It means loving our Father in heaven and spending time just focusing on Him not to resolve anything but out of love.

So why is this so important?

1.Because it’s what Jesus died for

As God said to Abraham, “I am your very great reward” (Gen 15:1). This is what Jesus died for. That we might enjoy the Father’s love and rest in Him every day. Nothing is better than this. This is what the Apostle Paul lived for, “to know Christ” first of all. Ministry was secondary for him. But there are other blessings when we succeed to do this.

2.It sets us free from the pressure of success

Jesus said in Jn 4 that “one sows and another reaps”. Paul said in 1 Cor 3 that “only God made it grow”. So any success is not down to man and God rewards both the sower (who sees nothing) and the reaper (who sees the fruits) according to their labour (1 Cor 3:8) done by doing what they saw the father doing (which could be sowing or reaping).

There is a time for everything. We cannot get frustrated about reaping or resolving an issue if it is not what the Father is doing at the moment, it’s not the right moment. We are called just to focus on resing in God and allow Him to do it.

3.It frees us to hear God better for others

It allows God to remove our other wrong focuses and distractions and idols so that we can focus just on Him. When we succeed in resting in God, we become free to hear the Lord about others and experience the Father’s heart for the lost and intercede for them. But not out of a place of striving for results but out of God’s love for them, out of God’s grace because God is revealing what He wants us to pray for and is guiding the prayers.

4.It transforms us

When we succeed in resting in God, God brings us transformation and then we simply pass this transformation to others. We have done nothing (all grace) and God can now use us. He now gets all the glory, rather than the man who prayed or preached for 8 hours a day.

Howell Harris, the Welshman who started the Methodist Revival, had this very experience. A profound experience of the love of His Father in heaven and eternal realities. He felt a stranger on the earth. So nothing more attracted him on earth. He lived for divine realities, free of the distractions of the world and the desire for the applause of men. He didn’t need to be someone. He was someone! Someone in love with his Saviour.

People were then greatly affected by his preaching.

See my book GRACE OUTPOURINGS: 21 DAYS REVIVAL DEVOTIONAL for a great devotional on how to prepare and get ready for a new revival.

So let’s focus on resting in God every day as the primary focus of our lives.