Rest | Pr. Daniel Chong

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Today.

I just want to remind each and every one of

us that revival has a root. All right, Revival has

a root, and revival is rooted in a fall letter word.

Okay, Revival is rooted in rest.

If you have your bible's turned with me to the

Book of Isaiah chapter thirty, verse fifteen, and we're.

Going to read some scripture this morning. Is that okay?

Is that? Okay?

Revival is rooted in rest. Isaiah chapter thirty, verse fifteen. Hallelujah,

Praise to the Lord bless the reading of his word.

For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel.

In returning and rest, you shall be saved in quietness

and confidence shall be your strength. If you you want to,

we want to turn to another scripture. We turn to

the Book of Sums. We love the Book of Sums. Yes,

I'll get to that later. Right, we haven't revealed the

title yet, but the Book of Palms chapter twenty three. Okay,

how many of you are familiar with Psalms twenty three?

All right?

Psalm Stony three, one of the most read scriptures in

the Bible. But Psalms twenty three versus to the tree,

what does it say? He makes me lie down in

green pastures, He leads me beside the steel waters.

He restores my soul.

He leads me in the path of righteousness for his namesake.

Amen, Praise the Lord.

In Hebrew, the word restore, the word restore, it actually

means to return and to revive. In Hebrew, it's called chaff.

So God wants to shaft you. Yeah, God wants to

give you chaff. He wants to restore you. He wants

to restore you to a state where you were once

in love with him. But because of perhaps the business

in your life, maybe you have forgotten what true chaff

really means. But true shaft really really means. And some

of the kids are already asking, what's the title. What's

the title? Yes, that's the title that I have for

you this morning. It is rest. It is to rest. Okay,

it is to rest. And if there's a subtitle, it

is to find rest in the Lord. How many of

you this morning feel that twenty twenty six has just

been a bullet train?

Yeah, just don't stop.

Just assignment of the assignment for the students, just task

after task, just meetings after meetings. For the adults, can

I say this just church after church? Can I say

this just waking up after waking up? Is there a

purpurst to your life? And some of us we go

for holiday? How many you just went for holiday? Don't

put our hands praise the lot. It's okay, holiday is good.

But how many of you feel that sometimes you go

for a holiday and you need a holiday after the holiday? Wow,

praise the Lord. I went to Korea two years ago.

It's been two years, my dear. We have to go.

We have to go. We say we have to go

every year. We didn't go last year, and this year

is about to end, so we got to go. We

haven't got our flight diacats yet though, so so if

we don't vote, we will end up not going.

So thank you, all right?

So I went to Korea, and I came from Korea

feeling even more diet And the one thing that I

missed the most was Lasi lama. The one thing I

missed the most was the mama. I can't wait to

come back and eat the meggie going right. I don't

know how many of you here you are you're feeling

like I just can't find time to breathe.

You know, we leave in the world. Let me test

whether this is working.

It is working when you live in a world that

glorifies business.

Yeah.

The more you work, the more successful you are. The

less you work, the more you be perceived as lazy.

It's called the hustle culture. Yeah, I was just googling.

What's the gen Z term for this? Is it hustle culture?

Is it the gen Z? Maybe not?

You know, Huszle culture tells us do more, sleep less,

grind harder.

How many you can relate to that? A repeaterer?

Do more sleepless, grind harder. Social media celebrates the exhausted, Wow,

so much accomplishments, well done. But behind the posting is

a person that is devoid of ideas. Behind the posting

is a person that is lacking rests. There's lacking joy,

there's lacking sleep. What's the purpose of a full pocket.

If you can't be happy? Amen?

But God, even in the very first week of creation,

check this out. He paused, he rested, and he called

it holy. God called it holy. He done his work,

he done his creation, And on the seventh day he

took a pause not to do nothing. But if you

read the scriptures, he was looking at his creation and.

He called it holy. He called it holy.

He rested, So, why are many believers not working? Not working?

Not working? Yes, it's working. Now, why are so many believers?

We're talking to the believers in this house. If you're

not a if not a believer, you can relate to

this as well. Why are so many of you? Do

you feel that you're running on empty? I pray, I

pray that there are more people running unfold and empty.

But if that's you this morning, the Lord wants to

minister to you. Okay, if that's you this morning, the

Lord wants to minister you. Was it was in my

own life as well. I just reflected on my life.

Meetings after meetings, missing meetings, after meetings, after work. I

met someone and someone asked me, when when there's your

job end? Does it end at five point thirty? No,

it doesn't end, because the text messages comes after that,

the meetings comes after that, and it's just ministry after ministry,

and it just gets to a point where sometimes you

feel that, hey, where is this good ever going to end?

Yeah?

And many of us we run on empty because let

me bring it to you. We find it hard to stop.

We find it hard to stop. The truth is this,

most of us do not know how to rest. Can

I say this? Most of us do not know how

to rest. You may be wondering, a I tell you

what I'm sleep, king man, anyone asked me to sleep?

I can sleep the whole day on no problem. What

you mean? What you mean?

You don't I don't know how to rest. Well, let

me ask you a question. After the whole day of sleep,

do you feel rested? After that whole day of sleep,

do you feel rested or do you feel more retargic?

We confused rest with escape. We confuse stillness with laziness.

Sometimes we sleep so much we wake up we feel unproductive.

Then we go like, ah, why did I just spend

so much time? Because we confuse it, and in our ignorance,

we reach for the wrong remedies and we end up

even more drained than before. So today we're gonna look

at one word. We're gonna look at the word rests,

and we're gonna give you a key insight, a key thought.

There's a difference between feeling tired and being at rest.

You know, you can lie in bed all day and

never truly rested, and you can be in the midst

of the storm and be completely at rest with the Lord.

Amen.

You can be in the middle of the storm. Albert

was just sharing while he was ministering in worship. You

can be in a storm but yet be at peace.

You can be in the storm but yet walk on water.

You can be at a storm but yet put your

head on a pillow and just sleep. So there's some

circumstances and the surrounding the store dictate your rest.

Amen.

So we're gonna go, We're gonna we're gonna study that

a little bit more. Now there's a state that we

are all in, and we call this the state of restlessness.

How many of you have seen a restless person before?

My mom used to say your but God answer, cannot

stop moving. Yeah, that's why he said the black kuk. Yeah,

there's someone the black hung. I don't know what what

black Kang means, but there's a state that we're all in.

Sometimes we get into this state, the state of being

without rest. The other word that I can use is

the state of feeling anxious. Yesterday I went for a

bigger ball tournament. I was so anxious that I couldn't

sleep the whole night. But I woke up the next

morning feeling like I don't feel like I am at

nervous at all? Is there something wrong with me? So

I was just restless, right, anxious, unsettled. How many of

you feel have ever been in a state of being unsettled?

