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| Indy4now Registered user Username: Indy4now Post Number: 1041 Registered: 2-2008  |
I just have to share this... "Sabbathed soul". I'm reading a book by Beth Moore called "Get out of that Pit". As she goes through and describes pits we are either pushed into or jump into, she uses Ps. 40:1-3 as the prescription of getting out of those pits. I'm at the part where she is talking about verse 3, "He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God;" She explains that in verse 2 God sets our feet on a firm rock making our footsteps firm and then He gives us a new song in our heart. On page 189 she writes,
I had never thought of a concept like "Sabbathed soul". How amazing is that? Yet I KNOW exactly what she is talking about. The moment I understood what Christ did for me... about His finished work... my soul had this incredible rest and peace that only Christ gives and fills us up with... it's a Sabbathed soul. Lets share and talk about our "Sabbathed souls". Tell me about that time you realized you had complete rest in your soul... a Sabbathed soul. vivian p.s. good grief! it's been way too long since I've posted here and I almost forgot my password! ...  | ||
| Mjcmcook Registered user Username: Mjcmcook Post Number: 158 Registered: 2-2011 |
~HELLO~Vivian~ I am so happy there is someone here on the Forum who has been blessed as much as I have by Beth Moore's book~"Get out of that Pit"! May I ask if you have ever participated in one of Beth's Bible Studies for women in a small group? I have and found the studies "transformational" in my life! ~Blessings~ ~*~mj~*~ | ||
| Thegoldenway Registered user Username: Thegoldenway Post Number: 144 Registered: 5-2011 |
OOOO...ya a "sabbathed soul". I like that phrase! That says it all for me  Since May of 2011 I am a "sabbathed soul". That is when I realized that for NC christians our sabbath is no longer a 24 hour one day a week sabbath. Now it's Jesus. This sabbathed soul goes even deeper..... To be a sabbathed soul is to be saturated and infused with Jesus Himself at all times. Sabbath = Jesus soul = me Sabbathed soul = Jesus into me and me into Jesus "Abide in Me and I will abide in you" John Ah.....this is what God has been wanting all long with all of us. Fellowship, relationship, a blending, separate entities, but ONE. And in all that we have rest and peace and love.....the fullness of divinity, the fullness of God. "that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God" Eph 3:19 Vivian, thanks for catching that thought out of Beth Moore's book and sharing with us here on the forum. Wow, this phrase explains what I have been experiencing since May. I just didn't know how to explain it....now I do. Thanks to you! lynn (a sabbathed soul) | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 12972 Registered: 12-2003  |
I remember realizing that I was actually experiencing "now" and was peaceful, not subliminally worrying about the future or stressing about the past. We were studying Scripture with our neighbors once a week, and we had finished our Tuesday study, and I was coming in from taking out the trash after the neighbors left. I saw the lights of the house and realized, for the first time, that I had "NOW". I had never understood that annoying phrase, "All we have it this moment," or "Live in the present." Of course I was living in the present...what else WAS there??? But that moment, I realized I actually had NOW, I actually was aware of and enjoying the moment, and I wasn't feeling anxious or guilty or "incomplete". And I realized that I was experiencing the Holy Spirit. He had given me NOW--or as Hebrews puts it, "TODAY". Sabbathed soul...wonderful term! That peace and the embracing of NOW, TODAY, is what I think of as my example of my Sabbathed soul. Colleen | ||
| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 2130 Registered: 7-2007 |
When I was an Adventist, I would try to be careful or everything I did or thought on that day; so that I would "keep" the "Sabbath." When I found out that the Sabbath is a Person, I dropped the "day" like it was a hot potato! It took a series of miracles for me to "see" that though! First, I had to see that Ellen White was a false prophet by seeing that the Bible says that Jesus had already gone into the Most Holy Place in Heaven and didn't wait until 1844; and then I noticed verses such as Hebrews 7:12; 8:13 and 9:15-16 that show that there's a change in the law, that the Old Covenant is obsolete and that Jesus brought in a whole new Covenant. Also I saw just what and when the Old Covenant was, with verses such as Deut. 4:13 and 5:2-3 and also Galatians 3:17,19. Yes, it's SO NICE to have Jesus as my REST and have a Sabbathed soul! | ||
