{"id":432,"date":"2008-03-26T22:49:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T02:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/03\/26\/repentance-and-rest\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T22:49:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T02:49:36","slug":"repentance-and-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Repentance and Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord spoke through Isaiah when he said, &#8220;In repentance and rest is your salvation&#8221; (30:15).\u00c2\u00a0 I love how those two words go together &#8212; <em>repentance <\/em>and<em> rest.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>When we repent, we can rest in the Lord.\u00c2\u00a0 We can&#8217;t rest peacefully in God&#8217;s presence if we haven&#8217;t repented, and so the continual process of repentance is key to staying close to Him in our daily lives&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>A. W. Tozer wrote, &#8220;Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Ouch!\u00c2\u00a0 He saw that we often pray that we will obey &#8212; we pray for patience, for compassion, or that we would be free from covetousness &#8212; yet we do not take the actions necessary to actually abide by Christ&#8217;s teachings in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brooke Boon, <em>Holy Yoga, <\/em>p. 43-47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord spoke through Isaiah when he said, &#8220;In repentance and rest is your salvation&#8221; (30:15).\u00c2\u00a0 I love how those two words go together &#8212; repentance and rest.\u00c2\u00a0 When we repent, we can rest in the Lord.\u00c2\u00a0 We can&#8217;t rest peacefully in God&#8217;s presence if we haven&#8217;t repented, and so the continual process of repentance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-life","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}