Yom Shabbat, Tishri 14, 6004 – September 14, 2019

The Rest We Need

When a person undertakes significant athletic pursuits, they learn about the importance of rest. Our bodies are designed to do miraculous things. They can build up their abilities to perform tasks. But in that process, they need time to recover and rebuild. This is true of muscle tissue. This is also true of the inner person and the spiritual condition.

Jeremiah 31:28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the Lord.

God made us to need the rest. He anointed a day of rest to be separate from all of the other days.

Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

We see that YAH has set apart the Sabbath and wants us to keep it, to rest on this day. A time to reflect, to spend time with YAH and with others, and a time to be restored in a way.

It is so good to have a Sabbath.

Prayer
Father we exalt You. You alone are King. Praise the name YAH! Let Your kingdom come here and let Your will be done here, on earth as it is in heaven. Send us now Your provision. Forgive us our trespasses and transgressions, and help us all to forgive those that have trespassed or transgressed against us. Deliver us from the evil here. Restore unto Your people one thousandfold all the good that has been taken or held back in any way from Your people, and the more besides. We ask all these things of You Fahter King, in the name YAH Yeshuah HaMashiach. Amen.