Right?

You don't know when the next job is gonna come.

You don't know when your boss is gonna call in

the room. You don't know when he's gonna say well done.

You don't know when he's gonna scold you, anxious, out

of the blues, Suddenly your manager say I wanted to

see you all of the blues. Suddenly Buzzcano says he

wants to see me?

Like, what did I? Why is it? Why is it?

Let me ask you a question.

Why is it that the first thought that comes to

a mind whenever your hire I wants to see you

is what I do wrong? Why is it? Why is

it that we think it that way? Why can't it

be I just want to spend time with you, and

I would just want to say well done, my good

and favle seven. You can you can you just picture that,

because when we see our father in heaven, that's the

sentences that we want to hear.

Well done, my good a fails said, So just impet

you with me, God calls you. What would you feel

in your heart right now?

Because if your heart is in a state of anxiousness,

in a state of restless, that means there is something.

That needs to be fixed.

Because if you are ready to face your maker, that

means your job here is done. Like how when Jesus

said it is done, it is finished, he is not

anxious to meet the Lord.

He's done. Amen. Amen.

So there's a state that we're all in, and today

we're going to find out a little bit of how

can we turn from a state of restlessness to a

state of being RESTful? Okay, RESTful? Right, that's where we

want to get in. We don't want to be restless.

We want to be RESTful, and that's our goal. To

be full of rest, to be saturated with it, and

to be all flowing with the east of God. That's

the only thing that will take us from the state

of restlessness to being RESTful.

A man, we're getting something into a church, all right.

So rest in the Bible, there's a Hebrew word for it. It's

called newark. It means to settle, to be still, to

be quiet, to be at peace. It is a rest

thing that settles, like a bird finding its brunch. You

know that I have a tree right outside my house

car park, and it's spanning a span of six stories

because my car parks on the fifth floor, and the

tree goes all the way.

And every morning, every.

Evening or every morning, when I go out to world

or comeback from world, I always go to that tree

and I always see the same bird over there with

the nests. A bird that finds a tree is at

rest because he found his home.

He founds his nests.

But we are the one who will and take the

nest and make bird's nests hallelujah. I don't know what

to say about that, but it's like a bird finding

its brunch. In Greek, a little bit more familiar to us,

the word pause and our pauses. It's a refreshing pause.

It's not the absence of activity. Catch this friends, resting.

It's not the absence of activity, yeah, but the presence

of a divine replenishment that means you can be in

work by yet be refreshed in the name of Jesus.

So don't just always sick for holiday, Yeah, but sick

for the holy day in your life. Yeah, sick for

the Holy One in your life. He's just saying he

is holy. He is the only one that can bring

us rests. This thing works intermontently. Yeah. I just pressed

it twice. I don't know whether I went two slides past. Okay,

no one I to point it at the point is okay?

Point one?

All right?

So some study seven seven in the ESV version in

English Standard version says be still before the Lord and

wait patiently for him. Thread not yourself, over the one

who prospers in his way, over the man who carries

out evil devices. Now to point three, uh, statements to

you before I go on. It's underlined. The first one

is to be still?

Can you see that?

Little cute? Further says stop right, So what's the what's

the methods to finding rests? This is an introduction, okay,

and then went to the meetiate be still. That's the

first thing that we should do when you want to

acquire rest in the Lord. That's the first thing that

you should do to be still. Take a pause, like,

how God paused and admired his creation, and he called

it holy.

So if you are.

Running on empty, you are running this rag race of

just non stop moving. The first thing that we should

do is to pause. And what pause, what pauses does

is it cause you to brief. Yesterday, when I was

in the middle of the tournament, right we were just

playing and I was just going all out, and I

just reminded myself that, hey, if I want to go further, I.

Need to pause.

Stop trying to go, go, go, go go. And sometimes

we retreat our Christian faith that way as well. We

just keep going and we do not stop to hear

what God is saying to us. Right, be still before

the Lord. The second thing that we should do is

to wait. Sometimes we ask God today, we want to

answer yesterday. And because God did not answer you in

one day or two days time, you say He's not

there for you and he's not hearing us. But to

be at rest, it's also to know that way thing

is part and parcel of the rest. To trust God's

timing even when you cannot see the way. And finally,

the last thing that I underline over there is the

picture of someone who is anxious. I don't know whether

you can feel his anxiety, but it's not to thret

is to refuse anxiety, to reject the temptation to envy

or fear what others are doing.

Amen. So I got a slide. You can take picture

because it's very long.

Yeah, I don't think you can ever finish it before

I move on. But what rest is? What rest is?

You can't hear my voice? What rest is? Rest is

let's go through a list, Okay, trusting God with the

outcome of your situation.

Amen. I think be quiet?

Yeah, entering the presence of God and remaining there. Some

of us like to enter the presence of God and

when we are done, we find the exit. Res is

choosing peace over panic, face over fear, stillness overstriving. Rest

is a spiritual discipline, something you practice and grow in. Yeah,

sometimes we want to acquire rest, but we're not willing

to practice what is needed to acquire rest. But pick

up all we can practice almost every day, but rest

we don't want to practice. Rest is the confidence that

God is working even when you cannot see it. Rest

is the sabbath. What is the sabbath? Setting apart time

that is wholly separated for God. Now this is the

important one. What rest is not because some of us

we have a very very do you have an idea

of rest, But let me just debunk itto you.

Rest. It's not laziness or spiritual passivity.

It's not being lazier because sometimes we just today I

just don't feel like doing anything badah bah. Rest is

not escaping your problems through entertainment or distraction. I want

to rest. Let me find something to entertain myself. Let us,

let me find something to distract myself from what is

happening at work, from what is happening in ministry.

I need a rest.

Rest is not ignoring your responsibilities or becoming irresponsible that

it's not rest for some of us, like for example,

myself when I went to career. Rest is not saying

Rachel and the church is yours for two weeks, do

whatever you want to do. Don't call me, don't text me.

Whatever happened. As long as the beauty is not burned down,

don't call me.

That is not rest. You still have the response, how

many of.

You feel as a doctor during your annual life, you

can say, guys, I'm doctor, but during my lever, don't

call me there wasn't going through hard go and find

the other doctor. No, it's your patient. You know what's

happening to him. You're gonna drop everything that you have.

That's why it's called an on call button.

Right.

I believe Andrew will have an on call button. I

don't know whether you can fly all the way the

Saba now, but uh yeah, but there is something called

on call button, and you have to be ready.

Right. It's not withdrawing from your responsibility.

