PEACE
AND CALMING
BREAD
4 Rejoice
in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident
to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything,
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which
transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ
Jesus. Philippians 4:4-7 (NIV)
14 For he
himself is our peace. Ephesians 2:14 (NIV)
3 You
will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in
you. Isaiah 26:3 (NIV)
35 That
day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let
us go over to the other side.” 36 Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as
he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. 37 A furious squall came up, and
the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. 38 Jesus was in the stern,
sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, "Teacher,
don't you care if we drown?" 39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was
completely calm. 40 He
said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you
still have no faith?” 41 They were terrified and asked each other, “Who is
this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!”
Mark 4:35-41 (NIV)
16 I pray
that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his
Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with
all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of
Christ, 19 and to
know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure
of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than
all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church
and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:16-21 (NIV)
165 Great
peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble. Psalms 119:165 (NIV)
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. John 14:27 (NIV)
BUTTER
“There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make the right
decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.” Gloria
Gaither
“Never be in a
hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for anything
whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Commend all to God, and then lie still and be
at rest in His bosom. Whatever happens,
abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God……Maintain a holy
simplicity of mind, and do not smother yourself with a host of cares, wishes,
or longings, under any pretext.”
St. Francis de Sales
“Hudson
Taylor was an object lesson in quietness.
He drew from the bank of heaven every farthing of his daily income – ‘My
peace I give unto you.’ Whatever did not
agitate the Saviour or ruffle His spirit, was not to agitate him. The serenity of the Lord Jesus concerning any
matter, and at its most critical moment, was his ideal and practical possession. He knew nothing of rush or hurry, or
quivering nerves or vexation of spirit.
He knew that there is a peace passing all understanding and that he
could not do without it…Christ his reason for peace, his power for calm. Dwelling in Christ, he drew upon His very
being and resources, in the midst of and concerning the matters in
question. And this he did by an attitude
of faith as simple as it was continuous.” Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor
“Upon some points a believer
is absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets
of the vessel when it rocks most. He believes that an invisible hand is always
on the world’s tiller, and that wherever providence may drift, Jehovah steers
it. That re-assuring knowledge prepares him for everything. He looks over the
raging waters and sees the spirit of Jesus treading the billows, and he hears a
voice saying, “It is I, be not afraid.” He knows too that God is always wise,
and, knowing this, he is confident that there can be no accidents, no mistakes;
that nothing can occur which ought not to arise. He can say, “If I should lose
all I have, it is better that I should lose than have, if God so wills: the
worst calamity is the wisest and the kindest thing that could befall to me if
God ordains it.” “We know that all things work together for good to them that
love God.” The Christian does not merely hold this as a theory, but he
knows it as a matter of fact. Everything has worked for
good as yet; the poisonous drugs mixed in fit proportions have worked the cure;
the sharp cuts of the lancet have cleansed out the proud flesh and facilitated
the healing. Every event as yet has worked out the most divinely blessed
results; and so, believing that God rules all, that He governs wisely, that He
brings good out of evil, the believer’s heart is assured, and he is enabled
calmly to meet each trial as it comes. The believer can in the spirit of true
resignation pray, “Send me what thou wilt, my God, so long as it comes from
Thee; never came there an ill portion from Thy table to any of Thy children.” C. H. Spurgeon
“See God in everything, and God will calm and color all that thou
doest see! It may be that the
circumstances of our sorrows will not be removed, their condition will remain
unchanged; but if Christ, as Lord and Master of our life, is brought into our
grief and gloom, ‘He will compass us about with songs of deliverance.’ To see HIM, and to be sure that His wisdom
cannot err, His power cannot fail, His love can never change; to know that even
His direst dealings with us are for our deepest spiritual gain, is to be able
to say, in the midst of bereavement, sorrow, pain, and loss, ‘The Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.’ Nothing else but seeing God in everything
will make us loving and patient with those who annoy and trouble us. They will be to us then only instruments for
accomplishing His tender and wise purposes toward us, and we shall even find
ourselves at last inwardly thanking them for the blessing they bring us. Nothing else will completely put an end to
all murmuring or rebelling thoughts.” Hannah
W. Smith
HEART SAVOR
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Jesus keeps me in perfect peace as I stay fixed upon Him.
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Jesus can calm every turbulent sea in my life. Everything is subject to Him. Everything He allows in my life will bring
forth good for me – in some way – everything.
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The peace Jesus gives is nothing like the worlds.
