Hello, this is Graham Cook. Welcome to the Brilliant Perspective's Podcast.

Rest is the tangible expression of God's presence.

It's physical, it's emotional, mental and spiritual.

When we practice rest, we will feel the touch of God will hear his voice and we will experience his presence so much more strongly in our lives.

Rest is something that we receive and it comes to displace any

negative that may be trying to infiltrate our lives. I love the idea that rest is a weapon and as we learn to see it as

such we can practice it in order to guard our inner territory.

So to empower you to rest in the Lord

and to experience his presence in this way,

I have a clip for you.

And as you listen to it, ask the Holy Spirit how he wants to upgrade and increase your rest.

So in Genesis 2, by the seventh day God completed his work which he had done and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done,

then God blessed the seventh day and sanctify it because in it he rested from all his work

which God had created and made.

God will always.

There has never been since I learned rest.

There has never been a time when God has not blessed that rest and honored that rest and sanctified

my rest.

In other words, set aside,

peace for me, set aside rest for me.

So for me, therefore, when God blesses something and sanctifies it and sets it apart, what that means is rest is always available

as an absolute essential for life. So every circumstance you encounter already has rest in the

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