• A Christ centered Identity.
90 Day Memory Statement
I am His child, deeply loved, totally forgiven, fully pleasing and complete in Christ.
• A New Family.
• See with the Eyes of a Doctor.
• A Heart that’s Good Soil.
30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. 31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” 32 So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place.
Mark 6:30-32
“If you don’t come apart and rest, you will come apart.” —Vance Havner, Author
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30
Three Kinds of Rest
• Rest for your
“God, You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our soul is restless until it finds rest in You.” —St. Augustine
Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.
Romans 5:1
- Do you have peace with God?
• Rest for your
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
Genesis 2:1-3
8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Exodus 20:8-11
- Do you have a rhythm for rest?
• Rest for your
Be still, and know that I am God!
Psalm 46:10a
“Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life.” —Henri Nouwen, Theologian
But I have calmed (stilled) and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child I am content.
Psalm 131:2
- When and where could you practice being still?
45 Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. 46 After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray.
Mark 6:45,46
But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
Luke 5:16
The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:5b-7
Cast all your care upon him, for he cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7
An anxious heart weighs a man down.
Proverbs 12:25
A heart at peace gives life to the body…
Proverbs 14:30
- How can you practice releasing your cares in prayer?
9 So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God… 11 So let us do our best to enter that rest.
Hebrews 4:9,11a