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    Ten: I Will Give You Rest

    by TerryLema June 19, 2025

    I will give you rest is the last of the 10 things the magnet in Bob’s office said God wants us to remember. We are to remember the rest God gives.

    “By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.” [Gen 2:2-3 NIV]

    In the creation God gave us an example of the day of rest, the 7th day. In the giving of the law to Moses God made the Sabbath–a day of rest–part of the law. By the time of Christ, the law of the Sabbath had been ensnared by so many rules and regulation that it had lost its meaning. Christ cut those bonds when He declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath,” meaning that the day of rest was created to serve man, man was not created to serve the day of rest. [Mark 2:27 NIV]

    I know that God has given us salvation, which is an eternal rest, no longer striving in our own flesh to gain what we can only gain by faith, but I’m not talking about that kind of rest this morning. I’m talking about a Sabbath day of rest. Christians too often equate the day of rest with the law, and since we have been set free from the law, we ignore it. But like so many other things in this walk of faith, the day of rest preceded the law. In fact, God made the day of rest holy right from the very beginning.

    We think we must always be going, going, going. That to rest is somehow sinful. To celebrate a day of rest is somehow placing ourselves back under the law. But our Creator understood our needs, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. We need a day of rest each week, a time when we rest, play, fellowship, love. It doesn’t have to be a Saturday or a Sunday. We just need to find some time every week to wind down and refresh.

    God gives us eternal rest, yes, but He also wants us to find a time-based rest.

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    Nine: I Will Strengthen You

    by TerryLema June 18, 2025
    June 18, 2025

    I will strengthen you. Isaiah 40:29: “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.” [NIV] 2 Corinthians 12:9: “And He said to [Paul], ‘My grace…

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    Eight: I Will Answer You

    by TerryLema June 17, 2025
    June 17, 2025

    I will answer you. Psalm 91:14-16: “Because he loves me,” says the LORD, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon…

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    I Believe in You

    by TerryLema June 16, 2025
    June 16, 2025

    I believe in you. Most of those ten things God wants us to remember on that old magnet in Bob’s office were straight forward … even though God has taken…

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    I Am For You

    by TerryLema June 15, 2025
    June 15, 2025

    I am for you. “If God is for us, who can be against us?” [Romans 8:31 NIV] Ah, that little word IF? That little word IF makes us wonder, doesn’t…

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    Five: I Love You

    by TerryLema June 14, 2025
    June 14, 2025

    I love You.  “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong. They are weak but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves…

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    Four: I Will Be With You

    by TerryLema June 13, 2025
    June 13, 2025

    I will be with you. What a delightful promise! Two Scriptures immediately came to mind. In the Old Testament, God’s promise to Israel in Isaiah 43:1-2: “Fear not, for I…

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    Three: I Will Provide For You

    by TerryLema June 12, 2025
    June 12, 2025

    I will provide for you. When I saw this on the magnet in Bob’s room my mind went immediately to the Scripture in Philippians 4:19: “And my God shall supply…

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    Two: I Will Not Fail You

    by TerryLema June 11, 2025
    June 11, 2025

    I will not fail you. That’s the second of 10 things I want to remember about God.  He will not fail us. Remember that wonderful Scripture in Lamentations 3:22? “Through…

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    One: I Will Bless You

    by TerryLema June 10, 2025
    June 10, 2025

    I will bless you. This is the first of the 10 things God wants me to remember—at least according to the magnet I found on Bob’s gun cabinet. The first…

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Pastor Terry Lema

Pastor Terry Lema has been married for 53 years, and has 3 children and 3 grandsons. Terry graduated from Trinity Bible College, and and recently retired as Lead Pastor at The Way Church in Middleton, Idaho.

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