His Glory For Our Peace
May 6, 2020
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Roans 5:1 &2
…being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ…and rejoice in the hope of the Glory of God.
We are children of the Most High God. Jesus is our peace and our portion. It is His peace that He gave us, and He is the Prince of Peace.
If we lack peace we need to find out why because one of the benefits of His divine exchange at the cross was for our peace.
The enemy wants to strip you of your peace and put stress, anxiety and fear on you.
What is his main tactic? Keeping you so busy it robs you of peace.
If you find your life has become too busy, it may be time to look at what your doing and ask Him to remove what is not part of your future! What is not of Him.
Ask Him to show you what is good, but not best in your life. For good is the enemy of best.
Then be faithful to do what He asks you to do.
Being busy doing what He has asked you to do is a good thing.
But not spending quality time with Him, is being too busy and that is not good.
You will burn out if you don’t stop and re-assess your life.
It's amazing how much rest and peace we can have when we put God first in our lives.
Even in being busy, we can have peace when our lives are centered and in right alignment with the Lord, and our spirit and soul are being fed by his Word and His presence!
In this we are limitless.
There is nothing we can’t do!
We serve a creative God who loves to lavish us with good things.
It is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Luke 12:32
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work. 2 Cor. 9:8
In order to have anything to give, we must go to the Father like Jesus did...in a quiet place.
When we don't make enough time for Him, we get exhausted and begin to operate on our own strength.
That’s when we lose our peace.
The enemy is crafty. Though you have the best of intentions if you don’t pay attention to your day-to-day activities, he can get you going in so many directions and cause you to lose your peace.
When we find ourselves anxious, we must remember:
The Lord is my portion, therefore I will hope in Him. Lamentations 3:24 & 25
My daily practice to keep from getting off track:
Prov. 16:3 commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts will be established. (Your day-to-day activity)
Every morning turn your plans over to the Lord
For we make our plans but He directs our steps
Midday when you feel the heavy burden of so much to do…roll your cares upon Him again
Re align your priorities, your thoughts, and your emotions upon Him
He promises to establish your thoughts and make them clear
If your thoughts are established you will think clearly and get more done. But it will be in the Spirit and not the flesh
Psalms 37:5 Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass. (Commit your future plans)
To commit is to entrust the Lord with everything.
Intentionally commit all of your plans to Him.
Prov. 21:30 There is no wisdom, no insight or plan that can succeed against the Lord.
When you are in alignment with Him, there is nothing that can stop you
Jesus is your peace, and peace is your portion. Eph. 2:14
He is the Prince of Peace. And He lives in You!
Allow the Prince of Peace, the Captain and Chief Ruler of peace to direct your steps and exchange the anxiousness that comes from being too busy for His perfect peace.
Great peace have they who love Your law and nothing can make them stumble. Psalm 119:165
In His peace means in Him.
In HIM, you will achieve your goals, you will do more than you could imagine. You will go to heights beyond your understanding for our God does not put limits on us.
If we can trust and believe in Him in peace, there is nothing that will be able to stop the work of God in your life.
You will rise to the level of your expectations. So stop limiting yourself by putting your expectations on yourself. You are limiting yourself by doing that.
Put your expectations on Him, on Jesus.
You will mount up with wings like eagles; you will run and not be weary, walk and not faint. Isa. 40:31
He will set you in front of great men and women and give you favor and open doors you didn’t even know to knock on.
The key: Remember that peace is your portion from the Lord Jesus Christ and His divine exchange, but business will crowd it out.
Prayer:
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. Rom. 15:13
And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Phil. 4:7
I take authority and bind all stress, fear and anxiety working though the enemy and I command it to stop. I cancel the assignments to destroy your life by destroying your peace.
I declare that the gates of hell shall not prevail against you. Isa. 61:7
I decree you will receive a double portion inheritance in this life. Isa. 61:7
May His peace lead you and guide you and may you never let go of His peace for He exchanged His glory to give us His peace.
Pastor Cathy Coppola
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