This one very important rest is not slipping in and

calling it. But it is not slipping it and calling

it the Sabbath. Oh, our God rested, so therefore I

can rest as well. So on the seven day he rested.

So therefore the seven day is the Sunday, and fy

is not. It's actually a Saturday. But I'm gonna rest,

and I'm going to call it the sabbath.

Rest. I can skip church. I have I introduced my

own subura.

Right.

Rest. It is not withdrawing from community.

All the introvert people in the house say amen, because

God created community. Do you know the first community that

Jesus had, the twelve disciples, that was his community, And

what did they do? They broke break together, they ate together,

they did life together, they walked together, they learn together,

they sleep together. I shall not go on, but that

was the first community. That and if it's not important,

why did he teach us the concept of the twelfth

So introverts in the house. It is not an excuse

to say that I am born and introvert because you're not.

Did you know that you are never born and introvert?

You actually developed into an introvert because of your choices.

You choose not to talk to people from young You

choose to remain comfortable. But yet God is calling each

and every one of us to be brave and to

be courageous. If we are introverts, how are we going

to share the good news? So do not use it

anything excuse I'm not putting any introverts down here because,

by the way, f y.

I, I myself am an introvert.

Okay, I really better drain after today when I go back,

which all of you can all see, trust me, I

will cong on the on the sofa, trust me, and

my cat will still on my face. Res is not

binge watching, scrolling, social media, doom scrolling, or numbering yourself.

That's not rest Okay, that is not rest.

So we're gonna go into the four pillars, the four

points of rest.

I hope I covered that.

And we're gonna go through a little exercise and I'm

gonna bring this white board out because friends and family.

I actually got this message in a dream, so world,

wow wow, Okay, thank you Rogers and Nah Elijah, thank you.

So this was a dream that I had, and I'm

going to explain it a little bit further, but just

have this picture.

I was dreaming, obviously, and I and.

I and I saw a cross, Okay, I saw a cross,

and in that cross, all I could see was a

picture of a serpent. Okay, it's not as cute as

this snake. Thank you Elijah for for drawing this snake.

If it's this cute, then I would not have been alarmed.

But it was a very it's anaconda, very big snake

that was circling around across.

We were just circling around across.

And in that in that dream, that snake can circle

and not be on the ground, and it can like

swove swirl around across. It was circling across and in

my mind, I was just very disturbed. I was looking

at it, and I woke up. That's all I had

right across, a picture across and a stink that was

circling around. And in that season, I was also at

a state of restlessness. There was a lot going on

in my life. There was a lot going on in ministry.

There was a lot of decisions to make, There was

a lot of responsibilities on my plade, and there was

a lot of problems that were just I will not

good delve to do it. But I was in a

state of restlessness, okay, a very anxious state, a state

of like when is this going to end? And I

got that dream picture of a cross and a stink

that was encircling it. Now I'm just gonna turn this.

Help me turn this away so that it doesn't distract

anyone here. Just turn it, yeah, facing, yeah, all right,

So that's the dream, and it would make sense a

little bit more lyto Okay, So I'm gonna give you

the four points of rest and see how each one

can be a pillar. Remember, the goal is to get

in from a state of restlessness to a state of

being RESTful.

That's the goal.

So the first point, in order to get from a

state of restlessness to be RESTful is that we need

to renew our mind. Amen, we need to renew our mind.

We're gonna give you the points in the acronym R eest.

We need to renew your mind. In other words, we

have to find a place to reset our mind, to

refresh our mind, and to revive our mind.

Amen. Romans trail.

Versus two tells us this, do not be conformed to

this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

The world programs us for business performances, right and anxiety,

but God calls us to rest. Jeremiah six sixteen is

another verse that I love is say, stand in the

ways and see and us of the old paths, where

the good way, and walk in it.

Then you will find rest for your souls.

The scripture is essentially saying to us that if you

want to find rest, look in the ways of the old,

the ancient ways. How it's done. What did Jesus do

in the midst of the storm? How did he find rest?

What did Elijah do? What did Elijah do? What did

David do when he was in a state of despair?

What he did he do? He sang unto the Lord?

What did Moses, do look in the ways of the Old. Pause,

pause for a moment. Take a look at your own life. Yeah,

and pause and look what is happening.

In your own life.

Okay, I am struggling with my exam results, or I'm

struggling with a business deal, or I'm struggling with a

very bad boss. Look in the ways of the Old.

So let's say you're struggling with a very bad boss.

Look at the ways of the Old. Look at Moses's

story and see how he struggled with Pharaoh, and what

did he do with Pharaoh? What did he do? Find similarities? Right,

and see and ask for the old pasts. That means,

if you can't relate your current situation to what's happening

in days of old, ask the Holy Spirit revealed to

me and I can. I can assure you this that

there is not one situation of circumstances that is not

recording the Bible that you're going through right now.

You are not dead special.

Yeah, and let me rephrase that, your situation is not

dead special.

Yeah, you are special, but your situation is not that special. Right.

A lot of days of Old people, they're so we

are surrounded by so great a call of witnesses that

are cheering us on. They are saying that, hey, I

tell you what, Daniel, I have been in the lines

then too literally, Daniel, come on, I've been in the lines,

then should mission it go?

Come on, I've been in a fire.

You you think that your situation is fire. I was

in the fire. I was about to be burned to

crips the olden day air frier. You know nowadays we

like friers. Right, they were their friar. They're being burned.

What did Jesus do? He came in the midst of them.

And if they can acquire the peace of God, which

is Jesus, the Son of God, in their midst, then

you can acquire that as well in your state of

being in the fire.

Amen.

Because it can be done for them, it can be

done for you as well. And what does it say

you find out the ways you walk in it?

Amen? You walk in it means what you act.

On it, You believe in it, you have faith that

if it can happen for shared mission when ago, it

can happen for you as well.

Amen. Praise the Lord.

So the Lord is telling his people stalk, look back,

ask for the ancient ways. Yeah, the powers of faith,

surrender and have community with God. This like says how

to renew your mind? So how to renew your mind?

Let me give you some steps A bit small.

Sorry.

You renew your mind daily true reading the world of God. Children,

you open scriptures daily. You read the Bible because if

you don't, maybe you should.

You should.

Maybe parents can start to read scriptures with your children daily.

They'll be nice. Open the Word of God.

Parents and children alike study together one verse, two verse right,

blessed ah the meek. It's like, oh, I feel so

so poor today, but blessed the poor. It's okay to

be poor, right, It's okay. It's okay to rely on

the Lord. It's okay. Right, So renew daily to the

world of God. Let scripture rewrite the narrative in your head.

You think that the world is saying this about your situation. No,

Let the world of God saturate your hearts, your soul,

and your mind. Identify and cuts down anxiety, comparisons, and control.