| 1john2v27nlt Registered user Username: 1john2v27nlt Post Number: 347 Registered: 5-2009 |
I am on vacation with my girlfriends. At lunch TODAY (I never understood that word in Heb 4!) I was eating shrimp & grits, & said "It's so nice to be FREE!" I think that is part of my being a 'Sabbathed soul.' It IS RESTful. J9 | ||
| Indy4now Registered user Username: Indy4now Post Number: 1042 Registered: 2-2008 |
MJ~ I've taken several of Beth Moore's studies. I love her perspective! My favorite has been her study on Daniel. I would like to take her study on Transformed. I think it's a study on David. Lynn~ thx so much for sharing!! I loved your comment "To be a sabbathed soul is to be saturated and infused with Jesus Himself at all times." so well said... Colleen... hadn't thought about the "now" of this feeling, this rest. What is amazing is that "now" feeling is a constant. Circumstances don't change the "NOW", the Sabbathed soul. It's interesting that everything we mentioned above... Asurprise's rest in Jesus, eating shrimp and grits guilt-free, peace, the "now", ... all those things was what the weekly Sabbath was to accomplish in our lives. The weekly Sabbath was supposed to give us rest, to give us peace from the outside world, to free us of anxiety and guilt... and YET those 24 hours couldn't do it. I hear so many being thankful for a day... and it's so sad because through Christ they could be experiencing the Sabbathed soul and be complete. vivian | ||
| Skeeter Registered user Username: Skeeter Post Number: 1635 Registered: 12-2007  |
YES !!! I love that ! Sabbathed Soul | ||
| Nowisee Registered user Username: Nowisee Post Number: 941 Registered: 5-2009 |
Vivian, I recently started reading the same book! Just think, as an SDA I had only one sabbath of 24 hours (and, to be totally honest it WASN'T a restful day for us females--hostessing, leading cradle roll, dead-tired from pushing to get everything done by Friday sundown, etc) and now it's a continual, never-ending Sabbath in Jesus!! Yippee! Thanks for the post. | ||
| 8thday Registered user Username: 8thday Post Number: 1604 Registered: 11-2007  |
So ironic how the endeavor and burden to "keep" the Sabbath totally destroys that peaceful rest it was supposed to represent. Learning to hand every worry and anxiety over to God.. to know HE can handle any situation.. that is rest. I needed Him in my NOW yesterday so much, then Vivian shared this. Total trust in Him right now in this moment (love that Colleen) makes for a Sabbathed Soul. Going to remember that!! | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 2919 Registered: 8-2004  |
In preparing a book list for my store, I ran across a title that intrigues me. Here it is: An Answer to Thomas Tillams Book Called the Seventh-day-sabbath Wherein it Is Shewed how the Christian Sabbath Is Christ who Is the Lord of the Day, and Is the Rest for Man-servants and Maid-servants, Jewes and Gentiles that Believe in Him by George Fox (1659) Yes, THAT George Fox, the founder of the Quakers. The more things change, the more they stay the same! | ||
| Helovesme2 Registered user Username: Helovesme2 Post Number: 2920 Registered: 8-2004 |
Anyone know who Thomas Tillam was? | ||
| Indy4now Registered user Username: Indy4now Post Number: 1046 Registered: 2-2008 |
I have no idea. | ||
| Ric_b Registered user Username: Ric_b Post Number: 1250 Registered: 7-2004  |
From what I have been able to find he was from a group called Particular Baptists. There was some support for 7th Day Sabbath within this group. But I find it interesting that this was also accompanied by anti-Trinitarianism within this group. Those two seem to go hand-in-hand throughout history! They also denied the doctrines of Christ's satisfaction and God's ominpresence. And, BTW, they taught soul-sleep. See the footnotes on page 49 of http://books.google.com/books?id=IKBY3VuWAsMC&lpg=PA41&ots=hi-ojjn25c&dq=Thomas%20Tillam%20theologian&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=false if that page will display when the link is re-opened. |
