01/25/2026
SABBATH REST
The “build” happens on the REST day, not the tear down day:
• Muscle builds back bigger and stronger on the REST day, not the workout day,
which is why bodybuilders place so much importance on adequate sleep
• Relationships get stronger when you REST and play with your partner, children,
family, friends
• Your mind returns stronger when you give it REST from your job
• Your job appreciates you more when they don’t have 24/7 access to you
• Let’s just say you DID invoke SABBATH REST one day a week, what would you
do with it:
• Spend time in self-care
• Spend time with your partner, which might improve your relationship, yes?
• Spend time with your church family and time in gratitude, praise and worship
• Perhaps if you spent time in fellowship with the God of your understanding
your faith would grow
• Spend time playing with your kids, wouldn’t they just feel more loved if you did
that?
• You would have time to do some of those community service projects you’ve
been talking about which would help others and allow you to see how blessed
you already are.
• If GOD can get it all done (just saying…creation of the world and all things in it),
maybe you could get your work done in 6 days and take 1 day to REST.
• It is one of The Ten Commandments you know. So, this is how we were meant
to live all along, not just a suggestion of how to do it if we can. God says to set
is aside and make it a sacred time. A time that nothing else can interfere or
barge into.
• People talk about wanting more work/life balance. Well, there it is!!
#4 of The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:8):
Remember the sabbath, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all they work, but the 7th day is a sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt not do any work thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant or thy maidservant, nor they cattle nor thy stranger that is within thy gate for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them and rested the seventh day wherefore the lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed (set aside as sacred) it. – Wow! GOD had a lot to say about REST.
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If you’d like a FREE Sabbath Rest Worksheet with suggestions of how to set aside time:
• Daily – maybe only 10-15 minutes
• Weekly – maybe only 3-4 hours per week if you can’t manage ALL day right off
the bat
• Monthly – Maybe one weekend a month, you set aside time for self care
appointment
• Yearly – If you can’t afford a week’s vacation, maybe a weekend??
• 7th Year (Milestone celebrations) take time to celebrate the BIG milestones in
your life. They will only happen once in a lifetime.😊
