🏳️‍🌈✝️ God is the source of strength, power, and refreshment.

Written by John W. Ritenbaugh

December 1, 2017 

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Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the LORD,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:28-31

It is vital for us to understand that this is where the Sabbath "rest" comes from! God is the source of strength, power, and refreshment. They all come from our relationship with God within the proper keeping of the Sabbath day. He gives it to us as a gift of His grace.

He restores our energy. He gives us the power to overcome and to grow. He gives us peace of mind so that we are truly rested. He helps us to recover our strength. He enables us to live confident, hope-filled lives. He gives us good health and sound minds. "The Lord gives His beloved sleep." He gives us strength-restoring sleep. All of these things are gifts of grace from time well-spent in fellowship with Him, developing the relationship with Him and communicating with Him in Bible study and prayer.

How we use the Sabbath day tells Him a great deal about how we will do in His Kingdom. I fear that many of us have put the wrong emphasis on it. We tend to look at the Sabbath day as "things that we cannot do" rather than "things we can do" - truly liberating things we cannot devote time to do on the other six days of the week.

— John W. Ritenbaugh

To learn more, see:
Sabbath keeping (Part 1)

Related Topics:

Bible Study
  God as Source of Strength and Energy Peace of God
 Peace Of Mind Power of God
 Power to Overcome Prayer
 Prayer as Fellowship
  Refreshment
 Relationship with God
  Sabbath
 Sabbath and Relationship with God
 Sabbath and Restoration of Strength
 Sabbath as Source of Strength and Energy  
Sabbath Keeping Sabbath Rest Sound Mindedness

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