by Ps Jeyakumar Isaiah
Hello and welcome back to Living Supernaturally. It's good that you've tuned in, where we can
study the go word of God. This is the daily devotion of All People's church and we want to
welcome you and our invitation is to live the supernatural life even as the word of God
strengthens us and lifts us up beyond the natural and the ordinary. God's word is able to do
that today. We are particularly looking at God's word which comforts us. God comforts the
ones who need the comfort. Our Lord comforts us at moments when we are at the lowest
points in our life. The Lord comforts us. We are looking at Matthew chapter 11 and verses 28 to
30, a very familiar scripture and the context is this that the Lord invites those who are burdened
by life's problems, struggles and religious legalism and sin and so on, He's giving an open
invitation and says, "Come." He's inviting them to His presence and He says, "I will give you rest
for your soul." Because your soul is burdened, you have been burdened with these thoughts
and oppression and all these expectations and so on, you will find rest for your soul. So, He
contradicts the burdens of the world with His gentle and light yoke. To be yoked with Him is to
walk with Him and receive this peace and renewal for our soul. So, let's look at Matthew
chapter 11 and verse 28, ‘Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, For I am gentle and lowly in heart, and
you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.’ He's talking about a
rest; He's talking about rest for our souls which comes from the Lord. He's talking about all
those who are laboring and are heavy laden and carrying heavy weights and He's saying, this is
where you will find rest or in other words, comfort for your soul. And no wonder the Lord, the
Holy Spirit is the comforter. The way the Lord Jesus extends or ministers this comfort is through
His Holy Spirit, because John chapter 14 and verse 26 describes the Holy Spirit as the helper.
He's the one who helps, the word ‘paraklete’, it means that He's the one who comforts, He's
the one who strengthens, He's the one who brings hope and help. So, through the ministry of
the Holy Spirit, the Lord Jesus brings comfort for the soul and today, He is inviting us to His very
presence. And as we pray, may we respond to this invitation and say, "Yes, Lord, I come to your
presence." Let's pray, Father, we thank you for this invitation to come to your presence; all
those who are weary, all those who are tired, all those who are heavy laden. We thank you that
you have called us specifically to your presence. And so, God, we yield and respond to that
invitation and say, "Yes, Lord. We come to your presence. We draw near to your presence in
our hearts, in our minds. And even as we do so, Lord, we thank you for your yoke is gentle and
light and your burden is light and we thank you for the promise that we will find rest for our
souls. We thank you for the comfort and the rest that is possible in your presence, that is only
through you and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. We receive it today, in Jesus’ name, Amen.
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Duration:4 mins 45 secs
