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Rest · The Bible Gal

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Baba Gat Podcast, and I'm Miguel Amber.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just a Proverbs 31 woman, empowering women to step into their on-the-fire for the Lord mentality.
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  SPEAKER_00: I encourage us to live out our faith, to grow, and to believe in the calling that God has for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: My vision is to help women break the chains of their past of inner struggles and fears to create new chapters that only our Father can write for us.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm on a mission and passion to empower you and all the women out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is going to be your new favorite podcast for daily devotionals and Bible study chats.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_01: Hey my loves, welcome back.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, today is episode 45, and we're getting into resting.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: Um pull up a chair, or if you're driving, don't actually do that.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's not safe.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: But before I get started, um, I always like to start us off in prayer.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: Dear Heavenly Father, I ask that you open every uh every single listener's heart and mind, that you just fill them up with your Holy Spirit, Father.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: And I just pray that this word touches their heart, Father.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I just pray that um you speak to them during this message, Father.
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  SPEAKER_01: I pray um that you open my heart and open my mind and speak through me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give me the words to say and the thoughts to think.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let this be um a message given by you, Holy Spirit, Father, and I just pray over that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I'm gonna try really hard not to talk forever today.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't know why.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like the last couple episodes I talk way longer than I normally do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah, anyway.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I want to start us off in scripture.
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  SPEAKER_01: Matthew 11 28 through 30.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a pretty popular one, um, but we're really gonna get down to the nitty-gritty of the unfun feelings of why we need to rest more often.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_01: You clicked on this episode because you were like, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: I need to rest, and I need more of it, and I don't have enough of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so you clicked on this episode for a reason.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord laid it on your heart, and um, so let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus said, Come to me, all of you who are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.
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  SPEAKER_01: Take my yoke upon you, let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: You will find rest for your souls.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: So let me start by saying this.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord laid it on my heart to give this message the other day, and um I was like, okay, and so I put kind of like I was like, okay, I put that in the back of my brain.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_01: I was kind of busy those few days, and I knew that I wasn't gonna have time to write my notes right away, and it was gonna take a couple days.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so then today I was like, you know, like I gotta write my notes for my podcast episode in a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so then the day had gone on.
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  SPEAKER_01: I knew it wasn't I wasn't gonna have time until, you know, at the end of the day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I just have to say, like, all the glory belongs to the Lord because it's all his timing is so impeccably great.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: And truthfully, he needed these things to happen in my life so that it all fell the way that it did, so that I could give this testimony right now.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so I have a testimony uh that really goes with this rest, which is crazy because the Lord led it on my heart to give this message before I had like this situation.
• 3:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like, it's not like I had this situation, this testimony, and then like I was like, Oh, I'm gonna write about it.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like, no, like the Lord told me to do this before, so like just yeah, he's so cool.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I've been battling really crazy bad anxiety lately.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_01: The the enemy's just been really trying to attack me in any way that he can.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I have chronic severe anxiety, and the Lord has delivered me from that time and time again, but that doesn't mean that there aren't flare-ups in my life.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: And so lately I've been dealing with with this flare of the past few days, and um, so it's been definitely a a walking by faith, not by sight, and that doesn't mean that every day is easy, and it doesn't mean that every day I've got the faith that I feel like I should have to get through the day.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the anxiety is really crazy high.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's been sitting pooling in my chest, or my chest feels super heavy.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm just scared and worrying about everything.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: I've been fearing the Lord, which that's how you know it's the devil.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_01: I've been scared of the Lord, scared to go to church, scared to listen to sermons.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: Um, my hands have been sweaty, my heart is racing.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: And there's been a lot of prayer, and there's been a lot of, you know, talking to the Lord and and just been like, what's going on?
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I need your help.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, you know, I I don't know why this is happening, other than like I know that the enemy is attacking me, but like I don't really know why I have this anxiety.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, I feel like maybe I did something to like let the enemy in.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I don't know what's going on.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I I need you so much extra right now because I don't have the strength in my own in my own faith.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I need you.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so today, um at church, I felt anxious on my way to church, and I knew that it was the enemy, and I had to serve at church, and I was like, you know what, like enemy ain't winning.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta go to church.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm serving, it's happening, regardless of whether I'm anxious the entire time at church or not.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't care.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am pushing through because like that that's not gonna win today.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I did.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: I went to church and I was filled with so much anxiety on the way to church, um, off and on, and I was just praying with the Lord and I was like, help me, please help me.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: I don't want, you know, I am going to church regardless of my anxiety, and if I have to sit in it, then I 100% will, because I'm not letting the enemy, you know, say, give me so much anxiety that I felt like I can't even go to church.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, that's not an option today.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_01: However, I was like, if I have to sit in my anxiety, then fine, but please, I don't really want to do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm asking for your peace, and I'm asking, you know, to rest in you because I really need that, Lord.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I really do need that.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I want to be able to enjoy the message, enjoy church.
