My Faith In God Is My Rest

     My faith in God is my rest. Psalm 62:1-2 "For God alone my soul waits in silence, from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken." Psalm 4:8 "In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety."
     My soul is at rest for God is my rock and my salvation. He is someone that I completely trust. He is someone that I believe in with my whole soul. My soul is at rest for God is in complete control over what is happening upon this world. My present and my future is in his hands. What is there to be anxious about? Why should I worry, if I have a faith without any doubts and I fully trust in the Lord.
     If I were to say to the Lord in prayer, "In to your hands I place my troubles." Then after praying I continue to worry and think to myself if God even heard my prayer or if he will even answer it. How would I find any rest if I have weakened my faith with doubts of worry? Would not God see within my mind in how little faith I had in him when I prayed? Our rest in God is so very important to our relationship with him. We should be at rest when we cast our burdens upon him that are to heavy for us to carry alone, in so doing we should feel much lighter and more at peace. If our faith is strong and has no doubts we should feel within our heart that God is not far away from us but standing close to us as our friend.
     If we believe God to be real then we will find comfort when we pray. We must talk to God as our friend and not as a stranger. We must wholeheartedly trust in him to answer our prayers. We can find our rest in our faith and our trust in God. We can live in peace knowing we have salvation through his son Jesus Christ. Through his resurrection, we have comfort knowing that death has no hold on us anymore. We can have peace knowing the Kingdom of God is drawing near. The chaos within our mind can be broken by the peace that Jesus Christ gives through his words. Our rest, our comfort and our peace that that we have through God's Holy Spirit sustains us through our day and it makes us feel closer to God.
     My relationship to God can be hinder by my lack of rest in the Lord. To much worry and anxiety can cause a distance between me and him. It can cause a lack of peace for my soul. If my goals in life are different from what God wants me to do, this will cause a distance in my relationship with him. My rest will be broken if I feel that I am not going in the same direction as God. There could be a thing that you are doing that is displeasing to God and preventing you to have your rest so you must be willing to let it go. A strong relationship to God is to receive what God wants us to receive and let go of the things that God wants us to let go of.
     My faith in God is my rest. It is my belief in him that brings comfort to my heart and soul. My rest is me doing what God commands so to be pleasing to him in his sight. I find comfort in believing that God sees me and hears me when I pray. I want to live in peace knowing that I will be accepted by him and be welcomed to live within his kingdom. My rest is lessening all of my worries by placing them within God's hands to help me solve. 

Philippians 4:6-7 "do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Matthew 11:28 "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

John 16:33 "I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid."

Isaiah 26:3 "You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you."

Psalm 3:5-6 "I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me. I will not be afraid of many thousands of people who have set themselves against me all around."

     

My Surrender To The Lord

This is my surrender to the Lord:
      
     "I stand before the Lord without any distractions. My mind is only focused upon him. Within my mind, I can see clearly his presence before me. There is no resistance within my mind to make that view hard to see. I lay down everything that I have and that I am at his feet. I throw away that which has kept me away from surrendering my life to him. Through the Holy Spirit and his words, I will listen to his voice and do as he says. Before his throne, I bow as his obedient servant. I will refuse the things that he rejects and love the things that he loves. I will walk the path that he wants me to walk. I will live for him until the end."
     In our surrender to God. We are showing him our love. Jesus tells us what is the great commandment in Matthew 22:37-38 "And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment." We are showing God our love when we surrender our heart, soul and mind to him. If we give him our love from our hearts, we will draw near to God and he will find us, meaning we will make a spiritual connection to him. The LORD said in Jeremiah 29:13 "You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart." Deuteronomy 4:29 "But from there you will seek the LORD your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and all your soul." If we give to God our surrender of our heart, mind and soul, we will draw closer to him and find him. We will make a spiritual connection of our heart to his.
     In our surrender of our heart, mind and soul to God, we must follow Jesus and obey his words. Matthew 16:24-25 "Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." By denying ourselves and taking up our cross, we will be trying to live a spiritual life and not a fleshly one. Galatians 5:24 "And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." This is our spiritual worship to present our bodies as a living sacrifice. Romans 12:1 "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship."
     In our surrender to God, we want to be pleasing to him. We want to know if we are doing anything that he does not like and we want him to guide us in doing what is right. Psalm 139:23-24 "Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!" The apostle Paul was worried to if he was doing anything wrong that would disqualified him from receiving praise from God. He wanted to make sure he was practicing what he preached. 1 Corinthians 9:27 "But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified."
     Our surrender to God is more that just words, it is giving God our heart, mind and soul. With our mouth we will praise and thank him. We will openly declare him to be our God and with our heart we will love him. Our mind will be thinking about his words and how to put them to use in our life. Our body and soul will being doing the necessary work to support his church in spreading his Gospel to many others. Our commitment to God is with our whole being. We surrender to him wholly and completely. 

Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."