Part 8: Knowing His Best...Walking in Rest!

Part 8: Knowing His Best...Walking in Rest!
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

Knowing His Best...
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. John 10:10 NKJV

Walking in Rest!
The abundant life is knowing the best that God has to give. It is higher than your highest dreams...deeper than your deepest desires...greater than your greatest hopes. You can be content because you know your life in Him means you are not missing out on something better. Your heart can rest because when you have found Him to be your life, your search for meaning is over...when you have heard His call, your need for purpose has ended...when you have followed His way, your longing for direction has been fulfilled.

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My Monday Prayer: A Prayer of Intimacy

My Monday Prayer: A Prayer of Intimacy
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

Learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve Him with your whole heart and a willing mind. 1 Chronicles 28:9 NKJV

Lord, I want to know You more, not just with my head, but intimately, in the depths of my spirit. I desire to live in You, abide in You, be fruitful in You, and have the fullness of Your joy as my portion. I have tasted of Your delights and know that You are good, help me now to feast with You at Your table. Help me draw near, to drink of Your Spirit, to delight in Your will, to walk in Your steps, to be in agreement with Your will, to take Your yoke fully upon me, and to learn of You.

I ask You to take me closer to Your heart—I want to know more deeply what it means to love You; I want to know more fully what it means to experience the pleasure Your company; I want to know more completely what it means to serve You as a faithful servant.

Lord, through my vision, help to see more clearly the things that You see through Your eyes; through my thoughts, help me to understand the things that You know in Your wisdom; through my tongue, help me to speak the words that are upon Your lips. By Your grace, I want to know the power of Your cross, the fellowship of Your suffering, the triumphs of Your victory, and the glory of a life that is seated with You at the Father’s right hand.

I ask You to make me more aware of the things that You celebrate and bring You pleasure. I want to do those things that cause You to say “I am pleased”; I want to follow the path that causes Your face to shine upon me; I want to do the work that has Your approval; I want to make the choices that will result in hearing Your “Well done.”

Scriptures: Philippians 3:8-10, 2 Peter 1:2-3, Song of Songs 2:10-13, 6:3, John 14:19-21, Psalm 119:18, I Kings 3:10, Colossians 1:19, Numbers 6:24-26, Matthew 25:21
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Fret-Free Friday: Unlimited Possibilities

Fret-Free Friday: Unlimited Possibilities
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

What has the Lord asked of you? Is it time for you to step out? To be still? To let go? When you know the next step God wants you to take, you must take it in the full confidence of faith. Never put limits on yourself as to how much you will obey. Never put limits on God regarding how much He can do.

Anna J. Lindgren said, "He who depends wholly and unconditionally on God becomes an agent for unlimited possibilities." What is possible for you today as one who believes in the Lord? Jesus said, "All things are possible to him who believes (Mark 9:23). Place and keep your complete and unconditional trust in the Lord, so you can joyfully walk with Him along the path of unlimited possibilities.
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Part 7: Knowing His Best...Walking in Rest!

Knowing His Best...Walking in Rest!
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

Knowing His Best...
This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength..." Isaiah 30:15 NIV

Walking in Rest!
Rest is quiet trust. Quietness is freedom from murmuring or complaint. Quietness willingly yields to God's authority... surrenders to the Lordship of Jesus Christ...submits to the control of the Holy Spirit. Quietness is a state of peace at heart and personal well-being. It does the will of God with an attitude of praise...a disposition of gratitude...a makeup of joy.  It is the assurance that you are doing what God wants, in God's way, at God's time, for God's glory.

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My Monday Prayer: A Prayer of Full-Surrender

My Monday Prayer: A Prayer of Full-Surrender
-Roy Lessin, Meeting in the Meadow

Lord, I surrender all! I surrender all I am and all I hope to be. I release the fight, the conflict, and all that is within me that resists the good, pleasing and perfect will that You desire for me. I ask that You take my life and bury it deep within the fertile soil of Your love—hiding me away in the hidden place, unseen and unknown by the eyes of the world, under the shadow of the Almighty, under the covering of Your wings.

I ask that this day, You will settle it in my heart forever, that I have given You my all and You have received my surrender. Lord, “Take my heart and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above.” Thank You for the full assurance that my life is in Your hands, that my circumstances are under Your control, that my goals are for Your glory, and that my future is in Your keeping.

May the deepest part of my heart discover the deepest part of Yours—moving me away from a self-centered life to a life of love that knows no limits, away from hands that grasp to hands that release and give, away from what will benefit me to what will please You, away from clamor and striving to the peace of Your Kingdom, away from the glitter of lesser lights to the light of Your glory.

Thank You, that I am Yours and You are mine! Thank You for the joy of it, the lightness of it, the freedom of it, the beauty of it, the peace of it, the rightness of it, the communion of it, the wonder of it all.

Scriptures: Romans 12:1-2, John 12:24, Galatians 2:20, Colossians 3:1-3, Romans 6:1-6, 13, Philippians 3:10-14, Psalm 91:1-2, Nahum 1:7
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