The Secret of Ministering to Your Soul
Jonathan Cahn reveals that true spiritual renewal begins with intentional rest in God. Drawing from Psalm 37, he emphasizes that rest is not passive but an active choice to cease striving and quiet the soul. In this 10-minute video, Cahn likens the restless soul to an unweaned child, constantly craving worldly attachments, and underscores the need to wean ourselves from these distractions to find peace in God’s presence. He highlights that even God rested after creation, setting a precedent for us to follow. Embracing rest leads to spiritual breakthroughs, restoration, and a deeper connection with God, culminating in the ultimate rest symbolized by the Jubilee. By quieting our minds and focusing on God, we can minister to our own souls and rediscover the joy of our salvation.
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(00:00) God is saying from rest with God comes what comes to the Jubilee Freedom comes from that release comes from breakthrough comes from that might not come any other way restoration comes from that there is restoration and healing that comes from resting in God’s presence dying to self also brings Revival you know in the in the Lord what death the cross brings brings what Resurrection the power of Resurrection renewal ref but it comes from dying itself repentance brings Revival and also it mean you know the C you know we
(00:41) sang the the today the at the cross well coming back to your first love coming back to the Cross brings Revival you know there’s a lot of a million things you know it’s like you come to the Lord and you’re on fire for the Lord the Lord is touching you and you have most of you when you came to the Lord there was newness in your life you were filled with newness but what happens is sometimes you kind of leave that behind okay I know that I know born again I know that I know the cross
(01:05) I know now I’m into other things and I’m more mature and all that and you lo you lost that fire and the renewing and you have to come back to the first basic things to the cross and come back to your salvation and come back to that that and come back to the to the empty tomb that’s where Revival is I know somebody you know Pastor who said that you know he required that everybody the ministers take discipleship course again and he took it and he said just brought Revival to come back to the basics God wants you to have refreshing
(01:36) in your life and and and these are the keys now now for the second part right now what we’re going to do is we’re going to focus on some of the keys that are in the psalm that we’ve begun to open that could be called The Psalm of Abundant Life it gives keys of Abundant Life and we’ve done a few of them actually last week we did one and and so but today guess which key it talks about the psalm of Abundant Life it’s Psalm 37 and the verse here the key here is this rest in the Lord rest in the Lord
(02:15) notice something this is about rest is a verb it doesn’t happen if you don’t you don’t seek out to do it rest is an action you know you know it’s a verb you have to rest rest may take work you know what the Bible says the Bible says there is a rest ‘s a Sabbath that’s waiting for us it says let us labor let us labor to enter the rest that means that means it’s a takes work it’s a choice especially if you’re running and running all the time your mind is running all the time you takes an action to say okay
(02:46) stop focusing just on that you know when Orthodox Jews when they they go to the Sabbath you may look you may look at the Sabbath as it’s a burden you know and it’s it’s cuz they have to do it well there are a lot there is a lot of legalism in many things with without but but they don’t see it that way they don’t look at the Sabbath as something okay I better do this they look at the Sabbath this is something we can learn as a joy as a crown of their weak that they that I mean the ones who are more
(03:13) spiritual that they can be to them that they can be with God that they see it as the biggest joy that I can put everything aside and now I’m going to be with the king that’s that’s how that’s how much they see it there’s a joy to it and we should have the same thing about being with God we should have more no matter what it is you know and so that’s why they let go of everything doesn’t matter what they’re doing doesn’t matter what’s happening during the week they have to put aside no matter doesn’t
(03:39) matter what it is they got to stop it at that moment and say it’s okay that’s not as important as being with God the word here when it says rest the word is Dam in Hebrew which means to stop cease quiet yourself be silent wait to get quiet my two older boys you know I put them to bed they pray and then comes a time where they just have to be quiet and so I and I stay in the room because they want me to stay in the room so I’m stay in the room and but then they start asking questions they start talking back
