Friday, December 16, 2016

Peace we can't understand.

Php 4:6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 
Php 4:7  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 

Everything.
The entirety- all the items, actions, or facts in a given situation. (Encarta)

In EVERYTHING-  Pray.
In EVERYTHING-  Supplicate.
In EVERYTHING-  Thanksgiving.

In all actions- pray, supplicate, and give thanks.

Truly if we cannot pray, supplicate and give thanks in what we are doing- should we be doing it at all? If we have requests they should be of God. If we have any concerns at all about anything at all we should be seeking God over those concerns and when we pray, when we appeal to God, we need to thank Him and KNOW that He has heard us and will answer our requests with HIS wisdom- not ours.

If we do this, if we truly keep these words and believe them- the PEACE of GOD- which passes ALL understanding will keep our hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

If we can honestly learn to leave our concerns with God, if we can really truly trust in God, giving Him our worries and we BELIEVE He will answer in HIS wisdom, then we should have this peace we cannot comprehend. We thank Him because we know He's in control. We understand that NONE of our worrying will alter a single thing. 

We need our hearts kept.
We need our minds kept.
We need the keeper of our hearts and minds to be our Savior- Christ Jesus!

Please, Lord, teach me to surrender to You in all things. Teach me to know Your peace with I will not be able to understand.  All through YOUR grace and mercy, YOUR love, now and forever.

AMEN.

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