REST FROM HUMAN RESTLESSNESS
It is a hard fact that many schools of business, colleges, universities and elite associations teach people how to succeed in chosen careers and motivate people to be best among equals but seldom teach how to relax, rejuvenate, restore or simply rest.
Parents hardwire their children to be zealous to succeed at early age and hate to see them rest. They create the drive for competition and many don't know when it is time to rest. Rest is not waste of time but waiting time to rejuvenate and refire. Some adults who are sorely over zealous for riches, fame and power and dangerously desperate either die quick or hurt others including their families to achieve inordinate ambition. Some are filled with envy , greed, lack of empathy, ingratitude and are vulnerable to DEPRESSION. Why? They didn't learn to REST.
Bible records show that God who is not mortal , rested after His work of creation on the 7th day and blessed the day of His rest. This means that rest is programmed into the life of every man to rejuvenate and restore the body and elongate life
Some of the internal organs of the human body do their functions of detoxification of the body when we are asleep and in a state of rest. Sleep deprivation or any form of restlessness is an express invitation to sickness and untimely death by installment.
Irritability, foggy thinking, high blood pressure and extreme tiredness are some challenges associated with lack of rest. Rest is not laziness or lack of seriousness as some deem it to be but a time to rejuvenate to work better and achieve more. A time to refresh and sharpen your mental clarity and reload your energy.level. As a man using an axe to cut down trees , need time to resharpen his axe and relax his muscles, so does the mindz body and soul need rest.
Human beings need physical rest. Rest may not always mean sleep but a relaxing time to stay away temporarily from work load. It may mean getting off your work table to stretch, take a walk, to take a coffee break, shutting down your computer to attend to your family, taking time off to join your child in their fun day and get a good laugh , going out to watch a movie, going to a music concert, taking a vacation, reading a novel or a bible story, learning something new like how to play music instruments or cook or volunteering in a church or community. A sing along time with family or friends can be relaxing too.
Apart from physical rejuvenation from relaxing that we get from rest, there is also a DIVINE REST. Divine rest is when God gives you a break from the cycle of hurts or challenges and takes the burden off your life. Divine rest can mean different things to different people.
It can be healing from protracted sickness with no medical remedy like the woman with the issue of blood and the invalid at the pool of Bethesda in the bible. Both suffered for many years and no medical doctor could help them. They spent money and when hopes where lost, Jesus Christ gave them rest from torment as healing. It can be a time when God gives a sudden miracle end of cancer, blood disease like diabetes, heart disease or bone disease or any debilitating disease eating you up daily.
God heals and restores.. Medicine helps but when it can't, Gods mercy is available. Doctors and pharmacists also seek divine healing. Divine healing is total restoration without side effects . God's mercy are new every morning. Receive mercy of healing and restoration now. Amen
Divine rest can also mean deliverance from a repetitive cycle or family pattern of strange activities like deaths, family line sicknesses, failure at edge of break through, unexplainable business and career failure despite carefulness, etc. Blessings and curses are not myths but realities. God can give you Rest by exemption from every curse and family line patterns. ...When I see the blood , I will pass over thee. Starting today, Blood of Jesus Christ shall be seen on your door post of your life and the death angel shall not enter your dwelling. Amen.
Divine Rest can also mean HELP OF GOD. There are times that only help of God can take a man or woman beyond his or her imagination. Gods favor and mercy can do what our physical strength cannot do by connecting dots through contacts we least expected. Like the weaver, God makes our lives beautiful in His time.
God can speak to storms of life that have repetitively denied us sleep. Jesus Christ spoke to storms in Mark 4:35. He simply said PEACE BE STILL. I declare by authority, PEACE BE STILL to all storms in your life. Enjoy divine rest from storms
How can Jesus Christ do this for you in this time?
He said in the bible book of Matthew 11:28-30
Come unto me all of you that labor and are heavy laden, I will give you REST. My yoke is easy and my burden is light.
The yoke of the occult and cult is hard and their burden is heavy.. They make demands that are heavy on individuals and families.. They take lives of family members, peace, joy, and sleep away in exchange for fame, and fortune but God's blessings through Jesus Christ makes rich and adds no sorrow. Hallelujah.
The yoke of Jesus Christ is Love. Love of God is immeasurable. This yoke is simply , "To Love God with all of your heart and to love your neighbors as yourself while the burden is to have faith that God loves you and His plans for you are good, not evil to give you future with hope. Hallelujah.
Rest in the assurance that a man in Christ cannot be disadvantaged. King David faced severe difficulties and summed up with the saying, "I WAS YOUNG, NOW I AM OLD, I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN OR HIS CHILDREN BEGGING BREAD"
Be still. Do not murmur. Do not be anxious but prayerful and thankful to God in all circumstances. His peace precedes His Miracle. His peace is beyond human understanding . His peace guards the minds and hearts through Christ Jesus. This is divine rest in His promises. Miracle is on the way. Rest. Men may fail, but God never fails.
Pastor Adam Stadtmiller, a personal and ministry friend, said to me, "Bishop Collins do not let anyone make you feel guilty or shame you for resting". The next day , I went with David Adler for Kayaking. Rest is an antidote for depression. May God give you rest on all sides. Amen
Bishop Collins Chinedu Nwoye
