Our new series starts off with the topic of intercession. Jeff Faust defines intercession as "praying on behalf of another." There are many questions about prayer, why and how it works. It is not so much how prayer works, but that it works at all. God listens to us so he can change our circumstances based on our requests. We can pray for ourselves, our neighbors, specific groups of people, our city, our world. Though our prayers are not always answered the way we want, the more we keep praying, the more breakthroughs we will see.

Jeff Faust talks about the opportunity to rest that the COVID-19 virus is giving us. We can easily fall into a frenzied lifestyle of getting everything done that we can or a consumptive lifestyle of binging on Netflix, sermons, and social media. But even the latter is not true rest. It will disappoint us. Fortunately, Jesus invites us to true rest for our soul, a rest that refreshes our whole being. What would it do for our lives if we could experience consistent, deep, and real rest?