Finding True Peace

The scriptures tell us that He will give us peace, but NOT as the world does. The kind of peace that God gives is the peace that "surpasses" all understanding. In other words it makes no sense to us how His peace can be so pure and makes us totally forget about whatever it is that is bothering us. The secular world tells us that if we want true peace we can find it in buying a new car, but what if we can't afford a new car? Then how about you go to a bar and throw a few down and drink your sorrows away only to get to drunk and have the same problems when you wake up the next day or finally how about you tell your troubles to someone and find yourself in a precarious position and end up with a marriage that ends up in divorce. We need to stop looking for peace in all the WRONG places. There is only one person that I know that can give me the kind of peace that I'd been searching for for 31 years of my life.....His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth

These scenarios may seem a bit harsh, but all too true. We love to find peace in all the wrong things when all we simply have to do is seek Him, the one true peace giver like no other. His name is Jesus and he is called the Prince of Peace, Comforter......Our God is called Jehovah-Shalom, which means the God of peace. He's a river that never, never runs dry. Never recedes like a river or pond might. It's constantly overflowing for you and for me.

I attend a Men's Fellowship about every two weeks and the one thing that comes to mind that the minister talked about was "finding true peace" and one of the things he said was that he literally pulls down God's peace from on high. He literally used a "pulling" motion top down from head to toe. Supernaturally, pulling down God's peace. He recently lost one one of his daughters in a car accident, yet he came to the fellowship within the same week with a faith and a peace that only God Himself could have given him. Its ours and no one or thing should be able to take it away. The enemy didn't give it you, therefore he cannot take it away!

Yes, you are going to have troubles in your life, who doesn't? But God already promised that he has "overcome this world" He died so that we might be overcomers in this life, not overtakers. We are "more than conquerors through Christ Jesus our Lord" I've been through stuff and continue to go through stuff, but God is still on the throne and as long as He is, I will be alright because all I have to do is call his name and he will fill me to overflowing with true peace.