Power of Peaceful Living

Key Scripture:  “He will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is stayed (fixed) on You because he trusts You.” Isaiah 26:3

Power Point:

I was thinking today about the promises of God for our future. They are simply amazing aren't they?  The thing is, absorbing all that into your daily life can be a bit tricky can’t it? If we accept the fact that “salvation” means “deliverance, soundness, prosperity, happiness, rescue and general well-being” (which it does), then we need to understand that the first step in receiving all that is to receive the “Peace” that Jesus gave you as part of His incredible package deal. The word Jesus uses here is “eirene” which means “a state of rest, quietness, and calmness; an absence of strife, tranquility. It denotes perfect well-being whether it’s between you and God, or you and someone else.

Think about that. When we walk in His peace, His power in us is able to flow freely because we have no anger, no strife, no jealousy, and no selfishness because we’re
"fixed” on God.  When we walk in His peace, in the power of His Spirit, we are calm, happy, and blessed; We are well connected to Him and to others. Even if nothing else happened, that would be a good way to live, but a lot of things do happen because we receive and act in the peace that Jesus died to give us. Greater things. Powerful things. In I Timothy 6:6 it says, “godliness with contentment is great gain”.  That means that if we accept Jesus’ peace and let it rule in our hearts and minds we become content.  That means we don’t rely on any outside sources. That means we are content in Him. We are content in His promises. We are content to trust Him because as we trust Him- and not ourselves, or the people or things around us, we experience a deeper level of faith-a real sense of everything coming together for good in our lives. It no longer matters what is “around us” because what is in us is greater than anything in the world.

The sticky part is applying all this isn’t it?  It means going against the grain, swimming against the tide of public opinion and what is “normal” in the world.  But Beloved if you did nothing else but cultivate the Peace that is firmly planted in you, you could change your world.  If you took God at His Word and refused to listen to anything else, you would create peace around you.

If we really believe that God will do what He says He will do then there’s no problem. Right? Right! Beloved, to cultivate and grow His peace within us we have to grow in our understanding that Jesus Himself is our peace and that through Him we have total and complete access to the Father. His peace in us and through us, creates the birthing place for miracles, for the supernatural power of God to work, and for heaven to come to earth. When we come to the Father, we come in the Name of and the Peace of Jesus. Do you think Jesus ever doubted that God would answer His prayers? Do you think He ever worried that if He put His hand on someone that they would not be healed? Do you think He worried as He began to hand out five loaves and two fishes to feed 5000 people that there wouldn’t be enough food? Of course not! Why? Because He was in such perfect connection to His Father that He was absolutely convinced that God would do what He had said He would do. And He did.

Are we convinced? Really? Do we need to work on that? Do we need to make a deeper connection to peace in and with the Father? Probably.

Power Thought:

Got Peace? Got Problems? No problem.