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Power Point:
I’m a BIG fan
of Peace. I love it when I
exercise it and I miss it when I don’t.
I’ve experienced times of GREAT peace and I’ve had sad times of NO
peace.
Many years ago I was
looking for a home to buy. I came
across one that I thought was perfect.
I began working through all the details and one day my friend Julie and I
went to look at it one more time.
We had made an offer and they had accepted it. This was just a “prayer”
run to seal the deal.
The moment we set
foot on the property, Julie heard “Peace, peace where there is no peace.” What? When she said it, I felt
it. In my heart I knew something
was wrong. Where everything had looked perfect a few moments before I was
uneasy. That afternoon the realtor
called and said that the people had decided not to move and the contract had
fallen through. Ah. Now I had
peace again.
God often
leads us by His peace doesn’t He? When my husband was alive, we never made a
major decision unless we both had peace about it, unless we were in unity. You may have had a bad doctor’s report,
or a negative financial report but if you will ask Him, God will release the
flow of His peace in you. Jesus
came to bring us peace. He didn’t
leave us worldly peace that depends on our situation but He gave us peace that
passes all our ability to understand why we have peace.
Did you know that
Hebrew word for peace is “shalom”?
It means “nothing missing, nothing broken.” Jesus is the "Prince of Nothing Missing, Nothing Broken". He is beyond our understanding, but He
has given us the ability to feel, exercise, enjoy and radiate peace when there is no peace.
Scripture
says there’s a qualification for peace.
FIRST we receive
it. We take it! We take what
has been offered. It’s part of the
package deal when you took Jesus into
your heart and asked Him to be with you forever. Peace forever.
It has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?
Secondly Scripture
says that great peace have those who
love the Lord.
Just like
everything else in God’s spiritual kingdom, peace has to grow greater.
We begin
with a love for the Lord because we are so stunned that He could possibly love
us. We begin being led by His Spirit and we begin to grow in peace. Or not. We begin to see Him work in the
“dailies” or our lives and we experience Him personally. The truth is, the more you know Him,
the more you will love Him. The
more you love Him, the more peace you will have because you trust Him. When you are rooted and grounded in
love for your incredible Lord, peace comes naturally. Rest is easy, and hope
and faith spring eternal.
Peace means
wholeness. It means contentment.
Peace means you are at rest. Peace means you do not fear what tomorrow
may bring, or even to allow your thoughts to “go there”. You direct your thoughts to peace and
rest because you have faith that God will do what He has promised because He is
who He says He is. It means that what He has promised He is perfectly ready,
willing and able to perform for you.
He says in Isaiah 54:10, “ the
mountains may move and the hills leave but my kindness shall not leave you, nor
shall my covenant of peace be removed. I am the One who is full of mercy
towards you, says the Lord.”
(Suzanne translation).
He’s
saying that no matter what happens around you, His peace is inside you ready to
make you feel secure and safe, because He is just about ready to bring His
goodness to bear in your life.
Even when….
When we know
Him, we can have peace. We can rest
assured that He will be there no matter what and that He’s working out His
plans to give us a future and a hope.
You have
peace because you have faith. You can’t have one without the other. If the center of your life is in chaos,
you won’t have peace at the edges of it.
If you find yourself at war with something in your life, you must take Jesus’ peace. He had peace because
He knew His Father and He knew that He was good, all the time. You can have
peace for that same reason. You can have great
peace, beyond understanding, because you don’t trust your own understanding,
you trust in Him.
Take it
or leave it.
What we see and what we know may be two different things.
Lean past what you see and lean into Who you
know.
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