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Rest does not mean that we stop doing hard things. It does not mean we withdraw from responsibility, obedience, courage, or the realities of life. What rest begins to dismantle is the need to prove who we are while we do them. Many of us fear that if we truly rest, we will become passive or disengaged. But beneath that fear is something more personal. If we stop striving, stop producing, stop offering something to justify our place, what will hold us? Rest brings us face to f

There are times when the daily movement that keeps us busy becomes a way to avoid being fully present. It is not that we do not know stillness or rest, but that there are seasons when the Lord invites us into a deeper place of being seen. I have been noticing how easily faithful activity can keep me moving just enough to avoid staying still with what love wants to touch. Not because rest is unfamiliar, but because movement can soften the edge of presence. Stillness removes di

Transition has a way of stirring the heart. It can feel like everything around us is shifting. Old rhythms fall away, new possibilities open up, and the familiar becomes unfamiliar. Even when the change is good, transition exposes the places within us that still long for certainty. And at this time of year, when the world invites us to strive, to achieve, to do better and be better, the pressure can settle quietly over the soul. But the kingdom offers a very different way of

There is a way of seeing intercession that brings the heart into rest rather than strain. A way that begins not with effort, but with Jesus. Scripture tells us that He lives to intercede for us. He is already before the Father. He is already speaking. Intercession does not begin with our words. It begins with His presence. When we intercede, we are not starting something. We are joining Someone. Intercession is joining with Jesus. It is letting our heart come close. It is all

As we continue our December focus on spiritual warfare, this post builds directly on what we explored in Warfare From Rest. If you have not yet read the first post in the series, I encourage you to return to it before you continue here, because the foundations we laid there shape everything we are about to step into. Today we begin looking at how prayer matures into intercession and why this shift is essential for learning to wage warfare from rest. Before we can explore the

Before we step further into this series, I want to encourage you to revisit the earlier post where we talked about Ephesians 6. The Surprising Truth About Spiritual Warfare lays the foundation for how we approach this topic. Today we are taking the next step, moving deeper into what spiritual warfare truly looks like and how we begin to live from a place of rest rather than reaction. What follows is not a shift into new information, but an unfolding of what the Spirit has al