Rest vs Rush

“Rest. Rest. Rest in God’s love. The only work you are required now to do is to give your most intense attention to His still, small voice within.”

Madame Jeanne Guyon

Lord, we live in a world of rush, busy, do, demand, now, stress, test, tiring and more rush. Rest has been taken out of the lexicon of the 21^st century. Role models of rest are limited. Paradigms of rest are few. Rush and rest wrestle for control of our agendas.

Help us today to begin to prayerfully cultivate a life where rest, renewal and restoration have a place. We release the cares and woes of this week into your hands. We relinquish worry. We exchange the jangling discords church, community and country for the rest of soul and body in the solitude of our desert wanderings. We silence ourselves to sit in the holy hush of your presence. Speak Lord, for you servants are listening.

VMM

My Everything

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a a new and right spirit within me. I offer my body as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to you. You are my rock, my salvation, my sword and shield. You are my fortress and I shall not be shaken by favoritism, negative criticism, unrealistic expectations, rivalry and competition with my family, friends and the not so friendly.

I call upon you today, singing praises to your name for you are everything to me. In Jesus name, fear no longer holds me. Amen

VMM

Remember to pray a Psalm a day during the month of June.