Peace That Passes Understanding

Peace That Passes Understanding!

 

“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made know to GOD, and the Peace of GOD, which surpasses all understanding, will guard you hearts and minds through CHRIST JESUS.” Philippians 4:6-7

 

So many of us call out to GOD for peace that passes all understanding in the midst of our crisis.

 

Prayer is talking with GOD, like JESUS taught us in Matthew 6:9-13 and did in John 17.

Supplication is humble and earnest prayer like what JESUS did in the Garden of Gethsemane (“…not My Will but Yours be done!”).

 

Prayer is what we do daily, before there is a crisis and supplication is what we do daily and when the crisis hits.

 

And because we know that He hears our prayers and therefore answers our prayers, “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His Will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.”, 1 John 5:14-15. “…The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much…”, James 5:13-18 (16b).

 

It is not how fervent we pray, even with fasting, in the crisis; it is how righteous we have been living and how frequently we fellowship with GOD in prayer and if we are praying according to His Will! Then we have Peace that surpasses all understanding!

 

The point of this teaching is that many people, including Christians quote “the peace that passes all understanding”, some will quote it as “the Peace of GOD that passes all understanding”, but these are wrong. Even when they credit GOD for the peace they are not fulfilling the requirement of receiving GOD’s Peace that passes all understanding.

 

Now some are going to say, “We don’t live under the law anymore, we live under grace.” Wrong! JESUS said in Matthew 7:21-23 to those who were doing the works of GOD’s Kingdom in the earth, “…Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!” (23b) This is part of the sermon on the mount Matthew 5-7.

 

JESUS told us “If you Love Me, keep My Commandments. He who has My Commandments and keeps them, it is he who Loves Me. And he who Loves Me will be Loved by My Father, and I will Love him and manifest Myself to him.” John 14:15,21 This was during the evening of His arrest.

 

JESUS gave us about 60 commandments and He expects us to keep them if we claim to be Christians, He also expects us to keep The Ten Commandments. Read His teachings He not only quotes commandments from the Law but He gives us new ones. “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My Reward is with Me, to give to everyone according to his work. I Am The Alpha and The Omega, The Beginning and The End, The First and The Last.’ Blessed are those who do His Commandments (wash their robes), that they may have the right to The Tree of Life, and may enter through the gates into the city. Buy outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murders and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie. ‘I, JESUS, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the Churches. I Am The Root and The Offspring of David, The Bright and Morning Star.’” Revelation 22:12-16

 

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