Psalm 64 Prayer Alert

Dear friends of Come Rest,

·      We believe the Lord has placed Psalm 64 on our hearts as a prayer/spiritual warfare focus through the month of June. We believe the Lord is alerting us to the enemy’s assault on pastors and their families.

·      We call all global and local friends of Come Rest to pray according to Psalm 64 specifically for the pastors and leaders of the various churches and ministries in which you all participate.

·      I have begun memorizing Psalm 64 and I am declaring it aloud. I ask each of you to memorize it or keep a copy close and pray it aloud as the Spirit prompts you throughout the day.

·      Check in on your spiritual leaders, spouses, and families.  Surprise them with kindnesses. Join others in putting up a prayer shield of faith around them through Psalm 64.

·      Pray Psalm 64 over your own household.

·      Ask for divine appointments to pray for, and encourage people, with Psalm 64!

*Kim and I thank you for your ongoing prayers, financial support, and participation in Come Rest Ministries! Keep sending us your prayer requests! We are seeing God move very deeply, tenderly, and powerfully in our prayer ministry! The Lord is helping us take the land!

*Many thanks to Pastor Christian Shields who is helping us completely overhaul our website. We anticipate it will be up and running by June 15. When it is finished we will need one or two trusted and committed communications volunteers to be trained by Pastor Christian to take on the website as their way of helping Come Rest. We need these volunteers to help us develop an audio and video podcasting outreach as well. We need the website to become a tool to propel the message of Come Rest.  The website will also be able to receive electronic contributions and book orders and purchasing. Very exciting. Please pray.

*We have begun offering to do 3 Day Wellsprings Gatherings to pastors and churches for the renewal and equipping of their people. Please pray and help us spread this simple model in your church and city. Contact us for more info.

*Kim and I have personally stepped out in faith to buy a new, more reliable vehicle. We believe the Lord is preparing us for more travel around the U.S. to spread Come Rest ministry. We are seeking the Lord as to where He wants us to travel and minister this summer, fall, and winter. Seattle? Columbus? Atlanta? St. Louis? Phoenix?  Marshalltown? Algona? Des Moines? Your home town or church? Pray for us and let us know what the Lord is bringing to your mind. We are presently seeking the Lord about the time period of July 17- August 11. Let us know! Again, very exciting.

*Please pray that I make major headway on the new book the next 6 weeks. It must be my priority. I am seeing that this book, which will be entitled Come Up has the potential to make a difference to a lot a people for years to come. I must pull away from other ministry demands to devote my full attention to it. Please pray for me.

*Finally, if you know of other believers and churches that have a heart for sowing financial seed into ministries that renew the larger body of Christ, please encourage them to give to the Lord’s work to Come Rest Ministries, P.O. Box 11010, Cedar Rapids, IA 52410-1010.

Love and blessings,

Dick and Kim Speight

   

COME REST MINISTRIES’

NEW! FOUNTAIN FRIDAY

FRIDAY, may 29^th  7-10pm

At Rehoboth(Speights’ home)

2125 Bever Ave. SE Cedar Rapids)

This is a new outreach we will try a few times over the summer!

Bring someone who desires the Lord’s refreshing presence!

Bring someone who can’t come to Rehoboth on Sunday nights!

Bring someone who wants renewing cross-denominational fellowship!

Bring yourself! J

Joyful praise, grateful testimonies, healing prayer, laughter, encouraging conversation!

Freewill offering.

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COME REST MINISTRIES’

AWAKENING OF LOVE

FRIDAY, JUNE 5^th  630-930pm

Beautiful worship(Miriam Bandfield, Lori Owens, and Deb Polk will be our worship leaders).

Richard & Kim Speight and other Come Rest ministers will share teaching and encouraging words. Bring your own grateful testimonies, receive healing prayer.

Bring friends from all walks of life and all the different streams of Christianity!

Register at the door; freewill offering.

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Come Rest ministries

Wednesday Personal Retreat

june 20^th  9am-4pm

Rehoboth House 2125 Bever Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, IA

Requirements: Pen, bible, notebook, your copy of our book

REAL FRUIT, and your wholehearted desire to come rest in Jesus!

Cost: Freewill Offering plus $18 for book which may be purchased at retreat

Space Limited-- Lunch provided

Encourage Christian friends and family to apply. Consider buying a $58 Retreat Gift Certificate for them!

Those interested must apply at jkadlec@ImOnMail.com.

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Come Rest ministries

thursday Personal Retreat

jue 21^st   9am-4pm

Rehoboth House 2125 Bever Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, IA

Requirements: Pen, bible, notebook, your copy of our book

REAL FRUIT, and your wholehearted desire to come rest in Jesus!

Cost: Freewill Offering plus $18 for book which may be purchased at retreat

Space Limited-- Lunch provided

Encourage Christian friends and family to apply. Consider buying a $58 Retreat Gift Certificate for them!

Those interested must apply at jkadlec@ImOnMail.com.

