108. RESTING IN THE LORD
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Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Mat.11:28).
1. The secret of that calm and peace and rest and patience and love is resting in the Lord.
2. Rest-up, think-up, pray-up and tank-up.
3. You need rest and you need nourishment and you need refreshing and you need inspiration.
4. You cannot feed others from an empty shell, an empty cupboard, an empty and over-burdened heart, a strained body that has not even enough for itself.
5. Fill up your heart and you won't have any trouble knowing what to say or what to do.
6. People are a lot like batteries; They need rest, they need recharging, and they can't stand too much draining. You've got to take care of them.
7. The Lord said, "My yoke is easy and My burden is light"--but there's one condition to it--"come unto Me!"
8. If your day was loud and weary
And you feel you cannot be heard
Wait for the night my deary
When He hears the tiniest bird!
9. All work and no play make a very dull student, and an even worse witness.
10. You must have rest to do your best!
11. Faith and trust in God gives you a feeling of rest of body, peace of mind, contentment of heart and spiritual well being.
12. To "die daily" does not mean to kill yourself off with overwork and worries!
13. If the job seems to be too hard for you, take it to Jesus
14. If the yoke gets too hard and the burden too heavy, it's not His yoke nor His burden, but our own or someone else's!
15. People who take time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet confidence.
16. You need to know when to fight and when to be still, when to give and when to save, when to work and when to play, when to feed and when to pray!
17. Don't work so hard that you die of improvements!
18. You shall find rest to your soul. (Matt.11:29) Not many people understand that the soul is a body with a spirit. If you don't rest in the Spirit you are going to wear out your body.
19. The bottle has to hold still so you can pour into it. It has to hold still and be real quiet to get filled up.
20. The one that has not learned the secret of renewing his mind will soon faint in his mind.
21. No one can continue to keep pouring out to others without spending some time alone with the Lord getting filled up again.
22. You cannot do the Master's work without the Master's power.--And to get it, you must spend time with the Master.
23. We all need more quiet time alone with the Lord in rest and refilling.
24. Take time to be holy--wholly His and whole in mind, body and spirit.
25. Lord, help us to remember we can't go on without the Heavenly vision You give.
26. You wouldn't worry and fret so and be so upset if you'd spend more time with the Lord.
27. No work is too important to stop for a few minutes of inspiration and refreshing from on high, spiritual renewal and physical rest--a little love feast with the Lord.
28. If you've missed a trip into the temple of His Spirit today, you've really missed something.
29. He can solve all your problems in one little glimpse! He can refresh your whole spirit with one deep breath. He can clarify all your thoughts with just one sweet strain of Heavenly music!
30. He can wipe away all your fears and tears with just one little restful moment in the perfect peace he gives when your mind is stayed on Him and Him alone because you trust Him.
31. If you're trusting you're not heard to fret.
If you're fretting you're not trusting yet.
32. He says, "I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee." (He.13:5) It's not God that's not always there, it's we who are not always there. We sometimes run off some place else and leave Him way behind.
33. Jesus said but one thing is needful, and that is to sit at His feet and learn of Him, and pass His Words on to the World. Those who have chosen this good part, it shall never be taken away from them. Too many of us have been encumbered with too much serving and not enough listening. We've had too many Martha's and not enough Mary's.
34. We are to wait upon the Lord. He that waits upon the Lord shall renew his strength instead of wearing out.
35. You must save your best for your King, give first place to Him, His fellowship and His love. You need to learn to rest in His arms and not to work so hard.
36. Strength cometh from the Lord Who made Heaven and Earth and your body, and He knows what you need most of all!---Rest and peace and fellowship with Him and feeding on His Word.
37. The first place must belong to Him in peace and quietness and rest and feeding and fellowship with the Lord.
38. So many take their burdens to the Lord and lay them on the altar, and then pick them right back up again and walk off with them!
39. Help us to let You take good care of us, Lord, and to give You all the cooperation we can by getting proper rest, proper exercise, and proper diet so that we may be physically whole, well, strong and able to serve Thee. Help us most of all to get the rest, exercise and diet of Thy Word and Thy Spirit so that we may be spiritually whole, strong and happy in Thy service.
40. Angry impatience is a sign of lack of perfect faith and rest in the Lord, something which God judged Moses very severely for, and what might seem to us a very small sin but what to God was a very bad example for the whole congregation of wrathful impatience and lack of restful faith.
41. You have to pitch in and go ahead by naked faith and your little tiny Gideon's band and win the battle just by the faith of God and the meekness of your faith and the quietness of your obedience. Don't worry, don't get all excited and all uptight. Just be calm and meek and humble and quiet and believing and obedient and everything will turn out all right.
42. When you have so much talent and ability in the natural it's hard for you to just let go and let God.
43. We rest in You, Lord, we sleep in Thee, in the hollow of Thine arms, within Thy hands, under Thy wings, in Thy secret place. We abide under the shadow of the Almighty. It's like thy special forcefield around us, Lord, like an aura, a special kind of glory that protects us.
(See also No.3, 4, 11, 25, 74, 98, 169, 191, 1427, 1493.)
44. EXO.33:14 My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
45. 1KI.8:56a Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto His people.
46. PSA.4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
47. PSA.37:7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth is his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
48. PSA.55:18 He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
49. PSA.55:22 Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
50. ECC.4:6 Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
51. ISA.30:15 For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.
52. MAT.11:28-30 Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.
53. HEB.4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as He said, As I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the World.
54. HEB.4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
55. 1PE.5:7 Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.
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