The Sermon Road to Maturity (cultivating the Spiritual Fruit of Peace) by Doe Rogers
Aug 12, 2012
Road to Maturity (cultivating the Spiritual Fruit of Peace) (19:06)
Referenced Scriptures: Isaiah 45:7; Numbers 6:26; Leviticus 26:6; Isaiah 54:10; Ezekiel 34:25; Ezekiel 37:26; Isaiah 26:3; Pslam 119:165; Isaiah 32:17; James 3:13-18; Isaiah 9:6; Isaiah 53:5; Ezekiel 34:25; Ezekiel 37:26; Epehsians 2:11-22; Psalm 34:14; John 14:27
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Isaiah 45:7
7) I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
Numbers 6:26
26) Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.
Leviticus 26:6
6) I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will cause evil animals to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.
Isaiah 54:10
10) For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
Ezekiel 34:25
25) I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Ezekiel 37:26
26) Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
Isaiah 26:3
3) You will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on you]; because he trusts in you.
Pslam 119:165
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Isaiah 32:17
17) The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
James 3:13-18
13) Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show his deeds done in gentleness of wisdom by his good life.
14) But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don‘t boast and don‘t lie against the truth.
15) This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
16) For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
17) But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18) Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.
Isaiah 9:6
6) For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 53:5
5) But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Ezekiel 34:25
25) I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
Ezekiel 37:26
26) Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
Epehsians 2:11-22
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Psalm 34:14
14) Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
John 14:27
27) Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don‘t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
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Him at the phone database events, birthdays, and that I think the last time I was here that we spoke about the kingdom of God being more than just what were waiting for bit starts here now with righteousness, peace and joy in Holy Spirit and as I was thinking this week inside ten a.m., a study a few years ago and it was calling about the red maturity and how we need to grow in the fruits of the spirit, and now my one talk about peace today, but also along with peace. I feel like any talk about how because they go together. You know in our society today in our world today, you see a lot of people who have no hope or are they having misguided hope they put their hope in the wrong things are the wrong people. And then once they become part of hopeless so we have to look at a loss of hope equals a loss of peace, because when you're helpful you have that nice grounding you feel like in a minute. Things may not be perfect. I have hope that hope spawns a piece that's it brings the peace in your life. My father still yet we have a unique body of believers here were all kind just mellow laid-back, you know, in and down. I feel that God speaks to us that each and every one of us and some of us may have a ministry of grace were gracious. The people are all of us and peace and hope. I think that's our message to our community in a message of grace message of peace and a message of hope, because sometimes you come up with strong words. Or, you know when you're with somebody. Naidu 's club Bible verse that it may don't get it. It's what they'll get. You know, so I miss all you need where we can connect with people and be friends. We find people and become your friends with them, and through that friendship we have grace upon them because they may not know where they come from, we can offer them hope, which in turn will create peace in their lives. So I started thinking about that and up to this whenever I was doing the study. I did want love and one of joy and I wanted to share that pattern with you of how it grows here. Now God is love and love is of God, so we can begin not experienced your unconditional love and less. He first loved us. Okay, and thus we don't and we don't have his love we can experience it, said he first loved us with his great love and we rejoice and have joy and want more joy comes from him. Without God, without his love. You don't have that joy you know, we can experience that. And it is our assurance that we belong to him and he is our joy in our reason for rejoicing. So will find today that he is our peace. I've been called the Prince of peace, and he gives peace that passes all understanding. We have peace that only knowing him, can bring. This is what we need to offer a hurt world you know and even as Christ does not talking just about the non- mundane unbeliever. But even if SS is Kristin. Sometimes we reach those milestones are hurdles in our lives that are seem like you'll never get over it in our anything is if we lose that help them were restless, we lose that piece so pieces lost when they lose hope, and we need to restore that in ourselves to say that if you find yourself today in a place where you feel like you're losing hope over some situation or whatever's going on today God walks with you don't like to help you restore your piece, so engineering term for peace or in his absence of conflict, now in the Hebrew piece is called shalom and any grief. I can't send awarded CEI RD NE and it means your well-being. Okay, so please cannot all these things I thought about it these is rest. The calmness