Tag: rest
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When the Answer Still Doesn’t Satisfy – Genesis 30:21-24
Genesis 30:21-24 And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah. And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb. And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach: And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me…
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Still Wanting a Home in His Heart – Genesis 30:18-20
Genesis 30:18-20 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar. And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son. And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because…
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When Reinforcements Arrive – Genesis 30:9-13
Genesis 30:9-13 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife. And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son. And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad. And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son. And Leah said, Happy am…
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Resting on Resurrection – Genesis 8:2-4
Genesis 8:2-4 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the…
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The Gospel in the Genealogy – Genesis 5:28-31
Genesis 5:28, 29, 30, 31 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five…
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The Gift of Rest – Genesis 2:1-3
Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that…
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Rest for the Faithful – Revelation 14:13
Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. What a tender word this is in the middle of such a dreadful chapter.…
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When Heaven Says Rest – Revelation 6:9-11
Revelation 6:9-11 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge…
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Resting in What Was Finished – Hebrews 10:30–31
Picture a man who has just finished paying off a crushing debt. For years he tried to chip away at it—extra shifts, tighter budgets, sleepless nights worrying about the balance that never seemed to disappear. Then one day the notice comes: the account is settled. Paid in full. But imagine if that man kept sending payments anyway.…
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Seated for You — Hebrews 10:12
Hebrews 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God. That one word changes everything: sat down. Under the old system, the priest never sat down because the work was never finished. There was always another sacrifice, another reminder, another day of ministry,…
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The Never Finished Life — Hebrews 10:11
Hebrews 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. There is a sadness in that verse if you stop and look at it closely. Every priest standeth.Daily.Offering the same sacrifices.Again and again. He never sits down because the work is never finished. That is the…