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Monday, September 5, 2016

Labor...A message is for those who wish to serve God, but think there will be no opportunity...

I see Labor as a word with many definitions ...Man's;
noun
1.  work, especially hard physical work.
"the price of repairs includes labor and parts"
synonyms:  work, hard work, toil, exertion, industry, drudgery, effort, menial work
2.  the process of childbirth, especially the period from the start of uterine contractions to delivery.
"his wife is in labor"
synonyms: childbirth, birth, delivery, nativity
verb
1.  work hard; make great effort.
"they labored from dawn to dusk in two shifts"
synonyms:  work, work hard, toil, slave (away), grind away, struggle, strive, exert oneself, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a dog, work like a Trojan, plug away; literary: travail, moil
"a project on which he had labored for many years"
strive, struggle, endeavor, work, try, work hard, try hard, make every effort, do one's best, do one's utmost, do all one can, give one's all, go all out, fight, put oneself out, apply oneself, exert oneself;
informalbend/lean/fall over backwards, pull out all the stops, bust a gut, bust one's chops
"she labored to unite the party"
...and God's...and in the Word as associated with a promise...a gift in many ways  the Talents...the rewards...and expression...Run don't walk to the Word ...be blessed in your "labor-ing"...asking, seeking, knocking...whatever the definition...this is the Truth..It's in the Word!  
Taste these and see!

Matthew 11:28(NKJV)
" Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

Psalm 128:2
When you eat the labor of your hands, You shall be happy, and it shall be well with you.

I just searched for the word labor in a bible search online...  I encourage you to do also  I place a few here for the diversity of Our Father's "definition" of the word Labor...
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Genesis 35:17
 Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, “Do not fear; you will have this son also.”

Exodus 5:4 
Then the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your labor.”

Exodus 23:16 
and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

Deuteronomy 5:13 
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
Joshua 24:13 I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.’

1 Kings 5:13 
Then King Solomon raised up a labor force out of all Israel; and the labor force was thirty thousand men.

Nehemiah 4:10 
Then Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is failing, and there is so much rubbish that we are not able to build the wall.”

Nehemiah 4:21 
So we labored in the work, and half of the men held the spears from daybreak until the stars appeared.

Job 9:29
If I am condemned, Why then do I labor in vain?

Proverbs 5:10 
Lest aliens be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;

Proverbs 10:16 
The labor of the righteous leads to life, The wages of the wicked to sin.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 
All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 2:10 
Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all my labor.

Ecclesiastes 3:9 
[ The God-Given Task ] What profit has the worker from that in which he labors?

Ecclesiastes 3:13 
and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.
Matthew 9:37-38 Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”

John 6:27 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.”

Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Revelation 14:13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.”

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