As we continue our week, we have the joy today of discovering what it means to truly rest in God.

In all the stress and hurry of life, don't we all need to find even just a few moments of rest today?

May God reorient the way you see him today and show you his purpose and pleasure

over his children taking time for true rest in him.

Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

One of the simple core values of restored relationship with our Heavenly Father is rest.

From the beginning, God exemplified its importance.

Genesis 2.3 says, God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,

because on it, God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

In Hebrews 4, 9 through 13, says,

So then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

For whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from His.

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the Word of God is living and active

sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of the soul and spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the soul and spirit of joints and of marrow,

and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart,

and no creature is hidden from his sight,

but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

I fear that we as children of God have allowed the busyness and stress of the world

to influence us in greater ways than the living and active word of our Heavenly Father. We are

designed for rest. We are designed to have a full day of various times throughout each day,

set aside to simply enjoy God in the blessed life He has given us.

When we value success and busyness over relationship with God and obedience to His commands,

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