The Father’s Rest

Most Holy Eternal Father, Father of Mercy, Father of Peace, take your rest in us. We need no other proof of your Love, Jesus showed us.
As you rest in us, you grant everything, give everything your Love and Holy Will intended for us from all Eternity for Your Glory.
We are your Glory through Jesus your Son, Your children, all that is yours you give to us.

Father, all our enemies we hand over to you, all those in need that you sent to us we ask your blessings and peace.

May we rest in you as you rest in us. On all your children Peace.

 

“Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.”

Home is where we go to rest from our labours.

We are of and from The Father’s Heart, and His Heart will not rest until it rests in us His Children.

In Him is our sabbath rest, in us is His sabbath rest.

The Father and Lord Jesus rest in us as home, and The Living Fire of The Holy Spirit lights the hearth.

 

Fortunately I know from experience as with holding infant Jesus.

People have said ‘ Where does it say “ Personal relationship “ in scripture’ ?

Being technically correct is the bureaucrats reward, but a totally pale reward by comparison, they have missed something very profound.

We can look at things bureaucratically and technically, but unless we become as little children, we can not enter the intimacy The Father wants with us.

Bureaucrats are a major part of the parental alienation with The Father, that and wounds we carry from our earthly fathers.

“Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.“

“The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has no where to rest his head.”

The animals have their homes to rest in, but God’s home is in us, we are the place where Jesus and The Father make their home.

We are the home His servants are sent to prepare the sabbath, all idols ejected, all other loves, addictions and obsessions cast out. A fitting place The Father and The Lord can make their home and rest their heads.

Our Father is a jealous Father, He suffers nothing to get between Him and His children.

Only in vulnerability can there be intimacy, The Father is only vulnerable to His children.
People can’t conceive the Love, intimacy and vulnerability of Jesus and The Father resting their heads in us as their home. Their Sabbath rest in a mere creature, the Almighty at home in our hovel.

Unless we become as giant bureaucrats, we cannot enter the total misunderstandings prepared for us.

 

I was going to share a spiritual experience of The Father that I am still processing. But this is an experience not written on any page, and in sharing it, it might well cheapen it.
The scripture points us to God, but the inner life is directed by God Himself and that takes us off the page and into another world.

But suffice to say The Eternal Father is completely misunderstood by most people. He is Goodness Itself, the Best most Loving of Fathers.

Jesus opened the way to The Father. Go to Him in confidence, not just with The Lord’s Prayer, with what is on your heart as well, as a little child.

Draw close to The Father. Anyone who calls on Him as “ Father “ He will tear the fabric of time, space and eternity to be there and help. He always hears that call, I don’t care what your situation is.
But people don’t understand this. The Father’s Name is Holy, when It is invoked it brings an entire Kingdom to you.

 

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Thanks mate. beautifully said, beautiful.

The Father’s Peace is His Order. His Peace and Order is worlds without end, there is no words to describe it. It can not be put into words. I thought it was just me a dumb garden labourer, but even the best human minds can not put proper words to it.
You can experience a thing but you can’t truly describe it. You are drawn into a thing but it can’t be translated here.
We say Peace and Order or Satisfaction or Contentment, or being accepted, surroundedly accepted, but that does not describe it.

Outside The Father’s Will is sin, chaos and pain and great stupidity. We wallow in it, in love with our sin, hassled in our chaos, drugged to our pain and blind in our stupidity.
The madness of this world compared to the Love, Peace and Joy we are offered, man truly needs to think the better of it.

This Oneness with Jesus and The Father is everything we were created for our greatest fulfilment.
Who are we that He should Love and care for us, the answer is that we are His children and He is Our Father.

 

Many proof text the word that does not live in theirs hearts. Some live the word and some merely quote it.

The devil can quote scripture for his purpose.

Many butcher the word by their misunderstandings and wrongful interpretations, all while claiming they are arbiters of its meaning.

Scripture has enormous depth and is far more profound than many suspect, they read it at shallow level, it is not given them to understand the depths.

Scripture is the Truth but it must be interpreted in Truth.

For many, scripture remains on the page to be legalised over, it belongs in the heart to be experienced in the inner life. Those spiritual realities have to be experienced, they are not on the page.

 

Many say the words, but do not truly know The Father as their Father.

Experiencing The Father goes way beyond reading about The Father.

Holding Infant Jesus goes way beyond reading the Gospel account of Bethlehem.

 

Yes. I have been with Jesus on the cross, the shores of Galilee, and at many other times.

Unless scripture leads you to contemplation you can not be in Adoration, contemplation and adoration are by grace, they are the same thing.

When you are a participant it personal, if you are just reading about it, it remains on the page.

Adoration is by Grace, being transfixed by Grace, we are taken by Grace to Adore.

Adoration is the “ personal relationship “ not specifically stated in scripture as “ personal relationship “.

We keep watch with Jesus by Adoration. This is why Adoration happens at night more often, when our mind, heart and souls are most docile. Not just waking in spontaneous prayer but being taken by Grace into Jesus Life, we share His Life.

What we understand in a moment of Adoration goes far beyond simply reading scripture.

What do you think was the “ lip service “ Jesus complained of, but the endless quoting and recitation of scripture that didn’t live in their hearts.

“Their hearts are far from me “

The little ones understand by adoration of the heart, with scant knowledge of the intricacies and nuance of scripture they understand more. What they understand remains a complete mystery to the wise and learned who can quote you chapter and verse, yet remain earth bound.

The little ones effortlessly soar by adoration the heights far above the wise and learned. Two very different levels of understanding.
Unless we become as little children, we cannot enter Adoration.

When we enter Adoration, we enter The Kingdom.

 

This is no doctrine of mine, the doctrines have already been handed down from the Apostles from long ago.

It’s a spirituality and disposition, it’s where Grace takes you after meditating on the scripture.
There is no choice when that happens, it’s when God chooses and by His Grace.
Isn’t that normal, when after we have handed over our human will for Him to direct our inner spiritual life.

The scripture is not an idol of itself to be worshipped by legalism, it is not the end. It tells of a Father and His Kingdom within us, our home and His, that is the end.

People don’t truly realise The Father is what He needs to be, for the sake of and the love of His children.

If a man finds himself despairing, abandoned by all, dying and one foot in hell, let him call out “ Father “.

I am still trying to process what happened the other day, the Goodness and Love will take forever to understand.

I do street ministry, but I’m only a gardener, not a good one either, but I need the money, so if I sound preachy I am mostly preaching to myself and I have all the authority of a not so good gardener.
Don’t want to upset you mate, I have been using this board to just get out what’s on my heart and mind mostly.
Don’t think anyone is profiting out of it anyway, so I’ll kerb back or write out things more on another site to offload.

Peace to you.

 

You don’t believe home is a place to rest your head.

You don’t believe The Father and Jesus make their home in us, is what I understand from you.

You don’t believe God took a certain rest on the seventh day, His sabbath. The type of “ rest “ I refer to.

You don’t believe a personal relationship with God is necessary.

Do you know how much of the Forrest you fail to see for the trees?

You seem to say you only believe what is explicitly stated in scripture, then from our past chats you reject what Jesus Himself explicitly says over and over again in scripture. What’s it to be?

Implied or explicit private interpreters only see what they want to see in scripture.

There is no debating that mindset.