ADD SOME COLOR TO YOUR REST

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ADD SOME COLOR TO YOUR REST

These are designed to be 10-15 minute meditation practices. If you don't complete the practice then good! Come back for more tomorrow and until it completes a work in your soul rhythms. Scripture Contemplation Guide: 1. Invite the Holy Spirit to speak, resonate, reveal, and renovate you. 2. Read through the Scripture passage, Journals, and Poetry writings while you take in the take in the landscape. What thoughts do these meditations provoke? What word or phrase pops of out for you as you enjoy time with Jesus? 3. Read slowly through the passages again and meditate in silence. What do you hear as you wait in God's presence? 4. Pray conversationally through the scripture to your good Father. Ask Him questions, tell Him about the things you are wrestling with in the passage. Cast your cares on Jesus, be candid, thorough, authentic, and most of all be you. 5. Now thank the Lord for the work He is doing in you and then come back for more as needed!

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What does your rest look like?

For everyone who experiences hitting a wall, or allows the mind to put up barriers that prevent you from living from your heart, or who just feel burned out in life, It is time to accept an open invitation from the Holy Spirit to reframe our perspectives and practices on rest. This can simply be done by looking at Sabbath rest through the lens of Jesus. Furthermore we have to quit looking at opportunities for sabbath rest as if we are trying to avoid any angle of indictment from the religious on our call, ministry, or spiritual well being. (As was consistent with what the religious did!) 

I find it interesting that much like us; Jesus was almost always up against a wall experiencing tensions in His life and ministry from every angle and yet in sabbath rest He would teach in the temple and heal people. Maybe we can begin to see our colorful struggles and tensions as both an opportunity rest and as a spiritual crucible where the Lord purifies our calling and provides the opportunity to labor from from rest as we yoke with Jesus. No more working to rest, no more working for rest, but living out of rest.
The outflow of a life lived from rest will look differently in each of us! It is up to us to accept the invitation to rest and to enjoy the colors, work, and outflow of Jesus' rhythms as we Easy Yoke with Him. For you more generationally adept... It is the only thing that will put the technicolor back into your set!

Conversational Prayer through the Scripture.

Matthew 11:28-30
“Are you weary, carrying a heavy burden? Come to me. I will refresh your life, for I am your oasis. Simply join your life with mine. Learn my ways and you’ll discover that I’m gentle, humble, easy to please. You will find refreshment and rest in me. For all that I require of you will be pleasant and easy to bear.”

This is the only autobiographical statement Jesus ever made.
He didn’t say, “Learn of Me because I am majestic and mighty,” or “Learn of Me because I am powerful and prominent.” He said, “That which you discover when you learn of Me will refresh you, for I am meek.”

When I meditate on scriptures, when I pray through scriptures in conversation with Him, and when I am learning of Jesus, I am always amazed at the color that He brings into my rest in Him, His goodness, His grace, His kindness, His gentleness, and His meekness. It's like pulling up a chair on my own private dock with a wonderful view while I work!

Jesus says, “Come to Me—you who have been burned out by Pharaoh, you who have been wearied by the folly of sin and everything is turned to black and white. All you have to do is Yoke with Me—don’t try to maneuver Me, steer Me, or demand of Me. Just learn of Me while you sit with Me, for I am meek and lowly.”
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The result? The color comes on!

…And ye shall find rest unto your souls.
You’ll find what your heart is craving: Shabbat. Sabbath. Rest.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Engage your imagination to experience the Spirit of Jesus through the stories of Jesus! Experience for yourself the rest that comes as you yoke yourself with the work that He is doing!

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