Reflection Questions on rest:
1. What is stopping me from resting more fully in You?
2. What 1 thing can I practically change to align more to rest in You, Jesus?
Link to Picture in reflection exercise - t.ly/RaQYz
Bible Passages Looked at:
James 1:5-8
“Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him. 6 But let them ask in faith without doubting. For the doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 An indecisive person is unstable in all their ways.”
Isaiah 51:1-4a
“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord:Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain.When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.For the Lord will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places,and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord.Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.Pay attention to Me, My people, and listen to Me, My nation; for instruction will come from Me, and My justice for a light to the nations.”
Colossians 4:3-6
“Pray also for us that God may open a door to us for the message, to speak the mystery of the Messiah, for which I am in prison, 4 so that I may reveal it as I am required to speak. 5 Act wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time. 6 Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.
“We love because He first loved us.” (1 John 4:19)
Freely you have received; freely give.” (Matthew 10:7-8)
“God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them… There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.” (1 John 4:16-18).
Quote from Watchman Nee "Sit, Walk, Stand":
“God made Jesus to sit and made us to sit with him.” Let us first consider the implications of this word “sit.” As we have said, it reveals the secret of a heavenly life. Christianity does not begin with walking; it begins with sitting. The Christian era began with Christ, of whom we are told that, when he had made purification of sins, he “sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high” (Hebrews 1:3). With equal truth we can say that the individual Christian life begins with a person “in Christ.” That is to say, when by faith we see ourselves seated together with him in the heavens. Most Christians make the mistake of trying to walk in order to be able to sit, but that is a reversal of the true order. Our natural reason says, If we do not walk, how can we ever reach the goal? What can we attain without effort? How can we ever get anywhere if we do not move? But Christianity is an upside-down business! If at the outset we try to do anything, we get nothing; if we seek to attain something, we miss everything. For Christianity begins not with a big DO, but with a big DONE. Thus Ephesians opens with the statement that God has “blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ” (1:3) and we are invited at the very outset to sit down and enjoy what God has done for us; not to set out to try and attain it for ourselves.”
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