Power of Mending Fences

Key Scripture:  “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all men.”  Romans 12:18

Power Point:

Spring is always a good time to look around your home or your property and repair the things that have broken down over the last year. Springtime brings a freshness that helps us to want to do a little “cleaning up” doesn’t it? That’s always a good thing to do in the natural but it’s also a good thing to do in the spiritual. Are there some fences that you need to mend with people in your life so that you will not walk into this new season with “old” things that have been broken down and are keeping you from a fresh start?

It’s always a good idea to survey the “land” of our lives and make sure that all the fences are repaired and strong. Are there some wounds and some disappointments, which have torn down your protection against the enemy? If you’ve allowed offenses or unforgiveness or bitterness into your life, then you are giving the enemy a wide opening to trespass on your property and set up camp. From that place he can “poach” your land. In other words he can begin to do what he does best, steal, kill and destroy. That’s what poachers do best. They march onto land that is not theirs and refuse to leave until you make them.

If you have a relationship that has broken down, Holy Spirit would love to help you mend that fence. He’s the best there is at bringing unity and love and peace back into any part of our lives.  In fact, He wrote the book on it.  He says that, “as far as it depends on us, we are to pursue “Peace” with all men.  All? All! When we do that, we become “peacemakers” and we honor our Father in heaven by being His ambassadors here on the earth. When we “act in the opposite spirit” of what our flesh is suggesting, then we are acting according to the “power’ that would like to work in us.  There’s absolutely no reason to restrict the power of Holy Spirit to bring peace with “all” men is there?

Would today be a good time to survey your land, kick out the poachers, and re-establish His peace? Do you remember the old saying, “If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy?” Well, today this Mama is choosing to be happy, and to be peaceful with “all” men. How about you?

Power Thought:

“Blessed-enjoying enviable happiness, spiritually prosperous (that is with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the makers and maintainers of peace, for they shall be called the sons of God.” Matthew 5:18, Amplified Bible.