REFRESHMENT COMING FROM THE FATHER TO KNOW OUR PURPOSE  3-14-25

Refreshment occurs in the Old Testament meaning to take a breath. Refreshment from heaven comes so that we can step into our purpose that the Father has for our lives. God is breath and brings refreshment to dryness in our lives. Refreshment is rest.

Acts 3:19 Now it's time to change your ways! Turn to face God so he can wipe away your sins, pour out showers of blessing to refresh you, MSG

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ACTS 3:19 Let this be your wake-up call once and for all. Face the fact that your sins and scars were completely blotted out, and return to the one you have wandered from. Now you may encounter times of total rejuvenation in the 'face to face, immediate embrace of the Lord.  MIRROR

Ps 73:28 But I'm in the very presence of God   oh, how refreshing it is! I've made Lord God my home. God, I'm telling the world what you do!  MSG

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PS 73:28 But Ill keep coming closer and closer to you, Lord Yahweh, for your name is good to me. Ill keep telling the world of your awesome works, my faithful and glorious God!   TPT

Hos 6:3 We're ready to study God, eager for God-knowledge. As sure as dawn breaks, so sure is his daily arrival. He comes as rain comes, as spring rain refreshing the ground."  MSG

PS 23:1 Yahweh is my best friend and my shepherd. I always have more than enough.

2 He offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love.  His tracks take me to an oasis of peace near the quiet brook of bliss.

3 Thats where he restores and revives my life. He opens before me the right path and leads me along in his footsteps of righteousness so that I can bring honor to his name. TPT

Jer 31:25-26 For I will [fully] satisfy the weary soul, and I will replenish every languishing and sorrowful person.

26 Thereupon I [Jeremiah] awoke and looked, and my [trancelike] sleep was sweet [in the assurance it gave] to me.  AMP

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Jer 31:25  I'll refresh tired bodies; I'll restore tired souls.

26 Just then I woke up and looked around what a pleasant and satisfying sleep!MSG

Joel 2:23  Children of Zion, celebrate! Be glad in your God. He's giving you a teacher to train you how to live right   Teaching, like rain out of heaven, showers of words to refresh and nourish your soul, just as he used to do. MSG

 Job 42:2 I know that You can do all things, and that no thought or purpose of Yours can be restrained or thwarted.  AMP

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Job 42:2  "I'm convinced: You can do anything and everything. Nothing and no one can upset your plans.  MSG

Eccl 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He also has planted eternity in men's hearts and minds [a divinely implanted sense of a purpose working through the ages which nothing under the sun but God alone can satisfy], yet so that men cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.  AMP

ISA 55:10  As the snow and rain that fall from heaven do not return until they have accomplished their purpose ,soaking the earth and causing it to sprout with new life, providing seed to sow and bread to eat.

11 So also will be the word that I speak; it does not return to me unfulfilled. My word performs my purpose and fulfills the mission I sent it out to accomplish.  TPT

1 Cor 4:5 So don't get ahead of the Master and jump to conclusions with your judgments before all the evidence is in. When he comes, he will bring out in the open and place in evidence all kinds of things we never even dreamed of inner motives and purposes and prayers. Only then will any one of us get to hear the "Well done!" of God.  MSG

Job 27:3  But for as long as I draw breath, and for as long as God breathes life into me,

4 I refuse to say one word that isn't true. I refuse to confess to any charge that's false. MSG

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

John 20:22 And having said this, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit!

 Acts 2:1 When the Feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.

2 Without warning there was a sound like a strong wind, gale force no one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole building. MSG

 Ezek 37:9  He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath. Prophesy, son of man. Tell the breath, 'God, the Master, says, Come from the four winds. Come, breath. Breathe on these slain bodies. Breathe life!'"

10 So I prophesied, just as he commanded me. The breath entered them and they came alive! They stood up on their feet, a huge army. MSG

Job 29:22-24  After I spoke, they'd be quiet, taking it all in.

23 They welcomed my counsel like spring rain, drinking it all in.

24 When I smiled at them, they could hardly believe it; their faces lit up, their troubles took wing!  MSG

Job 11:18  Full of hope, you'll relax, confident again; you'll look around, sit back, and take it easy.

19 Expansive, without a care in the world, you'll be hunted out by many for your blessing. MSG

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Job 11:18-19 And you shall be secure and feel confident because there is hope; yes, you shall search about you, and you shall take your rest in safety.

19 You shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; yes, many shall sue for your favor.  AMP

Ps 16:9 I'm happy from the inside out, and from the outside in, I'm firmly formed.

10 You canceled my ticket to hell   that's not my destination!

11 Now you've got my feet on the life path, all radiant from the shining of your face. Ever since you took my hand, I'm on the right way. MSG

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PS 16:9  My heart and soul explode with joyfull of glory! Even my body will rest confident and secure.

10 For you will not abandon me to the realm of death, nor will you allow your Faithful One to experience corruption.

11 Because of you, I know the path of life, as I taste the fullness of joy in your presence. At your right side I experience divine pleasures forevermore!  TPT

Ps 116:7-9  I said to myself, "Relax and rest. God has showered you with blessings.

8 Soul, you've been rescued from death; Eye, you've been rescued from tears; And you, Foot, were kept from stumbling."

9 I'm striding in the presence of God, alive in the land of the living!  MSG

Matt 11:28-30  "Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest.

29 Walk with me and work with me watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.

30 Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."  MSG

2 Cor 12:9 But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!  AMP

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