{"id":1435,"date":"2021-11-09T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2021-11-08T23:12:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T23:12:42","slug":"the-burden-bearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/the-burden-bearer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burden Bearer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Tuesday, November 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Burden Bearer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And so in Judah it was said: \u201cThe strength of the burden bearers is failing, yet there is much rubble; and we ourselves are unable to rebuild the wall.\u201d<strong> Nehemiah 4:10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These powerful words spoken long ago were written down for our encouragement. The question I ask today is &#8211; where do you see yourself in this passage?\u00a0 Are you a watchman on the wall making intercessions for those who are doing the work?\u00a0 Who are those doing the work today?\u00a0 These are the mouthpieces of God, the laymen, and women. Those who answered the call.\u00a0 No matter the position God has placed you in; your role is imperative to the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<p>I think some believe the work of an intercessor is easy.\u00a0 How could their burden be easy or light?\u00a0 They take on the yoke of their Savior who gives them strength.\u00a0 Otherwise, they would be crushed by the weight of the burdens they bear for the people God gives them.\u00a0 &#8220;The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to the pulling down of strongholds.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;When we are weak; God is strong.&#8221;\u00a0 He is a very present help in times of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God is our refuge and strength.&#8221;\u00a0 It is in His strength we can carry the cares of others. Without Him, we would be nothing.\u00a0 Without Him, all intercessors would surely fail every burden they are asked to carry.\u00a0 In the flesh, it is crushing however in the Spirit, we will prevail over the enemy.\u00a0 Faith and trust in Jesus is the victory always.<\/p>\n<p>Our God shall supply all of our needs (emotionally, physically, and spiritually) according to His riches in Christ Jesus.\u00a0 Stop worrying and pray before a God who waits to hear from you.\u00a0 Burden bearer; He will give you the strength you long for.\u00a0 Seek Him.\u00a0 Seek His face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, November 9 The Burden Bearer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And so in Judah it was said: \u201cThe strength of the burden bearers is failing, yet there is much rubble; and we ourselves are unable to rebuild the wall.\u201d Nehemiah 4:10 These powerful words spoken long ago were written down for our encouragement. The question I ask today is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}