30-Day Sabbath Challenge Quotes

“Several years ago, I discovered that not only was the Sabbath something Jesus did, but it could also bring blessing to my life! So I started learning how a Christian could do Sabbath in today’s world, and I searched the Scriptures, knowing that they were all written to people whom God loved and desired to bless. Sabbath was a”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“The world and its busyness will never stop making demands of you. There are a million opportunities available to us. Any mature person knows you cannot do everything and pursue every opportunity. We must carefully pick and choose how to spend our time. Pleasing everyone is impossible. We have to decide who to please first. Jesus did this, too.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“Only you can guard your Sabbath. No one else is going to protect it for you.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“Nehemiah 13:19 It came to pass that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. I set some of my servants over the gates so that no burden should be brought in on the Sabbath day.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“By doing Sabbath in a way that loves God and others, you’re telling the world you’re different. If people ask you if you’re Jewish you answer, “My Savior was. I’m walking like Him.” And you will start to stand out and apart from the world as you wear this special sign of your covenant with Him.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“If we only serve ourselves in our zeal for God and only grow inwardly with no outpouring into others, we will bear little fruit. Good fruit is making disciples of others.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“Don’t rely so heavily on your idea of a perfect Sabbath routine that you resent God when He allows circumstances to rob you of that routine. Rest as best as you can, and praise Him anyway.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“Life’s trials don’t stop for Sabbath. But Sabbath doesn’t stop for trials, either.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“Exodus 34:21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“To refresh your soul and relationships on Sabbath, you must enter it with shalom. Be flexible with what your week and Preparation Day might throw your way. Remember that Satan hates that you’re setting apart Sabbath to be more like Jesus, and he will try to make you a raving, stressed-out, angry person as you enter it. So take control of your attitude. Choose your tasks carefully, knowing that a simple Sabbath full of shalom is better than a fancy one full of stress.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“Proverbs 17:1 Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“The rules of the Sabbath to not work, buy, or sell are simple. Just stick to those if that’s all you can do for now.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“Isaiah 66:22-23 “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain. It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“the day before the Sabbath is called Preparation Day. This story is at the time of Jesus’ crucifixion, so it’s speaking of the Feast Day that starts with the Passover meal. The Torah says that day is to be treated like a Sabbath. That’s why it’s called Preparation Day. The Jews for millennia have referred to Fridays as Preparation Day, and I find it makes sense for me to call it that, too.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“Discern carefully what is necessary and which parts of the problem can wait. You have to guard and protect your Sabbath yourself. No one else will guard it for you.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“Sabbath should make your marriage better, too. Throughout the week, list talking points you want to discuss with your spouse on Sabbath and set aside some time on Sabbath just for talking. Sabbath allows plenty of time for married romance! Plan something a little more special than usual. Use Sabbath to draw closer to your spouse.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“Sabbath is a day free from dealing with money and everything related to money matters.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way

“Isaiah 56:6b-7a Everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it,
and holds fast my covenant,
I will bring these to my holy mountain,
and make them joyful in my house of prayer.”
― Amy Kay Guenther, 30-Day Sabbath Challenge: Transform Your Life by Resting God’s Way