My Place of Rest –the Chronicle –Becoming the Bride

Isa 66:1"Heaven is My throne, And earth is My footstool.  Where is the house that you will build Me?  And where is the place of My rest?  NKJV

I must tell you that my heart is about to burst with the revelation I have found in this piece.  I could have named it so many different things; it says so much.  Ceasing from Labor.  The Resting Place.  The Comforter.  Waiting for Him.  Resting on Him.  Abiding In His Presence.  Sweet Sleep.  I had jotted down all of these names but none really seemed to feel just right.  Suddenly, Isa 66:1-2 absolutely invaded my spirit.  “Where is the house you will build for Me, where is the place of My rest?”  I immediately knew He wanted it named My Place of Rest.

A few years ago as we were singing a song from Isa 66:1-2, I began to see a dove lingering in the sanctuary, it fluttered softly and finally landed to rest.  I could sense that He felt welcome …after all we had been focusing on creating a peaceful place for His presence. As I felt Him express His heart, the vision changed from a church sanctuary to the hearts of His people –each one a permanent dwelling place – a house that I had built for Him – His place of rest.  While we are calling out for a place of rest, it seems that He is too.  See Him, in the shadows, waiting to be gracious to you.

Isa 30:18 Therefore the LORD will wait, that He may be gracious to you; And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.  For the LORD is a God of justice; Blessed are all those who wait for Him.  NKJV

What kind of house are you building for Him?  A place of trust and humility …a contrite heart His desires.  The bride appears to be asleep, but her heart is awake dreaming of her beloved. Song 5:2.  He is so close she can feel His presence.  In this place of rest, she is experientially partaking of His peace in the midst of a tumultuous world.  (John 14:27)  As He watches her, He finds great comfort that she has come to a place of total reliance on Him, she lays her head on the Rock of her Salvation.

Ps 62:5-6 5 My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; for my hope and expectation are from Him.6 He only is my Rock and my Salvation; He is my Defense and my Fortress, I shall not be moved.  AMP

In my times of meditation and listening about this piece, the Lord took me in many directions; the first of which was Andrew Murray’s book, “Waiting On God”.  It is a small devotional which shed a great deal of light and new insight on waiting.  Waiting on God is more of a heart attitude than an action or lack thereof.  Though the piece is named differently, the book really inspired it.  The works part of “faith without works” seems to overshadow everything else in our walk.  There were so many comments that deeply affected me, they are too numerous to mention.  I will however mention a few so that you can feel the inspiration that is within the piece.  They are not necessarily in the same order of the book.

• ”Wafting on God, unceasing and entire dependence upon Him is in heaven and earth, the only true faith”.
• “These wait upon thee…  (Ps 104:27,28 ASV) Just as much as it was God’s work to create, it is His work to maintain.  As little as man could create himself, is he left to provide for himself.”
• Learn to say of every want and every failure and every lack of needful grace, I have waited too little upon God…”
• “on thee do I wait all day” Ps 25:5 …on the point of entering an enemy's territory (or assignment) …answering the question to the cause of delay: waiting for supplies, waiting for instructions or orders”.
• What do they (the trees, flowers, and green grass) do to keep the sun shining on them?  They do nothing; they simply bask in the sunshine when it comes”.
• “In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.  …Everything that is not God that excites our fears or stirs our efforts or awakens out hope or makes us glad hinders us in our perfect waiting on Him”
• When the heart has learned how entirely powerless it is for one moment to deep itself or bring forth any good, when it has learned how surely and truly God will keep it, when it has in despair of itself accepted God’s promise to do for it the impossible, it learns to rest in God..

I know that these excerpts will change your view of waiting on Him. Waiting is a heart attitude. As I created “Dance With Me”, obviously I was doing, but He viewed it as waiting. My focus was entirely on Him, I saw us dancing together in purpose.

Wait on God until Christ is formed in you.  Then wait with Him -the Bride and the Groom until the Father says, “it is time to bring her to My House for eternity.”

Song 5:2 I went to sleep, but my heart stayed awake.  [I dreamed that I heard] the voice of my beloved as he knocked [at the door of my mother's cottage].

Heb 4:1 4:1 THEREFORE, WHILE the promise of entering His rest still holds and is offered [today], let us be afraid [to distrust it], lest any of you should think he has come too late and has come short of [reaching] it.  AMP

Heb 4:10-12 10 For he who has once entered [God's] rest also has ceased from [the weariness and pain] of human labors, just as God rested from those labors peculiarly His own.  [Gen 2:2.]  11 Let us therefore be zealous and exert ourselves and strive diligently to enter that rest [of God, to know and experience it for ourselves], that no one may fall or perish by the same kind of unbelief and disobedience [into which those in the wilderness fell].12 For the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power [making it active, operative, energizing, and effective]; it is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating to the dividing line of the breath of life (soul) and [the immortal] spirit, and of joints and marrow [of the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and sifting and analyzing and judging the very thoughts and purposes of the heart. AMP

Heb 4:11-13 (The Word Discovers Our Condition)11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.  12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.  13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. NKJV

Isa 66:1-2 66:1 THUS SAYS the Lord: Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool.  What kind of house would you build for Me?  And what kind can be My resting-place?  [Acts 17:24.]  2 For all these things My hand has made, and so all these things have come into being [by and for Me], says the Lord.  But this is the man to whom I will look and have regard: he who is humble and of a broken or wounded spirit, and who trembles at My word and reveres My commands.  [John 4:24.]  AMP

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