Hey friends, welcome back to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast, where we're learning to live in victory no matter what life throws our way.

Today, we're exploring a topic that feels especially timely, and it's all about rest, a deeper, permanent rest that Graham and Dion describe as a lifestyle God sets up for us.

Rest is not just for moments of weariness.

It's a place where God meets us, protects us, and empowers us to face even the hardest days with peace.

It's a life-giving exchange that allows us to live from God's presence and not just for it.

I'm so excited for you to hear today's message and discover how rest can completely transform your life.

Let's jump in.

Rest is a lifestyle. It's not a transaction. You know, it's not like, oh, I'm stressed. I need a little bit of rest.

That God means to set us up with rest as a way of being. And I thought about that. So, how does rest become this permanent way of being? How does

rest become permanent to us? Yeah. I think that God is making war on worry, anxiety, in the nicest way

possible by giving us rest and saying, practice it every day,

but especially when things are tough, double down on it. Because it's on the tough days that rest

actually takes root in us, you know, because we choose rest.

We choose not to be worried.

We choose not to be anxious.

And so it takes root deeper in us, you know.

It's a devotional lifestyle of resting in the Lord, you know.

And I love that.

Yeah, I think that, you know, we talk about this so often at Brilliant.

And I think we talk about it because in many ways it is the starting point in the kingdom.

You know, Jesus, when he offered us, in that scripture, you quoted earlier,

when he offered us to make the exchange of worry for rest.

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