of soul that only comes from knowing God. It's absence of conflict with God, not with the world. Now if their circumstances. In the absence of conflict with God said he is an honorable peace of God is the one who gives peace in and number six twenty six it says that the Lord turns his face toward you and give you peace. Leviticus twenty six six. He says I will grant peace in the land. Down and no one will make you afraid. And we also know that he's made a cognitive piece and is a couple examples here. Isaiah fifty four ten when you have time this week. Look them up. Ezekiel thirty four twenty five and Ezekiel thirty seven twenty six now to find in Isaiah fifty four ten he's basically talking about. He made his covenant with Israel, a time of peace, the company would no longer be reviewed in Ezekiel. He says he, speaking of Jesus and the contentment fulfillment in the security that he's going to bring in his kingdom, and it also an everlasting covenant of peace is also talked about whenever this kingdom does come, but there are three conditions of the appropriation of peace that we also find another look at this today in our Scripture Isaiah twenty six three and it says you'll keep in perfect peace and his mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Okay so that's the first thing he sees it on the conditions this is interesting. The rate for not trusting him not been handed a piece of cake when we are devoted to him our whole attitude is steady and stable. We look to him in the morning instead of looking for your worst open a morning in because a lot of people do that to you now, but in town, but if there's a difference. On the stars ear landmen one who made the stars you know these are the things they had to think about you find calmness and serenity. If you can't then we devote ourselves to God. We look to him in the morning. He'll give us the answers that we need for the day so if we want peace. We must keep our thoughts on him and our trust in him in every circumstance. They said this family that lost their son in our cousin, who lost her son, the week before net. I can imagine anywhere. Seconds into my life and lose my child. I cannot. And when I think about the loss. I pray that God gives them hope that they keep their hope in God that they can remain in that piece because at such an unstable time that it has to be so painful. So yeah we just pray for those who never had loss in their in their life like that. So if were looking at the giants in our lives are not an experienced piece because whenever we let our guard down and net hope the road and fade away. Guess what, we leave the door open and everything looks like it's bigger than life, everything looks like it's bigger than what we can handle. But if we hold on to God, and keep that help he restores that piece. Set aside Internet look at Psalm one nineteen sixty five R one sixty five# and it says great. Please have they who love your law and nothing some so we have to have number one, our trust in him number two, we have to have a love for God 's word. He gave us there so we can know his heart. He gave us this so we can understand his ideas and how he wants to move in our lives. This is this is our our rulebook. This is what we live by. This is what we go by Mrs. the heart of God. This is how we know him so if we love God and obey his commands. We will have great piece, so we can't walk in disobedience and have great peace in our anesthetist is sometimes you get out of step at its face it, we all do we all get out a step we get out of the right-thinking and begin out of what we should be doing over. Get focused on around lives you know which we do have lives. It is a different time. It's a busy world, stopping to a gentleman yesterday up at the shop and is a you know, I remember when everything close down on a Saturday evening at five o'clock and nothing really open back up until Monday morning, so if you're going away for Sunday and get gas Friday night or Saturday night because you're out a lot and is an and everything was closed Sunday. Does I love to go back to that simpler time. You know, we work ourselves into the ground for what one we strive so hard that robs us of our peace because you're so busy doing doing doing doing and going and going for what goal. Even in our jaws. We have to keep God in a balance that if he's very near there to do your job and you're doing it the best you can, to the glory of God that we can overextend ourselves either doesn't really overextend ourselves who suffers we suffer number one is working to be a physical wreck, and our family suffer because were away from them. So there's this class and you have to just him keep it simple to step back. Even a simple and because I know we have our trust in him alone for his word and get together it that you buy yourself take a couple minutes and alone with God and his word in the family may strike up conversation and now bring up a bottle versus something that you like and read over it and asking if they think about it is different things we can do in the last thing is the working of his the working of God 's righteousness produces peace. Okay, so Isaiah thirty two seventeen it says we see here effect of righteousness will be the fruit of righteousness will be peace and quietness and confidence forever was in a something effect of righteousness will be quiet confidence quietness and confidence forever in the fruit of righteousness will be peace in the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever cemented things that you think about Sanders Lenin, James Terry James three thirteen through eighteen games to have been familiar. There okay. James three thirteen, three chain says it is wise and understanding among you, let him show by his good life by the deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts in a post about it or deny the