• 6:32
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I was like, so please, and and so I kept asking him, and so then you know it would come, it came and went, if I'm being honest.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: It went away.
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  SPEAKER_01: I went to church, I served, everything was fine.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: I welcomed people in the door.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, church started, I the anxious started to build up, the sermon started, and I'm completely like in almost an anxiety attack.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: I went to the bathroom, I prayed, I'm like, Lord help me, this is crazy.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I recentered and I was like, let me recenter, let me remind myself that I'm walking by faith right now and not by sight.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I just really was using God's word on my tongue, and because in the moment, um, if I'm being honest, it wasn't in my heart because it what's in my heart is anxiousness, and I know that that's from the enemy, and so I had to take every thought captive and to continue to fight that fight.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: And um, so I gone back out.
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  SPEAKER_01: I felt ten times better.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_01: I still had some low ball anxiety that was just kind of pooling there, but definitely way better than um before I prayed, and so the Lord was definitely helping me.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: Church ended.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: We get in the car, um, we had to go grocery shopping on our way home because like honestly, the dominoes were just kind of like hitting me.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: Um, things didn't go the way they were supposed to go.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_01: I was supposed to have people over for football, which I did.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I was just like, I we weren't supposed to go grocery shopping, we were supposed to do an online order so we could have time to like get ourselves together and get the house together before people came over, but now we don't, so it's like you know, just kind of ran into the next, right?
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_01: And given my anxiety, who it's already been touch and go, I I was like, I I can't do this.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't I can't do this today.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I've got so much anxiety.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm literally paraying in church, in church, the one and the only place that you should feel like all your anxiety gone, and and I have like crazy high anxiety, and I'm like, my my chronic severe anxiety is being wild today.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I like literally, I I can't do it, Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I can't do it without you today.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: We go to the grocery store.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just like honestly living off of living with anxiety right now.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_01: I keep praying, I keep like, you know what, Lord, I I'm I'm believing in my faith that you're gonna eat that you're you that you are helping me.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: And to be honest, he was helping me because the difference that my anxiety was um after praying and and recentering myself multiple times throughout the day was so far different than when I was just letting myself be anxious.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, I get home, people come over, and I'm like, I'm anxious, like I'm shaking.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't had anything to eat, I haven't drank anything all day.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm literally shaking.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I gotta go pray.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_01: So I came to the back of the house, people are are here, they're in my home, and I had a decent amount of family that was coming over today for football.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: I come back and I I I just zone out and I'm literally like drowning in my anxiety, and I just start praying, and I'm like, Lord, I need you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I I cannot do this without you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm begging you to help me through this today.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I can't host, I cannot, and I I I brought my husband back here.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: We prayed together.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, I cannot give on an empty cup, and I've got negative in empty cup today, and I was panicking about it, and I was like, Lord help me, like, give me give me some rest.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: And um, long story short, I have to say that after that I walked out of my room, we walked out, I was completely at peace, and I felt so much better, and you know, it didn't mean that people didn't come over, they still did, and it didn't mean my house wasn't a mess because it still was, and it didn't mean that people were talking really loudly, and at times I was like, oh, this is getting a lot, because it still this still was true, and all those things still happened, but I was at peace, I was full of joy, I was full of love.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: I loved having a room full of people of my family around, gathering, snuggling on the couch, eating walking tacos that my husband made, um, you know, just laughing together, playing Uno together, watching, you know, the cousins play around on the floor, and um, just genuinely having so much love.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it was so much beyond that the Lord hosted my day.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: We there were there were times where us as a family were conversating with things that we're dealing with in life, and we had I had the chance to watch Iron Sharpens Iron.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_01: I had the chance to have talking and fellowship, and um, you know, we were talking to each other about the word and talking to each other about God and just whatever, you know, the things that we were going through in life and how to overcome it, and you know, we're really just giving us, you know, we're filling each other's cup up and all through the Lord's presence, all through the Lord's love.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: And it was just absolutely beautiful in the way that he carried my entire afternoon, and he literally was like, Amber, you can rest.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_01: I got this, baby girl.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: And it was just such an invisible beauty of the Lord's art when he when we sit in his rest.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: And so often I think that so many Christians read this verse and they think that you know, when we're exhausted and carrying this heavy weight in our minds and in our hearts, like, you know, whether it's financial stress, uh to-do list stress, health issues, uh, discipling and ministry stress, working, you know, work environment, mom life stress, you know, college life weight, um, maybe it's losing a loved one, um, maybe it's your anxiety, you know.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_01: We think that it means that we can physically rest and we just like are riding on the couch or avoiding our burden where we can sleep it off, right?
