FIND
REST
BREAD
14 The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with
you, and I will give you rest.” Exodus
33:14 (NIV)
“Let
the beloved of the Lord rest
secure in him, for he shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders.”
Deuteronomy 33:12 (NIV)
26 “There
is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens to help you and on
the clouds in his majesty. 27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the
everlasting arms. He will drive out your enemy before you, saying, ‘Destroy
him!’” Deuteronomy 33:26-27 (NIV)
8 I have
set the Lord always before me.
Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 9 Therefore my heart is glad and
my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure. Psalms 16:8-9 (NIV)
20 We
wait in hope for the Lord; he is
our help and our shield. 21 In him
our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. 22 May your unfailing love rest
upon us, O Lord, even as we put
our hope in you. Psalms 33:20-22 (NIV)
5 Find
rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. 6 He alone is my rock and my
salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. Psalms 62:5-6 (NIV)
16 This
is what the Lord says: “Stand at
the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is,
and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.” Jeremiah 6:16 (NIV)
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will
give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and
humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my
yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew
11:28-30 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Faith raises the soul above the difficulty,
straight to God Himself, and enables one to stand still. We gain nothing by our restless and anxious
efforts….It is therefore true wisdom, in all times of difficulty and
perplexity, to stand still – to wait only upon God, and He will assuredly open
a way for us.” C.H. Mackintosh“This invitation to walk with God is an invitation to humility. It’s an invitation to rest from the struggle to look like you’ve got it all together. It’s an invitation to lay aside the burden of always having to be right. This is an invitation to be who you are – warts and all – without excuse, or apology, or feeling like you have to live up to someone’s standard in order to be loved or respected. It’s an invitation to cease the futile struggle to earn respectability and to enter God’s rest.” Chuck Swindoll
“God delights in His covenant and so we are sure He will not turn back from it. It is the joy of His holy heart. He delights to do His people good. To pass over transgression, iniquity, and sin is the recreation of Jehovah. Did you ever hear God singing? It is extraordinary that the Divine One would solace Himself with song, yet a prophet has thus revealed the Lord to us: ‘The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.’ (Zephaniah 3:17). The covenant is the heart of God written out in the blood of Jesus.” Charles Spurgeon
“To
every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, ‘Come to me and rest’. But there are many toiling, heavy-laden
believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of
Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is
not, ‘Go, labor on,’ as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn
back, ‘Come to me and rest.’ Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to
work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing
one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, ‘Come, come, come.’” Hudson Taylor
“O love
that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee. I give Thee back the life I owe, that in
Thine ocean depths its flow, may richer fuller be. O light that followest all my way, I yield my
flickering torch to Thee. My heart
restores its borrowed ray, that in thy sunshine’s blaze its day, may brighter
fairer be. O joy that seekest me through
pain, I cannot close my heart to Thee. I
trace the rainbow through the rain, and feel the promise is not vain, that morn
shall tearless be. O cross that liftest
up my head, I dare not ask to fly from Thee.
I lay in dust life’s glory dead, and from the ground there blossoms red,
life that shall endless be.” George
Matheson
“We
shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our
feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the
soul. If we would at once overcome Satan
and have peace with God, it must be by ‘looking unto Jesus’. Keep thine eye simply on Him; let His death,
His sufferings, His merits, His glories, His intercession, be fresh upon thy
mind; when thou wakest in the morning look to Him; when thou liest down at
night look to Him. Oh! Let not thy hopes or fears come between thee
and Jesus; follow
hard after Him, and He will never fail thee.”
C. H. Spurgeon
HEART
SAVOR
- · My soul finds rest in God alone.
- · I rest secure in Him for He shields me all day long.
- · God is my hope, my help and my shield – I will not be shaken.
