Hi and welcome to today's podcast this is Michael Beckio with brilliant perspectives

join us as we explore what it means to live in a place of rest and to practice that rest as a lifestyle.

Rest is something that's become a cornerstone message for Graham, and it ties into Graham's ongoing

assertion that God is the

kindest person he's ever met, a perspective that is freeing,

continuously refreshing and full of power.

Enjoy.

So I want to talk to you this morning about Enjoy.

So I want to talk to you this morning about something that's really dear to my own heart. And actually has been a real foundation for me in over 30 years of ministry.

And if you aspire to be on the battlefield in the clash between two kingdoms, which to me, I don't know that there's any point in being anywhere else.

But if you really aspire to be in the fight,

then you need to learn this particular discipline. I mean you need to learn it anyway

as a source for life but I want to talk to you about resting in the Lord. And so I want to talk to in the first part of our session today about just how rest is a major part of our renewal.

And let me start by just saying something general about

how God thinks and does things.

When he says or does something for the first time,

he sets a precedent. He's very ordered and his thinking. He's

you know as befit a Creator he's always thinking sequentially out from himself outside the box and he's very deliberate and he's extremely intentional

So whenever he does or says anything for the first time,

he always sets a precedent.

And by that precedent, you know him forever.

So the first time, like he comes to you and reveals a part of who he is to you,

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