Having a Mind to Work
Nehemiah 4:6
Last week I happened to be reading the fourth chapter of Nehemiah when suddenly I came to this sixth verse in the 4th chapter. As I arrived at the end of the verse the words leaped off of the page and became saturated throughout my mind and my spirit. They were words that hit me so hard I couldn’t focus on anything else but them. Words so powerful they seemed to contain the secret to evangelism and church ministry. The words “had a mind to work.”
Saints just imagine how much could be accomplished in the Church today within the Church, in our community and in our country if we would just simply have, “A Mind to Work.”
*****Having a Mind to Work*****
The word work itself is not a foreign word for it is something that we do on a daily basis. Each and everyday most of us get up in the morning or in the afternoon or in the evening and go to work. But there is a very important step that we all must take before we arrive to the work place and even if we don’t take this step before arriving we must make sure that we take it before we start whatever task it is that we have been assigned to accomplish. We must first start by, “Having a Mind to Work.”
*****What Exactly Is Meant By the Term Work*****
1 : activity in which one exerts strength or faculties to do or perform something:
a : sustained physical or mental effort to overcome obstacles and achieve
an objective or result
b : the labor, task, or duty that is one’s accustomed means of livelihood
c : a specific task, duty, function, or assignment often being a part or phase of
some larger activity
2 a : energy expended by natural phenomena
*****The Definition I Would Like To Focus On*****
The transference of energy that is produced by the motion of the point of application of a force and is measured by multiplying the force and the displacement of its point of application in the line of action.
It is here that we come side by side with its original Hebrew word and meaning which is - to do or make, in the broadest and widest sense of applications, accomplishments and advancement.
You see work in this sense requires that some type of action take place, which results in an outside multiplying force creating results that far exceed the labor and energy that has been originally extracted.
In other words this type of work requires something outside of man but yet found within. It’s something that cannot be accomplished through human fleshly intellect but yet requires action. It’s something that is done by man but yet is not. This work requires that we “Have a Mind to Work.”
*****Having a mind to work is something that is accomplished by the spirit of God. *****
Christopher F. Bays, Sr.
Pastor