160 | Why God Doesn't Need Your Hustle: Learning to Rest in Him

Verity by Phylicia Masonheimer

Phylicia Masonheimer

Religion, Religion & Spirituality, Theology, Christianity

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🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What if God can do more without your hustle than with it? Lisa Fields of the Jude 3 Project shares her journey from workaholic apologist to discovering that God doesn't need our striving—He wants our trust, our healed hearts, and our willingness to rest in His sufficiency. 💡 Key Scripture: "Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders' labor is in vain... He grants sleep to those he loves." - Psalm 127:1-2 The Big Truth: God doesn't need your hustle. Rest isn't avoidance or vacation—it's a posture of complete trust in God. When we truly rest in Him, He does what our striving never could, without the soul-damaging side effects. 📖 Resources Mentioned: Book: "When Faith Disappoints: The Gap Between What We Believe and What We Experience" by Lisa Fields "Ruthless Elimination of Hurry" by John Mark Comer "Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Day-to-Day Devotional" Centering Prayer app 🔗 Connect: -Jude 3 Project: https://jude3project.org/ -Verity Conference 2025: https://verityconference.com -EWAT: https://phyliciamasonheimer.com/ 💭 Reflection Questions: Are you so busy doing God's work that you're not meeting with God? What "dead grass" has been buried in your heart while you kept moving? Do you like being the hero? What does that feed in your insecurity? Can you sleep in peace, or is it just avoidance? What would it look like to trust God enough to rest? ⏰ Practical Steps to Rest: Daily Silence: Start with centering prayer (work up to 30 min/day) Weekly Sabbath: Take one full day off - it's commanded, not optional Community: Let your friends be your friends (get off the pedestal) Healing: Let God show you your heart and do the work of healing

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0:00.0	Have you been so busy doing God's work that you forget to meet with the God that called you to the work?
0:05.5	Yes, God had called me to the work, but the way I was doing the work was doing real damage to my soul.
0:17.1	Hello, friends, and welcome back to Verity Podcast. In this week's episode, you're going to be
0:24.2	watching another session from Verity Conference 2024. This is with Lisa Fields of the Jude 3 project.
0:31.6	I'm so excited to introduce you to Lisa, and I was thrilled that we got to host her for our
0:37.3	conference last year.
0:39.1	Now, in this particular session, you're going to hear from Lisa on a theology of rest.
0:44.0	And so she's going to be talking us through what scripture says about that and what it means
0:49.2	to truly rest in God to participate in his rest so that we can do his work with the energy and the
0:57.4	effort that we are designed to have. We do that from a state of rest, not from a state of
1:02.5	striving. I hope this episode encourages you. Thank you, Verity Conference, and thank you
1:09.9	for the introduction.
1:11.6	Y'all got to learn a little bit more about me and the interesting fact about my middle school career.
1:19.6	As a basketball player, as you can see it was short-lived.
1:23.6	Well, thank you for the organizers of the Verity Conference.
1:29.7	I'm so excited to be here.
1:31.2	This is my first time in Northern Michigan, and it is beautiful.
1:34.7	So for all those who live here, you have a treat every time you go outside.
1:39.6	So I'm kind of jealous.
1:41.1	I live in D.C.
1:43.0	And it's nice sometimes, but not all the time. Well, I won't be
1:49.4	before you long, but I'll be before you long enough. And that's a quote for my father, who's a pastor.
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