SLOW DOWN

-busyness leads to burnt out... -wearing busyness as a badge, thinking that we are important

   -also giving people feels that we are busy

   -desire to have wealth, prestige

-make time for God... busyness is a curse

"Be still and know tt I am God" Psalm

   -be still and not busy!

we just need to slow down to find the balance in life

5 things to learn from Jesus

1. slow-down spirituality

Jesus pace of life is slow... He always have time to hold a child, pray for the sick

   -Jesus chose to live an unhurried life... Not rushed by the pressure of the people

if we are too busy, there's no way to deepen the love in life

2. sabbath rest

-God rested to take a break so that he can enjoy His creation.. to deepen relationship with His creation

-Adam was created on the 6th day.. the first day of his creation is to enjoy God

-we need the rest to find the easy yolk..  find the light burden in rest

3. silence and solitude

Jesus did everything very well, He has excellence in His work

-the more Jesus is needed by the people, the more He retreat to pray

   -have a clear mind and hearing from Father

being quiet is not easy

-Paul is a busy person

   -there is a beauty is being quiet

4. devotional prayer

-not wanting to win the whole world and lose our soul, losing the love

-we need both

-the fruit of the spirit requires connection with people to blossom

5. detachment

free from the need (wealth, prestige) of our life to become a certain form

   -genuine joy and peace that our life needing to go in a certain way

      -doesn't matter what happen good or bad cos God is with us

less busy life is not being lazy... But like Jesus... doing less to do more

Jesus is the lord of the sabbath pic ok

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sabbath belongs to Jesus

mark 16

it was on the sabbath that Jesus rose

then 7weeks later, on the pentacose, Jesus poured out the Holy Spirit

acts 20

the disciples in the early church were committed to the coming tgt

rev 1 10

exodus 20

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why does need a sabbath rest? 

isaiah 40

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take a day off our business and rest in God

how to honor the Lord on the sabbath

1. stop, reflect and remember

isaiah 58

be aware of our steps

psalm 119

take time to think of our ways, stop and turn to the correct direction

isaiah 58 13

sabbath is a time for us to exercise self-control and worship God

sabbath is not a time for us to do our own things

psalm 119 101

exercise self-control, take time to examine ourselves.. what is our temperature for the Lord.. hot? luke-warm? cold?

amo 3 3

to walk with God, we must align our heart with His heart

eccles 5

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habakkuk 2 1

transformation happens when the voice of God is heard

2. delight yourself in the Lord

isaish

-sabbath is a day of joy

   -not a result of how the perfect the church service is (external factors)

   -the joy and delight is found in the Lord

psalm

plsam 34 8

joy is encountering Jesus

sabbath is meeting with Jesus

matt 11 28

3. serve people in mercy and love

the parises and lawyers kept silent, indifferent.. but Jesus answered by His actions by healing the sick

luke 4 16

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sabbath is for healing

psalm 

KINGDOM OF GOD - LIFE OF THE KINGDOM

eternal life and kingdom and is the same thing

salvation = kingdom of of God = kingdom of heaven = eternal life

-blessed are the righteous

-kingdom of God is a future reality... righteous inherited at the end of 2nd coming

we can experience the kingdom of God, eternal life

we can have eternal life now, but not in full now

what is eternal life 

1. knowledge of God

-we can start knowing God

-knowledge is not having information... is abt experience (personal encounters, entering into relationship, becoming God's friend, entering into fellowship and communion with God)

-to know a person means to have experience (knowing facts is easy.. google, facebook but doesnt mean knowing the person)

2. life of the Holy Spirit

-we need to be born again

-water, not abt baptism, but in the new covenant, the Holy Spirit will cleanse us

we need to be spiritual

born again person within us

spirit = our heart, inner-man

3 things about spirituality

1. result = Christ is being formed in us

-personality is who are externally, how we present ourselves to the world

   -easily changed via coaching

-character is internal (the real us) - fruit of the spirit

   -formed through transformation over time

      -through thoughts

-character is what God is focusing on

2. desire to integrate all aspects of all our lives

-if our spiritual life is not integrated with our life, our soul breaks down

   -dont do exactly what we say... having a divided heart

-integrity = character

3. process = place our "real self" in the presence of God

-spirituality makes us aware of our true self

   -bring it before God's presence so that He can change us

-when we overwork, we be stress / pressured.. become irritable/easily angry

-only 1 thing is needed... spirituality

-sometimes we allow ourselves to being so busy

-the true self maybe more angry, not be so pure, honest, kind

-ppl are afraid to come before God, surrender to God... things may not turn out how we want it to be...we are not willing to accept it

-weary = overworked, tired, burnout

-burdened = worried, stressed

-its a promise! but we must first come to God

-silent all our mind, come before the presence of God, focus our whole heart on Jesus

-our spirituality is more important than all other world accomplishments

-Mary chose the most important thing... that is to spirituality