Ø A Place of Sacrifice

Ø A Time of Gathering

Matthew 11:27 - 12:1 (KJV) ²⁷All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. ²⁸Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Why?

• To Focus on Jesus
• Clearing the Mind
• Centering the Mind then the Heart deliberately on the Lord
• Attentive
• Leaning
• Listening
• Learning by Encounter
• An event of grace (Soul Rest) intermission, recreation, repose, inward tranquility in the middle of life
• Becoming a habit through obedience
• Come unto me = I will give you rest

· Labor - G2872 kop-ee-ah'-o to feel fatigue; by implication to work hard

(Thayers)

1) to grow weary, tired, exhausted (with toil or burdens or grief)

2) to labour with wearisome effort, to toil

§ From a derivative of G2873 Kopos - a cut, that is, (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength), literally or figuratively; by implication pains

· Heavy Laden – G5412 for-tid'-zo - to load up (properly as a vessel or animal), that is, (figuratively) to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual anxiety)

§ (Thayers)

1) to place a burden upon, to load

2) metaphorically to load one with a burden (of rites and unwarranted precepts)

o Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me = ye shall find rest

§ Enter the Eternal School of the Spirit – and you will find anapauo

§ Soul Rest - G372 – anapausis - an intermission; by implication recreation

· Thayers 1) intermission, cessation of any motion, business or labour

· from G373 anapauo - to repose,

· TCWS - NT

o to give rest. Rest, inward tranquility while one performs necessary labor

• Ministering to The Lord
• Waiting
• Gentle Times of Soaking
• Sitting, Standing, Kneeling, or Laying before Him
• Prayer
• Communion through communication
• Worship
• Times of Prostration
• Adoration
• The Inner man
• Some with Music and Singing
• Corporate Praise
• Public Magnification of the Lord
• Prophetic Declarations that partner with the mind of God
• Seasons of Quiet For Listening
• Inspirational chronicling, journaling and keeping track of the word of the Lord

Acts 2:1 - 4 (KJV) ¹And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.  ²And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.  ³And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.  ⁴And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

• Corporate Accord

o One Accord G3661 homothumadon - unanimously:—with one accord (mind).

§ Thayer Definition: 1) with one mind, with one accord, with one passion

• TCWS - NT
• G3661. homothumadon; adv. from homothumos (n.f.), unanimous, of one mind, which is from homos (n.f.), one and the same, and thumos (G2372), temperament, mind. With one mind, with unanimous consent, in one accord, all together

Adverb from a compound of the base of G3674 and G2372

G3674 - homos (the same; akin to G260) as adverb; at the same place or time

G2372 – thumos - passion (as if breathing hard)

Thayer Definition:

1) passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again

2) glow, ardour, the wine of passion, inflaming wine (which either drives the drinker mad or kills him with its strength)

The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament
G2372. θυμός thumos; gen. thumou, masc. noun from thuō (n.f.), to move impetuously, particularly as the air or wind, a violent motion or passion of the mind.

Purpose:

Corporate unity and worship that provokes a move of God in the land.