Summer For The Soul | Jordan Brawner

Matthew 24:32 (NIV)

32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.

[1] Just because summer is here doesn’t mean we know how to

Job 10:18 (MSG)

They are unable to relax and enjoy anything they have worked for.

[2] God invites us to his rest

Hebrews 4:1, 11a (NIRV)

God’s promise of enjoying his rest still stands. So be careful that none of you fails to receive it… ¹¹ So let us make every effort to enjoy that rest…

• Decision #1 … I’m not going to

Psalm 119:10 (GWT)

¹⁰ I wholeheartedly searched for you. Do not let me wander away from your commandments.

Psalm 16:11 (GWT)

¹¹ You make the path of life known to me. Complete joy is in your presence. Pleasures are by your side forever.

• Decision #2… I’m going to build where I have space – I’m going to build structures for spiritual success

Exodus 20:8-11 (NIRV)

⁸ “Remember to keep the Sabbath day holy. ⁹ Do all your work in six days. ¹⁰ But the seventh day is a sabbath to honor the Lord your God. Do not do any work on that day. The same command applies to your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and your animals. It also applies to any outsiders who live in your towns. ¹¹ In six days the Lord made the heavens, the earth, the sea and everything in them. But he rested on the seventh day. So the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

[3] A weekly rhythm of rest is the best medicine for a soul

Hebrews 4:9-10 (NIRV)

⁹ So there is still a Sabbath rest for God’s people. ¹⁰ God rested from his work. Those who enjoy God’s rest also rest from their works. 

Mark 2:27 (GWT)

²⁷ Then he added, “The day of rest—a holy day, was made for people, not people for the day of rest.

• The Sabbath is about of you

Galatians 6:9 (AB)

⁹ Let us not grow weary or become discouraged in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, if we do not give in.

• and are two of your greatest enemies!

• When we are plugged into God’s rest… we will be and we will !

[4] To experience summer in my soul… wrong beliefs have to be

1 Kings 19:4-7 (NCV)

“I have had enough, Lord,” he prayed. “Let me die. I am no better than my ancestors.” 5 Then he lay down under the tree and slept.
Suddenly an angel came to him and touched him. “Get up and eat,” the angel said. 6 Elijah saw near his head a loaf baked over coals and a jar of water, so he ate and drank. Then he went back to sleep.
7 Later the Lord’s angel came to him a second time. The angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat. If you don’t, the journey will be too hard for you.”

• SHIFT #1 – I am no longer myself to others… I am free to do life from what I’ve seen

Exodus 33:15-17 (NIRV)

¹⁵ Then Moses said to him “… You must go with us. How else will we be different from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

Romans 12:2 (NIRV)

Don’t live the way this world lives. Let your way of thinking be completely changed.

• SHIFT #2 – I am no longer working to the right to rest… In Jesus I’m working from a of rest

Matthew 11:28-30 (ICB)

²⁸ “Come to me, all of you who are tired and have heavy loads. I will give you rest. ²⁹ Accept my work and learn from me. I am gentle and humble in spirit. And you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ The work that I ask you to accept is easy. The load I give you to carry is not heavy.”

[5] Summer in my soul… means doing something

Isaiah 43:16, 18-19 (NIV)

16  This is what the Lord says… 18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

• Experience new

“The best place to relax is near water. After just 2 minutes of viewing water outdoors, blood pressure and heart rate drop. It’s more calming to look at a lake, pool, or stream than trees and grass. Beaches are popular for a reason. Wider bodies of water bring more tranquility…
Less than 2 minutes of looking at it is enough to activate the parasympathetic nervous system.”

• Experience new

• Experience a new