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like, oh, I can sleep it off.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_01: I can find rest in the Lord.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_01: I can I'm gonna sleep in I'm gonna the Lord's gonna let me sleep and it's gonna be all better tomorrow.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's so not true.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and it's not about that.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's this art, it's this beauty of resting our heavy burdens at our feet and saying, hey, this is too heavy for me right now.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_01: I can't do this.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm saying I'm giving up.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot do this, and I can only do this if you do it with me and if you lead the situation and you lead it this because I can't do it alone.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, it's being vulnerable and honest and completely raw with the Lord, bringing him those tears, bringing him those shakies as I had earlier today, your worries, and not just asking him like it's a request, but pleading with him to give your soul rest, to give your spirit peace in that situation, in that you know, with that person.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever it is that you are thinking of right now that that made you listen to this episode, whatever is the reason behind why you need rest.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: Plead with the Lord that He gives your spirit peace.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: That it just water just ceases like that boat in the story.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, like my story earlier, I didn't get physical rest.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: The people, like I said, the people didn't leave, they were they were there until in the evening time, and nobody else hosted for me.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_01: I still had to face my situation, but I was no longer anxious, I was no longer overwhelmed, I was filled with love, filled with joy, I was able to appreciate the blessing, and even far beyond that, I watched literally the Holy Spirit host with me, guide the environment, guide the conversations, fill up my cup and everyone else in the room's cup, and only the Lord can do that.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_01: So, all praise to him for that beautiful, beautiful story, and just something that I truly couldn't cannot forget because that was just so amazing.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_01: And my soul was able to rest in Jesus, it was able to rest in his presence and really allow him to give me the peace to carry me through the day, that I didn't have to worry about like I'm too anxious to do this, because he gave me the peace and was like, Hey, you can do this because you have me, because I am going to do it for you, I'm going to get you through it, I'm going to carry you.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I gave up my will, I gave up my control, and and I was completely leaning and relying on him, and I was like, Lord, I need you to get me through this.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm too weak to do this today.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: And he was like, That's okay.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: I got it.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_01: I can't believe that I watched him host for me.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: Host with me.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: That was absolutely beautiful.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: So beautiful.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: We were literally worshiping him and just speaking about him.
• 15:09
  SPEAKER_01: I was like I said, I was watching, um, you know, my dad was was giving advice to my sister, and my and my sister was giving advice to my other sister, and then, you know, uh uh, she was giving advice to me, and it was just all this this beautiful, fluid, ongoing, hours-long conversation.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_01: I can't, to be honest, we probably weren't really even watching football.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: It was just on.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: I know my husband and my brother were sitting there watching it off and on, you know, it was such and go.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: But you know what?
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: It didn't matter.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_01: It didn't matter, you know, that it was loud, it didn't matter that my house was a mess.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: It didn't matter that I I didn't have time to recharge my cup because you know what the Lord recharged my cup and he reminded me that he was gonna carry me through it.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: And he and I got to watch my home after church when I'm filled with anxiety on the verge of a literal panic attack, become I literally got to watch my church become, I mean, my home become church.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_01: It became the church.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: My dad literally said that today.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_01: He was like, this is the church.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_01: And he and and and the Lord turned my anxiousness, my fear, my inability to socialize, my sinful flesh frustration of all these people are coming over at the same time, like I'm not gonna get my quiet time today.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I don't know how I'm gonna be able to like be there for people and support people and minister to people today.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I really just don't have it in me.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_01: And he turned all of that into something far more beautiful than I could ever have imagined because I rested my heart and I rested my soul and I rested my burdens in his hands, and I honestly surrendered and gave up and was like, Lord, I can't do this.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_01: I need your rest.