(04:15) you know it’s like it’s all silent then all said dad I have a question I said well it’s like “The Waltons” but it’s a it’s not a good version of it and and they they just keep you know just things come up or they talk to each other as I know as long as they’re talking to each other or talking to me there’s not they’re not going to fall asleep and they’ll keep doing it as much as they can finally say okay it’s quiet time quiet time you know quiet time well here it says one of the
(04:39) words ISS be quiet rest in the Lord in Hebrew also quiet your soul quiet come to the quiet means to stop sometimes as the mind is going all over the place you can’t have the peace of God without the quiet it means stop what you’re doing the you know it says it says that God rested from his work now think about that what works did he rest from whatever he did it was good because whatever God does it’s holy yet God rested from what was holy he stopped doing what was holy so he could rest which is also holy if God rested from
(05:13) The Works of God how much more do we have to rest from our stuff which is not always good you have the Sabbath day and then you have the Sabbath year the Sabbath year was called what Shemitah the Shemitah and you know what Shmita means in Hebrew comes from the the the Hebrew word shamat which means to throw down and also means to let fall what’s it saying sometimes you have to it’s not just you got to throw it away you’ve got to put you I got to put this away so I can have rest I got to throw it down what if it falls it says let it
(05:48) fall because God’s in charge there’s a freedom and then what you got you got the Sabbath day you got the Sabbath year and then what happens when you get the you get the mega Sabbath you get the what’s the super Sabbath it’s the Jubilee what’s God saying you know here’s the you got the rest then you got the rest of the rest then you got the rest of the rest of the rest and when you get that big rest you get blessing you get Jubilee what’s it saying God is saying from rest with God comes what
(06:15) comes in the Jubilee Freedom comes from that release comes from breakthrough comes from that might not come any other way restoration comes from that there is restoration and healing that comes from resting In God’s Presence resting a joy an honor that I can be with God you don’t want to see these things as chores that you need to pray yes we do need to pray but it shouldn’t be like that the fact that you can even talk to God as your best friend should be a joy Lord I just want to talk to you this is what I’m feeling but it’s
(06:50) a crown to have the to be in the presence of God it says in Psalm 131 I have quieted my soul as a child that is weaned I my soul is quieted as a weaned child I have quieted my soul the word same word here Dam quieted my soul is the same word as here where it says rest in the Lord damam but now it’s connecting it with something see see first of all it says I have quieted my soul that means you are you have to actually minister to your own soul you got to minister to your own mind cuz if you don’t you’re you’re subject to oh my
(07:27) mind’s going here you don’t have to be stuck with that minister to yourself you I’m feeling this I’m feeling okay that’s that’s not the end of the story now minister to that mind minister to that feeling minister to yourself Soul why do you have to you don’t have to be like that Minister I have quieted my soul I’ve quieted my mind because because the soul is noisy mind is noisy you know a baby that’s not weaned is crying all the time it’s crying you know our newborn son mishel with his mother is you know
(07:58) if you take him away from his mother he’s crying even if he you know one one is the a baby wants milk that’s what weeding is about but also he just wants to be with his mother you know because he’s he’s he’s he’s not weaned so there Comes A Time the weaning means when the baby is not dependent on his mother as it was with with feeding so what’s it saying it’s saying like my soul our soul is like a baby that crying and it’s attached it’s dependent and I have to wean my soul so I can with God quiet
(08:31) what does that mean your soul gets attached to the world and so it’s it’s always going and going and going that’s why sometimes you go to pray to God and you’re trying toay and all these other thoughts are coming up because your soul is not weaned it’s still attached to this and this and this and this and this but you need to wean it and sometimes to wean it means you need to just take time in God and keep quieting your soul until okay let it go let it go let it go until my soul is weaned and quiet like a wean
(09:00) child now I can just be with God the same word for rest in the Lord is also found in Psalm 4:4 which it and it says in because it because it says stand in awe of God and yet the word is I same thing rest in God part of resting in God is to be in God’s presence and to be in awe of God sometimes you can’t even be in awe of God until you have rested away from the other things when Moses saw God he was in awe when the prophet saw God they were in awe is there more to the world that meets our eyes another realm that’s
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