Joyful Farmer & the King

Joyful Farmer & the King. 

Once upon a time, there lived a King who, despite his luxurious lifestyle, was neither happy nor content.

One day, the King came upon a farmer who was singing happily while he worked. This fascinated the King; why was he, the Ruler of the Land, unhappy and gloomy, while a lowly farmer had so much joy.

The King asked the farmer, ‘Why are you so happy?’

The farmer replied, ‘Your Majesty, I am nothing but a farmer, but my family and I don’t need too much – just a roof over our heads and warm food to fill our tummies.’

The king was not satisfied with that reply. Later in the day, he sought the advice of his most trusted advisor. After hearing the King’s woes and the farmer’s story, the advisor said, ‘Your Majesty, I believe that the farmer Has not been made part of The 99 Company.’

‘The 99 Company? And what exactly is that?’ the King inquired.

The advisor replied, ’Your Majesty, to truly know what The 99 Company is, place 99 Gold coins in a bag and leave it at this servant’s doorstep.’

When the servant saw the bag, he took it into his house. When he opened the bag, he let out a great shout of joy… So many gold coins!

He began to count them. After several counts, he was at last convinced that there were 99 coins. He wondered, ‘What could’ve happened to that last gold coin? Surely, no one would leave 99 coins!’

He looked everywhere he could, but that final coin was elusive. Finally, exhausted he decided that he was going to have to work harder than ever to earn that gold coin and complete his collection.

From that day, the servant’s life was changed. He was overworked, horribly grumpy, and castigated his family for not helping him make that 100th gold coin. He stopped singing while he worked.

Witnessing this drastic transformation, the King was puzzled. When he sought his advisor’s help, the advisor said, ‘Your Majesty, the servant has now officially joined The 99 Company.’

He continued, ‘The 99 Company is a name given to those people who have enough to be happy but are never contented, because they’re always yearning and Striving for that extra 1, saying to themselves: ‘Let me get that one final thing and then I will be happy for life.’ We can be happy, even with very little in our lives, but the minute we’re given something bigger and better, we want even more! We lose our sleep, our happiness, we hurt the people around us; all these as a price for our growing needs and desires.

Steps to Emotional Healing:

Steps to Emotional Healing:
                                                                                                                                                                                     Offences can NEVER be avoided for as long as we are on this earth, but it is possible to work on ourselves such that we heal and guard our hearts from woundedness.
                                                                                                                                                                                       Psalms 34: 18 (ISV) “The Lord is close to the broken-hearted, and he delivers those whose spirit has been crushed”
God is still there with us even when we are wounded. He never leaves nor forsakes us. It is at this time when you realise you are wounded, that you need to draw closer to Him for comfort, edification and strengthening.
Healing is a deliberate process, requiring your full participation and engagement. There are some basic steps to this:

1. Analyse, analyse, analyse yourself. Have a meeting with yourself and acknowledge what is bothering you. Try as far as possible to find the root of the root. This is the most difficult part of the exercise of healing and in itself, is a very big step towards overall emotional healing. It doesn’t matter how difficult it is or how intense the experience may be, try as much as possible to thoroughly analyse yourself.

2. Pray for yourself. If say, you have found that you are easily angered and it is because of something that your father said to you eg “I don’t know how you are my child”…. Find the truth in scripture eg Jeremiah 1: 5 “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet to the nations”. As you pray you decree this scripture over yourself and then pray for God to give you revelation of who you are in Him. Another thing about prayer is, the more time you spend speaking and communing with God, the more His attributes rub off on you. His love, peace, joy, everything about Him, you will begin to automatically experience, including HIS POWER to break yokes of emotional bondage.

3. Environment - Keep yourself in the best environment for your healing. For example if your conversations have been negative in nature, deliberately speak life. Always give others the benefit of the doubt. Whatever you feed yourself on, will become your world. Feed on things which have life, and life becomes your reality. Watch what you think on, listen to and speak about. Align everything. 

4. Get help – no man is an island. It will always help to have someone to speak to, share and fellowship with.  There is power in agreement with one another when it comes to healing.

James 5: 16 (ISV) “Therefore, make it your habit to confess your sings to one another and to pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective”.
copied from Lucy Kabui