just looking at you going after the football game like oh okay this is apparently how we do business over here and so in the midst of all of that I think Jesus had the same problem as many many people did and many people do in Europe if you go with me today to the book of Matthew chapter 9 in verses 35 the Bible says and Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction I mean that's pretty awesome did you see that that jesus healed every disease and every affliction I want you to know today that it is the will of God to bring healing into your life in fact even right now as the word has gone forth on the other side of the screen whatever part of your body is feeling like has an infirmity perhaps you've been diagnosed with the sickness perhaps you've been struggling with pneumonia perhaps there's something going on in your throat I want you to just put your hand on that part of your body because in the same way I just believe right now that there's an anointing on this program in this moment for healing for physical healing in your body in Jesus name and the Bible says that Jesus walked through the towns and the villages in in the synagogue's and he healed every infirmity and every affliction scripture says that by His stripes we are healed and it's not by might nor by power but it's by my spirit says the Lord so I want you to know that Jesus still heals today and it's the will of God to bring healing into your body in Jesus name so says he healed every disease and every affliction and then it goes on and it says and when he saw the crowds he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like a sheep without a shepherd Jesus was always moved by compassion wherever you see a miracle in the Bible and Jesus performing a miracle you see that it's preceded or followed by compassion and we as Christians ought to have compassion on the world around us the pain and the suffering and the infirmities and yes it's important that in the day in which we live that we hold a lot of convictions but our convictions need to be fueled by our compassion and compassion is the language that the world understands compassion opens doors compassion opens hearts Jesus was moved with compassion and we the people of Jesus the followers of Jesus need to be moved with compassion but then it goes on and it says then he said to his disciples the harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few therefore pray earnestly to Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest I mean what a powerful scripture this scripture is the foundation of propelled women I felt the Holy Spirit speak to me from this text in the Bible and he said hey look out the fields are ripe for the harvest the harvest is plentiful there is plenty of harvest there's more than seven and a half billion people on the earth today make no mistake there is lots of harvest the problem is not with the harvest the problem is that the laborers are few other versions say the workers are few it seems like Jesus in his day obviously found that there was an aversion to doing the work of the ministry and so Jesus himself was a worker the Bible says he went from town to town from village to village a lot of times we want to only focus on the times that Jesus got out to be alone well he got up early before everyone else more often than not in Scripture and prayed and then went about working he went from village to village he healed he taught he worked he was a carpenter by trade Jesus himself worked I don't know where we as Christians think that we don't need to work that work is part of what we do to advance the kingdom of God here on the earth worth work is sacred work is holy we were created to work and we need to be about the Father's business the work of the ministry is not just for one or two there's not this sort of clergy and laity sort of full-time Christians and part-time Christians real Christians and fake Christians let me just say in the kingdom of God we are part of a royal priesthood every single one of us is called to advance the kingdom of God and to get to work I know this often a lot of people they have great dreams and great plans and great purposes and I say to some young people how do you think this is going to happen oh I don't know God's just going to make it happen I'm like it is not gonna fall out of the sky you've got to go to work a lot of people you know I just want to discover what I really want to do I'm going go and work in a coffee shop while you're discovering like you know pay your bills girls if that guy does not have a J OB forget him okay so what happens is I'm like what is your job no matter what we have got to go to work Jesus did not just sit down in the basement in his mother's basement and send out blogs about social justice Jesus did not just tweet out about healing Jesus did not just sit down and have intellectual dialogues about theology Jesus got up and went to work amongst the people he went about doing good he was about the father's business we cannot be lulled into thinking because I've liked something on social media I have done something liking it and doing it are two different things we have to get about the father's business you know Jesus identified in this text exactly the issue that was at hand he said there's plenty of harvest that that word in the Greek feta sauce to reap together collect all around us there is plenty of harvest in your workplace there's harvest in your school there's harvest in your community there's harvest you don't have to go to the foreign mission field to find a harvest people are all around us the problem is there's not enough of us that want to go to work amongst the harvest and that word their errand artists in it's a Greek word you know it comes from the work to work an artist a worker the Bible calls us workers that's what we are we are workers in the kingdom of God we are workers in the field of God it is so important that in light of eternity we remember what we are here for we are going to work in God's field you're not just turning up to go to work in your office every day you're not just turning up to go to college every day you're not just going to the supermarket it's God's field it is harvest field and we are workers at AG artists in the Greek we are workers and the fact is that he said I need you to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers to send forth workers when was the last time you prayed that prayer it's not often in the Bible that God tells us what to pray he said therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers I want to challenge you watching this show today for the next 7 days straight to pray to the Lord of the harvest in your prayer time every