What a great day we had at both campuses yesterday!  God blessed with a beautiful day and everyone seemed to be excited and happy about being at church!  I really enjoyed sharing the message on SABBATH and believe that this is a very important message for so many of us!  God gives us six days to go all out for Him, and during these six days we need to give God, our employer, family and friends our absolute very best!  Then on that seventh day we need to take some time to really rest.

You know that you are really resting when you are able to reflect and re-energize!  God not only wants you to take and make a day of rest – He commands it!  So take some time to prove your trust of God by taking Him up on a day of rest.  Just a few things to keep in mind about your sabbath!  The day is not the big issue – taking the day is!  What you do is not that big of a deal, as long as it works for you and is pleasing to God!

So make sure that you pick a day – remember six days of work for seven days of provision!  Make a plan for that day – what you will do and what you will not do.  If you don’t protect it, you will lose it.  Try to answer the question:  What is it that will allow me to rest, reflect and re-energize?

Experiment with your SABBATH!  Just give it a try for thirty days!  Four days of SABBATH a month could change your life!  I pray that God will give you some sweet rest and success this week!

There are some things that I love to do and there are some things that I can’t stand to do.  Occasionaly in my life, I have had no other choice, but to do some of those things that I don’t really care to do!  In almost every situation – it required that I step out of my comfort zone = the major reason why I did not want to do it!  But in everyone of those situations, when I stepped out of my comfort zone and did the thing that I dreaded, I was glad that I did, after the fact!

I am trying to remind myself of this truth now a days.  It seems that as we get older, we get more stuck in our ways and less willing to move out of our comfort zone.  The sad reality is that when we refuse to move, we often miss blessings!  You may have a way that you like it, but think about this:  Would you move out of the way that you like it, what’s comfortable for you – if it means that you would experience something extraordinary?  Just think of how many extraordinary blessings we miss because we are unwilling to move.

Let’s all look for some opportunities to step out of our comfort zones!  Let’s seize those opportunities and see what God has in store for us!