{"id":300,"date":"2009-03-05T19:36:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=300"},"modified":"2009-03-05T19:36:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T23:36:15","slug":"yoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/300\/yoke\/","title":{"rendered":"“Yoke”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Pastor John:<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel so good this morning, in this hotel room.\u00a0 As you know I cover a few states, urban & rural\u00a0addresses. \u00a0Last week I came upon a man who trained draft horses and oxen.\u00a0 The horses were beautiful, but I was interested in the oxen, because of the many scriptures that speak of the yoke.<\/span><\/p>\n

This person raises and trains these oxen from youth, and after their initial two year training, he sends them to 3rd world countries, and then proceedes to train one person from the village to use them to cultivate their fields. \u00a0He stated that a pair of oxen is picked out to be joined together from the beginning as calves, and through a process of two years, they become large enough (2000 lbs each) and trained to really be of some good.<\/span><\/p>\n

He took me downstairs and showed me a yoke.\u00a0 He hand-makes the yoke for each pair of oxen, and each side of the yoke is custom cut and fitted. \u00a0He rounds out the cut-out and shaves it with glass or iron to round out the corners so the edges will not cut into the necks of the oxen because\u00a0it needs to\u00a0be able to rock back and forth.\u00a0 As the oxen grow, he has to continually remake a new yoke and custom-make each side again.\u00a0 He measures the neck of\u00a0each oxen and custom bends a piece of tubular wood\u00a0to fit under their neck and attach them to the yoke. \u00a0It would be normal in a two year period to make 5 or 6 sets of yokes, and it is very seldom that a used yoke can be used on another set of oxen, because of the custom fit for the previous pair. \u00a0Part of the training process is to find out which ox is the right and which is the left.\u00a0 I was so excited because of the scriptures about yokes. \u00a0He told me that it would be impossible to put a draft horse and an ox together. \u00a0I smiled\u00a0 :).<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked him how big a tree could the team of oxen pull.\u00a0 He told me he hasn’t seen one yet, because they are trained to pull together. \u00a0I smiled again!<\/span><\/p>\n

I look back on my life, when Jesus took over in 2001, and remembered when Jesus took off\u00a0a yoke that had been\u00a0too heavy for me\u00a0after ten years, at your house in the doorway, and then gently put a new one on\u00a0me that was custom-built by Jesus.\u00a0 This yoke has been very much lighter and easier to pull. \u00a0Now since Jesus healed Judy, I have a partner that pulls with me.\u00a0 It seems that were are planting more fields now.\u00a0\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

The one scripture I really love is in 1Samuel, where that\u00a0team of milk cows were being led by the Spirit of God.\u00a0 These cows had never been trained or bound to a yoke before because they were used for breading, and the yokes were not made for them, but God used them to carry His Ark.\u00a0 \u00a0Now, we carry\u00a0the Ark of God if we have the Spirit of God in us.\u00a0 He is able to gently lead us and guide us.<\/span><\/p>\n

One thing the man said is that oxen basically eat the whole time they’re working, because of the enormous appetite they have by working…so he all the time gives them breaks and feeds them while they are yoked.\u00a0 \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

I understand now when Jesus said, “my yoke is easy, and my burden light”, and… how you can’t be yoked again with unbelievers (christians), “for what fellowship hath darkness with light?”<\/span><\/p>\n

This is just a small example of what God has been teaching me about this yoke.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your fellow yoke-man,<\/span><\/p>\n

Billy<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi Brother Billy: <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It has been a blessing to be yoked together in Christ with you.\u00a0 This yoke we wear is very light, and the work is easy because of the Spirit Jesus has given\u00a0us, and the food we are fed all day is so good!\u00a0 Let’s keep plowing.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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