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_01: I can't do this without your rest.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't like a hey, Lord, I could really use your rest.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: You know, please, you know, if you're willing, give me your rest.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_01: No, it was like, Lord, I am I am at my wits' ends.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_01: I am not asking, I'm saying, I need it.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_01: I have to have your rest.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: I can't do it without your rest.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_01: In 2 Corinthians 12, verse 9, he says, each time, he said, My grace is all you need.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: My power works best in weakness, and I'm so I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_01: Must I add, I have not had anxiety for the rest of the day.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_01: Now I can't promise you that I'm not gonna have it again tomorrow because I totally might be still in a situation um in a season where I'm battling with this anxiety, and it might be an ongoing spiritual battle for a little bit, but you know what?
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: I know that I can rest in the Lord, and I know that the Lord is perfect in my weakness.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: And I know that I can boast about it.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: How good he is, how amazing he is, how wonderful.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: Holy what a beautiful light, what a beautiful love he brought to my home that I was unable to do on my own.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: And he's calling you right now, he's calling you to rest your worrying spirit in his hands.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: He's asking you to drop your financial stress at his feet, not give up on the fight, and and you know, continue to work and you're continue to try to pay your bills and you're hustling to try to make all the money you can.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_01: But rest in his presence that he will provide.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: You keep doing your best to keep the lights on, and you say, Lord, I'm seeking your rest, I'm choosing your rest for my soul.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: Cover me in peace, cover me in rest.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: I trust that you will provide.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_01: I trust that you will bridge that gap.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Let me teach you how to rest with your giant to-do list.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Rest in me.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_01: This doesn't mean the huge to-do list is gonna magically be gone and the house will feel clean and it's all just gonna go away.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's not the kind of rest.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: But he is saying, take my yoke upon you, focus on the things that you can do, focus on the time that you can spend with me.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: Let me cover the rest, giving you the peace that it's okay that the list isn't done.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you have ten things to do today.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: You can only do three without driving yourself nuts.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: So you do those three.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: You spend time with the Lord, you seek his rest, you choose his rest, and you know what?
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_01: You're completely at peace that the other seven things didn't get done, and guess what?
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe somebody else in the home does another two things off the list without you asking.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: So now you've got half of the list done.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: And that's more than your sanity ever thought would happen.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: All because you chose to rest in him.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: He offers a rest for you, even in your health issues, and you're stressed that you know you you don't know what's gonna come of this this test result or this future doctor's appointment.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: And you know, he he might not heal you in a miracle, however, he we do know and believe that he can, and a hundred percent will do that.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: I think I've I've given testimonies of that before.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: He a hundred percent will, and I believe that he will.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: I believe that if you are dealing with this with a health issue right now, I believe that in prayer and in petition that he will heal you.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_01: It just might not be right now, but you know what?
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: We can have right now the peace over the fears of the unknown reports.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: We can have the rest that our hearts are have, knowing that he will provide the physical energy and the physical strength that you need to make it through that next day.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: To make it through that meeting, to make it through that being a mom, to make it through the job, to make it through whatever it is.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: He got you.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Let me carry the weight of you stressing and you know, trying to disciple this person or ministering to this group, you know, right now.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_01: You know, he says, Now, not that he's just gonna bring them to Christ for you tomorrow and and and make a whole 180 by Tuesday because again, he is a hundred percent capable of these miracles.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_01: He might actually do so, and and we can we do believe in these miracles, right?
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: And we are believing in in a miracle for these people, but resting that your seeds planted, your hard will, your can't talk today.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: Excuse me.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe I should just hold on, reboot.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_01: Beep boop boop.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your hard will work will come to see the harvest and the fruit in due timing.
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  SPEAKER_01: But let him give you the rest and the peace and covering that he is gentle in taking care of your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: That he got you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let him cover the rest of the gap.
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  SPEAKER_01: He calls you right now seeking rest at work.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe your drama and your tension between your coworkers might not disappear come Monday morning.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: But you know what?
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  SPEAKER_01: You might not magically want to be front with them tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: But let the peace in knowing that he's got it under control.
