Rest P.2

Spiritual Rest allows you to remain in perfect contact and communion with the Spirit of God at all times. There is nothing taking place for which you would not have God’s knowledge or wisdom to do what needs to be done.

Physical rest contributes greatly to the health and stability of your emotions, which largely affects the health of your body. By submitting yourself to physical rest in conjunction with spiritual rest, your emotions will stay constant, balanced, and influenced by faith and peace rather than by fear and uneasiness.

Often, a lack of physical rest during a trial or time of devastation, even when spiritual rest is being maintained, can allow the emotions to spin out of control to the degree that despair takes over the situation. When that takes place, an inner atmosphere is created, which makes the circumstances seem hopelessly impossible to overcome. But when both spiritual and physical rest are maintained, even though the situation may be difficult, there will be a strong awareness of hope and joy that this situation can last but for a season. There is a “sunrise” just on the other side. This difficulty, this sadness, cannot last forever.

Learning to really rest in the Lord is one of the greatest tools I have used in the process of stilling my mind and its anxieties. It is an act of your will to make your body still and take rest. In doing that, your mind will also become still because the mind, the will, and the emotions are all linked together.

Notice I said rest and not merely sleep. There is a difference. Rest is much more than sleep. As mentioned earlier, rest must be entered by faith. It is a spiritual exercise and spiritual promise to your whole life and being. Like the Israelites’ Promised Land was linked to their obedience to enter the Lord’s Rest—so our Promised Land is linked to us entering His rest.

We press toward the rest God has for each of us by rest. Once you have set your faith for something, rest in Him and let His Word do the work.

Hebrews 4.10 says, “For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.”

The Promised Land is there, but we have to receive it by rest:

Resting on the fact that He is Faithful.
Resting on the fact that all He said is being fulfilled.
Resting because everything we could ever need or desire is a finished work.
Resting because He is taking care of it all as we believe on Him.

Be encouraged to keep “Pressing toward the rest”—His rest.

Keep resting in Him,

Lynda Renne