It is found in Second Corinthians ten to five. Have

no time to turn to it, but if you want

to write it down you can. But you identify them

how many of you do this actively in your life?

You identify the lies of the enemy, and you say,

sit down and talk to my boss. Anxiety has no

control over you.

Darkness have no control over you. Amen.

How many of you have identified situations in your life

before and you go like, this does not belong to

the Lord, therefore it has no hole over me. Cast

it down in the name of Jesus, Amen, cast down,

cast it down. Practical use gratitude. How many of you

do that? How to renew your mind? You got to

practicalue gratitude? How many of you do that?

Right? How many of you actually practice it?

Like you go like, wow, God, you are actually so

good to me. Greateful mind is a rested mind, Amen.

A grateful mind is a rested mind, because if you're

not grateful, you're constantly thinking, why is this person saying

this about me? Why this person never say thank you

to me? This morning? I bought him coffee? He never

bought me coffee back? Because your mind is just constantly thinking.

But if you are you have a mind of gratitude,

you go like, wow, this morning, I could have walked

up four stories, but yet the person came and repaired

the lift.

In time for all of you to come out U

saying the lift.

But if you didn't practice that mind of gratitude, you

go like, why didn't the lift get repaired in time

for me? Because I had to walk out four stories

or poor me? Yeah, but being being filled with gratitude

is to say that, hey, at least the leaf is

working for others.

Amen.

You see, when you start to practice having a mind

of gratitude, you start to see that things are not

dead after all, and that's how you renew your mind.

Turn off the noise, friends, family. My wife always tell

me this, but I don't really practice it. Turn off

the noise. Turn off social media, right, turn it off. Literally,

the news endless. Sometimes I tell you what all you

have to do to find peace with what's happening in

the Middle East, Just turn it off.

To turn it off.

Because the more you watch, the more you start to reason,

the more you start to add your morality into the story,

the more you start to add your understanding the story

and go like, ah, how come you feel like that?

Wanna the more you try to understand, But it's the

peace of the Lord, that's the purses all understanding there

will God your heart and mind true Christ Jesus, so

turn it off and finally my wife as good as this,

Maybe not so much me. Recently, I've been trying, but

sometimes I kind of read my whole handwriting. So I

thought that in another life I'll be a doctor. Okay

I'm not, but J down, journal, down what God has

spoken to you? How do you think I get my messages?

Do you think that I get scheduled?

And I go like what to do to preasure?

I used to do that loud when I was when

when I just started preaching. But recently, whenever the Lord

speaks to me, like, for example, this dream, his dream

was not recent now, by the way, this dream was

in January. Okay, I didn't know what it means. The

sting was just circling the cross for five months. And

finally I now know what it means. Jo, No, now

what God has spoken, what he has done. This is important.

If you don't do this, I encourage you to practice it.

Whenever God blesses you, write it down, whenever God bless

you with thing right down, and you can call it

the book of blessing.

You open it and you go like, actually, God blessed

me so much.

House car, money, clothes, children, health, Japan, Chorea?

Sorry, did I step on anyone? Japan? Corea? Let me

your end to Japan, Corriola.

Who Sally, you realize that I actually have so much

that God has given to me. Children, You have so

much right that God has given to you. Your good

parents agree you man pras alive Isaiah, Isaiah.

I don't know where? Okay, real Oh your mother? Let

you go to camp? Oh you're right there.

Sorry, Sometimes I be blind, and uh, the ballers are

gonna see.

Thet you go to cam.

Do you think do you think? Do you think that

they are not anxious? I think they Yeah, it's gonna

be okay, it's gonna be okay. Mommy with daddy, it's

gonna be okay, Daddy and it's gonna be okay. Right,

it's gonna be okay. Michelle is very thinking. Oh but

one day Norah, okay and five more years las a

long way to go?

Wait? How old is Laura? Oh?

My?

Seven five more years four? Okay? Uh? So journal, now

what God has We're done for you?

Right?

Amen?

That's how we renew our mind. Isaiah twenty six to three.

Isaiah is a wonderful name. You know Isaiah great prophet

as well. Twenty six three says you keep him in

perfect peace. Whose mind is stayed on you? Remember this verse,

but I kind of preach it a while ago. Right,

His mind is stayed on you because he trust in you.

The perfect piece, the Shalom Shalom, the double piece is

a promise of the Lord for a mind that is

fixed on God. We'll give you some warning signs. Thank

you XTV for helping me. I forgot the press.

Willing to give you some more signs that your mind

needs to be renewed.

Okay, this is some warning signs, so you say, actually,

this will not epigirl to me. So look at the

birth and see if any of this applies to you.

Okay.

You cannot sit in silence without reaching for your phone.

Some of you now are fighting the urge to reach

are your phone to do what I don't know, to

scroll and to refresh some Facebook social media for what.

By the way, when I appreciate you, I appreciate myself

as yah.

Yeah, because sometimes I refresh your feeder I don't know

for what, and I just found out yesterday when I

refresh the feed that honest thought will sacked my little bool. Yeah,

and that was my reaction to yes, but you should

shall We should never wish a downfall on anyone. He

lost a job, Okay, just think about it. He's a

human too, he lost a job. Yeah, but he will

find on. But you cannot see it in silence without

reaching for your phone. Your thoughts are dominated by worst

cases theres dominator in everything you look at, I your

sure die on dominator. You are comparing yourself to artists constantly. Hah,

this is some warning signs. I'm not saying that you're

there there or doom date. No, no, no warning sign.

It's like syndom, syndom right about to get sick. Okay,

you comparing yourself to artists constantly? You feel anxious even

though nothing is wrong.

Are you today? Why the bird you're bringing me today?

I got rainbow. Some people look at rainbow and they say,

what's the president of God? But in the promises of God?

Right? But some people look at rainbow. You work rainbow.

You cannot sleep because your mind will stop.

That was me like yesterday. You cannot sleep because your

mind cannot stop. It's just constantly processing information. Right, So

this is some warning signs that you're You're mind needs

a refreshing, needs to be renewed. Second pillar that I

have for you is the point Emmanuel r e Emmanuel.

What does Emanuel mean God with us? Emmanuel means God

with us anyone named Emanuel. Here the good Namer Rachel.

By the way, don't read too much into that. And

here's the truth. There is no true rest without the

presence of God. There is no true rest without the

presserence of God.

You can lie on the beach in Bali.

But I put Bali because I'd never been to Bully

and I really loved the beaches, and I really loved

the oceans, and it's my dream the one day just

lie down flat on the sand. And I then realize

that actually it's not that comfortable, like now saying, but

you can. You can lie down, you can sit down

in the silent room. You can take a week off work.