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  SPEAKER_01: Rest in your heart that you no longer are stressed about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're no longer anxious about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're no longer fearful about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're no longer in pain about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're no longer angry about it.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: But you're at peace with it because you're rested in his presence.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: That he will take care of you.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: And that he reminds us that he will teach us how to just sit and rest in that.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_01: Rest in him.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: He asks you to come to him with heavy hearts in your mommy life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not that parenting is gonna suddenly be easy or the sleepless nights were all of a sudden be over with honey.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_01: By the way, if you're dealing with that right now, I am also dealing with the sleepless nights right now.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_01: I just I just I don't have an answer.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_01: I just want to say that you're not alone and that I also drink two caffeine beverages a day, sometimes coffee, sometimes multiple energy drinks, probably is also fueling my anxiety, but that's beside the point.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, and anyway, you know, and she wakes up multiple times a night and she's crying, and you know, I I battle, you know, asking my husband to take a turn, especially when it's starting the week and he has to get up at five o'clock in the morning, and he does take a turn, but you know, that doesn't make it any better because then you know the broken sleep is rough, and I'm getting off subject, but just know that I understand that you're coming and you're not alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: But resting, that he will give you the joy, he will give you the strength, he will give you the peace to keep going, and he will take care of you, he will take care of the rest.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody said to me one time, and if I'm being honest, I try to see it that way.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: Some day some nights I do, some nights I'm gonna be real with you, I don't.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_01: Really depends on how much I'm sleep deprived.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I do try, and I just want to encourage you with this that you know being up in the middle of the night with your baby or your kid is a blessing because you get extra time to snuggle them, you get extra time with them, you get extra intimate time with them that nobody else gets.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's quieter.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_01: I know they might be crying, but you get that extra time to lay with them, snuggle with them, giggle in bed with them, that nobody else gets.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_01: And it's not gonna last forever.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: Next thing you know, they're gonna be sleeping because of nine giving you attitude, and I ain't looking forward to that, honey.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: I got a little girl, she gave me attitude already.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: She's not even a year old.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: Pray for me.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, so I'm getting off the subject.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Hey, I know that you're juggling life college, college life, and oh my gosh, I still can't talk.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I rebooted and it's not working.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I gotta reboot again or something.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: Lord help the buffering brain.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um he says, hey, I know that college is a lot, and I know you got a lot on your plate right now.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: And I know you don't know how to juggle work and school and schoolwork and socializing and family and friends and all the things.
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: But remember my word that you can come to me.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: You can lay your weary, tired soul at my feet.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give you rest.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give you peace.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: I will help you make the time fit into the everything you gotta do in the week.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give you the strength and the energy to keep going without feeling overwhelmed.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_01: I will fill you up with my love.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: I will fill you up with my peace to keep going.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: I'll give you my rest.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: Rest in me, let me do it.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: That was him, not me.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: That last part.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_01: He says, Hey, I know that you lost your mom, your dad, your grandmother, whoever it was that was close with you, and that's a lot for you.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm here to cry with you.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: And you can rest your heart on my shoulder.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I said heart, not head.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_01: You can rest your head on his shoulder too.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_01: But rest your heart on his shoulder and his hands.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: Let me give you peaceful waters over that rough water that you were feeling.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: A calm heart to feel at rest.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_01: As I wrap us up, I really wanna just end my end this message with a f my favorite poem that honestly connects me with my grandmother who passed away last summer.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um, The Footprint in the Sand.
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  SPEAKER_01: When I was a kid, long story short, she had this poem on the wall, and I loved it, and I would ask her to read it to me a lot, and then when I was old enough to read it, I would read it.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um then as I got older, I didn't read it every time I was at her house, but you know, I always loved just looking at it and smiling and remembering all the days that she would read it to me.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_01: And then for my wedding, I'm gonna cry, and I don't want to cry.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: This is um okay.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: Ah, this is getting emotional.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: Err not part of the plan.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um she got me a footprint in the sand poem for my wedding gift a few years ago when I was married, got married three years ago.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: And um yeah, I was just it was just so special to me.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_01: And uh so I want to read this poem to you.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_01: This is all I could think about as I was writing up the ending of my notes was this poem, and the Lord laid it all my heart.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_01: She might have laid it all my heart, but I have to read it to you.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't already know, just listen.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: One night I had a dream.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: Across the sky flashed scenes from my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: From each scene I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: One belonged to me and the other one belonged to the Lord.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: When the last scene of my life flashed before us, I looked back at the footprints in the sand, and I noticed how many times along the path of my life there was only one set of footprints.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: I also noticed that it happened at my very lowest and saddest times in my life, and this really bothered me.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_01: So I asked the Lord about it.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: Lord, you said once I decided to follow you that you would walk with me all the way.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times of my life there was only one set of footprints.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: I don't understand why in times when I needed you the most you should leave me.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord replied, My precious, precious child, I love you.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: I would never leave you during times of trial and suffering.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: When you saw only one set of footprints that were mine, I carried you.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: I encourage you to let the Lord carry you.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: Carry your soul when you're too weak and too tired.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: Let him do it for you.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: Rest in him today.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: Rest in him this season that you're in.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not just today.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_01: Rest in him tomorrow.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: Rest in him in the day after that.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_01: Choose to rest in him during this entire season that you're in right now.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: I want to close this out in some prayer.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I encourage you to pray this with me.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_01: Dear Father, I pray over every single listener right now listening to this message.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: Father, I pray that you laid it on their heart to know that you are always there for them when they need rest.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_01: Father, I pray that when they are tired and weary and have heavy burdens on whatever it is that they're going through.
