Rest: The Finished Work of Christ

Rest is not doing nothing. It is living from what God has already done for you in Christ. In this Wednesday Bible study, Pastor Festus Okiomah shows that your life is hidden with Christ in God, that rest is a position of faith and not a feeling, and that you obey because you are already accepted, not to earn acceptance. Using Solomon, who reigned on what David had already secured, he lays out how to maintain rest: keep coming back to what is already true, remind yourself who you are, refuse condemnation, practice dependence instead of self-reliance, and pray in a way that releases burdens. Two vivid pictures close the message: the remora fish attached to a shark, and a little girl at peace o