The Peace of God
John 14:27
I want to talk to you about the peace of God. It’s been less than a year and a half since we taught two messages on the Peace of God in our “Spiritual Battle” series. But that is long enough. We need it again, today.
This word “Peace” – “Shalom” in Hebrew and “Eirene” in Greek – is a huge word in the Bible. There is one Bible Dictionary that referred to this concept of peace as “One of the most prominent theological concepts in the Bible.” It is prominent why? Because we need peace. But the concept of peace is used to address so many things in the Bible and so many areas of our life that I need to define the specific peace that we want to talk about in this message.
PEACE: The overriding and prevailing sense of well-being, contentment, and wholeness that comes only from the presence and power of God, and does not fluctuate based on circumstances.
Who needs some of that?
If you’re visiting with us today, we normally teach expositional, verse-by-verse messages. But today I’m doing something a little different. This message is actually fashioned from our “Scripture By Topic” on CalvaryNuevo.org website. We use these scripture by topic lists to minister, to meditate, to do daily devotions, to disciple people, to see transformation of people’s lives, to be transformed by the renewing of our mind (as Romans 12:2 says).
So, it is in that vein I want to talk about the supernatural Peace of God, today. I want us to know there is a supernatural peace of God that will guard us, protect us, and guide us through any situation or any circumstance in this life. You know I’m not really big on talking theoretical or intellectual. I want to talk to you today about the peace of God that is relational and experiential. I want to talk about a supernatural and relational peace of God that will actually change your life, right now in the midst of your circumstances, whatever they may be.
But listen, please, I don’t want to put a guilt trip on anyone. I don’t know any Christian who walks around in perfect peace all the time. Because the peace of God is contrary to our human nature, which is why we need continual encouragement in this area. So let’s not beat ourselves up about not yet walking in the peace of God, okay? God has given every believer the opportunity to have the Peace of God, to live in it, to walk in it. But God loves you just the same if you never take him up on it.
Now, let me make this clear. The Bible spells out two “types” of peace when it comes to our relationship with Jesus Christ. There is peace “with” God and there is the peace “of” God.
Peace with God means you have stopped being God’s enemy by putting your full faith in Jesus Christ for salvation and being made “right” with God.
Romans 5:1 (NLT)
1 Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us
Peace with God is our salvation in Jesus Christ, and please hear me; there is no way to move to the peace of God until you have peace with God.
The only condition to you having peace with God is your faith in Jesus Christ. However, learning to walk in the peace of God is something we learn to do. It is more conditional than just believing in Jesus Christ.
So, let me lay out two major conditions to learning to walk in the peace of God.
#1) The peace of God is available only in a very real, daily relationship with Jesus Christ.
This peace is not something we generate. It’s God’s peace and it comes only through a close daily relationship with Jesus, and by focusing that close daily relationship on obtaining the peace of God in your life whenever that needs to be the focus.
#2) Living in the peace of God is fully dependent on the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
One of the largest problems in Christianity is us trying so hard to follow Jesus in our own strength. You can’t be saved in your own strength. You can’t experience the peace of God in your own strength.
We must know it is the life and power of God living in us (in the Person of the Holy Spirit) that enables us to walk in the peace of God.
Galatians 5:22 (NLT)
22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace . . .
It is the Holy Spirit in our lives that produces the supernatural peace of God. Which is why Ephesians 5:18 says (in the original) Be constantly being filled with the Holy Spirit. And so, to grow in the peace of God we’ve got to be constantly asking God to fill us with the Holy Spirit.
So,
#1) The peace of God is available ONLY through a real daily relationship with Jesus Christ.
#2) Living in the peace of God is fully dependent on the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Finally, I’m going to try something today that I have never done. After I read the verses we’re going to use today, I’d like to go ahead and pray those verses right after I read them. My hope is, it would give you a feel, an idea, of how you can pray these and other verses as you learn how to walk in the peace of God. Okay? And as I pray, you don’t have to close your eyes or anything, just look at the scripture and listen to me pray.
Let’s start today in Romans Chapter 6.
