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Psalm chapter 116 verse 7

return oh my soul to your rest

for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

What a good verse that we probably should memorize.

Just let me say it again and let's think about what it means.

Return on my soul to your rest.

So let's just stop there.

How often do we have anxious souls like weary souls like tired souls how often are we worried or anxious about many things.

And Psalm 116 verse 7 is saying,

return, oh my soul, it's like speaking to yourself,

return to your rest.

You can be at rest in this fallen world

with all kinds of trials and challenges, attacks from the adversary in all kinds of

different ways you can actually live with rest to say this to yourself, return

oh my soul to your rest. How do you do that? For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

So where is rest found? Rest is found in this verse and remembering the Lord's bountiful dealings with you.

Just rest and the ways God has shown his love for you in the past.

The ways God has provided for you, sustains you, bless you, encouraged you, held you up, brought you through.

He has been faithful.

Return on my soul to your arrest. Think about in a way he saved you. Think about how

he sent his son Jesus to die on a cross for you. How he rose from the dead for you to experience eternal life, how this

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