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Your Heavenly Father who loves you with an everlasting love has promised
to give you rest. He is calling you back to your position of rest in Him. If
you are going through challenging times, trust Him to see you through
victoriously! Trust Him with your future, He is there already!
We have this invitation from Jesus Christ our Lord, by faith let’s
take Him up on it:
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. – Matthew 11:28
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Moses had many challenges leading the Israelites but God promised him
rest and that enabled him to do what he was assigned to do.
And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I
will give you rest.” – Exodus 33:14
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Today we are not waiting for His presence to come
and give us rest, we have His presence in us, we are united with Him, we are
one spirit with the Lord (1Cor 6:17),
He is in us and we are in Him and we rest in Him, our rock and our refuge.
Speaking of rest, isn’t it interesting that
Adam and Eve started their lives together by resting the very first day after
being created? It was the seventh day and they hadn’t even begun their assigned
job of tending the garden yet. They started by resting with God first!
That’s how God wants you to approach life, from
a position of rest. You are in the last Adam, the Lord Jesus Christ, rest in
Him and receive divine strength, wisdom and strategies to face and overcome all
challenges that the world, the enemy and the flesh might be throwing at you.
Rest in the Lord and be empowered to effectively and
efficiently do what He has called you to do. Rest in Him by
actively believing, meditating and reminding yourself of His promises to you.
Let your confidence be in your Father, the Creator of all things.
Entertaining fear and unbelief will result in us forfeiting the rest that is ours in Christ; may the Holy Spirit continually
remind us of the truth that we are eternally and perfectly loved by the Father
and His perfect love casts out fear (1 John 4:18). Let us choose to
believe His Word and by doing so deny fear a foothold in our minds.
May this eternal truth be settled in our
hearts, God loves us, He loved us even when we were steeped in sin, He loves
every single person perfectly and eternally, and that is why He wants everyone
to come to the saving knowledge of the truth, that is to know and believe in
Jesus and what He has done for them and to confess Him as Lord.
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We can confidently come before the Father only
because of what Christ has done, He paid the price for all of our sin – past,
present and future. He died and rose again on the third day so that through
faith in Him we are counted as righteous before God and He does not keep a
record of our sins; knowing and believing that will drive away any fear that
tries to rob you of the confidence that is yours as a child of God. Remember, it
is not about you, it is about Jesus and through His perfect sacrifice you have
been made righteous. In Him you are a saint, not a sinner!
Return to your position of rest in Christ
today, instead of trusting in your own good deeds, put your trust in Him and
His promises to you! Rest your way from victory to victory in Jesus today!
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