In The Pathway to Accomplishment, Bishop Alvin D. Stewart, Jr. prophetically declares that this is the season of your accomplishment. 

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Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest?
Isaiah 66:1

True holiness is not something that can be obtained by “good works”. In fact, we as believers have no hope of ever being holy without the help of our Creator. God is looking for a temple that He can rest in (not just visit) – someone who will permit Him to create a sanctuary in his or her heart. We will not walk into the promises of finances, marriage, etc. Until we find ourselves holy before God. We are commissioned to go out into the world in order to spread the gospel. Yet, we are unable to assist others in being holy without being holy ourselves.

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Genesis 2:3

“Well, what is the Sabbath rest?” one may ask. Before God rested on the Sabbath, there was nothing special about that day: for rest isn’t in Sabbath, it is in God. Rest is a quality of God’s wholeness, and in order to make us whole, God hasto have a place where He can rest in us. The Sabbath is made holy when God shows up, so it is not the day that is key, it is when God shows up and makes it holy. Therefore, the Sabbath really is not referring to our ability to keep it holy- we are keeping the Sabbath (for us Sunday) holy. It refers to our willingness (or unwillingness) to enter into God’s rest.

We become holy when God rests upon us. But we must first put away the sins of our flesh. Holiness starts in our homes when we are by ourselves. We have to get to the place where we can cry out, “Lord, I need to get myself together because I am not where I am supposed to be. I need you allow me to rest…” God’s loving reply is, “ I’ve been waiting on you to come because I want to share My heart. There’s something about me that you need to know that will strengthen you a little further. Until you become holy, the things I’ve place in you (great things) won’t prosper.”

We have to make sure that envy, strife, hatred, etc. are all out of us. We will never go higher with envy/strife in our heart against others. God is ready to rest and take a seat in you. He wants you to follow His will and follow His plan. If you continue in your current state, you will not make it to your destiny. In order for God to rest, you have to recognize that you need Him in your spirit.

We must get to the place where we stop fooing people with a form of godliness which denys the real power of God. No one likes a dirty house, so why offer God a dirty house? God wants to come into place where there is accountability, discipline, consistency, diligence, responsibility, and balance where He can have full control.

He wants dominion over ever aspect of your life. We need the Lord to come and rest in us because like the Sabbath, we will never become holy until God rests in us. He wants to be the One we totally depend on. We must realize that we will never have the things we desire in life (wealth, home, marriage) until God rests in us. Although we may obtain it, it will not fulfill the emptiness within us (only God can do that). We must stop looking for people to fulfill us and make us feel like we are somebody. That starts when we allow God to be God, and we start looking within ourselves, finding out the treasure that is within us.

Learn to allow God to be first. If we listen, we would hear His longing cry, “I need someone who will allow Me to come in and take out everything that is not like me, everything keeping them from the place I want to take them.” Our response would then be, “Lord take it out.” For if we truly take a good look, we realize that we really do not need God to pinpoint the areas in which we need cleansing – we already know. This is a time in life where we need to be really with ourselves. Do not get so comfortable because you have been saved so long, that you feel you do not have an area in your life that you need to work on. You have to wake up, you cannot continue to walk in sin. There is a cry for us to be holy—it is going to be holiness or hell.

-Bishop Alvin D. Stewart

For more information about becoming a place for God to rest, purchase the teaching series True Holiness. It is sure to transform the way you think about your relationship with God.