gods scales of justice
Labouring to enter
the rest of faith
Warren David Horak
www.fatherslove.co.za
Introduction:
This document will introduce you to the Gods scales of justice. This is a kingdom tool that Father has given to me us to overcome all our mountains and walk into our breakthroughs that have been delayed for such a long time.
We are desperate for breakthrough, the question remains what and how. In this document you will find some answers to your questions and a practical tool at the end which you can work with each day as you learn to bring all your problems/mountains to Gods eternal scales of justice and allow His justice to shine forth in your life.
“The Lord executes righteousnessAnd justice for all who are oppressed” Psalm 103:6. God is a God of eternal justice and wants to bring forth justice in all our lives.
Psalm 36:7 “He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light,And your justice as the noonday”
When justice shines, it will break strongholds of fear, anger, pride, lust and poverty, sickness, all forms of oppression, and delayed dreams and purposes.
When we start to see and believe with His eyes of faith, then we see the scales of justice tip in our favour, as faith is the evidence that demands a verdict. We need to know that all moves of God start the same way; with faith. This coming revival will start with faith. At this time in the Body of Christ, there is battle of faith. This document and tool has been birthed through a severe battle I have personally gone through to walk in purposes of God in my life which I have been sitting with for many, many years. Now is the time of breakthrough of Gods justice for His Bride.
The foundation of His throne is righteousness and justice (See Ps 89:14), both righteousness and justice comes through faith. The just shall live by faith. The foundation of His Kingdom is faith, therefore our greatest battle of all will be the battle of faith.
Jesus asked a serious question, that when He returns will He find faith. He never asked will He find prayer, but faith. It is now time to get faith and learn to really walk in faith and not by sight.
I trust that Father will use this tool to help you focus and enter into to His rest and inheritance.
Faith comes through knowing Jesus
Now it happened as they went that He entered a certain village; and a certain woman named Martha welcomed Him into her house. 39 And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet and heard His word. 40 But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she approached Him and said, “ Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to help me. ” 41 And Jesus answered and said to her, “ Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. 42 But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her. ” Luke 10:38-42
Martha’s and Mary will not be able to work together, as Martha who is weighed down with fear and troubles in “serving” Jesus, while Mary is at His feet. Martha was distracted through slavery to work and serving Jesus. Mary chose the best part, One thing! Jesus was Mary’s One thing! Jesus never told Martha to serve, she did it on her own. Can you imagine if Jesus came to your house. What would you do? Serve the people and prepare Him food? Or would you just sit at His feet and listen to what He is saying? When you at His feet surely He can tell you if He wants you to do anything. Martha was under a spirit of slavery called worry and anxiety, and she now wanted her sister to join her in this slavery as apposed to sitting at His feet.
Although they were sisters and both believers; the one was a seeker and the other was a slave. Two distinctly apposite reactions to Jesus’ presence in their home. The Mary’s can only walk with those who have a Mary heart. A heart that seeks Him above all else and who have heart of worship and desire to be at His feet. Those who do not complain because the worship or prayer is too long, or the service is too long. Or that you should work more and pray less. Martha’s will always compare the work load, while Mary wasn’t even looking at what her sister was doing, as she was so focused on Jesus. Mary will only work and do what He tells her to do. Which one are you? A Mary or a Martha?
THE LABOUR OF LOVE VERSUS THE LABOUR OF SLAVERY
False labour of slavery – “Martha heart”
– Is worrying and being troubled about many things as Martha – thinking we are serving Jesus and working and ministering for Jesus.
– Results of false labour of slavery
– Earthly treasure – fear, stress, worry, pride, my own name, self-righteousness.
– Fear, stress and anxiety – sweat !!
– We do the works for God – work harder and harder and still not entering His rest
– We don’t enter the Promised Land
– Jealous of the Mary’s always complaining, angry and accusing the Mary’s for not working as hard as they are. Always looking for recognition for all our hard work.
– They want others to be like them.
– Martha’s belong to themselves
True labour of love - “ Mary heart”
– Has chosen the best part – One thing - labouring in love, spending as much time as needed with Him to receive and enter His words of love, like Mary did
– Results of true labour of love
– Heavenly treasure of Faith, Hope, Love, humility His name.
– Entering the rest of faith hope and love. Where He does the works in and through us and for us
– They enter into the Promised Land of their Eternal inheritance – Sons of God
– Mary’s, hunger for Jesus and love Him more and more. They are not focused on or accusing the Martha’s, but love them as He does.
– Their recognition and security comes from Him – His love.