But if God is not in it, it's not a rest.

It's just a pause. Sometimes now you wonder how come

you can take a long break, but yet do not

find rests because in your break you forgot Jesus.

In your break, you.

Forgot to say grace before males in your break, you

forget wish Jesus good morning. In your break, you forget

to do your devotion. How many of you do devotion

in Korea? Because I'm really inspired by bassa kind of

whoever he is at even he went to Santnila wherever

wherever I went recently for a youth old night. Please

don't kill me Pasta for revealing this. But I went

out early to find a bathroom to bath to do

my business. I went down, and I tell you what,

I got scared out my wits and I went down.

I saw this figure just like sitting down there brace

in the Lord, this fourth the tham in the morning.

But way I saw it live in action. Yeah, he

was just and I was just I don't know what

out Hello.

You?

No, I didn't know because he was just so he.

I think he didn't realize I was there because he

was just so fixated on the lot. There was in

his rest, by the way, just there was a meeting,

but he was in the rest.

Right.

If God is not in it, it's not rest, It's

just a pause. Moses understood this too in exerta study

tree for things. God said to him, my presence will

go with you, and I will give you rest. My

presence will go with you, and I will give you rests.

In another scripture, he actually said to the Lord Lord,

do not allow your presence to pass me by. I

want it, I desire it, desire God's presence. The rest

was attached to the presence the friends and family where

God goes rest ghost. So you want rest, follow God.

That's how you find rests. Amen, that's how you find rest.

Come to me, all who you, all who labor and

a heavy laden, and I will give you rests. Does

he say, depart from me? M Does he say depart

from me? Jesus only said depart from me to Satan.

But to us he says. Come to Peter he said,

come to the disciples, he said, come follow me. He says,

come all, all friends, all who labor and a heavy laden,

and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon

you and learn from me. And for I am gentle

and lowly in heart. For you will find rest in

your souls. Rest is relational, friends, It's coming to a person.

It's coming to a person, not a method. Yeah, some

of us like to say, if you want to find

rest at this, this is this this, This is what

you should do. It's not a method. It's not a method,

it is not a formula. It is found in the

presence of Jesus Christ. Amen.

That picture there is the picture of a yok.

When I was growing up, whenever they say take my yoke,

I'm thinking, like, why why take the yo? It's not yeah,

f yi, children, it's not ig yoga. Yok is actually

something that they put on the goats, yeah, on the

on the sheep, yeah, the bulls. Yeah, so that they

are tied together, not tied together, are bound together.

They have to go straight.

If one one bull, they don't do on the move

they are the bull move what they would do go

in circle? Yeah, So in order to move they have

to move together. That's what a yog is, okay, not egyo.

If I you're doing not ig yo, okay, don't think

God's egyo.

Okay.

It is a partnership Jesus saying. Jesus is saying, let

us carry this together. So imagine with me being yoke

to Jesus means to carry something together of Jesus. Let's

carry this together. Because he's young is easy, He's burden

is light. Amen, he's young is easy, It's.

Burden is light.

We're gonna go into a little bit of how okay,

so we find out that yes, we're gonna find rest,

and in order to find rest, we must be in

His presence. But how can we cultivate the presence of God?

How can we cultivate the President of God? The first

thing that we can do is to worship. Worship is

not just men on Sundays. Okay, worship extreme extreme, any

extremests in the house. It's not just men for Thursdays.

If you know, you know, do not just cat on

Thursday to worship, because worship starts long before that extreme.

I'd like to remind you that.

Worship starts long before the worship leader gives the song lists.

Worship starts in your own room. Worship starts in your

own life. What are you doing in that week, what

are you doing in that month? That's how worship is.

It's a lifestyle. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and

into His course with praise. Amen extremists, but not just

talking to extremia. Extremists. Our worship ministry band in next church.

By speaking to all of us, you worship God, you

cultate the presence of God. You worship him, you pray

not just a two do list, friends, but a conversation.

Speak to God. Listen, be still. Read the word.

When you read scripture, I'm actually giving you a guide

on how to actually do your quiet time.

Yeah, read the word. Read scripture.

You.

When you are reading scripture, you are actually sitting with God.

Did you know that? Did you know that?

Because what is this? It's the living inspired Word of God.

It is the Word, and the Word was with God?

What was God?

You're speaking, you're leaving, You're you're with it. You cultivate

the presence of God by also honoring the Sabbath. What

is honoring the Sabbath is essentially somethings aside time to

look at His creation and call it holy. That means

you look at what He has done for you from

on Monday to Saturday, and you say that I'm coming

to church. I'm coming to church, and I'm going to

give God all glory for what he has done.

Children.

Maybe you've been to school and teachers have given you

a tough week, right, but yet you are alive and

you're well. You're coming to church and you're saying that, Hey,

thank God. Amen, she's just trying to remember the children.

Yeah.

And finally, community, that's how you cultivate the presence of God.

Community irons sharpens iron.

Amen.

Being with God's people invites his manifest presence. Some sixteen

eleven says this in your presence is fullness of joy,

and your right hand are pleasures forever more joyfulness, pleasure.

These are the fruits of His presence, Amen, And they

are environment of true rests. That is my cat right away.

My cat is at true rest whenever she is with

the Master. Yeah, see how whenever that's not when I'm

not at Homer, me and Rochelle. When I at home,

we have a c CITV in a house by the way. Yes,

I bought a CITV just to want my cat, not

anything else. So when I open a CCTV and I

look at Snuggles, which is my cat. When I'm not

at home, she's always just like sitting down one hour

to our three hour for our fire hour. And me

and Rachelle we occasionally check the CDV where we're about

to come in. We step out on the liver, we

step out the leaf. Friends literally run wait up by

the way, she's a cat.

She didn't do that? What did you do? What she does?

It's so excited to see you know, to hear he

who has a year let them hear here the footsteps

of your master whatever God is in the room.

You know you are excited. You go like, wow, God

is here.

And then when she sees me, she opens the belly

and she goes like, Daddy, scratch me now, at me now,

and she does that.

Joy. I tell you what.

If cats can speak, I can tell you that's the

face of happiness.

Yeah, joy, fullness, pleasure. These are the fruits of His presence.

That's the same way how when we come to God,

and then God is in our midst, where we invite

him in worship, in word, in scripture.

His presence come before us.

Then we can open up ourselves to Him. That's where

we truly find rest. That's where we truly find joy.

Amen Elia is saying that your cat don't do that.

As it right on?

Are you sure? Maybe because you're not his master life? Okay,

I'm sure he does it with Albert.

Okay.

Anyways, so I'm gonna give you some reminders over here.

