Hi, welcome to the Brilliant Perspectives podcast with Graham Cook. I'm your host, Michael Beckio.

Today, we have an excerpt from one of Graham's teachings called The Practice of Rest.

I featured at the beginning of it in episode 71 of the podcast A Wild Back.

This second part features a couple of the next tracks in the series.

The full teaching contains several more, which can be found on BrilliantBookHouse.com.

I'll include a link to that in the description of this episode.

In this particular audio segment, Graham talks about the foundational importance of rest

in a believer's walk with God.

He discusses how rest ought to be a constant in our lives

and how it is both a weapon of warfare and our vital abiding place

from which to engage life from. Enjoy.

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 sanctified it.

Because in it, he rested from all his work, which God had created and made.

God will always bless your rest.

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.

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