If we’re honest, sometimes it’s not easy to be thankful in everything. It seems so simple, but even when life is tough, there is great significance in going back to rehearse and give thanks for the breakthroughs and blessings in our lives. If we can perceive it, gratitude is the key that unlocks the gateway to manifesting the goodness of the Lord.

The knowledge of the Lord is embedded in every human heart, and He has made His wonderful attributes easily perceived. (See Romans 1). It is vital to remember that what we perceive is what we think about and what we think about is what we believe, and what we believe, we speak. We are creators, and what we perceive and speak, creates and shapes the world around us.

If we can perceive it, today is a new day. In order for us to move into this new day, we have to be willing to leave tradition, lose sight of the shore and follow Abba into something that is brand new, life-giving and power-filled. Something that will testify to generations to come that we went after the One Thing with our whole hearts and didn’t sell out to tradition, but sold out to The Lord.

There is something within us that hungers for more than what has been defined by church tradition. Holy Spirit is beckoning us to step out of the typical norm and allow ourselves to be reborn again…a reimagining and rebirthing of what we are meant to look like. This is more than a shift, it is saying yes to the call of the Lord to start a movement.

In the Sabbatismos lifestyle, there is a promise of rest that is for us today, every day. This promise is an invitation to keep and celebrate Abba’s rest and show us what is attainable because of the living Christ within. This rest brings a re-wilding, re-changing, re-introduction into the reality of who we were designed to be.

There is a Sabbath rest that is so much deeper than just a day. It’s the rest that Yahweh took on the 7th day of creation, a Sabbatismos - celebrating the completed work of perfection. So it should be for us, to keep a Sabbatismos lifestyle as the foundation of who we are as His sons and daughters. Not settling for just a day, but a full and complete rest, in every day and in everything. 

The will and intent of our Father is for His Kingdom plan to be released into the earth. When the mind is renewed (Romans 12:2), the person is renewed, and the atmosphere around us is changed. This brings heaven to earth.

A people of chara (joy) bring heaven to earth because they carry the presence of the Lord. This deep, inner abiding and rejoicing joy comes directly from His presence, found through communion with Him.

“A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” James 1:8 (KJV). The earth needs sons and daughters to be true believers who will take every thought - the bad and the good, negative and positive - and hold them captive to the authority of the mind of Christ. It will create a consistency within that enables us to always live in deep and inner abiding rejoicing.

The emotional pursuit or expectation of happiness can cause us to miss the supernatural joy we were designed to have in every circumstance we face. The original Greek Biblical word for joy is “chara” (pronounced har-ah), which means: “A deep and inner abiding rejoicing.” This joy lives, moves, and has its being within us. It is a joy that is unspeakable and full of His goodness. This joy knows that even in the midst of storms, Abba’s will surely will come to pass.