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_01: Father, I pray that they will come to you and seek your rest, that they will ask for your rest, that they will choose your rest, that they will choose to be carried by you.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_01: That they will just sit in the beautiful art of your presence, the beautiful art of your rest.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: Father, I pray that over them.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_01: Father, help me today.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: Choose your rest.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_01: I choose your rest today, Lord.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_01: I ask you that when I'm tired and I'm weary and I and I am anxious and I'm stressed, Lord, I choose your rest.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: I choose to seek your rest.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_01: I ask that you carry me, that you continue to carry me through it.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot do this by myself.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I am weak and I need you.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_01: Please, Lord, give me this rest in my heart and in my soul.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_01: Last but not least, um, I just got super emotional at hand and I'm like literally tearing out in my face.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: And for those of you who I don't know if you I don't know if you know me personally, but like I'm not a mushball.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I'm a mushball with my husband and my kid, obviously, but like usually to most people, I'm not like a mushy, super, super mushy person.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I would definitely do love to give a little bit of mush, like a little bit of hug here, a little hug here and there, you know, a nice uh, you know, words of affirmations, text here and there, but like I'm not like a super mushy person, and I just have to say that got really mushy, and I'm a little like I don't know what to do.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody listening right now, and you are listening right now, and oh my gosh, I don't know how to feel about it.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, um, that's just me being so honest and roll.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_01: That is so much of the Lord's love on my heart right now, and um, I just don't know what to do with it because he just has so much love for you and so much love for me, and so much love for every single one of you listening, and I just have to say that he loves you with all of his heart, and it hurts him so much when you're tired and you're weary, and he just says, Please come to me, please let me rest.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_01: Or please let you know, please rest in me, he says.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but last but not least, I have to always say one more prayer.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_01: If you're thinking to yourself after listening to this entire message, hey, I really don't know if I've ever truly given my heart to the Lord.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and and and I want to do that today, and I want to take that step today as I rest in the Lord, that I choose the Lord, that I choose the to, you know, to follow him.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_01: I want to pray this prayer with you.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you have, but you notice yourself falling away lately.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you've been in this season um that you're in right now, and you've just been feeling like you haven't been walking with him, you haven't been choosing him, um, or living with him.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: And I just want to open up this opportunity to pray um this prayer of salvation together, um, that you can always choose the Lord.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_01: And today's a perfect time to do it.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um, wherever you are in the privacy of your own wherever you are in space right now, um, I'm gonna close us out in this prayer.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I ask you and encourage you to repeat with me.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: Dear Father, I'm sorry for living my life without you.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_01: I repent for sinning against you and not walking with you.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: I do believe and trust that Jesus, that you died on the cross for my sins.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: I choose today to invite you into my heart.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: That from this day forward I will live for you.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: On this day forward I will let you in my heart.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_01: I choose today to do my life with you.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: Please change my heart in life today.
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_01: Help my faith grow closer to you.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: I cannot overcome these struggles of life without you.
• 34:01
  SPEAKER_01: I need you.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_01: I want you by my side today and forever.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, y'all.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for listening.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: I will see you all next time.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you so much for listening to today's episode.
• 34:23
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• 34:27
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• 34:31
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• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to pray for you.
• 34:35
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• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: And remember, sisters, walk fully in faith this week.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: God is with you every step of the way.