To Rest: Saturday Psalm & Praise
Posted By Jacque on October 17, 2009
Psalm 55:6
I said, “I wish I had wings like a dove! Then I could fly away and be at rest.
We were joking last night about how exhausted we have been feeling for the past week or so. We felt like we were in some sort of sleep-deprivation experiment. Our sleep schedules have been on different shifts due to the sick goat in the garage, as most of our family friends know.
What we need is rest. Let me tell you, if rest is what you need, Our Mighty Elohim-God is the answer. Happily and joyfully, we are celebrating Shabbat today, the appointed day of rest for the people of Yehovah God. Scriptures tell us that he commanded us to rest at this appointed time, on the last day of each week.
We have found joy in the fact that these commandments are easy and a delight, and they were given first to the Israelites, but also included the strangers in the camp (non-Hebrews), and extended to the Gentiles also! We are NOT excluded from Yehovah God in any way. That is Good News!
HE is the true rest.
Matthew 11:28-29
28 “Come to me, all of you who are struggling and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.“
Here are some other verses on rest, starting with Shabbat, as it is the commanded Day of Rest for Yehovah God’ people.
Exodus 31:15
On six days work will get done; but the seventh day is Shabbat, for complete rest, set apart for ADONAI. Whoever does any work on the day of Shabbat must be put to death.Exodus 35:2
On six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day for you, a Shabbat of complete rest in honor of ADONAI. Whoever does any work on it is to be put to death.Exodus 34:21
“Six days you will work, but on the seventh day you are to rest – even in plowing time and harvest season you are to rest.Leviticus 16:31
It is a Shabbat of complete rest for you, and you are to deny yourselves. “This is a permanent regulation.Leviticus 23:3
“‘Work is to be done on six days; but the seventh day is a Shabbat of complete rest, a holy convocation; you are not to do any kind of work; it is a Shabbat for ADONAI, even in your homes.Exodus 23:11
But the seventh year, you are to let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people can eat; and what they leave, the wild animals in the countryside can eat. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.Exodus 23:12
“For six days, you are to work. But on the seventh day, you are to rest, so that your ox and donkey can rest, and your slave-girl’s son and the foreigner be renewed.
I am not trying to make this a post about Shabbat. I just can’t not make it about Shabbat though. My original plan was to write about rest. We truly have needed it. The Scriptures are clear in the rest for our bodies. Yes, there is rest in Yehoshua-Jesus, but, we must understand that HE walked in the full commandments of the Father, and these commandments are (a large part of)why he is the rest. We are to walk like he did. This is his imparting of rest to us: “Follow me.” Walk like HE did. How did he walk? ha. Well, we do not have a very clear perspective of that in our culture. We do not know the hebrew Yehoshua. We only know the Christian Jesus.
Yehovah gives us rest. He gives us an entire day, to be blessed, and separated it for himself. HE SEPARATED IT FOR HIMSELF. (Ex. 20:11)
Ok, I want to scream and shout it out here. THAT is what I want to do to all of the naysayers and those who have decided that “their Sabbath is on Sunday.” I can be arrogant in things. We all can. BUT, is it not arrogant to say we have the right to re-set the appointed time that HE must meet with us? HE set the Sabbat as a Shabbat on the last day, which, by his calendar, starts on the Hebrew Saturday evening – the Julian, Roman calandar’s Friday evening.
There is no SCRIPTURE reference that says either Yehovah or Yehoshua changed that. We can make all the assumptions we want, but it is NOT there. (and, honestly, WHO really RESTS on Sunday?)
…. Ok, back to regularly scheduled blog post….
We must NOT take charge over it and then do as WE please to make it a Sabbath. It is not ours to do. To set it apart and delight in him for that day IS a rest to our bodies and our spirits. It is refreshing, and it is necessary for us. He set it as an appointed time that we are to meet with him. Let us meet him at his appointed time.
Let us rest in HIM and the truth of the Scriptures. So many other man-made interpretations take us out of that rest.
