5787: Warring from a Place of Rest

What if the most powerful thing we could do in the middle of a spiritual battle is simply rest? That is the provocative and deeply liberating idea at the heart of this message on warring from a place of rest.

Drawing from Psalm 110 and the dramatic scene in Mark 4 where Jesus sleeps through a violent storm, we are invited to reconsider everything we thought we knew about spiritual warfare.

The central revelation is this: we are not fighting to obtain a victory that has already been won. The finished work of the cross is the foundation from which all effective spiritual authority flows.

When Jesus declared, "It is finished" in John 19:30, He sealed the outcome of every battle we will ever face. The challenge for us is not to win the war but to genuinely believe it is already won and to govern our lives from that understanding.

This message draws a striking distinction between two storms: the storm raging around the disciples on the sea, and the storm raging inside them. Jesus only had one storm to deal with because He never allowed the external chaos to become an internal one. That is the model we are called to follow.

The government of God cannot be released around us if it does not first reign within us. This is not passive Christianity. It is the most demanding kind of faith, the kind that looks at unfinished circumstances and declares, God is in charge.