Thursday, May 21, 2015

Press Into His Rest

I received a Prophetic Word this morning, where the Lord said that He has "called and required a rested people". Saints, many of us are tired. Many of us are worn out. Many of us are weary in our well-doing (Galatians 6). God knows your pain and He's in touch with your fatigue. However, we must understand, it's not God's will for us to be tired, it's not His will for us to be weary; it's His will for us to have Rest. The will of the Father for His children is for us to rest in Him in and through His Son, Jesus the Christ. The challenge of this is that you have to Press into that Rest. The Rest of God in Christ is not just something that's going to be bestowed upon you, it's something that you have to press into.

I'm sure many of us are saying, "I've been pressing for a long time". I will not argue with that, but the question is have you been pressing in the right direction, and have you been pressing for the right thing? A lot of us have been pressing into Ministry. What is God calling me to do? What is my office in the Kingdom of God? Where is my next Ministry Assignment? These are all excellent questions to raise and significant issues to address, but don't necessarily represent His Rest. Some of us have been pressing into Relationships. Trying to work things out with our spouse, trying to iron things out with our children, trying to find out who our husband or wife is going to be. Once again, all of these relational issues are valid, but they don't necessarily represent His Rest.

Have you ever wondered why it was so easy for Jesus to do Miracles? Of course the obvious answer is, He was the Son of God. That, of course, is correct, but that's not why Miracles came so easy for Him. The reason why the Miraculous was second nature to Jesus is because every Miracle He did grew out of the Rest He drew from His Father. That's why He said in the 5th chapter of John that He only does what He sees the Father doing. Jesus' Ministry wasn't of "original design", it was strictly patterned after the Design of the Father. That's what made it easy! And that is still the blueprint for Kingdom Advancement today.

Saints, I would like to challenge you as well as encourage you, if you are tired today, if you are weary (emotionally, physically, relationally or otherwise), redirect your energy from trying to "work things out in the Lord", to working to enter His Rest. PRESS into the Word, PRESS into Praise and Worship, PRESS into Fasting and Prayer, PRESS into sacrifice and surrender. If you learn to press into the Presence of God and let everything you do grow out of your Rest-Relationship with Him, you'll have the Testimony of Isaiah 40; you shall mount up with wings as an eagle, you will run and not be weary, you will walk and not faint.

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