“The Easy Flow” by Nancy Dufresne
Jesus announced, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your SOULS.] Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your SOULS. For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good—not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is LIGHT and EASY to be borne.” (Matt. 11:28-30, AMPC).
When Jesus mentions “easy,” He’s referring to the soul (which is made up of the mind, the will, and the emotions). In this divine invitation that Jesus extends to all, He is offering peace for the mind – the soul.
Getting entrenched in the mental arena makes things hard. But things become easy when we understand that the flow He authored for us is easy – not hard. Spiritual things are not hard. We turn things hard when we pull them up into the mental arena – the arena of reason.
Hebrews 4:9-11 tells us, “There remaineth therefore a REST to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also HATH CEASED FROM HIS OWN WORKS, as God did from his. Let us LABOUR therefore to ENTER into that REST….”
The verse doesn’t tell us to labor to enter into faith – but labor to enter into rest. We don’t have to labor to get faith. It’s easy for faith to come. As we feed on the Word, faith comes with the Word. Faith is a commodity of the Word.
But what we are to labor in is to enter God’s rest. We must learn to rest on Him who has provided all for us.
How do we labor to enter into His rest? We are to labor to renew our minds, which means to take on God’s way of thinking. When someone is in the easy flow, they are skillful with holding their thoughts in line with the Word.
Rest doesn’t mean to be inactive – rather, it means to be free from struggle. We are free from struggle when we recognize that all God planned for us, He put in Christ, then put Christ in us. All things are ours in Christ, so we don’t have to labor to get anything from God – He has already provided all for us. But what we are to labor in is to not rely on our own works to receive, but to renew our minds to who we are in Christ and learn to rest on who He made us to be and who He is in us.
We came out of the world, and that realm is hard – but the flow of God is easy. If it’s hard, we aren’t doing it right. Jesus said to come to Him to learn the easy flow. The easy flow has to be learned because the world taught us a hard flow.
The closer we get to truth, the simpler things become. The more skill we gain, the simpler things become.
Proverbs 13:15 tells us, “…the way of the transgressor is hard” (AMPC). We have transgressed God’s flow when we get into a hard flow.
Faith doesn’t keep hardness from coming, but faith keeps us from allowing that flow to live with us. It’s beneath our exalted position to struggle. If we are struggling in any arena, we are doing it wrong. By abiding in the vine, we bear fruit in the easy flow. You never hear a branch groaning and struggling as the fruit is growing – it’s just an easy flow.
Deuteronomy 30:19 reads, “…I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life….” Choose life – choose the easy flow. The easy flow has to be chosen when confronted with a hard flow.
Isaiah 1:19 tells us, “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.” Those who are willing and obedient will be in the easy flow. If we are unwilling or disobedient, we leave the easy flow.
We have to apply some diligence to learn the easy flow. We must renew our mind to the Word of God, for that is the easy flow.
There is a spiritual labor in renewing our mind with the Word of God and walking by faith, but it’s a “light labor” being yoked up to the One who has provided all we need and who is doing the work through us.
We can enter the easy flow in one arena but stay in the hard flow in another arena. Let’s not permit any flow except the easy flow.
Walk in your authority to stay in the easy flow. Those in authority don’t struggle to use their authority.
Wrong thinking magnifies the hardness and magnifies the fight. It’s beneath our exalted position to struggle. If we are struggling in any arena, we are doing it wrong.
We have to renew our mind to come out of the hard flow and enter into the easy flow. Everything we need has been freely given. If things are hard, we are the ones who make it hard by wrong thinking.
Healing is easy. Prosperity is easy. Victory is easy.
As one minister stated, “As our minds are renewed, the devil is no longer a problem to us, for knowledge of the Word shows and reveals to us his utter defeat and our complete victory. We are authorized to live as though we have no enemy, for he has been stripped and defeated. Renewing the mind and exercising our faith makes us an intelligent victor. Renewing the mind prepares and equips us to overcome all adversity.”
As we renew our mind with the Word of God, taking on God’s way of thinking, and as we walk by faith and do the Word, we learn and partake of the easy flow.