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We experience God's desires in us.

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. (Phil 2:13)

How we long for the Lord's will to be done! Yet we are filled to such an extent with our own lusts and deception that we cannot tell what is of God and what is of our own flesh and soul.

It is not the Lord's will that the saint go about seeking to persuade God to perform the saint's will. This is why the current "faith message" is so ungodly. It is not our task to persuade God to do anything whether by faith or by any other means. Rather, we are to seek the Lord alone. God works in us, giving us a desire for His will, and then brings to pass His own will. This is the rest of God. Blessed indeed is the person who is content with God and His will.

How much time and strength we waste until we are willing to enter God's rest, allowing Him to create in us His own will and the accomplishing of His own will!

We find rest in the Lord.

For he that is entered into his [God's] rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. (Hebrews 4:10)

As we are willing to die in the Lord, to cease from our own works and striving, we enter the rest of God.

In six days God finished all His works through to the coming down to earth of the new Jerusalem. Every detail was finished in the mind of God from the beginning. The sons of God were predestined, called, glorified, in the darkness before time began. Then God rested.

Every person born into the world strives to create his own heaven and earth. Those who are able to hear the Lord, cease from their own works. They give their hope and dreams to God. They allow Him to bring them to the perfect place planned for them from the creation of the world.

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