You cannot find rest in the absence of God. If

you feel restless. The first question that you should ask

is what do I need to It's not what do

I need to stop doing? But where is God in

my daily life? That's the first question issue us many

of us he quit rest to stopping. But was it

then I'm tired and you take a break. I will

never say no to people asking for a break, never

because I feel that it's necessary. But my follow up

question to that is that what are you going to

do in that break? Are you going to seek God?

Are you going to keep in his presence? Or are

you just going to.

Take a break away from everything? Because if that is

the case, then.

I would like to gently warn you that you may

drift further away and you may end up even worse

from when you started. When it's the last time you

came to God without a list? When was the last

time you came to God without a list? Just simply

be in his presence. You may be wondering why Sluggles

so excited to see me? Maybe because I'm the one

that feeds Helah. But did you notice that we found

out very recently that it's not just that because she

can be so full her foot plate still got a

love food, But yet she still come every morning after

that already fuller, still come and hit but me play Mila,

scratch me La, Hello, Daddy, good morning. Can't get off me.

And that's that's that's God's creation, you know. And I

feel that there's so much I learned from my cat.

You know.

That God just wants that from us. Not always. God

wears my foot, God wets my money, God wets my this,

God west my healing God. Where's my this? God, where's

my dad? No, he just wants you to come to

him and go like.

God.

Uh yeah, No, shoulder to rest on our Lord and Savior.

He just wanted a shoulder to rest on. You'll know

the scripture, his story. All he wants with us is

a relationship with each and every one of us. He

wants to pour out his presence into us. So that's

a question for all of us this morning. When was

the last time it came to God without a list,

just simply to be in his presence?

Amen.

The third point is to beware of the surpurn and

you'll see where this is going. Okay, beware of the surpurn.

The third letter S, which will translate to something later

which is not certain how you smart ones will already

know what it is. But you have to beware of

the serpent. Friends, beware of the serpent. Satan is the

father of lies, and one of his most effective lies

is to offer a counterfeit rests. In other terms of

fake res, okay, fake res.

Consider the final two letters of the word res ends

with S and T. We went through R and E right, revive,

renew your mind.

God is with us, Emmanuel the s Here in my context,

he represents the serpent, and the T represents the cross.

So here the friends.

Here, this friends, if you're if you're running away, here, this,

this is the enemy's strategy. Yeah, in every season of

res to get to you before the cross does. If

it gets to you before the cross gets to you,

then you're in trouble because you find rest.

You're you're trying to find rest. But he gets you.

What does he does?

He offers you something that feels and sounds like res.

R E S t r E S sounds the same.

One is the rest, one is rest. Both sounds like rest,

both sounds similar, both looks like res. Both is encouraged.

How many of you have ever heard arena? You have

worked so hard take a holiday. I'm not saying do

knack can be take holiday? I think or just went okay,

no mind, there's never not enough holidays. Okay, but both

sounds the same. But what the serpent does? It?

Is he or it five passes Calvary altogether?

It takes away the cross and he goes like, you

don't need the cross because you already get rest.

Why do you need the cross? And I can offer

you rest rest. Don't allow rest to not end with

the cross.

Friends, there is a warning for all of us, because

if it ends with the lines of the serpent, all

you're left with is ris. And the enemy seeks to

confuse us like some house you are already confused by

me uh, and things that does not belong to God

into our lives. That's what he does, right, something that's

not of the Lord. He takes edding your life. He

distracts us. He goes like, hey, have you ever conceded divos?

Whoa whoa whoa wa? Where where did I just go?

You just had an argument in your spouse and suddenly

the enemies we spring. Have you ever considered divors just

get rid of itner? Have you ever considered.

Fighting back? If your daddy and your mummy.

Have you ever considered being rude because politeness doesn't work?

Parents?

Have you ever considered using the rod on your cross

on your son and your daughter? Wagg the fullorn? You know,

wack cow?

He is serving it all you.

How any times you talim in early sudden, they ca

him in the room now and whag him to kingdom.

Come. But what does the lord say? Actually you discipline

your child with the rod? But oh what love? But

the enemy?

Sometimes he whispers stuff that sounds the same as rest,

but yet it is not rest. He adds things that

doesn't belong to rest, and he adds it in, and

you become even more and more and more and more anxious.

And this is what happens, friends, This is why you

end up with end up with two words us okay.

Second Corinthians eleven thirteen says, but I am afraid that,

as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts

will be read astray from a sincere and pure devotion

to Christ.

It makes you a once feel.

Because the serpent, as he deceived Eve, your thoughts will also.

Be led astray.

You know, Sapan sapan serpent the serpent is the master

of confusion. But did you know who is not the

author of confusion? First Corindians fourteen, the retreat. But for

God is not the author of confusion, but of peace,

as in all the churches of the saints.

That is God.

So Satan, the master, the deceit, the deceiver, the enemy.

He is the master of confusion. He confuses us. He

doesn't want even want you to believe that he is real.

Did you know that he doesn't care you know if

you think that the devil does not exist?

In fact, I think that's one of his primary objectives

to convince us the actual day is no hell, to

convince us that actually he does not exist. It's just

a figment of your imagination. But he's very real. He's

very real, and as believers, we are light of the world.

Do not be afraid of the duck. Children, Do not

be afraid of the duck.

Yeah.

I was once afraid of it as well. But the

next time you are afraid, look at the duck and said,

I am the light. Because you are a light. You're

shining in the dark. God is good, Amen, He'll be

good to all of us. Do not be afraid because

God is with us. If God is with us, then

who can be against us?

Amen?

God is not the auto of confusion, but satanists. And

this is what happens. He takes the rest, he takes

the same. Can you look at that same alphabets? You

know same, let's just rearranged, just confused. You are coming

into it seeking what rest? But what you get if

you do not hit the surpurn, you get stress. You

get stress even sound like a sturburn. Yeah, that's what

he does, do I dream? Mhm, that's all happening. You know,

he was just rare surrounding the cross. I was like,

look at it. I'm like, no wonder. I feel so

anxious because I didn't allow my season to end with

the cross. I didn't allow my season to be rooted

in the cross the end, the beginning and the end.

It didn't allow it to happen, but allow the enemy

to come in and take over. And his voice, his

noise goes like Daniel, tell you what that boy, no

hope anymore. I just give up on him knowing to

meet him anymore. No need, just let him go, let

him do whatever you want to do. It's okay on Albert, Albert,

it's okay, one, don't have to don't have to fight

that battle anymore.

What's the point? What's the point forgive?

Now?

What's the point?

