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Labor: Physical or mental exertion, especially when difficult or exhausting. Ecclesiastes 2:22-23 (NIV)
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Labor: • Physical or mental exertion, especially when difficult or exhausting
Ecclesiastes 2:22-23 (NIV) • What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.
Time • Alone • With • God
I want God • I need God • I just don’t have time for God
Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV) • “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 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. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Burdened • Under • Satan’s • Yoke
For asks: • Ask God to slow you
Zephaniah 3:17 (NIV) • The LORD your God is with you, • He is mighty to save. • He will take great delight in you, • He will quiet you with his love, • He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Psalm 46:10 (NIV) • He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; • I will be exalted among the nations, • I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalm 37:7 (NIV) • Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; • do not fret when people succeed in their ways, • when they carry out their wicked schemes.
When we allow God to slow us • It does two things • It helps us REST in God • It helps us DISCERN His VOICE
For asks: • Ask God to slow you • Ask God to know you
Psalm 139:1-4 (NIV) • You have searched me, Lord, • and You know me. • You know when I sit and when I rise; • You perceive my thoughts from afar. • You discern my going out and my lying down; • You are familiar with all my ways. • Before a word is on my tongue • You, Lord, know it completely.
Psalm 139:23-24 (NIV) • Search me, God, and know my heart; • test me and know my anxious thoughts. • See if there is any offensive way in me, • and lead me in the way everlasting.
For asks: • Ask God to slow you • Ask God to know you • Ask God to grow you
Colossians 2:6-7 (NIV) • 6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in Him, 7 rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
T.A.W.G. Action • Read The Word • Get Real • Ask God For Your Next Step • Pray
John 4:10,13 (NIV) • Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him and He would have given you living water.”
“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
For asks: • Ask God to slow you • Ask God to know you • Ask God to grow you • Ask God to show you
Psalm 139:23-24a • Search me, God, and know my heart; • test me and know my anxious thoughts. • See if there is any offensive way in me, • and lead me in the way everlasting.
*Obedience is the key! • James 1:22 (NIV) • Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV) • “Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 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. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Search me, O God, and know my heart today, • Try me, O Savior, know my thoughts, I pray; • See if there be some wicked way in me; • Cleanse me from every sin, and set me free.
I praise Thee, Lord, for cleansing me from sin; • Fulfill Thy word and make me pure within; • Fill me with fire, where once I burned with shame; • Grant my desire to magnify Thy name.
Lord, take my life, and make it wholly Thine; • Fill my poor heart with Thy great love divine; • Take all my will, my passion, self and pride; • I now surrender, Lord, in me abide.
O Holy Ghost, revival comes from Thee; • Send a revival, start the work in me; • Thy Word declares Thou wilt supply our need; • For blessings now, O Lord, I humbly plead.