– Marys want everyone to be like Jesus and with Him
– Mary’s belong to Jesus
Increase through intimacy with His word
He will give Mary the increase supernaturally, not through hard work motivated by the spirits of anxiety and worry, but through One thing. Intimacy at His feet, soaking in His word!! This is the work that pleases Him, labouring for the eternal food. The only food that is able to sustain man. The only food that lasts forever. Labouring to enter the rest. When Jesus multiplied the bread, how much work was that for Him? Did He have to bake the bread and get up early to make it? What was Jesus that morning before this miracle of great provision. In today’s value it would of cost in rand terms about Three to four hundred thousand rand to fill by the food to feed all those people.( US$ about $50 000). That morning Jesus was worrying about where the money would come from He was only seeking His father’s face and seeing what His Father was going to do that day – so He must of seen the great need and He must have seen His Father multiplying the bread in His hands. When things come into our hands and He then does the works through us then we will see miracles. Jesus first laboured for the word of His Father each morning and day. This is how He lived – see Luke 4:4
John 6: 24-29 Jesus answered them and said, “ Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him. ” 28 Then they said to Him, “ What shall we do, that we may work the works of God? ” 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “ This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent. ”
Heb 4:11 “Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief ”
Those who don’t take the time to labour in the word and prayer won’t enter the rest of faith. Seeking Him is our work; the rest is His work. Our work is to come to Him, His work is to do the work in us and through us. Our work is to believe, in order to believe we need to labour in prayer and His word. Once we come to Him our focus is to yield to His Spirit and be led by His Spirit in His power. The rest of faith is where God does the works of increase; while we do the works of believing and obedience. This is the law of His Kingdom – the law of works by faith. He commanded man to believe, this faith comes from Him through His spoken word to us.
See the verse that proceeds the above verse in Hebrews says, “For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His” Heb 4:10
We need to cease from our works. What are our works? Our works are sweat, generated by fear anxiety and stress – the covering of mammon. These works are not acceptable to God. God is looking for faith. Faith comes from knowing Him.
We have to cease from our own works to enter a place where Father does works through Jesus and by His Spirit. Many will try and work in the flesh, to get into the rest, yet the only way is to labour to get His word which is only way into the true rest. His word gives us faith, faith opens the way for God to come through in His supernatural power – signs, wonders and demonstration of the His Kingdom. We are warned by Jesus, “Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him” John 6:27
Gal 3:5-9 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 just as Abraham “ believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. ” 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. 8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “ In you all the nations shall be blessed. ” 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
Why don’t we see miracles? Because miracles happen through faith. Do we have faith? Where does the blessing come from? It also comes from through faith. The miracles come from in and through Gods word. When we labour for His words and enter into the realm of faith, we can now see our Father multiplying the seeds in our hands.
We cannot go into breakthrough wearing the Martha hat – the hat of slavery and sweat. Mary wore the helmet of salvation – she was intimate with Jesus. All those whom God used in a major way, broke through not through sweat (natural work motivated by anxiety and fear), but through faith, diligence and obedience. God is the one doing the works, not us!!! Faith without His works is dead. Unless our faith is seeing, God doing the works in and for us, then our faith is dead. When our faith is dead then God is limited by our lack of faith, as god has chosen to move through our faith. This is why He commanded all of man to believe. 1John 3:23.
We don’t enter the Promised Land through hard work; we enter in through faith and obedience. The Promised Land comes through His grace in our lives, this is when He favours us and does the works in us and for us and through us. This is the place of rest, where we are not relying on our own hard work and sweat to generate the breakthroughs that we need. Breakthrough can only come through faith in Him. This faith will only come through labouring in His word and His presence to enter His rest – the rest of faith. All our needs and all victories and all miracles that we will ever need will all come through faith. Those who do not have faith have no option but to worry, stress and fear. The only protection from stress is now faith. Those who are in faith have God as their covering those who worry have fear and the devil as their covering.
Heb 4:3-4 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “ So I swore in My wrath,‘ They shall not enter My rest, ’ ”although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
His works were completed before the foundation of the world ---- It is finished!!! All ministry, all business, all works have been done by Him. all we need to do is enter His rest through faith in Him doing the works in and through us. The rest of faith is when we finally have the now faith in our hearts; this truly is the substance faith that Hebrews 11:1 is talking about. When know that we know that God has given us the breakthrough already- in the now of faith. God is in the now He is eternal faith is now love is now. When we have attained that substance of faith, then nothing can stop the eventual manifestation of the promise. This substance is the material that our breakthrough is made of; this substance faith is the key to heaven. This substance faith unlocks Gods mysteries and miracles and power for us on earth. Our greatest work is lay down our unbelief, fears, doubts and all veils and weights that our hinder our faith. This is why it is called the fight of faith. We fight to get it and we fight to keep it, all our victories and breakthrough are attained through faith. “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world— our faith” 1 John 5:4
What do we need to believe in? what is our faith in? our own efforts and hard work? Our obedience? Our worship? All of these can be good but are not enough to overcome. “So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy” Romans 9:16. We need to believe and trust in Gods mercy. It is not our strength of will or how hard we run or work but God who shows mercy on us. David didn’t trust in himself to gain the victory, he never trusted in his skill with the bow, sling etc He trusted in God alone. Are we trusting in our own hard work, our skills, our gifts, our talents, our qualifications, our knowhow and knowledge, our investments, to do it for us? This is leaning on the arm of flesh and not trusting in God. This is commonly known as self-confidence. David was not self-confident, as he knew his weaknesses and trusted in Gods mercy and power to deliver him. God says, having done all, stand; stand therefore with our full armour on. Why should we stand? When we stand in faith in His great mercy He will come out of His hiding place from seeming inactivity in our situation and fight for us. We need to come to the position of completely trusting in the covenant of the sure mercies of David – Isaiah 55:3. We have entered this covenant the moment we were born again. We either trust in our own best efforts and hard work or we trust in His mercy to save us and bring us into breakthrough.