2. Are you physically tired?
● According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, about 1 in 3 adults in the United States
reported not getting enough rest or sleep every day.
● Sleep deficiency is linked to many chronic health
problems, including heart disease, kidney disease, high
blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, obesity, and depression.
3. The consequence…
● Errors at work
● snappy with family
● Poor decisions
● Health
● Also the give and take
4. Other than sleeping what else can we do So we aren’t worn
out and tired?
● Make the Sabbath a priority
● Make it a rest/fun day
● Refrain from work on that day
6. Genesis 2:1-3 NIV
”Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their
vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he
had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his
work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,
because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he
had done.“
7. Genesis Chapter 2:1-3
Day 7
● After finishing his creation in 6 days, God rested on the
7th day
● This was set as an example for use to follow
● God bless the 7th day and made it holy
8. Exodus 20:8-10 NIV
”“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.”Six days
you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is
a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any
work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male
or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner
residing in your towns.“
9. Exodus 20:11 NIV
”For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth,
the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh
day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made
it holy.
10. Hebrews 4:8-11 NIV
””For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have
spoken later about another day. There remains, then, a
Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters
God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from
his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so
that no one will perish by following their example of
disobedience.”
11. Mark 6:30-31 NIV
”The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all
they had done and taught. Then, because so many people
were coming and going that they did not even have a
chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by
yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”“
12. ● Jesus recognized that the disciples were tired and needed
rest(“Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and
get some rest.”“).
● ”So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary
place.“ Mark 6:32 NIV
● You should guard your rest, if not can you do everything
you were meant to do for Christ?
13. Sabbath Laws
● New Law vs Old Law
Exodus 23:10-11 NIV
● ”“For six years you are to sow your fields and harvest the
crops, but during the seventh year let the land lie
unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your
people may get food from it, and the wild animals may
eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and
your olive grove.“
14. Exodus 23:12-13 NIV
”“Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not
work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that
the slave born in your household and the foreigner living
among you may be refreshed. “Be careful to do everything I
have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do
not let them be heard on your lips.“
15. ● Should we rest the
land?
● The benefits
● God designed the earth
to self heal
● Should every animal
rest?
● Doesn’t mean neglect.
Luke 14:5
● Everyone in your
household should rest
even works/guests too.
18. Causes of Spiritual tiredness
● The God shaped hole in your heart(the need of
Salvation)
● Are you trying to fix yourself?
● Fruitless work
● Are you putting time in the right places?
● Do you live half of the life to reap none of the living?
19. Rely on God’s Strength
Isaiah 40:29 NIV
”Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the
everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He
will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one
can fathom.“”He gives strength to the weary and increases
the power of the weak.“
20. Rely on God’s Strength
Isaiah 40:30-31 NIV
”Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men
stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew
their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will
run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.“
21. Trade your human trying for trusting
Proverbs 3:5-8 NIV
”Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your
own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he
will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own
eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to
your body and nourishment to your bones.“
22. Allow God to shape and mold you
Isaiah 64:8-9 NIV
”Yet you, Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the
potter; we are all the work of your hand. Do not be angry
beyond measure, Lord; do not remember our sins forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray, for we are all your people.“
23. Simple Grace by “Mouth of the South”
For all my elect
I have the authority to command
And the power to affect
The strength to defend
The compassion to protect
You work futility to its end
And forsake the day of rest
But when you grow tired again
I will be there to help you unforget...