Romans 6:13 (NLT)
13 . . . give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life . . .
God, I WILL give myself completely to you, TODAY. Because I was DEAD, but now you have given me NEW LIFE – Lord, please teach me, and enable me, to walk in that new life – in an ever-increasing way, as I learn to LIVE in You.
You have new life in Jesus Christ (positionally) including the ability to walk in the supernatural peace of God, but – you must still learn how to walk in it.
Turn to Romans 8:6. God says it’s an issue of mind control.
Romans 8:6 (NLT)
6 So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.
Lord, I know that I can still ALLOW my sin nature to control my mind – and I know that if I do, it will lead to destruction in my life – and so Lord, I CHOOSE, I Commit, to allow you, Holy Spirit, to control my mind, leading me to life and peace. Show me Lord, how to allow your Holy Spirit, through your Word, to control what my mind is SET on.
Romans 6 says – We OWN this new life “positionally.”
Romans 8 says – We still have to “re-train” our mind to allow the Spirit to control it instead of our flesh and we’ve got to keep doing it until our mind thinks differently – until we react differently.
Until you think according to your new life in Christ instead of your old life in the flesh; until you react according to your new life in Christ instead of your old life in the flesh; until we are walking in the Spirit instead of in the flesh – these are new life traits that must be learned and practiced. You’ve got to develop the discernment to determine between flesh and Spirit. “No” to the flesh. “Yes” to the Spirit in your mind. These have to be learned, and they have to grow in you.
Galatians 5 (the second half) and Colossians 3 (the first half) are a great place to start. And get a discipler.
Now, in John Chapter 14, Jesus is in what we generally call “The Last Supper” (John 13-17). This is a massive and critical teaching Jesus was giving during that time in the Upper Room. And in John Chapter 14, Jesus is promising to send us the Holy Spirit when he leaves.
And we read in John 14:25-26,
John 14:25–26 (NLT)
25 I am telling you these things now while I am still with you (referring to (ultimately) all of his teaching).
26 But when the Father sends the Advocate (The Helper) as my representative (in my name) - that is, the Holy Spirit - he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you.
Lord, that’s what we need. We need to absorb, to take in, all that you’ve taught us in your Word. And then Lord, we need the Advocate, the Holy Spirit to bring your Word alive inside us, to give it the power to transform us, to be our Helper and our Teacher, and to bring to our remembrance the things you’ve taught us.
I promise you, in God’s Word is all we need to walk in the “peace of God.” But we must begin by absorbing God’s Word, by taking it in, by making it a daily part of our lives. And God has sent us the Helper, the Holy Spirit, to light his Word on fire inside of us, in order to transform our lives, so that we can begin to live in the subject of the very next verse.
John 14:27 (NLT)
27 “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.
Lord, your peace IS a gift, and Lord, we need it. We spend far too much time, troubled, and afraid. And Lord, we REPENT from turning to the world, looking for a peace that the world cannot give. Lord, you ARE our Peace, Jehovah Shalom. We look to you alone, to receive the Peace of mind and heart that we need.
Let’s turn over to John Chapter 16. Jesus is wrapping up this long teaching that we call the “Upper Room Discourse.” And these are his final words before his prayer in Chapter 17 and then his immediate arrest in the Garden. And so, in the larger sense, these are the final formal teaching words of three and a half years of his teaching ministry.
John 16:33a (NLT)
33 I have told you all this (ESV = I have said these things to you) so that you may have peace in me . . .
Jesus says: I have told you (taught you) all these things so that you may have peace in me. These truths the Lord has given us (not just in the upper room) but in all of God’s Word. These truths and these promises are so that we may have peace – in him. The supernatural peace of God rests on the truths and the promises of the Word of God.
The truths and promises of the Word of God are brought to life by the power of the Holy Spirit in us and (ultimately) the peace of God is “in Christ.”
We talk a lot about being IN Christ. It’s such a small, little word I think sometimes we just accept it as Christian vocabulary without grasping what it really means. Here’s what one of the best Greek Dictionaries says about this word, as it’s being used here.