Exodus 33:14
He answered, “Set your mind at rest – my presence will go with you, after all.”Deuteronomy 12:10
But when you cross the Yarden and live in the land ADONAI your God is having you inherit, and he gives you rest from all your surrounding enemies, so that you are living in safety;2 Corinthians 7:5-6
5 For indeed when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest. On the contrary, we faced all kinds of troubles – altercations without, apprehensions within. 6 But God, who encourages the downhearted, encouraged us with the arrival of Titus!
ALL of the words of Yehovah are TRUE and stand still today. We can take rest and have peace in that. He is GOD and knows all. We still have the promises he gave to the Israelites. We have been blesses to learn that we also have the commandments, and you can’t have one without the other.
Joshua 21
43 So ADONAI gave Isra’el all the land which he swore to give to their ancestors, and they took possession of it and lived in it. 44 Then ADONAI gave them rest all around, according to everything he had sworn to their ancestors. Not a man from all their enemies stood against them; ADONAI handed all their enemies over to 45 Not one good thing that ADONAI had spoken of to the household of Isra’el failed to happen; it all took place.
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All Scriptures taken from The Complete Jewish Bible by David Stern.
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Amein! Since learning more about Yehovah and His ways, it has been wonderful to rest on His day! It has been very rewarding to take part in SP&P with other like-minded Believers.
However, I do have a question – I am now setting aside Saturday as my Shabbat with Yehovah. However, my church meets on Sunday like most other churches, but apart from that there is no difference of belief that means I feel I have to leave church. Do you think it’s OK for me to have Saturday as my Shabbat and also attend church and worship with my church family (who truly are a wonderful family to me and the teaching there is Scriptural and not dismissive of the Torah at all) on a Sunday?
I realise that this is a matter between me and my Heavenly Father, but I wanted to get your opinion.
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October 17th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
It has been a joy to read other Believers’ writings too!
He commanded us to set apart Shabbat for him and to rest on that day. You do that. Celebrating and studying Scripture on any or every other day is not in conflict with this!
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Great post, Mrs. Jacque!
Plus the prophetic proclamation we make to everyone on this Earth (believers and non-believers) that Yeshua haMashiach is going to return here and establish His Kingdom.
God is very wise, and the reason I think He advises us so many times in Scriptures to keep Shabbat is because of its holiness. As the arch, marriage and tithe are also holy things, and we must treat them differently from common things, Shabbat, the holy time, should be also. I believe that soon we will see some power flowing through those holy things God has made, and God is teaching His people how to approach those holy things so that we can handle His power when Yeshua comes back.
Blessings!
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Sorry to hear you are so tired. Certainly can relate. Hope you had a great Sabbath rest.
Do you shop Itunes? TONS of sermons on rest and Sabbath free audios and TV programs.
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I agree Jackie. We attend church on Sunday but keep Shabbat Fri sundown to Sat sundown. Which works out great I study my Sunday school lesson and prepare to teach on Saturday.
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Jacque~
The Lord has very much impressed upon me (and I hope HE will continue to, daily!), to pray for you and your need for rest (especially as your due date gets closer).
Also, He has prompted me to share the following encouraging quote with you….
“Christianity is more than a hope, however glorious
“Christianity is more than a hope, however glorious. It is, even now, ‘Christ in you’! Full salvation belongs to the last day, but a real salvation belongs to the Christian here and now. If a believer cannot yet say that he is free from the presence of sin, he certainly should be able to say that he is free from the penalty of sin. And by God’s grace, it is his daily privilege to find Christ at work in him saving him from the downward pull of sin.”
—R.C. Lucas, The Message of Colossians and Philemon (Downers Grove, Ill: IVP, 1980), 77
Posted: 15 Oct 2009 10:00 PM PDT
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Praying for the Lord to allot you rest abundant, HveHope
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That is a nice post Mom! I read the Ex. 20:11on Saturday, Leviticus 23:3 I am glad that God made a rest day!!
Thanks for the post Mom!!
Love,
Miss Hannah
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Dear Jacque ~
Just writing to let you know that the Lord prompted me to pray for you just now.
grateful for His gifts, HveHope
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October 20th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Thanks bunches…
I have been so busy, I haven’t replied to too many comments.
I sure do appreciate the prayers!!
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