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sonofone:
I am thankful,because just in the past two months here I have been growing and changing by leaps and bounds.I was thinking today that up until today probably,I used to regard salvation as a jigsaw puzzle race,or a quest where I was up against the clock to figure out all there was to know about the plan of salvation.I know now that I can get off that treadmill and take my rest in the finished work of Jesus Christ. I know that I will be tempted to get back on it again,but I tell you today I felt such a sweet spirit come over me while doing some shopping in walmart. I knew it was the peace of God that passes all understanding,and I am thankful to God for allowing me to see and take my rest.

Word Student:
Son of One,

Would you happen to recall what your thoughts were just prior to your getting the wonderful feeling of peace?

Is there something that you'd been grappling with recently?

Robin:
I'm so glad to hear that sonofone.

Rest was one of the first things God taught me right before he called me out of the church. I battled hard to stay in a place of rest. It was very hard for me because I was a disaster and needed to be fixed. I was far from where I needed to be. I was always tempted to get up and try to fix myself. The church reinforced that by telling me it was all finished in Christ and all I had to do was appropriate all he had finished. I found myself trying to appropriate and failed miserably. I then gave up and learned to rest.

I can remember crying from severe emotional pain that I had carried with me my entire life. I told someone that I had tried everything and couldn't make the pain go away. A few seconds later the pain was lifted. God removed it. I spent the next 5 years with God removing layer after layer of damage. All I had to do was rest and he did it all. The truth that I learned during that time was incredible.

I remember holding onto this verse and understood what it was like to labour to enter into rest.

Hebrews 4:
10For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

sonofone:

--- Quote from: M.G. on October 12, 2007, 03:48:13 AM ---I'm so glad to hear that sonofone.

Rest was one of the first things God taught me right before he called me out of the church. I battled hard to stay in a place of rest. It was very hard for me because I was a disaster and needed to be fixed. I was far from where I needed to be. I was always tempted to get up and try to fix myself. The church reinforced that by telling me it was all finished in Christ and all I had to do was appropriate all he had finished. I found myself trying to appropriate and failed miserably. I then gave up and learned to rest.

I can remember crying from severe emotional pain that I had carried with me my entire life. I told someone that I had tried everything and couldn't make the pain go away. A few seconds later the pain was lifted. God removed it. I spent the next 5 years with God removing layer after layer of damage. All I had to do was rest and he did it all. The truth that I learned during that time was incredible.

I remember holding onto this verse and understood what it was like to labour to enter into rest.

Hebrews 4:
10For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
I can so identify with you right now!! Your post has been a blessing to me. Thanks.

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acomplishedartis:
sonofone, i think something maybe close to what are you trying to say had happened to me as well. Since the begining of this year i started writing and searching and learning for so many hours, days passed so fast and i dont used to give any rest to my mind, i think it was necesary for me to do this since i could be able to write about some important issues (relationed with bible truths) on my native leguage (spanish), i knew it was temporal but now i am looking for a balance for finding that rest that you are talking about reminding that god is in control of all my actions and all my weaknes at the end will be for good.
from a few weeks ago, it has been hard for me to mantein a balance, between trying to still focus and get some rest on my always changing busy mind.

Does this has to do with what has you experienced a little bit?


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