EN – A marker of close personal association. Meaning, “one with, in union with, joined closely to.”
And so we have:
The truths and the promises of the Word of God brought alive inside us by the power of the Holy Spirit… and then the supernatural peace of God comes from being “one with, in union with, joined closely to” Jesus Christ!
Lord, that is what we need. We need to immerse ourselves in the truths and the promises of your Word. We need the power of your Holy Spirit to make your Word come alive in us and we need to be one with, in union with, and joined closely to YOU, Jesus.
Man, do we need that. We need it, because we haven’t even read all of John 16:33 yet. Let’s re-read the entire verse and we’ll focus on the second half.
John 16:33 (NLT)
33 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”
Lord, here on earth, we have many trials, and sorrows, But Lord, we will take heart, we will have a strong confidence, we will NOT be MOVED, because YOU Lord Jesus, have overcome this world. You have, once and for all – ON our behalf, conquered the trials and the sorrows that we face in this world.
So not only does the peace of God come from being “one with, in union with, joined closely to Jesus Christ” but that is also how we have OVERCOME this world. Being “one with, in union with, joined closely to Jesus Christ” is both our peace and our victory over this world. But guys, I’m not talking about this in theory, I’m talking about this in real life practice.
We must be “one with, in union with, joined closely to Jesus Christ” in a very real, daily relationship with him coupled with the Word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. That is the path to the supernatural peace of God! And that is really good news.
Let’s get one Old Testament verse in here. This is one of my family’s favorite verses on this subject.
Isaiah 26:3 (NLT)
3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
Lord, you will keep me in perfect peace, if I will trust in you completely, if I will commit myself to you completely, if I will lean on you, and cling to you completely. And so Lord, I do - completely. I commit all my worries, all my trials, all my struggles; I commit them all to you. Trusting you completely.
But wait, the verse also says, God will keep in perfect peace all whose thoughts are fixed on Him!
Oh Lord, that’s hard. Our mind is ‘bent’ toward fear, and stress, and anxiety. But Lord, I WILL keep my thoughts fixed on you, fixed on your Word. With the power of Your Holy Spirit I will wrestle my thoughts away from this world, and away from my own fears, and I will FIX them – on YOU alone, Lord.
Guys, we have God’s Word. We have the power of the Holy Spirit and we have the right to have a very real, daily relationship with Jesus Christ.
But in our own strength God’s peace is IMPOSSIBLE. It’s only as we will make these choices to set our lives by God’s Word in the power of the Holy Spirit in a real, daily relationship with Jesus Christ… that God will transform our live and we will experience the peace of God.
The next verse in Isaiah 26 continues the thought.
Isaiah 26:4 (NLT)
4 Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.
That’s what we need Lord, we need you, to be our eternal ROCK. We need you, the Rock of Ages. You are our Strong Foundation, and trusting in YOU, we will not be moved. You ARE our Eternal Rock, and we will trust in you always.
Alright, let’s finish with Romans 15:13.
Romans 15:13 (NLT)
13 I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Lord, God, You ARE the SOURCE of our great hope. We pray Lord, that you would fill us completely with JOY and PEACE, AS we continue to grow in our Complete Trust in you. And Lord, may we SO Trust you, and SO be filled completely with your joy and peace, that we would OVERFLOW with confident hope – through the POWER of your Holy Spirit.
That’s what we want, isn’t it? To so trust God, to so have our thoughts fixed on him that we would be filled with the peace of God. And so much so that we would overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit that will bring us the supernatural peace of God that Jesus died to give us, and that he sent the Holy Spirit to empower us to have and that is confidently promised in his Word.
Our only job – is to learn to walk in it. God doesn’t tell us to just “snap our finger” and instantly we’ll have the peace of God.
He tells us to trust completely IN him
to fix our thoughts completely on him
to immerse ourselves in the truths and the promises of his Word
to continually ask him to fill us with the Holy Spirit
and to be IN Christ “To be one with, in union with, and to be joined closely to Jesus Christ.”
