We learn to enter His rest by simply learning “to be.” Resting in the great I AM that I AM. To “be” loved by the one who gave His Son for all. And to allow God to “be” and live within.  As we learn to “be” we are learning to simply “be” with God inside our hearts. Living in union being in Christ and Christ in me the Hope of Glory.

In November 2016 I had an encounter with Gods presence that changed the course of my journey with Him a little bit. I was at a worship service where we were all engaging the presence of God. During worship I just simply stood in His presence and I began to turn even deeper inwardly yielding to Christ in me the Hope of Glory. As I turned the eyes of my heart to Christ and simply started beholding His glory, His presence inside me started to increase and expand out of me even more. Waves of His love and peace came over me and His presence became so thick and tangible within me and around me! I remembered after the service I was standing next to some friends, but we were all unable to talk. It was like His presence had silenced all voices and the scripture “be still and know that I am God” became reality. The only thing we could do was to be silent and know that He is God. Being there in that place of His presence it felt like standing on the bottom of the ocean. Being underwater, hardly being able to move and every movement needed to go very slow, like trying to walk on the bottom of the ocean. His presence was so thick and intense and I fell in love with the silence and rest I experienced within that realm of His presence.

One of the things God showed me was that we learn to enter His rest by simply learning “to be.” It is me who is learning “to be” and it is also allowing God within me simply “to be.”

After this encounter with Him I felt Holy Spirit leading me to spend more time in the silence, leaning more into Him. So beginning the month December I made it an effort to spend more time in the silence simply learning to “be” and leaning deeper into Him. I would simply sit in a comfortable position and enter His rest through becoming silent. I would be in that place for at least an hour every time and I would engage His presence within me. It is amazing when you’re in that place of silence, just waiting, allowing Him to be and learning to be awake and conscious to the living Word of God within you and speaking to you!

I mean how do you host someone when they enter your home? You want them to feel at home and not uncomfortable, so you allow them to “be”, yes to be theirselves. I think this is the same way with us with our body being the temple or the house of God. When He enters our home or your being, you want Him to feel at home and free to be who He is. I guess this is what I was engaging with. Really allowing God to be Himself within me and feeling at home in me or something like that.

It is so powerful to be silent! When my soul learns to be silent before the Lord, it also learns to surrender to my spirit. Now my spirit learns to be in charge of my soul instead of the other way around. My soul learns obedience and surrender when I choose to be in the silence simply looking at Jesus’ face, seeing Christ within me, the living Word and beholding His glory.

In that place of silence, my soul becomes quiet and my spirit becomes more active. I begin to encounter God even more from spirit to spirit and I begin to discern His love whispers. He also begins to minister to me as I rest and my whole being begins to harmonize with who I truly am as a son of God.
I remember in that place of silence once how Holy Spirit invaded my mind with all these pictures and visions of things to come. It’s the place of silence that becomes a place of very deep intimate encounters with the Lord. How close and intimate do you want to be with the Lord?

I also believe that through that place of rest the fruit of self-control begins to manifest. Self-control that looks like when our spirit is governing our soul and not the other way around. As a new creation in Christ we should have transitioned from a living soul now to a life-giving spirit in my opinion. He that is born of the Spirit IS spirit. So it’s time that as a spirit being in union with Christ we learn to govern and rule over our soul and body.

Anyways, some thoughts from a journey with God. :)

Be Blessed!
Baruch