Mar 16, 2025 … God’s “R&R”

Mar 16, 2025 … God’s “R&R”  

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   Please take the time to take in this song with music and lyrics with Toby Mac and others singing … Rest,  calling for Christians to rest in the LORD in order to be restored to serve the LORD.

Highlight Passage: … Exodus 20:11…[NLT] … 

11  For in six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything in them; but on the seventh day He rested. That is why the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.             

… God sets apart one day in a week as a Sabbath day to rest an be restored.              

Highlight Passage (in context): … Exodus 20:8-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… God, thru Moses, instructs God’s people on how to rest in God’s Sabbath to be restored to serve the LORD..                                                                              

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Reference Passage: … Deuteronomy 5:12-14 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  God, thru Moses, restates His establishment of the Sabbath day of rest.

Reference Passage: … Psalms 37:7 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Solomon declares and shows the protective power of God’s word. 

Reference Passage: … Joel 2:25 … USE THIS LINK …

… God promises to restore what The Lord had once taken away.  

Reference Passage: …  Matthew 11:28-30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

…Jesus promises His faithful to give them His strength when they (we) are weak

Reference Passage: … Philippians 4:6-7  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… The Apostle Paul shows fellow - and faithful - Christians how to find God’s peace when circumstances seem troubled. 

Reference Passage: …  Hebrews 4:9-11 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …

… God’s promise of His rest when we do our best to follow Him and rest in His ways.

                            

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread Author - Kristen Holmberg … AT THIS LINK   … Tells of a former olympic runner, Jeff Galloway, who trains those who aspire to be the same; and Galloway uses a “rest/run” strategy, having his runners run for periods with strategic short periods of walk to allow the body to build up it’s reserves and stamina for long competitive runs, like olympic marathons. 

And the ODB today points out that Galloway’s “rest/run” strategy is a very biblical strategy that God designed into creation with the Sabbath allowing His people to rest one day in our week of work for rest and restoration.   Today, as I journal here, is Sunday in my week; and my family believes in and honors Sundays as “The Lord’s Day.”  What about you?  Will you be rested and restored today for the week of work ahead?  

         

My Thanksgiving: … Oh, King Jesus, thank You, … for showing me Your peace for my family’s rest today so that we can follow and serve You more effectively, Lord, tomorrow.

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray, … again today, … that all reading here will join me, …  to observe the discipline and rest of the Sabbath time today so that we can serve You more effectively, Lord, tomorrow.  … AMEN

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