Numbers 29 - Praying God's Word

 

Please read Numbers 29.

www.blueletterbible.org/nasb/num/29/1/s_146001

Meditate on verse 7.

 

Then on the tenth day of this seventh month you

 shall have a holy convocation, and you shall humble

 yourselves; you shall not do any work.

 

Have you ever thought about rest being an act of humility?  Pride motivates people to work all the time, doing more than those around them and resenting those not as productive as they. 

 

Rest is important to God.  After creating the world in six days, He rested on the seventh day, setting an example for us to obey.

 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

  Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God;

 you shall not do any work… For in six days the LORD

 made the heavens and the earth,

 the sea and all that is in them, and rested

 on the seventh day; therefore, the LORD

blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

—Exodus 20:8-11

 

Ask the LORD to show you areas where pride drives you to work laboriously rather than rest in Him.  Do you ever cancel your daily quiet time with God because your to-do list is long?  Do you work an extra hour hoping to get ahead instead of giving your family the attention they desperately crave?  Do you justify the world’s way of keeping the sabbath, working to get caught up, participating in sporting events, getting the shopping and laundry done…?

 

Pray Numbers 29:7 over yourself and those for whom you stand guard as a faithful, prayerful watchman (Isaiah 62:6-7).

 

“LORD, help _______ and me humble ourselves

 and not do any work when You give the command to rest.

In Your name, Jesus~”

 

The WATCHMAN on the WALL, 4 – Dr. Ron and Marsha Harvell