This program will help you undo financial bondage.
You've
been doing the same type of work for many years and you can hardly wait for retirement.
Throughout your career you've only taken short vacations when you wanted to
relieve stress, but now you want a lot longer than the vacation time allotted
to you because you can feel a restlessness and possibly dissatisfaction toward
the work, environment, or atmosphere.
Scripture
gives numerous lessons on the responsibility to work and its value throughout
one’s life. It seems, you'll find only one scriptural situation that speaks of
something akin to retirement. The Levites were to retire from being primary
workers in the service of the tabernacle, yet it’s suggested they continue to
assist their brothers in the service of the tent of meetings. There is no
indication that retirement meant that they sit around for the rest of their
lives doing nothing, or only living to please themselves.
As a
Christian, you have a godly mission to support the spread of the gospel through
evangelism and disciple-making. Christ calls you to be an active participant in
this mission, no matter what your age or bodily condition. Christians never
retire from serving in the Great Commission even though they may retire from a
career path in which they served in this world or move from a long-time
ministry they’ve been involved with to another ministry serving in another
arena.
What
your heart truly longs for is not a time of doing nothing or seeking only
personal pleasure. Rather, it’s longing leads you toward another area of
service that God created and equipped you to do. It could be wholly different
than the arena you’re leaving or it could piggyback on the skills, platform, or
network you had in prior years. Talking and listening to the LORD and following
His heart will determine the service (work) you should engage in this
refirement period. Service may be in another arena traditionally considered
secular or something that seems more spiritual. Remember, whatever legitimate
service you do pleases Him when you make His will and way the priority of your
life and seek to glorify Him through it.
Looking
forward to God’s plan for your future shouldn’t be feared. Look forward to the
adventure and excitement it will bring! It could be wise to take an extended
time (months) between the work from which you retire and the area of
service you will engage in the future. Just make sure it’s not so long that you
fall into slothfulness and personal pleasure seeking because this will bring
unfruitfulness and ruin into your life. When you retire with God’s will in
mind, you’ll be able to have peace, joy, and needed rest in a way that refires
you and brings fulfillment to your life.
Genesis
1:28, Numbers 8:24-26, Proverbs 10:4-5, Acts 20:32-35, 2Thessalonians 3:6-12
Please
pray for this ministry and email questions to parlor@ameritech.net and
share the links below with others who need guidance. May the LORD bless you
richly as you follow His plan!
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The
book at the link below provides principles and practical steps that help you
use the Power To Get Wealth. By 1992, we had $135,000 of debt and
a negative $35,000 net worth. Financial bondage and turmoil led me to seek
principles and a process for employing good stewardship. As a result, we became
constructively debt-free in 1998, mortgage free January 2004, millionaires in
2012, multi-millionaires shortly thereafter, and retired in 2018 in my
mid-fifties from public servant jobs while giving abundantly to fund the gospel
of our LORD Jesus Christ. The same power is available to you!
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