"BIGGER JOBS!"
DFO1673
Switzerland, 11/8/78
--Dad Talks to His Staff.
1. EVERY DAY IS A BATTLE, LET'S FACE IT! Every day is a battle of some kind, & hard work. Most of us have hard work to do, we have struggles with all kinds of things, with our own personality & with other personalities, struggles with problems & struggles with besetting sins & struggles with this & struggles with that--every day is a battle!
2. THE WHOLE THEME OF THAT LETTER, "GREATER VICTORIES", is that when you have won today's battles & proved you are a good fighter & able to handle these little ones, tomorrow God will probably give you bigger ones! So God is getting you prepared for the front lines!--The real tough battles! Isn't that encouraging?
3. IN SOME WAYS, LIFE GETS EASIER!---I don't have to fight the same battles that I used to have to fight when I was young. I think most young people go through half their lives wondering, "What am I going to be? What am I supposed to be? What am I supposed to do?" That's one of the biggest problems! You worry about it half your life, until you finally wind up being nothing!--Ha!--So you might as well not have worried about it! You'll be whatever God wants you to be--if you're willing! Don't worry about it! And don't think you've made the grade because you arrived at one place--you're just getting started!
4. WE HAVE FOUND THAT THE BEST PEOPLE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE WILLING TO DO ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE! If you're too good to wash dishes or sweep floors or pull weeds or anything that needs to be done when there's nobody else to do it, then you're too good for us!--Because I've done'm all! There's nothing I've ever asked you to do that I haven't done myself! And there's nothing I ask you to do that I wouldn't be willing to do myself if I had the time. So there's no job that should ever be beneath anybody or too low for anybody.
5. IF YOU ARE FAITHFUL IN A FEW THINGS, THE LORD SAYS HE WILL MAKE YOU RULER OVER MANY THINGS! (Mt.25:21) This is only the beginning of probably much greater things & greater responsibilities! Depending on how faithful you are, how well you do your work, how willing-spirited you are, how loyal you are, how obedient you are. Because once you've found out a person is faithful, loyal, diligent, willing-spirited, hard-working, capable & really loves the Lord, you can trust them with almost anything! You can promote them from the rat & roach man to the VS & it doesn't make a bit of difference, it's just another job! It doesn't go to their head.
6. YOU'RE PROBABLY THINKING, "WELL, I DON'T WANT ANY BIGGER JOB, I LIKE IT HERE! I like the work, I like the place, I like the people & I don't want to have to work any harder or do any more." Well, I'm sorry but that just happens to be the way the Lord does things! If He finds you're good at this, He'll give you something more to do! If you're good at little things, He'll give you bigger things to do. If you're good at easy jobs, He'll give you harder jobs to do, & He keeps giving you greater victories all the time! If you win this battle, He'll give you a bigger battle tomorrow!
7. HE'S TRAINING YOU FOR MUCH BIGGER JOBS THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO DO, until the time will come one of these days, Beloved, that you'll rule & reign with Him over all the Earth! The Lord was not kidding when He said He would make you ruler over so many cities & so many places. And you're not going to be much different from the way you are now, except you'll have a supernatural miraculous body & a lot more power to do the job, & a lot more wisdom that you have learned! But your learning is not just going to be handed to you on a silver platter after you die or after the Resurrection!
8. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WHAT YOU ARE LEARNING NOW IS GOING TO BE OF HELP TO YOU IN THE FUTURE WHEN YOU ARE RUNNING WHOLE COUNTRIES! One man or woman of God, inspired by the Spirit of God, can have better wisdom to run a whole country than any of those politicians! God's going to take the talent that He's already given you which you have developed & used & profited by! He's going to take the knowledge you have already learned & the experiences you have already been through & the languages you know! Don't think that this life is going to be just all thrown away when you get to Heaven. First of all, God's going to use you to try to establish Heaven on Earth in the Millennium.
9. SO DON'T THINK THAT ALL THIS IS GOING TO BE A WASTE OF TIME & YOU'VE LIVED YOUR WHOLE LIFE & LEARNED ALL THESE THINGS FOR NOTHING! God intends to use your talents, your experience, your abilities, your languages, your arts, your skill & everything you know about! If we're as important as God has said we are, & as important as the Bible says we are, we're pretty important!--And the jobs you're doing now are pretty important!
10. BELOVED, WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT FAIRY TALES OR LEGENDS, IT IS NOT OUR IMAGINATION, I'M TALKING ABOUT REALITY!--What's in the Bible & what God has shown me, what I've experienced, what you've experienced & what you know is the Truth! God is training you now to run the whole World! God will give you more to do as soon as He thinks you're ready to do it, & if you're willing to do it!--Because He's got a lot of work to be done & a lot of big jobs to be done.
11. IT'S GOING TO MEAN MORE WORK, MORE RESPONSIBILITY, MORE JOBS, BIGGER VICTORIES & BIGGER BATTLES IN THE FUTURE, because if He learns that He can trust you this far, then He's going to trust you further & with more. If you prove yourself here, He's going to give you a chance at there!
12. I'M SERIOUS, BELOVED, THIS IS NO GAME WE'RE PLAYING! We are in a War for the Lord & His Family & His World, & once you have done your job here & done a good job & learned how to serve the Lord faithfully & loyally & obediently & willing-spiritedly & cheerfully & faithfully & well, He is going to give you something more & bigger to do!
13. SO THERE ARE BIGGER JOBS & HARDER THINGS TO COME, EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN THIS ONE! And when the Lord gets sick & fed-up with all the bigshots who are now running the World, He's going to toss them all in the ash can & use you to run it & you'll teach them all how to do it! There are so many jobs to be done, you'll probably have even a better job to do one of these days--a bigger & greater job! You'd be amazed at your capacity! Amen! PTL! TYJ! Hallelujah!
14. AMEN LORD, IT'S ALL FOR THY KINGDOM & YOU'RE PREPARING US TO RUN IT, so help us all to do a good job of whatever You ask us to do, in Jesus' name. For Thine is the power, & help us, Lord, to be used of it & to use it to run Thy Kingdom & serve Thy Kingdom until Thy Kingdom comes on Earth as it is in Heaven, in Jesus' name! Help us to think about the marvel, Lord, of Your trusting us with such an important work & such a Family, & each other & our children & such a big job, Lord! And help us to do it well so we'll be ready for the next one, in Jesus' name we ask for Thy glory! God bless you all! PTL!