Scriptures say forgive seventeen times seven times. You already forgiven

five hundred times. So no to forgive anymore, coronel. And

you get stressed, and he says, he looks at you,

and he looks at you stress. And if if he's

stressed too, if he's stressed.

So there's a if.

Look at Adam and Adam howe if stress? You know

by the way the serpent deceived. If in the midst

of Adam, did you know that Adam was actually in

the vicinity? He just didn't say anything. Guys, man in

the house, please do not remain silent when the enemy

is talking. Don't remain silent. You should be rooted in

the world God. And you said, if what that down.

Put it down. M hmm. Man, come on, we all

have a role to play. No, I'm talking to the

manor this hose. Come on, we got to rise up.

We got to rise up.

We've got to be soldiers ready to fight the war

and not be David h when he is supposed to

be in the battlefield he's nicely watching some bath. Mm hmm,

ex kids stop them? Well, yeah, supposed to be in

the midst of the war. But no, he's nicely having

a bath. Yeah, so same same, same alphabet's different outcome.

This is some of his the enemy's strategy. Next, why

is my face blocking the Yeah? Okay, forms of fake rest? Yeah,

just gonna run. Shoot is very quickly. Alcohol. I don't

know how many of you forgot God here today this morning.

Don't take alcohol. Alcohol substances. They numb you, but they

do not heal you. You know they don't do that. Yeah,

very quickly, Moving on binge watching endless entertainment. This is

some of the rest that the enemy actually offers. You

go and finished that five fifteen episodes of the Korean

drama that just came out and died the next day,

because you want to know what happened, ma Watchla. Then

the next day your boss asks you a why lie

your face like that? Why you got black eyes in

your face? You just binge watched fifteen episodes of Gossip Girl.

Of course, lah overwoking, over woking, over working as a

coping mechanism. So you do that, right, You overwoke a

lot Yeah, toxic relationships or your fantasies, your escape and

this is the temporary comfort that deepens the wood.

You don't address the issue, you go deeper into it.

You just take a pause.

Social media, Yeah, constant comparisons sleep as an avoidance a

oh my goodness, friends and family. You know, sleeping does

not take away the problem. You know.

It doesn't.

So if you are really stressed, you know, instead of

taking a long sleep twelve hours, take a short net maybe,

and then spend the rest of the time talking to God.

But the enemy is saying, take the rest, take the rest,

take the MC. Oh, take the MC. Now it is

so easy to get em C. You know, doctor.

Can I get empts here and.

Talking about myself, by the way, none of you are

you know, I'm just saying this is the this is

the enemy.

Enemy. Sometimes we said that, I know you're so tired.

No get M One thing.

I admire my wife Andre. She never take MC her

life maybe in her working life eleven years. The she

takes MC three days and very rarely should the MC.

I think the I think the father and mother trainer

very well to rely on Chinese medication every time, as

to go and see doctor h Chinese medication. You know,

root costs, Root costs, Root costs, Doctor Andrew. I'm not

saying that Western medication is bad.

It's not. It's good. I love Western medication.

I love my antibiotics, although I think that it's not

the greatest to keep taking antibiotics. I alas always call

my wifriend, Oh, I know the antibiotics. Actually, I don't

know what antibiotics does though, just simply feeding your body

something that you shouldn't be eating. But she always healthy,

always well, right West Western medication. Okay, So sleep, sleep,

don't sleep, don't sleep too much. First Peter, because First

Peter five it says, be sober, v vigilant, because your adversary,

the devil, walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whomever

he may devour. So even in your rest, be vision

and not anxious. The last point I have for you,

where the clothes very quickly, is the cross. The cross,

lean on Calvary, lean on Jesus. That's the final letter

of the word rest. The cross is where Jesus bore

every burden. You were men to carry, You are men

to carry this word and.

Sin.

Punishment of sin is death, separation, from God. But God

love us so much that he sent Jesus to die

for us. He took your sin, He took your shame,

your anxiety, your striving, your exhaustion, and he nailed them

to the cross, the wood of Calvary, the tree, and

then he said it is finished.

How many of you are happy grateful that he said that.

Wouldn't this have been so much more stressful if he

said to be continued.

Imagine Jesus hung on the cross and he went to

be continued. Well, imagine that man to be continued. Good

season two the misician.

Everyone of us have to carry across and be hung,

because there's the penalty of sin. But he took it all,

and he said it is finished.

It is finished.

He Brews four nine to ten says, this is not going.

So then there remains a sabbath rests for the people

of God. For whoever that enters into God's stress has

also rested from his works, as God did from his.

It is about entering the rest that Christ accomplished on

the cross.

This is what a cross says. The cross says it

is already finished. Imen, Amen, Church, he is already finished.

You do not have to complete what Christ has already

completed someone us here a thing that we need to

do that need to justify our works, justify our faith.

Yeah, our works is the word again, the salvation. That's

what we think.

So we keep working hard and hard and hodder. But

God is saying, take a break, take a break, take

a pause.

Rest in me. Right.

The Cross says your guilt is gone. You don't have

to keep striving and keep to keep going to be good.

Enough for God.

Friends and family, stop thinking that they're not good enough.

He'll stop it. Not seriously, all the all the young girls.

I'm speaking to the youths here. I always whenever I minister,

the young people are they always tell me that I'm

not great enough. Hello, you are good enough because God,

the Son of God, has died.

For you across you are good enough. You're good enough

for him to die for you. Hello.

Okay, he loves us so much. You are accepted. Some

ofways need to hear that again and again. You are accepted.

You do not have to perform for love. You do

not have to perform for God's love for you. Stop

trying to strive thinking that. You know, if I miss

one day or church, I need to perform time and

time again. If you miss if you miss it, you

miss it.

Just go to him.

Spend time with God, and he says you do that.

The more and more you want to come, the more

and more you want to be in His presence. You

know that in the presence of the saints, there he is.

As well, when through a tree are gethered, he's there

within omitst. So if you want the presence of God,

come and be united, be edified together. You know the

the edification of God's word doesn't just come from the

pull bit. It comes from being encouraged by one another

as well. It comes from the hellos. It comes from

the hey, brother, can I pray for you?

Right?

The cause says the enemy is defeated. You do not

have to fear what the serpent may do. Some closing

points before we're close. True, rest is not what you do,

is about what he has already done. Amen, It's about

what he has already done. Your rest thing is the

lack of faith. You rest because you believe the cross

was enough. So some of you here, maybe you don't

believe that the cross was enough. That's why you think

that you keep on have to work for the salvation. No,

you have already been saved and Jesus has already done

it for you. Amen, Repent, receive, remember, return, Take a

picture if you want to. I'm not going to cover

on this, but that's how you lean on the cross.

