Hi friends and welcome to a episode of Be Still and Beloved a time for you to practice the skill of being still.

So if you're pressing play on this, I pray that you've been prompted you're aware that this is just as powerful and I think even more powerful and effective than all the flesh and

energy and strength that you can muster up, that this really is the beginning place, that we become

people who work from rest, not people that work for rest, that our beginning place is this assurance that we are gods and it comes in the stillness.

So this is a time for you to push things aside.

I pray you would find a quiet moment, a space,

so seated or laying down and allowing yourself to

completely relax completely unwind so begin now to take some big full breath that's energetic. It requires you to have to

kind of expand and get big. It's not a breath that you will have during the time.

It's just kind of there to kind of clean things out and awaken you. And as you begin to do that just breathing, it cues up a completely different side of the body's system.

It's called the parasympathetic nervous system.

It's everything connected to rest.

Lowering your heart rate, lowering your stress levels, lowering pressure, inflammation, or just lowering things and it's a subtle place of being.

So just begin to breathe from that place. A place that really

says I'm going for this. I am going after the presence.

And in a moment I'm just going to read scripture to you and honestly all you're going to do is let the words fall on you. There's no picking up the word, you're not trying to

study the word, you're not trying to do anything with it. This is a skill. We are big doers. We like to try and make things happen. So to allow

yourself to be pressed upon by the presence of the Holy Spirit that is the active in living and vitality force of God

just simply by letting the word consume you. So position yourself to receive something so mysterious that is you coming and drawing near to the

father who says you can cease striving, be still and know.

There's a quote from Martin Bueer that says,

all real living is meeting.

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