Abba Father,
Shelter your bride under the shadow of your great presence! Cover, protect, and guard your church from the adversary! My heart reflects upon Christ’s prayer in John 17 often. Even now, the prayer for protection from the adversary burns in my chest! My heart aches and grieves with the sorrow, grief, and heartache that we experience in this life! I plead with you for protection, for grace, for healing and for PEACE. Oh peace, Abba! How we long for but a moment of peace from all that assails us in this life. Our hearts yearn for the promise in Hebrews of entering your rest and experiencing blessed peace in you! But that same peace which is ultimately promised to us then, can be ours now! Philippians 4 promises that your peace will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus! Please Father, bring that peace to our hearts! Bring that peace to our souls! Bring that peace in the midst of the storm! Whatever our trials or heartaches, teach us to rest in You and find peace in Your name! Calm the storm in our souls even if the storm raging outside never does. May we claim Your promises and rest in the power of the Spirit within us! May Your Word and truth dwell richly in us and may we clutch tightly to you as a child to his mother. May our faith not weaken; but may it grow stronger as the storm strengthens in intensity. Be our rock, our fortress, our safe haven and may we never be moved!
In your mighty and powerful name we pray,
Amen!
Hebrews 3-4
A Rest for the People of God
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11 As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’ ”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Heb 3:7–19). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
4 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,
“As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest,’ ”
although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” 5 And again in this passage he said,
“They shall not enter my rest.”
6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, 7 again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Heb 4). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
Shelter your bride under the shadow of your great presence! Cover, protect, and guard your church from the adversary! My heart reflects upon Christ’s prayer in John 17 often. Even now, the prayer for protection from the adversary burns in my chest! My heart aches and grieves with the sorrow, grief, and heartache that we experience in this life! I plead with you for protection, for grace, for healing and for PEACE. Oh peace, Abba! How we long for but a moment of peace from all that assails us in this life. Our hearts yearn for the promise in Hebrews of entering your rest and experiencing blessed peace in you! But that same peace which is ultimately promised to us then, can be ours now! Philippians 4 promises that your peace will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus! Please Father, bring that peace to our hearts! Bring that peace to our souls! Bring that peace in the midst of the storm! Whatever our trials or heartaches, teach us to rest in You and find peace in Your name! Calm the storm in our souls even if the storm raging outside never does. May we claim Your promises and rest in the power of the Spirit within us! May Your Word and truth dwell richly in us and may we clutch tightly to you as a child to his mother. May our faith not weaken; but may it grow stronger as the storm strengthens in intensity. Be our rock, our fortress, our safe haven and may we never be moved!
In your mighty and powerful name we pray,
Amen!
Hebrews 3-4
A Rest for the People of God
7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test
and saw my works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation,
and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart;
they have not known my ways.’
11 As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest.’ ”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. 13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 15 As it is said,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? 17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Heb 3:7–19). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
4 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,
“As I swore in my wrath,
‘They shall not enter my rest,’ ”
although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” 5 And again in this passage he said,
“They shall not enter my rest.”
6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, 7 again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. 9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. 12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Heb 4). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.
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