truth. Such wisdom does not come down from heaven. It is a earthly and spiritual end of the devil. For where you him being selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice, but the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure, then peaceloving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness. So there's a disbursement by now the fruit of righteousness to be produced only by healing our lives to the Holy Spirit, the more we get out of stepping back and listening to what God wants is handy and still speak your heart is speaking through his word, the more we disconnect with him to show us what he wants out of us to show us where we need to be with him. He's a snack given a heavy-handed, but he just leads us gently intervene. He needs us to where we need to be supposed in the Old Testament and New Testament at point to the promise society was called in Isaiah, Jesus, who said he's called the Prince of peace, and in Isaiah fifty three. He brings personal peace and also in Ezekiel thirty four twenty five and all. So, thirty seven, for a sixty seat. He brings cosmic peace conversation about this memory Jesus birth. How the Angels proclaim peace on earth and goodwill to all the men. So we see that that's over thing when he says costly PC now to everything and everyone said in Ephesians two eleven three twenty two by Christ's death and resurrection. The hostility and barrier between God and man has been removed so that he is our peace brings a covenant of peace to men and makes peace with God through the blood of his cross. Today's are things that we need to think about when we think about peace in our lives and we also need to think about the need to have hope so that we can experience that piece. Psalm thirty four fourteen and believe that slices seek peace and pursue it. So we also see that the man who the men him peace with God must pursue peace is not something that we just let go that okay yeah because again, we don't have our hope is that piece so we pursue peace by keeping hope keeping our trusting God. So we need to strive for peace and don't be hard to get along with you now and when life is difficult. Don't focus on the Giants because that's who we get out of step. This is where believe that door open for other things to come in and ruin our peace, it upsets us. They gets her eyes up where we should be early start to think I'm not good enough. I can't do it all. Not big enough, it's just me know if you have the doubts the belts come rolling in. You lose hope so. There are times whenever pieces disrupted if truth isn't being presented. But we always have to make sure that we present truth you have said that's what we have to do so we have to pursue peace, so that we may grow in unity and love and we are to pray for the peace of our communities, our nation never forget about that our countries really a sad state of affairs because a lot of people just want to do what they wanted to, they don't have no hope because they don't know the God of hope. They have no peace because they don't know the God of peace swinging to pray for our communities. We need to pray for our country. We need to pray for those rows so caught up in their own thinking. A lot of that going on today in a remix and a lot of things together to promote with their own religion or unthinking or to water down the gospel that certain things are okay and other things are not delete your sin is sin. Don't get me wrong. Sin is sin and we all have to turn from sin. But when people blatantly stand up and raised there and say it's not Sam is such a blindness in the world today so we need to pray for community. We need to pray for our country need to pray for this nation. So not just for an absence of conflict, but also that the peace of God that only comes from knowing Christ can be revealed to them so the peace of God which keeps our hearts. It passes all understanding and we just need to just look at ourselves than if or not experiencing peace look and see what were focusing on the begin distracted to some really don't mean look. Sometimes they go through painful stuff and sometimes you're the only person he knows it now. But if we just focus on those things. It robs us of that piece and that help we need to just focus on Christ and then he'll restore peace to our lives that only he can restore so the one thing I would look at was only restored hope it restores peace and forget that number to close it. John fourteen twenty seven Mrs. 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. That's it. Jesus says to us, do not let our hearts be troubled and do not be afraid to have the peace of God is to know and have the God of peace in our hearts and in our lives. It's pretty fatherly to thank you praise you that you are hope you give us have. If you are our keys and father. We just pray that you would just sustain these in our lines were, by going through the darkest valley area darkest that we never experienced born five you just continue to hope and peace growing our hearts and in our lives for our friends Lauren and may need to touch for community Lord for our country father I pray that I should turn to you and it will be be restored. Lord, let there be a piece in the hearts of our nation again, we thank you father for the opportunities that you give us every day to meet with people to offer them grace to offer them hope Lorne site is pretty you be with us and speak to our hearts, Lord knows we in our day-to-day every day lives. Lord come in contact with other people. I pretty you give us the words to say if you give us the comforting things that they need whatever it is in Jesus name we pray and get redone upHim at the phone database events, birthdays, and that I think the last time I was here that we spoke about the kingdom of God being more than just what were waiting for bit starts here now with