Working From Rest: The Pattern We’ve Ignored

 We are in week three of our Self-Care series, and today we are going somewhere that makes most high-performing leaders genuinely uncomfortable. We're talking about rest. Not as a concept. Not as something you'll get to eventually. As a discipline, one that God modeled from the very beginning of creation and that Jesus practiced consistently, even when thousands of people still needed Him. We're going back to Genesis 2, where God finished six days of purposeful work, rested on the seventh, and then blessed that day and made it holy. Rest wasn't God's afterthought. It was His design. And if the Creator of the universe built rest into the very structure of time, what does it say about how we've been treating it? We're also looking at how Jesus withdrew, not once, not when things got too hard, but regularly and intentionally, even at the height of His ministry, after feeding five thousand people. When the crowds were growing. When the need was greatest. He still pulled away. And then we're going to talk about one of the most important mindset shifts in this entire series: the difference between resting to work and working from rest. Because one of those is a treadmill, and the other one is a completely different way of living. This episode won't just challenge the way you think about rest. It might just change how you lead. Share this with a loved one or leader who is long overdue for permission to stop and remember to follow, comment, and rate this talk so others can also get to listen to it.Support the show