John 14:27  “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.  I do not give to you as the world gives.  Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

Once you have experienced His peace and His presence, you know you don’t ever want to live without it!  The world is full of anything but peace.  There’s so much anger, violence, frustration, lies, lack of hope, fear, and the list of negatives goes on and on and on!  You don’t have to live like that.  You don’t have to be full of anger or hopelessness.  If you have accepted the Lord as your Savior, He is offering you His peace.  

One thing I have learned is that when the storm rages or everything seems so dark around you and you can hardly see, you can have peace.  When all hell comes against you, trying to bring you down and keep you from all God has planned, you can still have His peace.  When your heart is broken beyond what you feel you can bear, you can have His peace.  When it looks hopeless, you can still have hope because His peace tells you that He’s got this and He will carry you through when you just can’t walk, and He will guide you when you can’t see, and He will calm that storm in His time.  His love is beyond what any of us can comprehend, and if we just seek His face and we trust Him, understanding how much He loves us, His peace will flood you with that confidence that He’s got you.  It’s like a small child clinging to their Daddy because they know He cares and He will protect, vindicate, comfort, and bless.  He wants to scoop you up and help you through whatever life throws at you, but if you are fighting and kicking, it isn’t the same as it would be if you just bury your head in His shoulder and allow Him to do what He sees fit.  He sees what you can’t see, He knows what the future holds.  His goal is to help you become all He created you to be.  We live in a sinful and crazy world because people don’t seek God; we need to be the light.  Unfortunately, the way we usually learn about His peace is by everything around us raging to the point that we have to truly seek it.

If you are on that mountaintop right now, I would encourage you to take this time to seek His face.  Thank Him for all He has done!  Write it down!  Celebrate every victory, every blessing, every answer to prayer, and share His goodness and grace with everyone around you.  Remind them of Who brought you to that place!  Help Him draw others to Him by understanding His goodness and His love for them.  Be the light!  Be that helping hand!  Ask Him what His dreams are for your life too, and ask Him what you can do to be a blessing to someone going through the fire right now?  He blesses us so we can be a blessing ~ don’t forget that.  

God sees, He knows what has been said and done, He is your vindicator, your rescuer, your healer, your way maker.  He loves you and He wants you to rest in His presence. Write down the verses from Isaiah 61 that Jesus had read in the temple and apply all that He said He came to do to all that you need today: Isaiah 61:1-3, “The Spirit of God is upon Me because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He hs sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn, To console those who mourn, in Zion, To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; That they may be called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”