Market this week… 10th July 2010 (last market for 3 weeks)

Transform the Rest

God likes rest.

God wants you to rest.

He sets apart specific time from the very beginning for work to stop and rest to be taken (Gen 1:31).

It seems to me that Sabbath (time of rest) is about our relationship with God.

We rest because God does, God rests because he wants us to…

So our rest is designed to be with God, alongside Him, in Him, Holy for Him.

And when we spend time with God, even in rest, we get transformed.

Real sabbath rest should be defined through a transformation that happens by just being with God, no agenda, no system, no ‘work’ or ‘do’ but just being.

As we rest everything that has gone before can settle, be made sense of, fade or sharpen.

As we rest everything that may be coming God can prepare us for, strengthen us for, equip us for.

So as we rest from the Market and other Oaktree ministries this summer, let’s rest with God.

Ask God to lead you in the rest that He knows you need.

I believe that in this way, with Godly rest as our preparation, we could see these Acton streets become gracious and God-filled.

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THIS WEEK and 7th and 14th August…

This week: 2 spaces 10-12, 2 spaces 12-2

Hots: 2 spaces both 10-11 and 11-12

7th August – all shifts and Hots spaces available

14th August – all shifts and one Hots space 10-11 and two 11-12.

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Rest well.

mb

Rev. Mark Bishop

Out there and Curate

Oaktree, Acton.