Galatians 5:22-23
..The Fruit of the Spirit is PEACE..
Its coming to the end of the school year, a lot of you may be busy with finals. finding a summer job. have a lot on your mind concerning the coming year. After school programs. Sports. Summer camp. Whatever it is consuming your time. We tend to get stressed and caught up in the crazy lives we have. We can’t find that sense of peace we are longing for. We feel like all this stuff will never end, it’s just getting worse. Piling on top of us one after the other! Well, I’m here to tell you 1. I know the feeling exactly. And 2. There’s a solution.
When I was in 8th grade. I danced competitively. It was my 3rd year or so dancing. I loved it! Beginning of the year I was having fun with all my friends! School wasn’t so bad. I was excited for the year and everything it was going to bring. The year before I was fairly new, so this year I wanted to do everything! But little did I know how much a of commitment that was. So here we are, competition season (that’s around the time of February all the way to the end of May.) School work was starting to pile up on me. Rehearsals became more frequent. And a lot longer then expected. I had some rehearsals going until 9 o’clock that night. I was exhausted by the end of the day! I was stressed and did not have a mind of peace! I had forgotten what that word even meant by time the day was over. I was a new believer. Had no idea about the Lord and the peace He gives. So what did I do? I continued in my crazy lifestyle of school, working out, dance, sleep. Everyday. 24/7.
I eventually got to the point where I was completely burned out. One day I opened my Bible, because I had a few moments to give. So I looked at my Bible and thought ‘Wow, it has sure been a long time since I opened this.’ And I happen to open up to John 14: 27. It says “ Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” And the Lord spoke and ministered to my heart right then and there. My heart was troubled. I was not at peace. My mind and my heart were going in so many directions.
Here’s the solution. Jesus. He gives peace that surpasses all understanding. He longs for that quiet time with you. He wants your heart and mind to be at peace. He wants to comfort you. So beloved sister, what is it that’s stressing you out? Does anything I mention before ring a bell? He is the peace maker. So maybe, you are in the situation I was in. stressed. Overwhelmed. Not looking to Jesus for peace. Trying to find it in friends. Ladies, Jesus will bring you peace. Look to HIM. And pray. Pray that the Lord would calm your heart and the things in your life. Seek His face for guidance! He will give it.
Love you sweet sisters!
Love in HIM.
Here is what Gods Word has to say about Peace…
2 Corinthians 13:11 -
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Become complete. Be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Ephesians 2:14-18 -
14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, 15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, 16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. 17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. 18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
Judges 6:23 -
23 Then the Lord said to him, “Peace be with you…”
Psalm 4:8 - 8 I will both lie down in peace, and sleep;
For You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Isaiah 26:3
- 3 You will keep him in perfect peace,
Whose mind is stayed on You,
Because he trusts in You.
Mark 5:34
- 34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”
Romans 5:1
- Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ
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