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Week 3: Listening to the Father
Listening through the Word
Week 3, Day 1
This week, we will be listening to God, the Father. Can we listen to the Father without going to His Word?
As we listen to and for the voice of God, let us remember the following truths:
Isaiah 40:8 (NIV)
8 The grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of our God endures forever.
2 Peter 1:20-21 (NIV)
20 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. 21 For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
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Week 2: Listening to the Creator
The Creator Rested
Week 2, Day 7
Yesterday, we reflected in silence. Today, we will contemplate rest.
Genesis 2:2-3 (ESV)
2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
Following the lead of the Creator, and the commandment in Exodus 20:8-11, we are told to rest as a celebration of the work that has been done.
However, Deuteronomy presents a different facet of rest that connects with our focus on listening. While we do not see the specifics of the Sabbath commanded in the New Testament, nor the direct command to keep the sev-enth day holy, the spirit and purposes of the Sabbath rest continue, which we will explore today. The Jewish teachers of the law had lost the spirit of the Sabbath rest, as commanded by God, which I hope we can renew a bit today.