#SpreadingGod’sWord

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R e s t

God wants us to rest.

He made the seventh day a Holy day of rest.

“Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he rested from all the work of creating He had done.” (Genesis 2:3)

“In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves.” (Psalm 127:2)

If we don’t rest, we tire ourselves out.

If we tire ourselves out, we lose time we need to spend with God.

I love this quote from John Gray: “Rest is where your faith is.”

Jesus Himself shows us how important rest is:

In what He says to Martha…

“As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, ‘Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!’ ‘Martha, Martha, the Lord answered, ‘you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.’” (Luke 10:38-42)

In leading His apostles and the crowd of five thousand He fed to rest…

Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”

In being our rest…

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30)

There are numerous other times where our Lord points out that sometimes we need to stop what we’re doing, find a quiet place, and pray and spend time with Him.

Rest is very important in our relationship with GOD.

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Psalm 139

“I praise you because you are to be feared; all you do is strange and wonderful. I know it with all my heart.” (Psalms‬ ‭139:14‬)‬‬

Isn’t everything that God does strange in a beautiful and mysterious way?

This is one of my favorite Psalms. David writes about how God formed him in his mother’s womb.

It’s strange how we’re all the same but so infinitely unique? Even twins—identical even—are different somehow.

Why? Because God has made us that way. He made every plant and animal—every living thing—that same way. With breath, with life—living beings. Different, but the same. The same because we all belong to Him. We all have the same Creator. Our God is wonderous and miraculous!

And He loves each and every single one of us and has blessed each and every single one of us and He has a purpose for each and every single one of us!

Don’t be someone else when God made you YOU for a special reason and loves you for who you truly are. For who you are in Him. His Child. We’re imperfect but out of uniqueness. For we’re created by a perfect GOD.

And God makes no mistakes.

Não abra mão daquilo que Deus te deu: sua singularidade. Não há ninguém como você!

Você não precisa ser como x ou y.

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Mark 9  (pt. 2)

Causing to Stumble

“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them if a large millstone were hung around their neck and they were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where ‘the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.’ Everyone will be salted with fire. ‘Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with each other.’” (Mark 9:42-50)

A stone is what causes someone to stumble—but will you stumble in belief or disbelief? In obedience or disobedience?

“Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, ’The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,’ and, ‘A stone that causes people to stumble’ and ‘a rock that makes them fall.’ They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.” (1 Peter 2:7-8)

“Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed.” (Isaiah 28:16)

Jesus is that very stone—The Cornerstone. He is precious but those who don’t believe reject Him.

God already knows who will and who won’t believe. Peter says in this verse that they were destined to be this way.

Another key point and something very important to keep in mind is that Jesus, since the beginning of time, is the foundation of our faith. Through Him, God created the world and made Him the cornerstone which is not only our faith’s foundation but also the means by which we are saved. By Jesus Christ, our precious cornerstone.

"Where were you when I laid the foundation of my earth? Tell me, since you're so informed! Who set its measurement? Am I to assume you know? Who stretched a boundary line over it? On what were its bases set? Who laid its cornerstone…” (Job 38:4-6)

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers and elders of the people, if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well, let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health. "He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone. "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved." (Acts 4:8-12)

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God only creates one of a kind masterpieces

God is a wonderful, mysterious Creator God. He does the unthinkable. His abundant blessings and miracles are unique, along with each and every other thing in all His Creation.

The world’s smartest most creative man could never even dream of the things God does. He could never achieve—even by trying to replicate—what God has done.

Isn’t it incredible how intricate and detailed our world is? How insanely complex we are? Along with all the rest of God’s created beings.

Science impresses people. I believe science is real but it’s my GOD who’s impressing people with the science HE created for us. He created it to explain answers He knew we’d have and for us to learn about everything and be amazed.

No two animals are the same. Even twins, they have even the slightest difference. The same is true for us humans. Our very fingerprints are different from one another—twins or not. No two voices are the same. We have an infinite array of hair and eye and skin colors. We are all different and beautiful and unique.

Yet, we’re all the same species, all people.

We all come from the same Father, Creator, GOD, whose called us to love one another.

“...‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:31)

We’re all adopted into being His Children through our faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

“In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will . . . " (Ephesians 1:5)

The only thing that remains the same forever is GOD. And if we maintain our faith in Him as consistent as He is—we’ll be saved by His everlasting, never-failing Grace.

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” (Ephesians 2:8-10)

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8)

"For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.” (Malachi 3:6)