Slides supporting a message by Mike Popovich, Freedom Ministries, Church, Colorado Springs, CO. Topic: When You Rest God Works Date: 7/13/2014 Link to full Message: http://freedomministries.tv/media-library/2014-messages/7-13-14/werestgodworks/

1. WhenYou Rest, God Works

2. A lot of teaching emphasizes what we need to do
- press in, love God with all your heart
- commit, vow, surrender, be desperate…
A lot of striving and man’s effort is involved

3. We are supposed to enter into His rest.
It is not about what we do, it is believing what Jesus
accomplished for us on the cross.

4. 1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to
preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of
Christ should be made of none effect.
18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power (dunamis)
of God…
21 …it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save
them that believe.
Power – Strong's 1411 – dunamis – force; specially, miraculous
power: ability, might, power, strength, mighty (wonderful) work

5. When the truth is preached, healings take place,
miracles happen, bondages are broken and people
receive their breakthroughs.

6. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (Amp) Therefore if any person is
[ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new
creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual
condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has
come…
21 For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew
no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued
with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of
God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right
relationship with Him, by His goodness].

7. Genesis 24:14 Now let it be that the young woman to whom I
say,‘Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,’ and she says,
‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink’—let her be the one
You have appointed forYour servant Isaac. ..
15 And it happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold,
Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of
Nahor,Abraham’s brother, came out with her pitcher on her
shoulder.
17 And the servant ran to meet her and said,“Please let me
drink a little water from your pitcher.”

8. Genesis 24:18 So she said,“Drink, my lord.” Then she quickly
let her pitcher down to her hand, and gave him a drink. 19 And
when she had finished giving him a drink, she said,“I will draw
water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking…
22 So it was, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man
took a golden nose ring weighing half a shekel, and two bracelets
for her wrists weighing ten shekels of gold,

9. Eliezer is named in Genesis 15 – means God is help
Eli – Short for Elohim, God
Ezer – help
‫ר‬ ‫ז‬ ‫ע‬ ‫י‬ ‫ל‬ ‫א‬
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10. Genesis 14:14 Now when Abram heard that his brother was
taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained
servants who were born in his own house, and went in pursuit as
far as Dan.

11. Genesis 14:14 Now when Abram heard that his brother was
taken captive, he armed (rook – armed, cause to pour out,
unsheathe a weapon such as a sword) his three hundred and
eighteen trained servants who were born (men who are
descendants) in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.

12. Genesis 14:14 Now when Abram heard that his brother was
taken captive, he armed (rook – armed, cause to pour out,
unsheathing weapons such as a sword) his three hundred and
eighteen trained servants who were born (men who are
descendants) in his own house, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
15 And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by
night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is
on the left hand of Damascus.
16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his
brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

13. Ephesians 1:19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His
power toward us who believe, according to the working of His
mighty power 20 which He worked (energeo – Strong’s 1754 –
to be active) in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and
seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above
all principality and power and might and dominion, and every
name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is
to come.
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head
over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of
Him who fills all in all.

14. Joel 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the
Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately,
and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain,
and the latter rain in the first month.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall
overflow with wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten,
the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my
great army which I sent among you.

15. Joel 2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the
Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately,
and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain,
and the latter rain in the first month.
24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall
overflow with wine and oil.
25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten,
the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my
great army which I sent among you.

16. Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour
out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters
shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men
shall see visions:
29 And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those
days will I pour out my spirit.

17. Ephesians 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and
in the power of his might.
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to
stand against the wiles of the devil.
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye
may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to
stand.

18. Ephesians 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the
sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit

19. Isaiah 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will
he speak to this people.
12 To whom he said,This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the
weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

20. When we try earn the blessings of God, He rests
When we enter into the rest that Jesus has provided
for us, God works
God has given us the gift His Spirit.