Experiencing God's Blessings in Our Moments of Rest

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

If you’re struggling to cram your busy schedule into each day, it may surprise you that finding time for rest is one of the most important things you can do to live a purpose-filled life. Naturalist Eryn Lynum shares how God has structured all of creation around the need for rest—Sabbath rest once a week and daily rest – to create margin in your overcrowded schedule. Eryn will help you to step away from information overload and stress to abide in Christ daily.

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0:00.0	God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new
0:05.6	documentary from Focus on the Family in the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose
0:11.1	courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising starting September 5th and find out how
0:17.4	you can be a part of the change and become an agent of restoration.
0:22.4	Sign up at truthrising.com.
0:24.8	That's truthrising.com.
0:30.4	And so at 14, my parents had to coach me in biblical stress management and taking every
0:36.7	anxiety, every thought to the Lord,
0:38.6	stepping back in prayer. And that's truly where the Lord began to lead me into this deeply
0:43.0	restful lifestyle. Well, that's Erin Linum, and she's our guest today on Focus on the Family with
0:48.6	Jim Daly, stressing the importance of rest in our lives. Thanks for joining us. I'm John Fuller.
0:55.2	John, you think about it, we're living a life, I think, in modern times that is so fast.
1:00.1	I'm sure there was plenty to do back when, you know, plow the garden and do all the things
1:06.5	that were done 100 years ago.
1:08.1	And they were busy, but it was kind of organic agricultural task. Now it's
1:13.9	just like the pace of life is crazy. One of our board members, Buzz Baker, whom I love, the guy's
1:20.0	such a great person. And, you know, to give an insight to the listeners, one of the best things
1:24.8	that we do is a board together is to have devotional time.
1:29.3	And the last board meeting we had, Buzz brought out this fact and he wrote a number on the board.
1:33.3	It was 1440.
1:35.3	Does anybody know what this number is?
1:37.3	1440.
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