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    Recipe For Rest
    Recipe For Rest
    Recipe For Rest
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    Recipe For Rest

    By Kwaku Agyeman

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    Maybe you have been cheated on by a spouse, abused emotionally, physically or sexually by a trusted family member or friend. Or maybe you have suffered betrayal or abandonment from people you trusted and thought had your best interest at heart. As a result the devil wants you to think you've come to the end of the road but don't buy into his deception. Your life is still worth living. God needs you and has a purpose for your life. God loves you more than you can even begin to love yourself. The Word of God has a recipe for the rest you need and are looking for. Challenges for the most part are impediments the devil brings our way to prevent us from achieving our earthly purpose. So don't focus on them. Choose rather to keep your mind stayed on God. God's desire is for you to prosper in all things. He wants you to proper in your health, finances, relationships, profession, career, ministry, family, marriage, wisdom, knowledge, love and everything else that pertains to life. Don't let anything or anyone give you the impression God doesn't care or isn't interested in you. God is very much interested in what happens to you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKwaku Agyeman
    Release dateDec 8, 2018
    ISBN9780463373439
    Recipe For Rest
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    Kwaku Agyeman

    Kwaku Agyeman is a teacher of the Word of God by grace and calling. He is also a Family and Life counsellor and a graduate of Central University's School of Theology & Missions. He has a real passion for teaching and motivating people through the Word of God. He describes his heart's desire as seeing people overcome poverty and sickness through the knowledge of God's Word.

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      Recipe For Rest - Kwaku Agyeman

      Recipe for Rest

      Kwaku Agyeman

      Published by Legacy Books

      Ebook Layout and Formatting by Casting Crowns Ltd

      Email: castingcrowns@gmail.com

      Copyright 2018 Kwaku Agyeman

      All rights reserved under international copyright law. This eBook is licensed for your personal edification only. This eBook may not be re-sold. If you would like to share this eBook with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. No part of this eBook may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior written permission from the author, except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles.

      Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations in this volume are from the New King James Version of the Bible.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Rest Defined

      Chapter 2: Rest Robbers

      Chapter 3: The Rest Robber - Fear

      Chapter 4: Rest Robber - Unbelief

      Chapter 5: Rest Robber - Wrong Believing

      Chapter 6: Rest Robber – Toxic Thoughts

      Chapter 7: Rest Robber - Unforgiveness

      Chapter 8: Rest Robber - Lack of Faith

      Chapter 9: Rest Facilitator - Rise Above The Flesh

      Chapter 10: Rest Facilitator - Behold The Word

      Chapter 11: Rest Facilitator - Cast Your Cares Upon Him

      Chapter 12: Rest Facilitator - Keep Your Mind On Christ

      Chapter 13: Rest Facilitator - Manage Distractions

      Chapter 14: Rest Facilitator - God’s Masterpiece

      Chapter 15: Rest Facilitator - The Countenance of Liberty

      Chapter 16: Rest Facilitator- Ingredient of Praise

      Chapter 17: Rest Facilitator - Love

      About the Author

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Chapter 1

      Rest Defined

      Are you or have you ever been at your wits end when you didn’t know what to do with your life? Are you living in fear or under stress? Do you feel like a failure and bereft of viable options for your life? 

      Maybe you have been cheated on by a spouse; abused emotionally, physically or sexually by a trusted family member or friend. Or maybe you have suffered betrayal or abandonment from people you trusted and thought had your best interest at heart. Perhaps you find yourself on the brink, out of options and not far from giving up on your life.

      The devil wants you to think you’ve come to the end of the road but don’t buy into his deception. Your life is still worth living and God had a purpose for your life when He created you. You have it in you to overcome any challenge. Challenges for the most part are impediments the devil brings our way to prevent us from achieving our earthly purpose. But with Christ they end up as stepping-stones and not stumbling blocks

      God’s desire is for you to prosper in all things. He wants you to prosper in your health, finances, relationships, profession, career, ministry, family, marriage, wisdom, knowledge, love and everything else that pertains to life. Don’t let anything or anyone give you the impression God doesn’t care or isn’t interested in you. God is very much interested in what happens to you. He holds you in the palm of His Mighty Hand and loves you more than you can even begin to love yourself.