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Upcoming this weekend

Friday May 29   7pm     Fountain Friday at Rehoboth

Sunday May 31  845am   Richard and Kim Speight teaching Come Up class at River of Life Room A

                        6 pm         Men’s and Women’s Covenant Groups at Rehoboth

                        7 pm         I58 at Rehoboth

Rejoice and Be Glad

Oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of His people, Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.   Psalm 53:6 NKJV

Dear friends,

We’ve had such action-packed, fruitful weeks with the NW Iowa mission, our 3 Day Gathering, and ongoing ministry here at Rehoboth. So many friends of Come Rest are stepping forward into their callings! What a joy to watch it all unfold! This past week was time for Kim and I to catch our breath, celebrate her birthday, help family members and Come Rest friends with various needs, and try to get back into our personal rhythms of prayer, scripture, Kim’s art, and my writing. We give thanks for your participation, prayer, and financial support for Come Rest!  

Have you ever gone through your day doing the same things in the same surroundings with the same people and suddenly noticed something in the persons or surroundings you had not seen before? Scripture is like that; it is alive. You can read and reread a passage many times over many years, yet there is always something more. The Lord is always ready to reveal Himself to us any moment we give Him our undivided attention. So it was last week as I read again the words “Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad.”  Suddenly from within the Holy Spirit brought new insight and encouragement to my mind. You see, Jacob and Israel are two names for the same person. Yet the verse is not mere repetition; the Holy Spirit never wastes words. Jacob was a grasper from the moment he was born, and not necessarily the most loveable guy always. His life story up to the time of receiving the name Israel could be summed up by the phrase “take or be taken”. He took advantage of his brother Esau’s hunger and stupidity in acquiring his first born birthright with a bowl of soup and he deceived his aged father Isaac into giving his blessing meant for Esau. He fell in love with Rachel, but her father duped him into marrying her sister Leah first and getting seven more years labor from Jacob in exchange for Rachel’s hand. As I get older, I am more and more grateful whenever I see the name “God of Jacob”. It means the Lord is patient and merciful with you, me, and the whole world in our Jacobness. It means Christ died for us while we were yet sinners. Yes, at all times, and right now as you read this, no matter what is happening to you—you can rejoice in the Cross and rest in His blessed assurance you are saved from hell eternally, sin’s grip in this present moment, and the Helper Holy Spirit is in you! Let Jacob, you, me rejoice in our salvation!

What’s more, let Israel be glad. When Jacob arrived at the river Jabbok with his wives and children in tow, he was filled with dread at the prospect of facing the brother he had wronged all those years ago. In an anxious night Jacob wrestled with an angel of God and encountered God face to face. True to form Jacob grasped and asked for a blessing and received a limp and a new name. “Israel” means one who embraces and wrestles with God. Jacob named the place Peniel as the place where he embraced the face of God. In this intimate encounter, God mercifully prepared Jacob/Israel for more mercy and reconciliation with Esau. Through mercy God relieved Jacob’s fears and restored his relationships. Through the prophet Isaiah in chapters 42 & 49, hundreds of years later, to Jacob’s descendants in exile the Lord revealed Israel’s true calling—to be a light to the Gentiles. Because of Jesus’ blood over your life as a Gentile, you can be glad you too are called to be His light to the nations. So right now, as you read this—because of Jesus and no matter what is happening—rejoice that you are saved and be glad that you are called. Your life has a heavenly destination. Your life has an earthly purpose—to intimately embrace Jesus and lovingly witness for Him with grace and truth. He knows, feels, and understands your pain, fear, and grasping weakness. He loves you anyway Jacob. Rejoice. Be glad He picked you, even you. Oh how He loves you. Oh what a difference you can make to others around you—embracing Him and inviting them to do the same.

Rejoice that He died for you. Be glad you get to live for Him.

Love and blessings,

Dick Speight   

COME REST MINISTRIES’

AWAKENING OF LOVE

FRIDAY, may 15^th  630-830pm

This will be our last one at Calvin-Sinclair Presbyterian. Come join us as we celebrate all that God has done with Come Rest and Calvin Sinclair in the last 3 three years. We will also gather in prayer around Pastor Will Jackson as he and his family prepare to leave Calvin Sinclair to step into a new ministry adventure in their lives! Very exciting!

Beautiful worship, simple truth, grateful testimonies, wholehearted prayer.

Bring a friend!

Register at the door; freewill offering.

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Come Rest ministries

Wednesday Personal Retreat

May 20^th  9am-4pm

Rehoboth House 2125 Bever Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, IA

Requirements: Pen, bible, notebook, your copy of our book

REAL FRUIT, and your wholehearted desire to come rest in Jesus!

Cost: Freewill Offering plus $18 for book which may be purchased at retreat

Space Limited-- Lunch provided

Encourage Christian friends and family to apply. Consider buying a $58 Retreat Gift Certificate for them!

Those interested must apply at jkadlec@ImOnMail.com.

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Come Rest ministries

thursday Personal Retreat

 May 21^st   9am-4pm

Rehoboth House 2125 Bever Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, IA

Requirements: Pen, bible, notebook, your copy of our book

REAL FRUIT, and your wholehearted desire to come rest in Jesus!

Cost: Freewill Offering plus $18 for book which may be purchased at retreat

Space Limited-- Lunch provided

Encourage Christian friends and family to apply. Consider buying a $58 Retreat Gift Certificate for them!

Those interested must apply at jkadlec@ImOnMail.com.

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Upcoming this weekend

Sunday May 17  845       Come Up class at River of Life Room A

                        6          Men’s and Women’s Covenant Groups at Rehoboth

                        7          I58 at Rehoboth