And I can promise you today the result of that will be the supernatural peace of God that passes all understanding.
This word “Peace” – “Shalom” in Hebrew and “Eirene” in Greek – is a huge word in the Bible. There is one Bible Dictionary that referred to this concept of peace as “One of the most prominent theological concepts in the Bible.” It is prominent why? Because we need peace. But the concept of peace is used to address so many things in the Bible and so many areas of our life that I need to define the specific peace that we want to talk about in this message.
PEACE: The overriding and prevailing sense of well-being, contentment, and wholeness that comes only from the presence and power of God, and does not fluctuate based on circumstances.
Who needs some of that?
If you’re visiting with us today, we normally teach expositional, verse-by-verse messages. But today I’m doing something a little different. This message is actually fashioned from our “Scripture By Topic” on CalvaryNuevo.org website. We use these scripture by topic lists to minister, to meditate, to do daily devotions, to disciple people, to see transformation of people’s lives, to be transformed by the renewing of our mind (as Romans 12:2 says).
So, it is in that vein I want to talk about the supernatural Peace of God, today. I want us to know there is a supernatural peace of God that will guard us, protect us, and guide us through any situation or any circumstance in this life. You know I’m not really big on talking theoretical or intellectual. I want to talk to you today about the peace of God that is relational and experiential. I want to talk about a supernatural and relational peace of God that will actually change your life, right now in the midst of your circumstances, whatever they may be.
But listen, please, I don’t want to put a guilt trip on anyone. I don’t know any Christian who walks around in perfect peace all the time. Because the peace of God is contrary to our human nature, which is why we need continual encouragement in this area. So let’s not beat ourselves up about not yet walking in the peace of God, okay? God has given every believer the opportunity to have the Peace of God, to live in it, to walk in it. But God loves you just the same if you never take him up on it.
Now, let me make this clear. The Bible spells out two “types” of peace when it comes to our relationship with Jesus Christ. There is peace “with” God and there is the peace “of” God.
Peace with God means you have stopped being God’s enemy by putting your full faith in Jesus Christ for salvation and being made “right” with God.
Romans 5:1 (NLT)
1 Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us
Peace with God is our salvation in Jesus Christ, and please hear me; there is no way to move to the peace of God until you have peace with God.
The only condition to you having peace with God is your faith in Jesus Christ. However, learning to walk in the peace of God is something we learn to do. It is more conditional than just believing in Jesus Christ.
So, let me lay out two major conditions to learning to walk in the peace of God.
#1) The peace of God is available only in a very real, daily relationship with Jesus Christ.
This peace is not something we generate. It’s God’s peace and it comes only through a close daily relationship with Jesus, and by focusing that close daily relationship on obtaining the peace of God in your life whenever that needs to be the focus.
#2) Living in the peace of God is fully dependent on the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
One of the largest problems in Christianity is us trying so hard to follow Jesus in our own strength. You can’t be saved in your own strength. You can’t experience the peace of God in your own strength.
We must know it is the life and power of God living in us (in the Person of the Holy Spirit) that enables us to walk in the peace of God.
Galatians 5:22 (NLT)
22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace . . .
It is the Holy Spirit in our lives that produces the supernatural peace of God. Which is why Ephesians 5:18 says (in the original) Be constantly being filled with the Holy Spirit. And so, to grow in the peace of God we’ve got to be constantly asking God to fill us with the Holy Spirit.
So,
#1) The peace of God is available ONLY through a real daily relationship with Jesus Christ.
#2) Living in the peace of God is fully dependent on the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives.
Finally, I’m going to try something today that I have never done. After I read the verses we’re going to use today, I’d like to go ahead and pray those verses right after I read them. My hope is, it would give you a feel, an idea, of how you can pray these and other verses as you learn how to walk in the peace of God. Okay? And as I pray, you don’t have to close your eyes or anything, just look at the scripture and listen to me pray.
Let’s start today in Romans Chapter 6.
Romans 6:13 (NLT)
13 . . . give yourselves completely to God, for you were dead, but now you have new life . . .
