God's promises are always in your reach, but not necessarily in your hand.

Dr. Tony Evans says you won't experience what God offers until you act on what you've heard.

Unless the word preached is grabbed by faith, it remains dormant in your experience.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the

archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

God promises believers rest, and some people think that means taking a break from responsibility.

But in the Bible, rest means entering into something the Lord has already prepared

for us. Well, today, Dr. Evans explains how believers can experience the kind of peace and power

that rises above life's challenges by stepping into the spiritual zone God calls rest. Let's join

him in the book of Hebrews. When a player says he's in the zone, they are typically in a conflict.

They're playing against another team that wants to block them, stop them.

But they're unable to do that because this player is in a state of mind and state of being that transcends the trouble that they're

up against or the team that is resisting them. God has a zone that he wants his people to operate in,

and the zone is called rest. The book of Hebrews was written to Jewish

Christians who wanted to throw in the towel. They wanted to quit. They were going through

problems, difficulties, challenges. Some were in prison. Some were losing their property.

They were being rejected.

They were going through a whole lot of stuff.

They had become weary as Christians.

Today, I want to talk about the first 11 verses that sets the stage for the last

verses of this zone, he calls rest.

He warns them in verse 12 of chapter 3.

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