      3 John 1:2

      Beloved I pray that you may prosper in all things

      And be in health, just as your soul prospers

      Isaiah 49:15-16

      Can a woman forget her nursing child

      And not have compassion on the son of her womb

      Surely they may forget yet I will not forget you

      See I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands

      Your walls are continually before me

      God allowed His Son to be sacrificed in order to secure for us a peaceful and prosperous life called the Rest of God. It’s a respite from the stress and cares of the world. This rest is obtainable in Christ Jesus. If you believe by faith that Jesus is the Son of God and that God raised Him from the dead to redeem you from sin, you qualify for this rest. Your acceptance of Christ makes you a child of God and an automatic qualifier of this awesome blessing.

      Experiencing the ‘rest of God’ doesn’t mean trouble won’t come against you. The road network you will travel on in the ‘journey of life’, consists of side streets called ‘Challenges’. Challenges exist everywhere so you will surely encounter them on your journey. However if you ‘rest’ in God through Christ Jesus, challenges will not overwhelm you. A child of God or one born of God is mandated to overcome because whatever is born of God receives spiritual empowerment from Him to overcome ALL challenges.

      1 John 5:4-5

      For whatever is born of God overcomes the world

      And this the victory that has overcome the world – our faith

      Who is he who overcomes the world

      But he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

      Whenever a challenge comes up against you the outcome will always be victory in your favour. That is the nature of the ‘rest’ you have been blessed with in Christ; that is why it’s called rest.

      2 Corinthians 2:14

      Now thanks be to God

      Who always leads us in triumph in Christ…

      The Form & Features of The Rest

      The rest available in Christ is an all encompassing and comprehensive rest. Anything that could cause anxiety or fear has been taken care of by Christ Jesus to give you rest. You have absolutely nothing to be concerned about. The rest of God is rest from poverty, sickness, bad relationships, marital strife, loneliness, failure, childlessness and from financial insufficiency.

      It includes rest and protection from the evil of terrorism and from highly virulent epidemic outbreaks such as Ebola. Is it really possible to find rest from all these? The answer is an emphatic YES.

      Psalm 23

      The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want

      He makes me to lie down in green pastures. 

      He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul

      He leads me in the path of righteousness for His name’s sake

      Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

      I will fear no evil for You are with me

      Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me

      You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies

      You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over

      Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life

      And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever

      Psalm 23 in the Bible epitomizes the form and features of the rest believers have in God through Christ Jesus. The rest of God takes care of everything from helping you maintain your righteousness to ensuring your provision, protection, peaceful circumstances and victory over your enemies. You don’t have to struggle to walk in righteousness because God provides the grace that enables you do that.

      Chapter 2

      Rest Robbers

      Even as God has provided us with rest, there are adversaries or ‘rest robbers’ who conspire to steal this rest from us. ‘Rest robbers’ constitute obstacles and ‘opposing forces’ that contrive to prevent people from accessing the rest available in Christ Jesus. Some of these obstacles are generated within us, but there are those that emanate from without.

      The rest robbers or obstacles that emanate from without generally take the form of demonically inspired attacks that purposely work to steal your peace. They may manifest in either a spiritual or physical form. A lady I knew in church sought my assistance to overcome demonic dreams in which she found herself repeatedly engaging in sexual intercourse with entities that appeared like men. She sounded ready to end it all when she reached out to me for help.

      I gave her scriptures to meditate on and reminded her of what Christ had achieved for her, which is deliverance from the powers of darkness (Colossians 1:12-13). I shared the truth with her and the truth made her free (John 8:32).

      Colossians 1:13

      He has delivered us from the power of darkness

      And conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love

      John 8:32

      And you shall know the truth

      And the truth shall make you free

      I had a dream years ago in which I appeared to be talking to a ‘doctor’ who wrote ‘stroke’ on a piece of paper. The following day I woke up suffering from symptoms of stroke. But I overcame them by the grace and Word of God. The devil’s attacks to steal your ‘rest’ are mostly spiritual in origin before they manifest physically.

      I remember another dream in which my back was grazed by the teeth of a dog and woke up to excruciating back pains for a brief period of time. These spiritual attacks don’t bring rest, they aim to steal it and destroy your life in the process. They only reveal one thing - that we live in a spiritually influenced world. Therefore to be ‘naturally minded’ can be costly.

      Romans 8:6

      For to be carnally minded is death

      But to be spiritually minded is love and peace

      Obstacles From Within

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