{"id":586,"date":"2020-11-05T01:19:47","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=586"},"modified":"2020-11-02T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T01:23:00","slug":"full-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/full-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Thursday, November 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Rest <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. <strong>Hebrews 4:9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes God says \u2018go\u2019, sometimes God says \u2018grow\u2019 \u2013 these words were written by Rick Warren. Sometimes the Lord stops us in our tracks because we\u2019re moving too fast and everything else seems unimportant. But when the Lord steps in, we suddenly remember there\u2019s one thing that\u2019s more important than anything else: the place of full, complete rest.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s Sabbath rest is not one of exhaustion, but one of sufficiency. One in which we slow down to remind ourselves of God\u2019s presence in this situation. This isn\u2019t a passive dependency, but an active effort to enter into the rest of the \u2018<em>All sufficient One\u2019. An effort to be doing His will, not ours. \u2018He is in us to will and to act for His good pleasure\u2019<\/em> Philippians 2:13.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer for today<\/strong>: <em>Father, I\u2019m sorry for the times when I\u2019ve operated out of my own strength, without allowing You to work in me and through me. Help me to keep focus on You and not on everything that is happening all around me. I want to enter Your rest. Please help me to do this. In Jesus\u2019 name, Amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 5 Full Rest So there is a special rest still waiting for the people of God. Hebrews 4:9 Sometimes God says \u2018go\u2019, sometimes God says \u2018grow\u2019 \u2013 these words were written by Rick Warren. Sometimes the Lord stops us in our tracks because we\u2019re moving too fast and everything else seems unimportant. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}