Repose Deuteronomy 33:12 Zephaniah 3:17 Deuteronomy 33:26-27 Isaiah 30:15 Jeremiah 6:16 Exodus 33:14 Joshua 21:44-45 Psalms 16:9-11 Psalms 33:22 Psalms 91:1-2 Matthew 11:28-30 01.06.20

REPOSE

BREAD

“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)

¹⁷ “The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.”   Zephaniah 3:17 (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.”   Deuteronomy 33:26-27 (NIV)

 ¹⁵ This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.” Isaiah 30:15 (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. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’”  Jeremiah 6:16 (NIV)

¹⁴ The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”   Exodus 33:14 (NIV)

⁴⁴ The LORD gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their forefathers. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the LORD handed all their enemies over to them. ⁴⁵ Not one of all the LORD’s good promises to the house of Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.   Joshua 21:44-45 (NIV)

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure,
¹⁰ because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay.
¹¹ You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.  Psalms 16:9-11 (NIV)

²² May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD, even as we put our hope in you. Psalms 33:22 (NIV)

¹ He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. ² I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”  Psalms 91:1-2 (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

“The heart of man is restless until it finds rest in Thee.”  Augustine

“The grace of God we need to do anything in life will be available exactly when we need it. Overanalyzing our lives or letting our imagination run wild will never create peace.  We can let go of turning things over and over in our minds, knowing that God will be there when we get to those things.  We can REST in the right now, even if it’s a moment we don’t want to be in.  We can relax and be, because God Himself is peace and He’s committed to be right there with you in the present!  Rest is where we place great faith in our great God.”  Jenny L. Donnelly

“However, faith has its trials, as well as its answers.  It is not to be imagined that the man of faith, having pushed out from the shore of circumstances, finds it all smooth and easy sailing.  By no means.  Again and again, he is called to encounter rough sea and stormy skies; but it is all graciously designed to lead him into deeper and more matured experience of what God is to the heart that confides in Him.  Were the sky always without a cloud and the ocean without a ripple, the believer would not know so well that God with Whom he has to do; for alas, we know how prone that heart is to mistake the peace of circumstances for the peace of God.  When everything is going on smoothly and pleasantly—our property safe, our business prosperous, our children carrying themselves agreeably, our residence comfortable, our health excellent—everything in short, just to our mind, how apt we are to mistake the peace which reposes upon such circumstances for that peace which flows from the realized presence of Christ.”  C.H. Mackintosh

“The Lord our God is One and in Him, all the fragments of life are woven into one piece. In Christ, we aren’t ever torn.  In Him, all brokenness is made whole, all moments are made holy, all pieces are made one.  There is profound rest in this.”   Ann Voskamp

“Jesus knows we must come apart and rest awhile, or else we may just plain come apart.” Vance Havner

“God is God.  Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience.  I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.”   Elisabeth Elliot

“You were born for freedom. You deliver into it through obedience. No one ever entered into the full rest of God by giving Him only half of themselves.”   Ann Voskamp   

“Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blessed, finding as He promised, perfect peace and rest.”   Frances Havergal

“Whoever you are, good reader, and whatever your education may be, if you be the Lord’s, be assured you will find no rest in philosophizing divinity.  You may receive this dogma of one great thinker, or that dream of another profound reasoned, but what the chaff is to wheat, that will these be to the pure word of God.  All that reason, when best guided, can find out is but the A B C of truth, and even that lacks certainty, while in Christ Jesus there is treasured up all the fullness of wisdom and knowledge…..Jesus satisfies the most elevated intellect when He is believingly received, but apart from Him the mind of the regenerate discovers no rest.  ‘The fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge.’  ‘A good understanding have all they that do His commandments.’”    Charles H. Spurgeon

“Would you follow Christ?  Then follow Him in self-denial, in humility, in patience, and in readiness for every good work.  Follow Him with a daily cross upon your back, and look to His cross to make your burden light.  Follow Him as your Guide and Guard, and learn to see with His eyes, and to trust in His arm for defense.  Follow Him as the Friend of sinners, who healeth the broken in heart, and giveth rest to the weary souls, and casteth out none that come unto Him.   Follow Him with faith, resting your whole acceptance with God, and your title to heaven, on His meritorious blood and righteousness.  Lastly, follow Him with much prayer.  For, though He is full of compassion, He loves to be much entreated; and when He is determined to give a blessing, you must yet wrestle with Him for it.  Thus follow Jesus, and He will lead you to glory.”   K. H. Von Bogatzky

“Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid?  Your heart does the Spirit control?  You can only be blest, and have peace and sweet rest, as you yield Him your body and soul.”   Elisha Hoffman

“I shall not lack for temporal things.  Does He not feed the ravens, and cause the lilies to grow?  How, then, can He leave his children to starve?  I shall not want for spirituals, I know that his grace will be sufficient for me.  Resting in Him He will say to me, ‘As thy day so shall thy strength be’ (Deuteronomy 33:25).  I may not possess all that I wish for, but ‘I shall not want’”.   Charles H. Spurgeon

“Rest means that we are resting in what is happening right this second with a complete trust that God will meet us in our next moment.  Living in worry will steal your REST.”  Jenny L. Donnelly

“I rest with my whole soul upon the finished work of Christ, and I have not found anything yet that leads me to suspect I am resting where I shall meet with a failure. No, the older one grows, the more one gets convinced that he who leans by faith on Christ, rests where he never needs to be afraid. He may go and return in peace and confidence, for the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but God shall not change, and his purpose shall not cease to stand. Yes, God is worthy of our confidence. And I think we can say, by way of commending our God to others that we feel we can rest upon him for the future. We have been in strange places, and in very peculiar conditions in the past, but we were never thrown where we could not find in God all we needed; and we are therefore encouraged to believe that when death’s dark night shall come, with all its gathering of terror, we shall fear no evil, for the same God will be with us to be our succour and our stay. The Isle of Man has for its coat of arms three legs, and turn them which way you will, you know they always stand; and such is the believer—throw him which way you will, he finds something to stand on; throw him into death, or into life, into the lion’s den, or into the whale’s belly, cast him into fire, or into water, the Christian still trusts in his God, and finds him a very present help in time of trouble. ‘On whom dost thou trust?’ We can answer boldly, ‘We trust in him whose power will never be exhausted, whose love will never cease, whose kindness will never change, whose faithfulness will never be sullied, whose wisdom will never be nonplussed, and whose perfect goodness never can know a diminution.’”   Charles H. Spurgeon

HEART SAVOR

·         Perfect peace and rest is found only in Christ.

·         In His Presence is rest.  He does not desire for us to be fractious, anxious, fearful, wanting – He woos us to come to Him.  Quiet yourself before Him and He will fill you up.  He is not only our rest but our sufficiency and strength – “No good thing does He withhold from those whose walk is blameless.  O Lord Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you.”   Psalms 84:11B-12   

·         We can rest secure in Him for He shields us all day long as we rest between His shoulders.