day to send out laborers and I'm telling you what is likely to happen within one week or two weeks or one month of praying that prayer and I think this is why most of us don't pray it because we're going to discover that we are the worker that God ascending out into the harvest we are the worker because prayer doesn't only move God prayer changes us and so I think a lot of us do not pray this and I'm setting out a prayer challenge to the body of Christ to say why don't we pray we pray so many things we pray for our own needs we pray for our own desires why don't we pray what Jesus tells us to pray Jesus actually said previous he tells us how to pray when he tells us to pray the Lord's Prayer he says this is how you should pray our Father who art in heaven but he tells us what to pray in Matthew 9 I wonder in our Christian life how often we've prayed what Jesus told us what to pray if we are followers of Jesus Christ if he is the lord of the harvest and he says to us this is what I want you to pray ask yourself when you last prayed what Jesus asked you to pray then ask yourself when you last prayed for your own needs to be met and I'm putting myself in all of this as well I'm not just pointing a finger here but I'm putting a challenge ahead to say if we can begin to pray this prayer then I guarantee you we're going to find that we are the answer to our own prayer we are going to find so much more fruitfulness in the world around us we're going to begin to go to work on mission we're going to turn up at College on mission and the conversations we have with our friends suddenly they're going to be very intentional the conversations we have on the phone they're going to be very intentional we're going to think once or twice or maybe 10 times before we send that tweet out because we're going is this actually advancing the kingdom of God or is this adding to all the fear doubt and negativity we're going to think twice before words come out of our mouth it's going to change our whole life if we look at our life on earth like we're going to work God created you for an amazing purpose to shine a life-changing light on everyone you encounter the light of Jesus Christ though many believe this truth few believers fully understand how to let God's light shine through their lives in her new and eye-opening series on DVD the best work let your light shine Christine Caine shares encouraging insights from God's Word as you watch each message you'll see how to discover and live out your god-given purpose in a practical yet biblical way this series is so helpful that we want to send you your own copy as our way of saying thank you for your gift of support of the worldwide outreaches of TBM take a moment to call 800 3 505 1 700 or go securely online and visit TBM 0rg slash best work to share a gift and request your copy of the best work jesus said let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds and glorify your father in heaven it's time to let your light shine for all to see call click or write today [Music] I'm talking about the work of the ministry because what we think is the work of the ministries for professionals but every Christian is called to be a Christian and I know that's rocket science I bet you're glad you tuned in today right there that's like but some people are like you know Christie and I'm like look just because I do this I mean I have a course you know the Bible says let not many of you desire to be teachers because there's there's a judgment that's if it's even more severe that's going to come to us but all of us are called to be Christians all of us are called to advance the kingdom of God all of us are called to be workers in the harvest field now I'm going to just show you from 1st Corinthians chapter 3 verse 9 Paul writes what then is Apollo's what is Paul servants through whom you believed as the Lord assigned to each I planted Apollo's watered but God gave the growth he knew plants and he who waters a one and each will receive his wages according to his labor for we are God's fellow workers fellow workers first Thessalonians 3:2 therefore when we could bear it no longer we were willing to be left behind in Athens alone and we sent Timothy our brother and God's co-worker in the gospel of Christ to establish and exhort you in your faith so he says we are co-laborers we are co-workers can you believe that the God of the universe invites you and me to be a co-worker with him in his harvest field that is the ultimate ultimate job profile ever now I'm not talking about being a missionary in a foreign mission field because that's who we think God's workers are you could be a doctor you could be a lawyer you could be a computer scientist you can be an entrepreneur you could be a full-time homeschooling mother it doesn't matter what your job title is here on earth if you are a follower of Jesus Christ then we are co-workers with God we are invited into Kingdom work with God it would your whole day and your entire attitude if you got up every day knowing I am a cold laborer with God you know where I work there is where I live there is this little area and there's a lot of day laborers that offer up their services for the day so in the morning they're all you know there's a couple of hundred of them that are waiting for different contractors to come and pick them up and a day laborer is just kind of waiting they don't know what job they're going to do that day they don't know they're like a jack-of-all-trades and they just jump in the back of the truck and they're going to be a day laborer they're a day worker and they're just up for whatever so that they can work well I think that needs to be the attitude of Christians see what we do is we go know what's going to be my job and does that fit in with my gift mix and is that my personality profile and how many days often am I going to get and I need to have balance and I need to be and those you if you ever seen those day laborers they're not asking for any of that they're just jumping on the truck I'm awesome I've got a job I'm so excited and we need to be a group of Christians that get up every day and go father I want to be about your business today I'm turning up and I'm a day laborer for you I'm a day worker for you I want to be about the Father's business it would change so much if we started to see ourselves as co-workers and that we understood that God could have saved this world any way he wanted God could reach humanity any way he wanted and God Himself said I'm going to put my spirit on the inside of you and how I'm gonna get to the world around you is through you I love you that much that I don't want to do this on my own I'm gonna do it with you and you care to