God, I WILL give myself completely to you, TODAY. Because I was DEAD, but now you have given me NEW LIFE – Lord, please teach me, and enable me, to walk in that new life – in an ever-increasing way, as I learn to LIVE in You.
You have new life in Jesus Christ (positionally) including the ability to walk in the supernatural peace of God, but – you must still learn how to walk in it.
Turn to Romans 8:6. God says it’s an issue of mind control.
Romans 8:6 (NLT)
6 So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.
Lord, I know that I can still ALLOW my sin nature to control my mind – and I know that if I do, it will lead to destruction in my life – and so Lord, I CHOOSE, I Commit, to allow you, Holy Spirit, to control my mind, leading me to life and peace. Show me Lord, how to allow your Holy Spirit, through your Word, to control what my mind is SET on.
Romans 6 says – We OWN this new life “positionally.”
Romans 8 says – We still have to “re-train” our mind to allow the Spirit to control it instead of our flesh and we’ve got to keep doing it until our mind thinks differently – until we react differently.
Until you think according to your new life in Christ instead of your old life in the flesh; until you react according to your new life in Christ instead of your old life in the flesh; until we are walking in the Spirit instead of in the flesh – these are new life traits that must be learned and practiced. You’ve got to develop the discernment to determine between flesh and Spirit. “No” to the flesh. “Yes” to the Spirit in your mind. These have to be learned, and they have to grow in you.
Galatians 5 (the second half) and Colossians 3 (the first half) are a great place to start. And get a discipler.
Now, in John Chapter 14, Jesus is in what we generally call “The Last Supper” (John 13-17). This is a massive and critical teaching Jesus was giving during that time in the Upper Room. And in John Chapter 14, Jesus is promising to send us the Holy Spirit when he leaves.
And we read in John 14:25-26,
John 14:25–26 (NLT)
25 I am telling you these things now while I am still with you (referring to (ultimately) all of his teaching).
26 But when the Father sends the Advocate (The Helper) as my representative (in my name) - that is, the Holy Spirit - he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you.
Lord, that’s what we need. We need to absorb, to take in, all that you’ve taught us in your Word. And then Lord, we need the Advocate, the Holy Spirit to bring your Word alive inside us, to give it the power to transform us, to be our Helper and our Teacher, and to bring to our remembrance the things you’ve taught us.
I promise you, in God’s Word is all we need to walk in the “peace of God.” But we must begin by absorbing God’s Word, by taking it in, by making it a daily part of our lives. And God has sent us the Helper, the Holy Spirit, to light his Word on fire inside of us, in order to transform our lives, so that we can begin to live in the subject of the very next verse.
John 14:27 (NLT)
27 “I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don’t be troubled or afraid.
Lord, your peace IS a gift, and Lord, we need it. We spend far too much time, troubled, and afraid. And Lord, we REPENT from turning to the world, looking for a peace that the world cannot give. Lord, you ARE our Peace, Jehovah Shalom. We look to you alone, to receive the Peace of mind and heart that we need.
Let’s turn over to John Chapter 16. Jesus is wrapping up this long teaching that we call the “Upper Room Discourse.” And these are his final words before his prayer in Chapter 17 and then his immediate arrest in the Garden. And so, in the larger sense, these are the final formal teaching words of three and a half years of his teaching ministry.
John 16:33a (NLT)
33 I have told you all this (ESV = I have said these things to you) so that you may have peace in me . . .
Jesus says: I have told you (taught you) all these things so that you may have peace in me. These truths the Lord has given us (not just in the upper room) but in all of God’s Word. These truths and these promises are so that we may have peace – in him. The supernatural peace of God rests on the truths and the promises of the Word of God.
The truths and promises of the Word of God are brought to life by the power of the Holy Spirit in us and (ultimately) the peace of God is “in Christ.”
We talk a lot about being IN Christ. It’s such a small, little word I think sometimes we just accept it as Christian vocabulary without grasping what it really means. Here’s what one of the best Greek Dictionaries says about this word, as it’s being used here.
EN – A marker of close personal association. Meaning, “one with, in union with, joined closely to.”
