Today’s Reading:
Hebrews 3
Hebrews 4
The same people who were delivered from bondage and brought out of Egypt by Moses, were the ones who heard and still rebelled. They grieved God for forty years by sinning in their unbelief, until they dropped dead in the desert. So God swore an oath that they would never enter into his calming place of rest all because they disobeyed him. It is clear that they could not enter into their inheritance because they wrapped their hearts in unbelief.
Hebrews 3:16-19 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living God say,
I Am drawing you into a place of rest. I Am drawing you into a place and a rhythm of Sabbath and reliance on Me. Your faith has been in your work. Your faith has been in the productivity of your hands. I’m calling you to deep rest, faith and abiding in Me. I have given and established the principles of wealth creation (Deut. 8:18). They are this — seed, time and harvest. I have called you to plant the seed. I may call you to water and weed and take care of those places where the seed has been sown. But I Am calling you to give Me the time. Give Me the time.
For those of us who believe, faith activates the promise and we experience the realm of confident rest! For he has said, “I was grieved with them and made a solemn oath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’ ” God’s works have all been completed from the foundation of the world, for it says in the Scriptures, And on the seventh day God rested from all his works. And again, as stated before, They will not enter into my rest. Those who first heard the good news of deliverance failed to enter into that realm of faith’s rest because of their unbelieving hearts. Yet the fact remains that we still have the opportunity to enter into the faith-rest life and experience the fulfillment of the promise!
Hebrews 4:3-6 TPT
Don’t be so busy that the space created for resting, the place of where I bring the growth is filled with things that do not cause the seed to sprout faster. You cannot cause the seed to sprout faster, and you don’t know which seeds will produce and which ones will not. So in that time, don’t fill your agenda with fruitless activity. Don’t overload your agenda with things that do not produce fruit. Don’t fill up your day with things that are not in service to My heart. I created the system to be this way — seed, time and harvest. The time where You rest is the time when my work is happening — beneath the surface and behind the scenes. So in that time of My work, it should be your rest. It should be Your time of ministry to Me. I can do more through your prayer and ministry to Me than I can do through all of the hamster wheel running you are doing in an effort to cause seeds to sprout faster — which is completely out of your control.
As we enter into God’s faith-rest life we cease from our own works, just as God celebrates his finished works and rests in them. So then we must be eager to experience this faith-rest life, so that no one falls short by following the same pattern of doubt and unbelief. For we have the living Word of God, which is full of energy, like a two-mouthed sword. It will even penetrate to the very core of our being where soul and spirit, bone and marrow meet! It interprets and reveals the true thoughts and secret motives of our hearts. There is not one person who can hide their thoughts from God, for nothing that we do remains a secret, and nothing created is concealed, but everything is exposed and defenseless before his eyes, to whom we must render an account.
Hebrews 4:10-13 TPT
Come to the secret place. Come to the quiet place of rest, and minister to Me there. I will give you strategy for the harvest. I will give you strategy on where to sow. I will give you other assignments that bless and connect to the fields you have sown. Yes, be diligent in the work I have called you to do. But don’t fill up every hour of the day with striving. Trust Me to bring the harvest. Trust Me to bring the increase. Trust Me to cause the overflow into abundance. These are the result of having worked and then set aside the “time” to minister to Me. Give me the time.
How to Respond
- Trust the Lord to bring the fruit of your labor.
- Pray, Holy Spirit thank You for being with me, for guiding me, for giving me strategy in the work You have put in my hands. Help me to begin to live in the discipline of resting in You to accomplish the growth, resting in You to deliver the Harvest. Help me to use that time purposefully, not for fruitless wheel spinning but to minister to Your heart. You are more than worthy of my time, and You can do more with it than I can.
- Declare, Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude. Tell him every detail of your life, then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will guard your heart and mind through Jesus Christ. — Philippians 4:6-7 TPT
- Decree, The Lord of the Harvest will cause the work that I have sown to prosper as I step back from busyness and minister to His heart. I will resist the temptation to fill my days with continual work, because the Lord has called me into the faith-rest life. He has called me into setting aside more time in ministry to His heart. By His own establishment of the system, He will bring the increase when I am faithful in ministering to Him from the place of rest.
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