DON'T WORRY! (From "It's Hot Stuff!", GN202)
DO 1947
6/85
1. NOW DON'T WORRY!--ALTHOUGH WE ARE HAVING TO LET A FEW PEOPLE GO FROM SOME OF OUR UNITS in order to trim down our tremendous amount of personnel we've had involved in all of these big pubs, we're not just kicking them out or letting them go like that, we're placing them, finding places for them & even continuing to support them until they get a good start. We're even establishing Units specifically for that purpose that I call "escape hatches" or "pressure valves". You know how a pressure cooker has a little pop-up valve on the top that keeps letting off steam?
2. WELL, WE'VE GOT SO MUCH PRESSURE, SO MANY PEOPLE INSIDE DOING ALL THESE JOBS, & now that we don't need so many people for so many pubs, they're finishing up, we're going to have to let some of them go. The pressure's gotten too much for the pot, so we've got to have an escape valve to let off a little steam.--And they've got lots of steam, God bless'm! They ought to be really inspired & get out there with lots of steam & go!
3. BUT WE'RE NOT JUST KICKING THEM OUT INTO OPEN SPACE, WE'RE NOT JUST THROWING AWAY THEIR TALENTS, we're making sure they've got a good place to go & land. We're asking other Units & Homes who need them & who would like to have them & telling them they're coming with support that will help them get started until they're able to earn their own & get used to the idea of witnessing & litnessing & getting back to the good old days when they used to litness. That's how most of you got won, on the street by somebody peddling lit! So you certainly ought to be thankful enough to get back out there & do the same for others!
4. BUT I'M LIKE THE DEAR MOTHER WHO COULDN'T THINK OF ONE OF THE CHILDREN TO SPARE, BECAUSE WE NEED YOU ALL! We may shift you around here & there to other places, but you'll always be needed & we'll always have a place for you--if not in Pubs, well, the World needs you! They need you out there with those Posters. So as long as you're willing to work for the Lord & stay busy for Jesus, there will always be a place for you & the Lord will always take care of you. You don't ever have to worry.
5. "FRET NOT THYSELF FOR TOMORROW! SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD & HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, & ALL THESE OTHER THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU!" (Mat.6:33,34) That's all you have to do! The only thing you have to be worried about, concerned about, sure about, is that you seek the Kingdom of God, seek to further the Kingdom of God! To seek the Kingdom of God is to get out & seek souls!--Amen?
6. IF YOU SEEK JESUS & HIS WILL, & HIS WILL IS TO SEEK SOULS, HE'LL ALWAYS TAKE CARE OF YOU! He said, "All these other things will be added unto you!" Don't worry about it! You'll never lack for a place to stay or lay your head. Even Paul said he had no certain resting place. (1Cor.4:11) He wasn't sure where he was going to lay his head the next night, but by the time he got there, God slipped a pillow under him & there it was!--Amen?
7. WE OFTEN DIDN'T KNOW WHERE WE WERE GOING TO STOP OR LAY OUR HEADS WHEN I WAS OUT IN EVANGELISTIC WORK. My Aunt used to call us "Gospel Gypsies" or "Gospel bums". But the Lord never failed, we always had some place that somebody furnished us, & sometimes very nice. Sometimes it was real good food too. Sometimes we were camping out. But I can never remember any time we didn't have enough to eat, never!
8. SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT, IT WON'T BE LONG NOW TILL JESUS COMES, & whatever happens, the Lord's going to take care of you, He's going to use you & use your talents, whatever they may be. You're all needed somewhere. There may be some time in the future when you might be needed more somewhere else, maybe sometime in the future when we'll be needed more somewhere else. So don't worry about it!
9. ONE THING YOU CAN COUNT ON IS CHANGE! Thank God for change! Don't you like a change once in awhile? I get bored if I don't have a change once in awhile. If I can't do anything else I'll shift the furniture around in my room or the Posters or do something different.
10. CHANGE IS INEVITABLE & IT'S GOOD FOR YOU, & if there comes a change, I've always found the Lord always has something better. You dread change & you're so afraid, "Oh my, I'll never have something as nice as this!"--And yet the Lord always gives us something better.--In some way the change was always better.--Maybe not the same, maybe in some ways it might have a few little drawbacks, but something about it is always better than before!
11. AREN'T YOU GLAD THAT THERE'S SO MUCH TO DO THAT YOU'LL NEVER BE UNEMPLOYED? The whole World's worrying about unemployment right now, it's getting worse everywhere, but you'll never have to worry about unemployment, you'll never be out of a job! You'll always have something to do, the most important job in the World, with the best salary in the World--souls! There's nothing else that you can take with you, but you can take them with you! There's nothing else you'll have Over There that'll count but the souls you won to the Lord, & you'll have them forever! Isn't that wonderful?
12. YOU'VE GOT THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD, THE BEST PRODUCT--SALVATION--THE BEST RETURNS--SOULS--& THE BEST GOAL--HEAVEN!--Amen?--The best Country, the best City, the best kids! We've got the best of everything!--The best Love, the best sex, we've got it all! TTL!
13. THANK YOU JESUS FOR ALL THY BLESSINGS, SO MANY BLESSINGS, WE CAN'T EVEN COUNT THEM ALL when we start to pray & praise Thee each day! We just cannot recount them all, there are so many, more than we could ask or think, Lord, pressed down, shaken together & running over, not even room enough to hold it all, Lord! TYJ! Thank You Lord especially for the joy, the happiness, the Salvation, the Love & all that You have given us, including all this good work that we enjoy doing for each other & for the World, for our Family around the World! TYL! Help us to get it done in time so they can use it before it's too late. ILY!
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