2024.03.04 Want to Get Away
Want to Get Away
Week 1
03.04.2024
Time OFF won’t heal you when the problem is how you spend your time ON. -Carey Nieuwhof
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened…
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened…
and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me…
for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:28-29
Job, school, kids chores, sports.
Time, money, energy,
LOADS > LIMITS = CRASH
If the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.-Corrie Ten Boom
Love is patient.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Our culture never slowed down long enough to ask “What will this new pace do to our souls?” -John Mark Comer
Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty.
Psalm 90:10
Teach us to number our days so that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12
Be careful how you walk, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:15-16
#1
God before….
The news about Jesus spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and be healed of their sickness.
Luke 5:15
Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
Luke 5:16
What the internet seems to be doing is chipping away at my capacity for concentration and contemplation.
Nicholas Carr
God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains. -Sean Parker
I have so much to do today I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. -Martin Luther
Seek first the kingdom of God and everything else will be given to you.
Matthew 6:33
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest…
Hebrews 4:11
#2
Make every effort to rest.
Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest…
Hebrews 4:11
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God.
Exodus 20:9-10
God Before…
Make every effort to rest.
#3
Prioritize what matters most
I am allowed to do anything—but not everything is good for you. I am allowed to do anything—but not everything is beneficial.
1 Corinthians 10:23
Put God before….
Plan to rest.
Prioritize what matters most.