You repent, come to the cross, you receive. Every Sunday

you give you an opportunity. Right, do you remember you

remember when you have anxiety, Remember that it's done.

It's done.

He has already won. The Satans with spring is not done.

The same satence we spring that you need to work harder,

you need to do more. No, Jesus is saying it's done.

And return.

Make the Cross your daily center of rest, your cominion,

your prayer, Return the Calvary.

Amen. Now this is how I want to close. I'm

going to explain the dream very quickly. The cross. The

cross represents the four points of rest.

Right, I'm just going to put in the letters here,

and this is how the Lord ministered to me and

revealed to me what the cross is about. Okay, so

let's start over here. This is the first point that

the Lord ministered to me. What does stand for? He

stands for e manue. That's the next light.

So actually, what I didn't realize in the dream, did

I did that?

I didn't reveal to you that in the background there's

actually something. There was the cross, there was a stake

that was circling, and they later came to a memory

that there was also a burning bush. There was also

a burning bush that was in the background. So the

entire backdrop is actually a bill of of fire. Just

remember just in visionists. So the Lord Specks spoke to me,

and that means that you whenever you want acquire rest,

you must remember me being my presence, that I'm always

with you. Amen, I'm always with you. And then he

this is the the part where it gets a little

bit interesting, at least to Mela. Okay, then he revealed

to me what the snake or the surpurn represents. Well,

to many of us, we know that the satan, the

surpurn represents Satan. It was a very very very very

very very very very disturbing picture. Actually, it was one

of the most ugliest snakes stags that I've seen in

my life. I don't know whether he had one hit,

two hit, and I don't know. Okay, this was a

snakler and yeah, it was bounding around it's just riding around.

And he appeared on one side off the cross, and

I was asking God what it meant. He revealed this

to me. Okay, so Luke, when he treated did I says,

then one of the criminals who hang blesh him. Him

saying if you are the Christ, save yourself and save

us sounds so million. This is what we always do,

you know, we always go to Christ asking him to

save us, but we forget that he's already done. We

forget that he's hanging there on the cross to save you. Brother,

you are literally in the presence of God, you know,

but yet you do not believe. And some of us

the danger is that we may be in his presence

by yet we may not even believe. So that is

represents the other guy, the other thief that was hanging

on a cross, because in Metel four five to six

says this. Then the devil took him up into the

Holy City and set him on the pinnacle of the

temple and say to him, if he see that they're familiar,

they sound the same if you are the son of God,

Like how the thief said to Jesus, if you are

the Christ, it's questioning his identity because he doesn't believe

in who he is. If you are sort of God,

throw yourself down for his written he shall give you

his angels chargeable. This is what the devil does. He

confuses us. He uses scripture, but he didn't quote the

whole scripture. And Jesus said, depart from me, do not

blash him, do not do not confuse. That's what the

thief that. And I believe that this is my own

interpretation that the man on the cross on the right

hand side of the eleventh side. We don't always side,

but I believe that he was influenced by the devil.

I believe that he was confused by the devil because

all he cared for was himself. And we have to

be careful friends in our season of rest. We have

to be careful of the devil. Amen, we have to

be careful what the say. What the enemy is saying

his lies, his stories.

Will be careful.

And then he revealed to me this There was another

person on the cross. Remember, Harlen Luish praised the Lord

for he who should not be named. I don't know

what's his name. Let's just name him Bob. So praise

the Lord for Bob because Bob spoke to Sob because

Sab is just constantly crying and sobbing and are being

all said, Bob spoke to Sob there was influenced by

the serpent, and he said that, hello, wake up, I believe.

I'm perfect saying yah, I believe. And what's happening over there?

Because remember Bob didn't start off believing. You know, Bob

actually was also questioning, remember what is happening over there?

Romans twelve, verse two.

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for you

will be able to prove what is that good, acceptable

and perfect will of God? And what is the will

of God that all should believe, that none should perish

and have ever lost in life. So Bob decided to believe.

And where's Bob?

Now?

Where's Bob?

Now?

Bob is with Jesus? What is if our Bob is

with Jesus in paradis? Ah Leelujah, praise the Lord. So

the enemy may be circling the cross, but you just

got to remain in the presence of the Lord. Both

were in the presence of the Lord. One chose to believe,

one chose to not believe. I don't know where Stop

is now, but I know where Bob is. A man, Bob,

I'll s you when I get to Bob. When I

get to heaven, I asked, where are you, Bob? Everybody

say hello to Bob. Brahm when you go to heaven, Yeah,

says Daniel. Gave him a name called Bob, but he

was He's there because he believed. And finally he revealed

to me the last slide is this the other? This?

Bob?

Yeah, answered rebuke him, said do you not fear God?

Seeing that you are under the same condemnation. Jesus said

to him, Ima, surely, I say to you today you

will shall be with me in paradise. And finally, the

last part that was revealed to me is that we

have to be anchored in the cross. If you didn't

know what this represents, it represents the roots. Roots begin

to grow from the tree. In my dream, roots began

to grow and he went deep. He went deep. The

roots began to grow. And do you know that the

cross represents a tree? Did you know that friends, the

family the roots? And what is the roots? The last

letter is t he represents the cross. And I pray,

friends and family, that you will anchor your resting in

the cross. Iman, anchor it because he is the anchor

of your salvation. He is the cornerstone of what, believe

it last light. John Tree sixteen says, for God so

loved the world that he gave his one and only

begond and son. The whosoever who believe in Him shall

not perish again, ever lasting life.

Amen.

So what is rest? What is press? This is my

last write. I promise what is rest extremely can come up.

Res is not a concept. Res is a person.

Amen. Res is a person. Hallelujah, Praise the Lord. His

name is Jesus.

He is your Sabbath, he is your peace, He is

the steel waters, and he is your green best.

Amen. So find rest, friends and family.

Maybe you are maybe you are tired, and uh, I

don't know if this word is for you, but I

want to encourage each and everyone of us to continue

to remember that, even in the scene of rest, do

not allow the serpurn to deceive you. Because what you

should always remember that at the end of the day,

this serpurn was turned into a savior. Amen, that the

serpurn will be canceled out from the cross. It's gone

because Jesus hung on the cross. The two thieves, they're gone,

one into Paradise, one just into the grave. But he

who hung on the cross on the third day resurrected

Reason from the grave, and the empty tom was found,

and he is now on the right hand of our

Father in Heaven, Amen seated on the throne. So, friends

and family, I want to just stand your feet right now.

I'm just not a minister for a while. It's combined service,

so we can take it along a bit, a little

bit more. But if that's you and you're feeling tired,

you're in this place where you just want a little

bit of comfort from the Lord, just assuring you that

everything is going to be okay.

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