KEEPING THE SABBATH

10/22/23 KEEPING THE SABBATH

Sunday, October 22, 2023

4:30 AM

 

PONDERING HOW TO KEEP THE SABBATH

I am pondering how to keep the Sabbath. I heard the Lord say, that laboring is Working under pressure. Where do you feel pressure sweet one?

To me that means doing something because you have to do it.

 

Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shall you labor, and do all your work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day: therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

 

DEFINITION AS FROM THE HEBREW: Be mindful, keep and remember the Sabbath day as a day to pause. It is an intermission day from work, laboring in the field. Dedicate the day as holy and pure where you sanctify yourself from having labored for 6 days. It is a day to set aside to consecrate yourself in preparation for the upcoming 6 days of labor.

 

REMEMBER

• A day to Remember how God created FOR you last week.
• A day to Remember how God created THROUGH you last week.
• A day to be Grateful and Relax.
• A day without pressure to perform.

 

PAUSE FROM YOUR LABORS

• Listen to music, refresh your soul.
• Take a nap.
• Have a yummy bath or shower.
• Relax and enjoy a day without exercise. No walking!
• Read and ponder.
• Enjoy nature
• Enjoy color
• Enjoy creating for fun
• Enjoy fellowship
• Enjoy eating

 

KEEP IT HOLY

• Wash off what didn’t work from last week.
• Dedicate next week to God
• Consecrate to God how to improve for next week.
• Commit plans to prayer.

 

 

REMEMBER

Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary

2142. זָכַר zakar (zâkar)

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זָכַר zâkar, zaw-kar’

 

a primitive root; also as denominative from H2145 properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male:—× burn (incense), × earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, × still, think on, × well.

 

 

SABBATH

Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary

7676. שַׁבָּת shabbath (shabbâth)

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שַׁבָּת shabbâth, shab-bawth’

 

intensive from H7673; intermission, i.e (specifically) the Sabbath:—(+ every) sabbath.

 

 

HOLY

Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary

6942. קָדַשׁ qadash (qâdash)

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קָדַשׁ qâdash, kaw-dash’

 

a primitive root; to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally):—appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), × wholly.

 

 

WORK

Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary

5647. עָבַד abad (ʻâbad)

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עָבַד ʻâbad, aw-bad’

 

a primitive root; to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.:—× be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper.

 

 

RESTED

Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary

5117. נוּחַ nuwach (nûwach)

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נוּחַ nûwach, noo’-akh

 

a primitive root; to rest, i.e. settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, intransitive, transitive and causative (to dwell, stay, let fall, place, let alone, withdraw, give comfort, etc.):—cease, be confederate, lay, let down, (be) quiet, remain, (cause to, be at, give, have, make to) rest, set down. Compare H3241.