ENTERING GOD'S REST

The Rest Of God is for us TODAY!

Many have failed to enter into His rest. Why?… I am glad you asked!
There are many reasons why some people never enter into God's Rest.

I will list the Two Major reasons that hinder people from entering God's Rest.

Reference: (Hebrews 4:1)

1.Unbelief

2. Lack Of Trust In God

The lack of faith hinders many people from fully experiencing God. These people believe God, until…!! These are the until believers. They serve God, but when they lose control of a situation they do not trust God to see them through it. This is where many forfeit God's provision for that situation. Sound familiar? We all have fallen short of trusting God in difficult times in our lives.

I hope this writing will bring clarity as to why many are not walking in God's Rest.

I have included the scripture reference to this topic. You can read about entering God's Rest in Hebrews 4:1-12.
Please take the time to read all twelve verses. These Twelve verses can change your life, if you take the time to look at them closely.

We must learn to trust God in every situation. Even when things don't go the way we think they should go. God has not left you stranded. In fact one of His promises is that He would never leave of forsake us. So, stop thinking that God has left you all alone in your dilemma!
To enter God's Rest, we must pass through "A Door Called Trust."
We can read about Job, in his dilemma. He lost everything. He had boils on his body. His wife told him to curse God and die. Everything was going wrong and for no reason as far as Job could see. He hadn't done anything to reap this measure of suffering.

Remember, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had to TRUST God concerning the outcome of their dilemma.
Please note that they did not pray for deliverance. They already knew their God would take care of them! Though their flesh wasn't sure, their spirit knew all was well. You might say, they were in God's Rest.
Dan 3:16 They said, to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we [are] not careful to answer thee in this matter
Dan 3:17If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king.

You would think standing in front of a burning furnace, and the threat of someone about to throw you in it, would merit a prayer for deliverance! (smile)
This is where we sometimes miss it. We can pray against the attack of the enemy. [2Cr 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)]

Then, there times we need to trust God and pass through "A Door Called Trust."
I love the response of Job and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
Job's response went something like this. God I will serve you, even if you slay me!
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego's response was, "our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver [us] out of thine hand, O king"
They totally put themselves in God's hand, completely!!

We desperately need to TRUST God like this.
This is where we pass through that door I mentioned earlier.
The door of trusting God, no matter what!

Now don't stop here!
Read the twelve verses and soak in them for a while.
If you are in a dilemma or would suffer in one to come, I hope you remember this message!

Hebrews 4:1-12
1THEREFORE, WHILE the promise of entering His rest still holds and is offered [today], let us be afraid [[a]to distrust it], lest any of you should [b]think he has come too late and has come short of [reaching] it.
2For indeed we have had the glad tidings [Gospel of God] proclaimed to us just as truly as they [the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came to them]; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith (with [c]the leaning of the entire personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) by those who heard it; [d]neither were they united in faith with the ones [Joshua and Caleb] who heard (did believe).
3For we who have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on God) do enter that rest, [e]in accordance with His declaration that those [who did not believe] should not enter when He said, As I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter My rest; and this He said although [His] works had been completed and prepared [and waiting for all who would believe] from the foundation of the world.(A)
4For in a certain place He has said this about the seventh day: And God rested on the seventh day from all His works.(B)
5And [they forfeited their part in it, for] in this [passage] He said, They shall not enter My rest.(C)
6Seeing then that the promise remains over [from past times] for some to enter that rest, and that those who formerly were given the good news about it and the opportunity, failed to appropriate it and did not enter because of disobedience,
7Again He sets a definite day, [a new] Today, [and gives another opportunity of securing that rest] saying through David after so long a time in the words already quoted, Today, if you would hear His voice and when you hear it, do not harden your hearts.(D)
8[This mention of a rest was not a reference to their entering into Canaan.] For if Joshua had given them rest, He [God] would not speak afterward about another day.
9So then, there is still awaiting a full and complete Sabbath-rest reserved for the [true] people of God;
10For he who has once entered [God's] rest also has ceased from [the weariness and pain] of human labors, just as God rested from those labors [f]peculiarly His own.(E)
11Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness fell].
12For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the [g]breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart.

In His Rest,
Prophet Rick Fultz