And so we have:
The truths and the promises of the Word of God brought alive inside us by the power of the Holy Spirit… and then the supernatural peace of God comes from being “one with, in union with, joined closely to” Jesus Christ!
Lord, that is what we need. We need to immerse ourselves in the truths and the promises of your Word. We need the power of your Holy Spirit to make your Word come alive in us and we need to be one with, in union with, and joined closely to YOU, Jesus.
Man, do we need that. We need it, because we haven’t even read all of John 16:33 yet. Let’s re-read the entire verse and we’ll focus on the second half.
John 16:33 (NLT)
33 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”
Lord, here on earth, we have many trials, and sorrows, But Lord, we will take heart, we will have a strong confidence, we will NOT be MOVED, because YOU Lord Jesus, have overcome this world. You have, once and for all – ON our behalf, conquered the trials and the sorrows that we face in this world.
So not only does the peace of God come from being “one with, in union with, joined closely to Jesus Christ” but that is also how we have OVERCOME this world. Being “one with, in union with, joined closely to Jesus Christ” is both our peace and our victory over this world. But guys, I’m not talking about this in theory, I’m talking about this in real life practice.
We must be “one with, in union with, joined closely to Jesus Christ” in a very real, daily relationship with him coupled with the Word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit. That is the path to the supernatural peace of God! And that is really good news.
Let’s get one Old Testament verse in here. This is one of my family’s favorite verses on this subject.
Isaiah 26:3 (NLT)
3 You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
Lord, you will keep me in perfect peace, if I will trust in you completely, if I will commit myself to you completely, if I will lean on you, and cling to you completely. And so Lord, I do - completely. I commit all my worries, all my trials, all my struggles; I commit them all to you. Trusting you completely.
But wait, the verse also says, God will keep in perfect peace all whose thoughts are fixed on Him!
Oh Lord, that’s hard. Our mind is ‘bent’ toward fear, and stress, and anxiety. But Lord, I WILL keep my thoughts fixed on you, fixed on your Word. With the power of Your Holy Spirit I will wrestle my thoughts away from this world, and away from my own fears, and I will FIX them – on YOU alone, Lord.
Guys, we have God’s Word. We have the power of the Holy Spirit and we have the right to have a very real, daily relationship with Jesus Christ.
But in our own strength God’s peace is IMPOSSIBLE. It’s only as we will make these choices to set our lives by God’s Word in the power of the Holy Spirit in a real, daily relationship with Jesus Christ… that God will transform our live and we will experience the peace of God.
The next verse in Isaiah 26 continues the thought.
Isaiah 26:4 (NLT)
4 Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord God is the eternal Rock.
That’s what we need Lord, we need you, to be our eternal ROCK. We need you, the Rock of Ages. You are our Strong Foundation, and trusting in YOU, we will not be moved. You ARE our Eternal Rock, and we will trust in you always.
Alright, let’s finish with Romans 15:13.
Romans 15:13 (NLT)
13 I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Lord, God, You ARE the SOURCE of our great hope. We pray Lord, that you would fill us completely with JOY and PEACE, AS we continue to grow in our Complete Trust in you. And Lord, may we SO Trust you, and SO be filled completely with your joy and peace, that we would OVERFLOW with confident hope – through the POWER of your Holy Spirit.
That’s what we want, isn’t it? To so trust God, to so have our thoughts fixed on him that we would be filled with the peace of God. And so much so that we would overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit that will bring us the supernatural peace of God that Jesus died to give us, and that he sent the Holy Spirit to empower us to have and that is confidently promised in his Word.
Our only job – is to learn to walk in it. God doesn’t tell us to just “snap our finger” and instantly we’ll have the peace of God.
He tells us to trust completely IN him
to fix our thoughts completely on him
to immerse ourselves in the truths and the promises of his Word
to continually ask him to fill us with the Holy Spirit
and to be IN Christ “To be one with, in union with, and to be joined closely to Jesus Christ.”
And I can promise you today the result of that will be the supernatural peace of God that passes all understanding.