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December Surrender Day 21: Finding Rest Amidst the Season's Chaos

Heidi Bylsma-Epperson and Christina Motley Season 1 Episode 143

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We have a special December series for you. Each day a short mind renewal meditation will be released, lasting about five minutes. We hope these encourage you to press-in closer to Jesus this year. 

What if true satisfaction and peace couldn't be found in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, but in a place you least expected? Drawing from Psalm 63:1-8, we explore the idea that God alone can meet our deepest longings and weariness. Reflecting on personal experiences, we discuss the challenges of seeking fulfillment in worldly things and the realization that God's presence offers genuine satisfaction. We invite you to embrace God's tender mercies and grace, encouraging passionate worship and finding rest in Him even amidst the chaos of the holidays.

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Speaker 1:

Hi and welcome to our podcast, Revelation Within On the Go. I'm Heidi Wiles-Meperson, one of your hosts and the owner and lead coach of the RevelationWithinorg ministry, and I'm Christina.

Speaker 2:

Motley, your other host, also a Revelation Within coach and Heidi's partner in all things Revelation Within. We are so excited to invite you to this special episode of Revelation Within On the show. We have a special December series for you. Each day, a short mind renewal meditation will be released, lasting about five minutes. We hope these encourage you to press in closer to Jesus this year.

Speaker 1:

Hi, this is Heidi and Christina with a Mind Renewal audio on Psalm 63, verses 1 to 8. This is on God being enough to satisfy. This is on God being enough to satisfy. Oh God of my life, I'm lovesick for you in this weary wilderness. Lord, it's true, it's true, I do feel so weary, all of the demands of the holiday season combined with the demands that often face me anyway. I am weary and I know, lord, that only you can give me what I need. I thirst with the deepest longings to love you more. I know that loving you and allowing you to love me as you want to is the only way to have those longings fulfilled. The only way to have those longings fulfilled, lord, I thank you that you alone can satisfy the cravings in my heart that can't be described. You are enough for me. You are enough, lord. Yearning grips my soul for you, you alone, you alone.

Speaker 2:

Lord Jesus, you know what it feels like to be tired and weary and overwhelmed. You know, lord, that we are all running this way and that way and trying to get this done and that done, and there's so much, there's so much to do this time of year. Lord, you know what weariness is and we ask you to meet us there. This is what I love so much about the way that you meet us. You meet me in my weariness, in my exhaustion. Lord, I am energized every time I enter your heavenly sanctuary to seek more of your power, and I love this, lord, to drink in more of your glory. So where can I go for energy? Where can I go for strength? Where can I go for what I need to you? To your heavenly sanctuary, drinking in your glory, seeking what you have for me, seeking your provision. Thank you, god. I love that. I love that I can turn to you and that you are enough for me.

Speaker 1:

Lord, there are so many things that I turn to instead so often, even though I know these things are true. Where do I look for energy? In caffeine, sometimes I look for it in playing with my dog or being with the right people, but truly those things don't give me genuine heart and soul and mind energy. Your tender mercies mean more to me than life itself, and that gives me life. That gives me life. It isn't depleting at all. Oh Lord, I love you and I praise you and I thank you that you satisfy me. When I am struggling so much, I can turn to you. You meet me. You're waiting to show me compassion. You're waiting to shower me with your love, to lavish your grace on and in and through me, to extend your mercy to me. Thank you for that.

Speaker 2:

Lord Jesus, you have made a way for us to find rest and joy in the midst of busyness, in the midst of sorrow and heartache, in the midst of what feels sometimes like chaos. Lord, daily, I will worship you passionately and with all my heart and, lord, I love the picture that you give us in your word. My arms will wave to you like banners of praise. Lord, I want that. I want to turn to you in praise. I want to worship you when I'm weary. I want to worship you when I need your strength, your joy, your peace. Lord, I am waving my arms now like banners of praise. I am turning to you because you are enough, more than enough for me, enough, more than enough for me.

Speaker 1:

God, I overflow with praise when I come before you, for the anointing of your presence satisfies me like nothing else. Lord, that is what is true. What is true is that your presence and the anointing of your presence satisfies me, satisfies me like nothing else. You are such a rich banquet of pleasure to my soul. Nothing can compare with that. Nothing can compare with you, lord, you alone. I want to, right now, just surrender my attempts to find satisfaction in anything else, in vegging out, in doing new things, in trying to have peace of my own, lord, in looking for foods and new recipes and having friendships that are just so awesome, lord, all of those things might be beautiful gifts from you, but none of it satisfies me like you do. Gifts from you, but none of it satisfies me like you do. The anointing of your presence satisfies me like nothing else. You are such a rich banquet of pleasure to my soul. Thank you.

Speaker 2:

Lord Jesus, you know that when I lie awake each night, I think of you and I reflect on how you help me, like a father Lord. I think of your steadfast love. I think of your relentless grace. I think of your goodness, Lord, that drives everything you do. I think of your wisdom and your hand in my life, in my family's life, in my loved one's lives. Lord, the more that I think on you, the better I feel, the more peace that I have because I'm taking the focus off of myself, my challenges my issues, my problems, and I'm turning them to you, the God who can do absolutely anything.

Speaker 2:

Lord thank you. Thank you that you are more than enough for me, Lord.

Speaker 1:

I sing through the night under your splendor shadow. I offer up to you my songs of delight and joy. They are my praise offerings, Lord. Sometimes it's a sacrifice of praise. When I am weary, when I am sleepy, tired, when I feel like there's nothing left, I can offer you a sacrifice of praise, knowing that doing so gives me a taste again of your goodness and that again you are a rich banquet of pleasure to my soul. I just love that, Lord, Thank you. I thank you for that.

Speaker 2:

And so, lord, with passion, I pursue and cling to you because I feel your grip on my life. I keep my soul close to your heart. Life, I keep my soul close to your heart. Lord, these are your words, this is your truth. This is what you are asking of me to surrender everything else, all of the other things that I pursue to look for peace or to look for joy or satisfaction. Lord, what I need to do, what you're asking me to do, is to pursue you and cling to you, and then I will feel your grip on my life and then, keeping my soul close to your heart. What could be better than that? What could be better, lord? Thank you for pursuing me, pursuing us in this holiday season. Lord, help us to cling to you, help us to feel your grip. Help us, lord, to keep our souls close to your heart. We love you, lord, we love you so much and we pray in Jesus' name. Amen.

Speaker 1:

Amen.

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