David Haase – 2003 and Earlier
Word to the Body 4
i understand the Lord has been walking you down a hard road, but as in all things pray and give it up to Him to deal with and Do Not revisit it (once given over it belongs to Him alone) ( the idea is if you pray again and again after you have given it up, one you are not showing faith in the Lord to do it, second each time to revisit it you are taking it away from the Lord and trying to put your will into it instead) The Lord has you in a place of teaching you right now, seek His will not your own, this is hard because you like myself want to get out and just do it. But in every thing its His timing His way His will. Last but not least, We are tools of the Lord, think first in your mind of a hand tool…you are that hand tool, now think of a piece of fine furniture…when someone else looks at it do they say “Wow!” that hammer did a great job! no, they say to the carpenter “you did a great job” and give the glory to Him. Can a hammer move on its own or see what its doing? no it just knows that the carpenter is using it, so it is with us. Give yourself (your will and self) over completely to the Lord and let Him be who He is…The Carpenter for we are just a tool in His hand for Him to use as needed. And please remember that a carpenter uses only the right tool for a given job, so He will not use us where we don’t belong.
Please do not take this as a rebuke as it was told and taught to me first by the Holy Spirit to show our place and how best to serve our Lord. i was lead to share this with you as you have been on my heart.