Rest and mediate in I AM

Day 362- 1:00 am Sunday morning and I was about to study the word even though I have to get up at 5:00 to make it to 7:00 service. I spent 14 hours on yesterday immersed in working on my business. Minutes before I opened the word I was contemplating if I would work on my business today. Even though I had declared Sunday was the only day I would not. So, why was I wavering between two opinions? Below is part of a devotion I just read from Prophet Chuck Pierce sent seven days ago.

Our conscience is the key to seeing! When Jesus is defining the conscience, He admonishes us that the antagonist of our seeing is MAMMON.

The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is sound, your entire body will be full of light. But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very light in you [your conscience] is darkened, how dense is that darkness! No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in).” (AMP)

There seems to be a key relationship between how we see, our heart’s desire, and whom we serve. God made us to serve Him and to set aside one day a week to rest and meditate on all that He is about in our lives. This is key to our seeing. “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” (Ex. 20:11, NIV)

By remembering the Sabbath we will see clearly? From the Mount, God told Israel to remember the Sabbath and sanctify that day. This meant to stop doing any creative work and break out of the cycle from the preceding week. God made all creation in six days and rested on the seventh. To be a true Son or Daughter, we are commanded to rest on the Sabbath. Until heaven and earth pass away, we must recognize Sabbath (Matt. 5:17-19). When we do, we acknowledge Him as Lord over creation and time. This is part of seeking Him first and seeing. There are blessings, vision, and rewards for those who seek Him first! Isaiah 58:13-14 says, “‘If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD's holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words, then you will find your joy in the LORD, and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.’ The mouth of the LORD has spoken.” (NIV)

Be intimate with Him today and seek Him. Break out of your old cycle of the week. See Him in a new way. Ask Him to cleanse your conscience from any infiltration of the world that invaded you the preceding week, and prepare yourself to see in the week ahead!

The conscience is a window between our soul and spirit. This window is easily dirtied. Sabbath is a major part of cleansing the window. Hanging out with the ultimate lover today!