Finding Rest in God: Trusting Our Shepherd Daily

1) "The Bible, God's word to us, the creator of the universe said to us, you need to take one day out of every seven and do nothing. You need to rest. You need to recreate. The owner who built it, like the manufacturer of your life, says if you want your life to run at its best, you need to take a day a week to slow down and to stop, to rest, to recreate. You've probably heard this saying. It's not in the Bible, but it's probably a true statement. You've heard it. If the devil can't make you bad, he'll make you busy." [02:06] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2) "The problem is we move so fast like it is hard to follow Jesus when we're following a thousand other things it's hard to keep our mind on what's number one when numbers two through twelve gather our attention so often like let me give you an example maybe you've experienced this or something similar you're thinking to yourself regular day you're thinking to yourself oh hey I've got to get my oil changed like that's important. I got to get changed. You pull out your phone so you can schedule it. So you can leave you a note to do something so you don't forget because you don't want to burn up the engine." [14:02] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3) "If you're not experiencing rest, if you don't have a day, a Sabbath day is what the Old Testament calls it. We'll talk about it a little later. If you don't have a Sabbath day, if you don't have rest, if you're not being renewed, if you're not being recreated, here's what we know. You're not following Jesus. Now don't get mad at me. I didn't say it. His name is David. He's an Old Testament guy. You can take it up with him. He's dead, but he said it. Inspired by the Spirit of God. Because if you're following Jesus, he leads, he renews, he does those things. Like that's who he is." [16:07] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4) "The problem with that question is when we ask it, we tend to be asking it looking for one answer. Like this is God's will in this box. Here it is. Problem is when I was 16, I was asking God, what's your will for my life? And it was to be a student pastor. God's will for my life was also to be a family pastor at one time. And then a church plant pastor and lead city church. His will for my life was to be a dad. His will for my life was to be a husband. His will for my life was to do financial things for people, financial planning and management, things like that. There's a lot of things that God's will is." [19:39] (39 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5) "If God's plan is for you to be there 10 years from now, you know, the easiest way to get there, follow him each day there. Because what happens is we get, we want that answer. And here's what, here's what we do because we want control. There's the answer. That's where I'm going to be 20 years. Thanks Jesus for giving me the insight. Now I'm going to get to work and getting there. Like I'm going to make my plans. I'm going to get to it. Thanks for telling me where I'm supposed to go. I'm going to get there. And Jesus is like, time out. I didn't tell you because I wanted you to figure out how to get there." [21:28] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


6) "Recreation is how we, recreation, you've got to prioritize rest and prioritize things in your life one day a week that recreate you. And many times that's recreation that does that. Now, listen. The Sabbath, it's what the Jewish people practice a one day a week. It was their day of worship where they rested and they renewed was a part of the Ten Commandments. If you're not real familiar with the Bible, like, the Old Testament has a lot of laws, a lot of expectations for God's people and that covenant relationship we talked about. But God gives them the big 10." [23:24] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


7) "You have to believe that God knows better than you do. And you've got to believe that God cares more than you do. That's the gist of it. We don't. We go, God doesn't know really that this is best. And so we hold things. We hold our finances. We hold a relationship. We hold our schedule. We hold a career. And we don't go, Jesus, I'll just follow you every day of the week. Because we don't really trust him every day of the week. So maybe your next step is just praying, saying, God, help me believe that you know better than me and help me believe that you care more than I do." [28:12] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


8) "If Jesus is the shepherd, if Jesus is the tour guide that we're following, that's where we need to be. Right there by his side. Right there going, tell me more. Right there going, where are we going next? Right there going, how do I do that? Where do we go? And tell me about this. I wanna know and experience from the tour guide, from the shepherd. So where are you at? How closely are you following? Because here's what's true. I talked about holding 10%. Sometimes we give Jesus 90%. We'll follow you in 90 % of things. But Lord, Jesus, we're holding this thing." [34:23] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)