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Am I Hoping for Rest More than Hoping in the God of Rest?

February 19, 2021
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Am I hoping for rest more than hoping in the God of rest?

Am I hoping that the rest I long for is my goodness instead of GOD BEING MY GOODNESS. How do I really and practically grasp that God is my rest, portion, and peace?

The SOURCE of blessing and rest should be my desire more than the blessing of rest. I don’t grasp this well or completely, but that it’s something I’m learning to grasp over a lifetime. Striving to just faintly trace this truth with my stretched…

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If You’re Weary of Doing Good

July 21, 2014
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| Categories: Ministry and Serving, Rest

 

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It happened about a little over a year ago.  A night when I was getting the kids ready for bed and I just couldn’t imagine doing the next day.  I couldn’t imagine doing the bare minimum let alone the things I felt I was called to be doing in ministry at the time.  Just getting the kids jammied and brushed was heavy to my heart.

I didn’t want to go to bed, because I knew that I’d wake up and it would be morning and I’d have…

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Beyond the Nativity, A Four Week Devotional on the Incarnation, Week 3: The Manifestation, Day 2: Hunger, Thirst, Weariness and Sleep

December 11, 2012
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Matthew 4:1-4

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It is written,” ‘Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

John 19:28

28 “After this, Jesus, knowing…

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Quote For The Weekend…A Weekend of Rest

November 2, 2012
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Dear friend…do you need rest this weekend?

I am thinking over this quote today.  Would you join me?

“Remember, therefore, it is not your hold of Christ that saves you – it is Christ.

It is not your joy in Christ that saves you – it is Christ.

It is not even your faith in Christ, though that be the instrument – it is Christ’s blood and merits.

Therefore, look not so much to your hand with which you are grasping Christ, as to Christ.

Look not to your hope, but to Jesus, the…

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