Sabbath

I’m in the midst of my company’s annual conference.  It has been a great time of renewed vision, reconnection, and more than anything, standing in awe of the work the Father is doing across Asia.  We come to share the incredible and impossible healing He is accomplishing, and we come with broken hearts longing for even greater healing in our cities.  I have been reminded once again of the great privilege of working with my company; a company that has the humility to constantly reassess, change and be transformed as we seek to love and serve better in places across Asia.  I’m also grateful that while there is great emphasis on doing our jobs with professionalism and excellence, there is also great emphasis on the need for simply resting at the feet of our savior.  Beginning tonight through the remainder of the conference we enter into a time of sabbath rest.  In this rest we anticipate and eagerly long for the much greater rest that awaits us once the Father has deemed our work complete on this earth.

Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.

You wrote a letter and You signed your name
I read every word of it page by page
You said that You’d be coming, coming for me soon
Oh my God I’ll be ready for You

I want to run on greener pastures
I want to dance on higher hills
I want to drink from sweeter waters
In the misty morning chill
And my soul is getting restless
For the place where I belong
I can’t wait to join the angels and sing my heaven song

I hear Your voice and I catch my breath
‘Well done my child, enter in and rest’
Tears of joy roll down my cheek
It’s beautiful beyond my wildest dreams

I want to run on greener pastures
I want to dance on higher hills
I want to drink from sweeter waters
In the misty morning chill
And my soul is getting restless
For the place where I belong
I can’t wait to join the angels and sing
No, I can’t wait to join the angels and sing my heaven song

“Heaven Song” by Phil Wickham