Choose Peace!

Cowards complain and cry for fear but those with a spirit of faith proclaim peace. If our lives are controlled by what we feel and see then we’re living by the flesh not faith and not free. But “where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty” and if we abide in His Word we will know the truth and the truth will make us free. It’s tempting to get all agitated and upset by everything that’s happening in the world but the better choice is to trust in what God said in His Word. So I pray Lord, “do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.” God said that He will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Him because He trusts in Him. (Isa 26:3) So a good way to show and let everyone know that we’re not really trusting God is to cry and complain. But instead I say it’s time to pray and not put your anger and dismay on display. Whiners will live in woe and wander in the wilderness while those with a spirit of faith will continue to proclaim the gospel of peace and be perpetually free! God has not changed and He promised that even if the mountains are shaken and taken away that His covenant commitment of peace won’t fall apart or ever be removed from thee. The truth is that you have the everlasting peace of God abiding within you. You can walk in it continually if you will choose peace by focusing on God and His faithful Word. And refuse to recite world’s fear and fighting because God’s promise of peace we have in writing.

Ps 91:1-2
91 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust."
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John 14:27
27 Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.]
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2 Cor 4:13-18
13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed and therefore I spoke," we also believe and therefore speak, 14 knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. 15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
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Acts 10:36
36 The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace through Jesus Christ — He is Lord of all —
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Rom 10:14-15
14 But how can people call for help if they don't know who to trust? And how can they know who to trust if they haven't heard of the One who can be trusted? And how can they hear if nobody tells them? 15 And how is anyone going to tell them, unless someone is sent to do it? That's why Scripture exclaims, MES …

"How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
Who bring glad tidings of good things!"
Rom 10:15
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Rom 8:5-6
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
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Rom 15:13
13 Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Rom 15:13
13 I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Phil 4:6-7
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
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Col 3:15
15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
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Isa 54:10
10 Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,"
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
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Isa 54:10
10 For even if the mountains walk away
and the hills fall to pieces,
My love won't walk away from you,
my covenant commitment of peace won't fall apart."
The God who has compassion on you says so.
MES