Rest For A Weary Soul Devotionals

Don’t deny what the Lord is doing with you. Allow Him to have His way in your situation.  You are to watch and follow His direction.  Move when He say move, be silent when He commands and shout when He direct syou and watch the walls built to protect, fall and grant you access.  The Lord is granting you access to the very things the enemy is trying to keep from you.  The devil can’t keep you out of what the Lord called you to obtain.  Faith, favor, trust, deliverance, encouragement, spiritual maturity is all involved in what is going on in your life.  Let Him bless you through this uncertainty ……He has have never placed you where there is no lesson, benefit, blessing, covering…..trust Him with your life…you will receive nothing less than God's best for you. 

Now don't think for a moment that God's best for you comes only in pretty packages.  Life can be very ugly......you and I both know that.  The Bible is filled with examples of good coming out of bad situations.....it was so very bad for Leah to be hated, but God blessed her in spite of how Jacob felt about her.  Hannah lived in a very bad situation....Penninah grating her nerves...persecuting her, in church, no less....But God worked in that too.  Consider the Israelites who withstood (and grew) under great sufferings....and yet God worked in that as well.  Abel and Stephen....even though it looked like they received the short end of justice as their deliverance came through death, God still worked through their death as well. 

God's best is often disguised and misunderstood.....but to trust Him regardless is a powerful spiritual place to reside.  The work He has for you to do requires you to trust Him with your life!!

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. (Job 13:15 KJV)

Esau.  The twin brother who didn't appreciate his birthright and sold it for fast food (a very costly quick meal to say the least)....the twin who pleaded for a blessing from his father...he'd lost out on the blessing due to his mother/brother's actions against him. 

But I was reading a scripture the other day that caused me to think.....Deuteronomy 2:19-25,  The Lord gave Moses specific instructions about the land He'd promised Israelites.  What struck me was the directive He gave Moses regarding the land of the descendants of Lot and Esau.  He said leave it alone....that land isn't yours.

That's a powerful statement!  He wanted Moses to understand what was theirs....God had given the land to others and Moses was not "meddle" with it.....walk through it, but it's not yours.  What a blessing it is to know what God has promised you and what He's denoted to belong to someone else. 

God has designated blessings for everyone.....and we have no say in who should/shouldn't receive. 

Lord, help us to know what You've set aside for us.  Help us to trust You to walk away from what isn't ours....it made no sense for the Israelites to try and set up camp against the lands God said didn't belong to them.

Yes, there are blessings for us, the children of the Most High God.  But it's not a free-for-all, snatch and grab.......God remembers His promises (He promised Abraham that Ishmael would be blessed) God is specific and He sets blessings aside for His children and to walk in the reminder that what God has for you is as equally as powerful as being reminded that what God says is not for you is really not for you. 

Don't be upset when the Lord draws lines....that's a blessing in itself.  Because in the end you don't want what God doesn't want you to have.  It might look great....and it is, for the one God set it aside for.  It's not yours because it was promised to another.  Praise God for what He's set aside for someone else.....there's no need to meddle or snatch and grab what God deems is another's....listen to His directive and receive what He has promised to you...go after what He said is yours!!

4 And command thou the people, saying , Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: 5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth ; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat ; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink . 7 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. 8 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession. 10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall , as the Anakims; 11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims. 12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them. 13 Now rise up , said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. 14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them. 15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed . 16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17 That the LORD spake unto me, saying , 18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: 19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.

In the Master's Service,

Pastor Michele D. Turner
Rehoboth Apostolic Ministries, Inc.
Author/Publisher of Rest For A Weary Soul Daily Devotional
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Matt 11:28-29 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.