Speaker 1: Beloved, shaloon and a blessed morning with thank God for
Speaker 1: this opportunity to share in fellowship in the Word, and
Speaker 1: welcome to our morning glory devotion. This is pasta Jeffrey
Speaker 1: and Wassa, and I'll be facilitating this episode. Let's pray
Speaker 1: Father will bless you and give you praise for this
Speaker 1: time in your word. We pray that you open our
Speaker 1: hearts in faith and grant as grace to go out
Speaker 1: there and respond to your word. In Sheeez nineteen, name
Speaker 1: a man. Let's take our confession today from Joshua one
Speaker 1: the verse eight. This book of the Law shall not
Speaker 1: depart out of my mouth, but I shall meditate in
Speaker 1: it day and night, that I may observe to do
Speaker 1: according to all that is written in it. For then
Speaker 1: I will make my way prosperous, and then I will
Speaker 1: have good success. Amen, beloved. The topic four today is
Speaker 1: Rest for the Weary Soul Part one, Rest for the
Speaker 1: Weary Soul Part one, or take our scripture reading from
Speaker 1: Matthew chapter eleven, the first twenty eight to thirty. Come
Speaker 1: to me, all you who labor and are heavy leading,
Speaker 1: and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon
Speaker 1: you and leave from me, for I am gentle and
Speaker 1: lonely in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Speaker 1: For my yoke is easy and my burden is light,
Speaker 1: a man rest for the weary soul. Part one. Have
Speaker 1: you ever reached a point where your soul felt deeply tired?
Speaker 1: Not just physical exhaustion from a long stay's work, but
Speaker 1: a wariness that touches your heart, your thoughts and emotions,
Speaker 1: a kind of tiredness that even sleep cannot fix. This
Speaker 1: is how wariness of the soul is. It shows up
Speaker 1: as confusion in the mind and heaviness in the heart,
Speaker 1: and many people carry this silently. Outwardly, we may seem okay,
Speaker 1: but on the inside we are struggling to keep going
Speaker 1: the course. Yes for this soul wariness are many. For some,
Speaker 1: it is financial pressure. For others, it is family responsibilities
Speaker 1: and other workplace and business pressures. Many others are walking
Speaker 1: through seasons of affliction and crisis. Often these burdens do
Speaker 1: not come one at a time. Life has a way
Speaker 1: of stacking pressures and responsibilities together on you. You may
Speaker 1: be dealing with financial stress while facing family tension, all
Speaker 1: in the midst of emotional exhaustion. And the weight and
Speaker 1: stress multiplies. In the state of weariness, warry persists, and
Speaker 1: this keeps the mind restless. You lie down, but your
Speaker 1: thoughts do not rest. You try to relax, but your
Speaker 1: heart remains anxious. The soul becomes heavy another weights of
Speaker 1: the mini what ifs. In these moments we begin to
Speaker 1: feel alone. Sometimes we will draw, will become quiet. We
Speaker 1: question whether anyone truly understands, and sometimes we even wonder
Speaker 1: does Jesus care about what I am going through? Beloved?
Speaker 1: The answer is a resounding yes. Jesus himself recognized this
Speaker 1: condition of the human soul. That is why he spoke
Speaker 1: these powerful words in Matthew eleventh, verse twenty eight. Come
Speaker 1: to me, all ye who labor and are heavy laden,
Speaker 1: and I will give you rest. Jesus's great invitation is
Speaker 1: for all who libor. The invitation is not limited. It
Speaker 1: is not for a special class of people. It is
Speaker 1: for everyone who is tired, burdened, and overwhelmed. It is
Speaker 1: for the one who is barely holding it together, for
Speaker 1: the one who has reached their limit, for the one
Speaker 1: who is silently crying on the inside. Jesus sees he
Speaker 1: understands the pressure, the pain, the confusion and the exhaustion.
Speaker 1: He does not ignore your struggles. He acknowledges them, and
Speaker 1: he is ready to respond with divine compassion. The beautiful
Speaker 1: truth is that Jesus does not just diagnose the problem,
Speaker 1: but he also offers a solution. He does not say
Speaker 1: try harder, He does not say go fix yourself. He
Speaker 1: simply says, come beloved. This is the starting point of rest.
Speaker 1: Rest does not begin when life becomes easy. Begins when
Speaker 1: we respond to the invitation of Jesus. That is why
Speaker 1: before anything changes around you, something begins to change inside
Speaker 1: of you when you tend to him, beloved. The first
Speaker 1: step to finding rest for your weary soul as a
Speaker 1: recognizing your deep need and accepting this great invitation of Jesus.
Speaker 1: You don't have to carry it all alone. Jesus is
Speaker 1: calling you into a relationship where you will find rest
Speaker 1: for your soul beloved in him. Through rest for the
Speaker 1: weary soul begins a man. Let's take our memory Verse
Speaker 1: for Matthew, chapter eleven, the verse twenty eight. Come to me,
Speaker 1: all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I
Speaker 1: will give you rest. Come to me, all you who
Speaker 1: labor and are heavy leaden, and I will give you
Speaker 1: rest a man. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for
Speaker 1: this great invitation. We thank you that all of us
Speaker 1: who are tired, weary, and exhausted, have the opportunity to come.
Speaker 1: That we come to you today. We submit to you.
Speaker 1: We pray that you will grant rest for our tired souls,
Speaker 1: lift the heavy burdens, and help us walk in true
Speaker 1: divine rest that only you can give a man. Be loved. God,
Speaker 1: bless you for connecting and being a part of this episode.
Speaker 1: We know that you have been blessed. We want to
Speaker 1: encourage you to continue to connect with us from more
Speaker 1: spirit filled episodes of our Morning Glory Devotion Shalon. Another
Speaker 1: spirit filled day full of the rest of God. Amen.