be a co-worker you to get to be a co laborer with Christ it would change every the way you absolutely spend every single day if you can see you'll see you'd hold your head up high you'd put your chest down a bigger I'm a co-worker with Christ it doesn't matter what job you're doing but here is the problem I think I think most of us it's not enough to be coworker with Christ because if it was we would be doing it I think most of us want to be co-stars and that's the problem see when you want to be a co-star you want equal billing oh no your names are not going to be at the front I want my name to be right there alongside I want to be a co-star with Jesus you know hashtag humble brag to God be the glory but it's all about me and God says you know how much work I've got for you to do every day I've got so much I could do in and through you if you were willing not to be a co-star but you were willing to be a co-worker there is so much work that God has for us to do in anonymity and obscurity there's so much that doesn't that's non Instagram Abul that is Kingdom work there is so much that you don't have to snapchat that you can help people you can have conversations with people you can be praying for people I think the fact that we've all learnt to live our lives online under the spotlight we think it doesn't matter if someone doesn't see it but what we forget is that God's spotlight is always on us I say to people they go you know Christine how did you become you know either accomplished speaker or how do you I go look the fact is I did not just start preaching the gospel when someone put a microphone in my hand anybody that knows me personally you could ask my husband my staff any of my friends me up here is the same me as sitting in a living room or across the kitchen table with some I mean I am this intense all the time I am speaking about this stuff all the time people go why don't you look at your notes it's because I just talk because this is what I do all the time and now I'm just doing it to you on the other side of the screen so basically you've just jumped into my lounge room and so at the end of the day people can like do you ever have another gear I'm like no I'm sorry it just is the way that it is is because I'm constantly thinking about the father's business up and so yes so right now there might be a spotlight on me or yes there may be a microphone that magnifies my voice further and further but I am like this when there is no spotlight and there is no microphone in my hand because I'm always about the father's business because I can't believe that God lets me collate but with him I remember when I first started living the Lord and I was invited to come and help start a youth center that I eventually became the director of but in the first year when I was like a volunteer with everybody else I remember we were painting the walls I mean it was this youth center that was a dive and so dirty it we were scrubbing the walls and I remember it was pink paint I mean it was the 90s everyone I'm sorry it was a pale pink paint and I could remember to this day that we were painting that toilet wall and I was crying and I was saying to Jesus I can't believe you're letting me do this after my past after all the things that I have done that were just so ungodly and so sinful that you are giving me a chance to work for you that you are giving me a chance to do and you know what can I just say to you nowadays by the grace of God I have the opportunity to travel the world and preach and teach and write books and run a21 and propel can I tell you I feel the same way every day every single day I'm like Jesus I can't believe this I cannot believe that I get to proclaim your gospel I cannot believe that you allow me someone with my past someone that has done that what I've done that you would invite me into your kingdom purpose and you would allow me to be a co-worker with God a co laborer with God if we as Christians cannot see what a privilege and an honor that invitation is then we need to get our hearts right before God we need to lose the attitude that says well you know what I don't want to get burnt out there I just don't want to do too much for God and we need to turn around and go I must be about the Father's business thank you Jesus that you didn't just leave me you didn't only just save me you saved me and you called me to be a co laborer with you in your harvest field there is no higher privilege in Jesus now you're awesome thanks so much for tuning in today I believe God has so much in store for you and I hope the teaching today encouraged you there a specific thing God wants to do in and through you and right now you have the opportunity to take the first step in both of those areas for your gift of support to the outreaches of TBN Matt Lorie and I want to send you my newest teaching series now this series will empower you to live the life God has called you to live and your gift will help take the Word of God into a lost and hurting world call or go online right now and request your copy of this teaching with your gift to the life-changing outreaches of TBN god created you for an amazing purpose to shine a life-changing light on everyone you encounter the light of Jesus Christ though many believe this truth few believers fully understand how to let God's light shine through their lives in her new and eye-opening series on DVD the best work let your light shine Christine Caine shares encouraging insights from God's Word as you watch each message you'll see how to discover and live out your god-given purpose in a practical yet biblical way this series is so helpful that we want to send you your own copy as our way of saying thank you for your gift of support of the worldwide outreaches of TBM take a moment to call 800 3 505 1 700 or go securely online and visit TBN o RG slash best work to share a gift and request your copy of the best work jesus said let your light shine before others that they may see your good and glorify your Father in heaven it's time to let your light shine for all to see call click or write today [Music] you may not feel like the role you play right now is particularly fancy or glamorous but it is important we all have an opportunity to make an impact in this world the question is are you gonna make it today decide that you are no longer going to watch life go past you instead you're gonna get busy get your hands dirty and start fully living the life God intended you to live there are people waiting for you yes you so let's get to work I'll see you next time [Music]

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Length: 27min 30sec (1650 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 07 2018