{"id":1786,"date":"2024-09-18T10:43:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T00:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2024-09-21T15:55:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T05:55:51","slug":"peace-in-the-midst-of-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/2024\/09\/18\/peace-in-the-midst-of-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace in the Midst of Turmoil (15 Sept)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Verses for the day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Phil 4:6-7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In his message titled, \u201cPeace in Turmoil,\u201d Charles Price said, \u201cOften we define peace as the absence of conflict. But that isn’t the kind of peace Paul’s talking about here. This is a peace in the midst of conflict. Paul was writing out of his own experience.\u201d He had learned to find peace in the midst of turmoil. Paul describes his trials in 2 Cor 11:23-27. That\u2019s quite a list. But he said in Phil 4:10-13 that he learned to be content in every situation. How? \u201cI can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.\u201d (Phil 4:10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The peace that passes understanding is that rest in the midst of turmoil and trouble and trauma. Through Paul, God says, \u201cDon’t be anxious,\u201d but in everything he says, that is in everything that might make you anxious, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. When we do, Paul promises us that the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Instead of being anxious, thank God, and pray about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank him for the problems? No! Thanking him for himself in the problem. Thanking him for his presence, his sufficiency, his wisdom, his power in the situation.  That is where the peace which passes understanding, comes from. When we commit the situation to God, believe He can handle it, and rest in His omniscient, omnipotence and love, the result, he says, will be that this peace guards your hearts and your minds in Christ. Putting it crudely, this peace comes in passing the buck to somebody bigger, giving the buck to God and saying, God, this is your situation. Thank you that you’re capable within it to bring about your purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Application<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With everything that is going on right now, it\u2019s important to keep in mind that you can’t control what’s happening to you. But you can control what’s happening in you. And what I’ve learned to do says Paul, is to bring Jesus Christ in to every situation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Price said, \u201cYou are not what you think you are, what you think, you are! We are what we think. \u201cAs a man thinks in his heart, so is he\u201d Prov 23:7 (KJV). You have got to change your thinking, so that every day you’re saying Lord Jesus, in every part of my life today, I want you to reign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I am praying for your thinking, that you will arm yourselves with the belt of truth!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eph 6:13-14 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground<\/strong>, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14a Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tozer said, “More than anything else, more even than sin, wrong thoughts about you sap the foundations of my spiritual life, and grieve your heart of love.” In the place of wrong thinking, I pray that you will fill your thoughts with truth and right thinking about God today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pray that you will Know these truths.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n