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A prayer for the Sabbath by Rick Warren.

You have six days in which you do your work,

but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me,

Exodus 29.

Rest is so important to God that he put it in the 10

Commandments.

He wants you to take a day off every week.

That's called the Sabbath, which literally means a day of rest, and God wants

us to do it every seventh day. The day isn't important. It doesn't have to be a certain day,

just every seventh day.

It's so important that even God rested on the seventh day when he created everything.

Not because he was tired, but to give us an example of how we should rest.

What do you do on this Sabbath day to actually have it be a day of rest?

1. Rest your body.

God has made us so that we need rest.

If your car engine heatlight were showing red,

you would stop because you would know it's going to damage the engine.

God says if you don't take one day out of seven to rest, if you keep pumping the adrenaline

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