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Are you driven?  Or are you led?  

There is something magnificent to be said of rest.Faith rests.  Faith is a good fight, too, though.  Why the contradiction? 

No contradiction.  We labor, we war, we fight, to enter into the Rest of God.  To enter into that place where we have come to the end of ourselves, to the point where Eternity takes full control, to the point where all we can do is thank Him, praise Him, worship Him, remain in faith, fully expecting the complete manifestation of all He has promised us to come to pass. The Blessing.  The Fullness of Time.

People talk about John Crowder, but this man has received a revelation, and revelations, of rest.  When you are at rest, you relax.  You relax in the finished work of the Cross.The work is done.  He did it.  We faithfully rest in Him.

Our rest is a witness, of Him, to the world, to our own souls.  The more we rest in Him, the more we, like children, trust in Him, the more He can be our Daddy.

Crowder goes deeper into His rest, he languishes in the Bliss of God. People at rest are more receptive to receive pleasures.  A deep tissue massage is not possible when a body is tense, hence the need for warmth, mood lighting, soothing music, warm oils, and a beginning massage to loosen the tensions of the day.  Only then, only when the body begins to relax, can we experience the healing, circulating, rejuvenating effects of deep tissue massage.  To attempt this before fully relaxing the body could prove painful, even damaging muscularly. Release, rejuvenation, relaxation, rest, only comes when we can receive it.  We must ensure we are led by Holy Spirit, not just any smooth-talking spirit. 

Once we know it is Him (His sheep know His Voice), we take His instructions to heart, step by step, and then, having done all to stand, we stand. We found the promises in the Word, we utilized our authority in Him, we spoke and acted in faith, we remain faithful to that Word…. and then we rest in it, come what may.  As 1 John 5:14-15 says, our confidence is in this: anything we ask of Him according to His Word, we know He hears us, and if we know He hears us, we know we have what we ask of Him.  And that is the more sure Word. 

Come to the place of rest.  Allow Him to relax you in Him.  Receive, then, not just His Rest, but His Pleasure, His Bliss.  He adores you.       

Amen.   

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