TODAY I UNDERSTAND, THAT THE REST JESUS OFFERS IS FOUND IN ACTIVELY SEEEKING JESUS PRESENCE AND JESUS PROVISION FOR OUR LIVES.

GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH THE WORD OF CHRIST, GOD REVEALS A PATTERN FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING IN CHRIST. CHRIST IS THE PATTERN AND CHRIST IS THE PLAN. GOD IT IS YOUR VOICE I HEAR WHEN I PRAY YOUR WORD, GOD IT IS YOUR VOICE THAT IS FILLING ME.

KNOWLEDGE APPLIED IS WISDOM, WISDOM COMES FROM GOD; "FOR THE LORD GIVES WISDOM, AND FROM GOD'S MOUTH COME KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING."

"GOD WAS PLEASED THROUGH THE FOOLISHNESS OF WHAT WAS PREACHED TO SAVE THOSE WHO BELIEVE. JEWS DEMAND MIRACULOUS SIGNS AND GREEKS LOOK FOR WISDOM, BUT I PREACH CHRIST CRUCIFIED: A STUMBLING BLOCK TO JEWS AND FOOLISHNESS TO GENTILES, BUT TO THOSE WHOM GOD HAS CALLED, BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS, CHRIST THE POWER OF GOD AND THE WISDOM OF GOD."
(1Corinthians 1:21b-24)

"GOD CHOSE THE LOWLY THINGS OF THIS WORLD AND THE DESPISED THINGS - AND THE THING THAT ARE NOT - TO NULLIFY THE THINGS THAT ARE, SO THAT NO ONE MAY BOAST BEFORE GOD. IT IS BECAUSE OF GOD THAT I AM IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO HAS BECOME FOR ME WISDOM FROM GOD - THAT IS MY RIGHTEOUSNESS, MY HOLINESS AND MY REDEMPTION. THEREFORE, AS IT IS WRITTEN: "LET HIM WHO BOASTS BOAST IN THE LORD." (1Cor. 28-31)

THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE WITH ALL MY SPIRITUAL HEART, ALL MY SPIRITUAL MIND, ALL MY SPIRITUAL SOUL.

GOD HAS MADE A SHIFT IN MY LIFE, I AM NO LONGER EARTHLY MINDED. GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO BE KINGDOM MINDED THRU THE WORD OF CHRIST AND THE MIND OF CHRIST. IT IS GOD HIMSELF WHO IS TEACHING ME. IT IS GOD'S VOICE I HEAR WHEN I SPEAK HIS WORD, IT IS GOD VOICE THAT IS FILLING ME. THE WORDS I SHARE WITH YOU ARE THE WORDS GOD SHARES WITH ME.

I WAS SPIRITUALLY FED THIS SUNDAY FROM THE WORDS IN MATTHEW (11:16-19, 25-30). JESUS THANKS GOD THAT HUMAN WISDOM AND INTELLIGENCE ARE NOT NEEDED TO RECEIVE WHAT GOD HAS TO OFFER. JESUS ALSO INVITES ALL WHO ARE WEARY AND ARE CARRYING HEAVY BURDENS TO COME TO JESUS AND HE WILL GIVE YOU REST. JESUS SAID 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. FOR MY YOKE IS EASY, AND BURDEN IS LIGHT.

TODAY I UNDERSTAND, THAT THE REST JESUS OFFERS IS NOT SIMPLY FOUND IN THE CESSATION OF ACTIVITY OR REALEASE FROM BURDENS.
IT IS FOUND IN ACTIVELY SEEEKING JESUS PRESENCE AND JESUS PROVISION FOR OUR LIVES. JESUS SPEAKS OF REST "FOR OUR SOULS"
WHICH IS FAR MORE THAN MERE RELAXING. IT IS THE REST THAT REPLENISHES US IN THE CORE OF OUR BEING. THIS IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF "THE SABBATH" - A REST THAT RECUPERATES THE HEART AND RESTORES THE SPIRIT. THIS IS THE REST I RECEIVE FROM JESUS.

"THIS IS MY BOAST THAT I BOASTS IN THE LORD"

"MAY THE GOD OF PEACE, WHO THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE ETERNAL COVENANT BROUGHT BACK FROM THE DEAD OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THAT GREAT SHEPHERD OF THE SHEEP, EQUIP ME WITH EVERYTHING GOOD FOR DOING GOD'S WILL, AND MAY GOD WORK IN ME WHAT IS PLEASING TO GOD, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER." AMEN! (Heb.13:20-21)

"CHRIST IS THE PATTERN FOR MY LIFE, AND GOD IS TRANSFORMING ME TO THE PATTERN. SO I SAY THANKS BE TO GOD." AMEN!