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Margin is the distance between where we are and our limits.

So be careful how you live. Don\u2019t live like fools, but like those who are wise. 16\xa0Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.\xa0Ephesians 5:15-16(NLT)

Message title:\xa0 Permission

Come to me,\xa0all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. \xa0Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,\xa0for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Matthew 11:28-29 (NIV)

Permission to EXCEPT REST

Shabbat = to cease, stop, to intentionally put to rest\xa0

There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;\xa0for anyone who enters God\u2019s rest also rests from their works,\xa0just as God did from his.\xa0 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest\u2026Hebrews 4:9-12 (NIV)

Truly my soul finds rest\xa0in God; my salvation comes from him. Psalm 62:1 (NIV)

A key ingredient to living with margin in is to understand AND except the rest that God wants us to experience.

We may think we can handle it stress MENTALLY, but we CANNOT control what it does to us PHYSICALLY.

But those who wait on the\xa0Lord shall renew\xa0their\xa0strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31(NKJV)\xa0

Rest is not an obligation, but an invitation.

Then he said to them,\xa0\u201cThe Sabbath was made for man,\xa0not man for the Sabbath. Mark 2:27 (NIV)

Permission to EMBRACE a NEW RHYTHM

\u201cAre you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you\u2019ll recover your life. I\u2019ll show you how to take a real rest. Matthew 11:28-30 (MSG)

Walk with me and work with me\u2014watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. Matthew 11:28-30 (MSG)\xa0

I won\u2019t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you\u2019ll learn to live freely and lightly.\u201d Matthew 11:28-30 (MSG)\xa0

Yet the news about him spread all the more,\xa0so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses.\xa0 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. Luke 5:15-16 (NIV)

The notes are silver; the rests are gold. \u2013 Mozart

It is the combination of the INTENIONAL WORK and INTENTIONAL REST that teach us how develop a healthy, spiritual rhythm to our lives.

The\xa0Lord\xa0God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden\xa0to work it and take care of it. Genesis 2:15 (NIV)

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the\xa0Lord\xa0God as he was walking\xa0in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid\xa0from the\xa0Lord\xa0God among the trees of the garden.\xa0 But the\xa0Lord\xa0God called to the man, \u201cWhere are you?\u201d Genesis 3:8-9 (NIV)

Rest is not an escape FROM the work; it\u2019s a necessary part of EFFECTIVE work.

Permission to DEFINE the RIGHT YES

Our problem isn\u2019t that we can\u2019t say \u201cNO\u201d, it\u2019s that we have not clearly defined our right \u201cYES.\u201d

\xa0If everything is important\u2026 nothing is important.

Hear, O Israel: The\xa0Lord\xa0our God, the\xa0Lord\xa0is one.\xa0 Love\xa0the\xa0Lord\xa0your God with all your heart\xa0and with all your soul and with all your strength.\xa0 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.\xa0 Impress them on your children. Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NIV)

Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.\xa0 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.\xa0 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NIV)

\u201cWhat has been done has been done; what has not been done has not been done; let it be.\u201d