righteousness, peace and joy in Holy Spirit and as I was thinking this week inside ten a.m., a study a few years ago and it was calling about the red maturity and how we need to grow in the fruits of the spirit, and now my one talk about peace today, but also along with peace. I feel like any talk about how because they go together. You know in our society today in our world today, you see a lot of people who have no hope or are they having misguided hope they put their hope in the wrong things are the wrong people. And then once they become part of hopeless so we have to look at a loss of hope equals a loss of peace, because when you're helpful you have that nice grounding you feel like in a minute. Things may not be perfect. I have hope that hope spawns a piece that's it brings the peace in your life. My father still yet we have a unique body of believers here were all kind just mellow laid-back, you know, in and down. I feel that God speaks to us that each and every one of us and some of us may have a ministry of grace were gracious. The people are all of us and peace and hope. I think that's our message to our community in a message of grace message of peace and a message of hope, because sometimes you come up with strong words. Or, you know when you're with somebody. Naidu 's club Bible verse that it may don't get it. It's what they'll get. You know, so I miss all you need where we can connect with people and be friends. We find people and become your friends with them, and through that friendship we have grace upon them because they may not know where they come from, we can offer them hope, which in turn will create peace in their lives. So I started thinking about that and up to this whenever I was doing the study. I did want love and one of joy and I wanted to share that pattern with you of how it grows here. Now God is love and love is of God, so we can begin not experienced your unconditional love and less. He first loved us. Okay, and thus we don't and we don't have his love we can experience it, said he first loved us with his great love and we rejoice and have joy and want more joy comes from him. Without God, without his love. You don't have that joy you know, we can experience that. And it is our assurance that we belong to him and he is our joy in our reason for rejoicing. So will find today that he is our peace. I've been called the Prince of peace, and he gives peace that passes all understanding. We have peace that only knowing him, can bring. This is what we need to offer a hurt world you know and even as Christ does not talking just about the non- mundane unbeliever. But even if SS is Kristin. Sometimes we reach those milestones are hurdles in our lives that are seem like you'll never get over it in our anything is if we lose that help them were restless, we lose that piece so pieces lost when they lose hope, and we need to restore that in ourselves to say that if you find yourself today in a place where you feel like you're losing hope over some situation or whatever's going on today God walks with you don't like to help you restore your piece, so engineering term for peace or in his absence of conflict, now in the Hebrew piece is called shalom and any grief. I can't send awarded CEI RD NE and it means your well-being. Okay, so please cannot all these things I thought about it these is rest. The calmness of soul that only comes from knowing God. It's absence of conflict with God, not with the world. Now if their circumstances. In the absence of conflict with God said he is an honorable peace of God is the one who gives peace in and number six twenty six it says that the Lord turns his face toward you and give you peace. Leviticus twenty six six. He says I will grant peace in the land. Down and no one will make you afraid. And we also know that he's made a cognitive piece and is a couple examples here. Isaiah fifty four ten when you have time this week. Look them up. Ezekiel thirty four twenty five and Ezekiel thirty seven twenty six now to find in Isaiah fifty four ten he's basically talking about. He made his covenant with Israel, a time of peace, the company would no longer be reviewed in Ezekiel. He says he, speaking of Jesus and the contentment fulfillment in the security that he's going to bring in his kingdom, and it also an everlasting covenant of peace is also talked about whenever this kingdom does come, but there are three conditions of the appropriation of peace that we also find another look at this today in our Scripture Isaiah twenty six three and it says you'll keep in perfect peace and his mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Okay so that's the first thing he sees it on the conditions this is interesting. The rate for not trusting him not been handed a piece of cake when we are devoted to him our whole attitude is steady and stable. We look to him in the morning instead of looking for your worst open a morning in because a lot of people do that to you now, but in town, but if there's a difference. On the stars ear landmen one who made the stars you know these are the things they had to think about you find calmness and serenity. If you can't then we devote ourselves to God. We look to him in the morning. He'll give us the answers that we need for the day so if we want peace. We must keep our thoughts on him and our trust in him in every circumstance. They said this family that lost their son in our cousin, who lost her son, the week before net. I can imagine anywhere. Seconds into my life and lose my child. I cannot. And when I think about the loss. I pray that God gives them hope that they keep their hope in God that they can remain in that piece because at such an unstable time that it has to be so painful. So yeah we just pray for those who never had loss in their in their life like that. So if were looking at the giants in our lives are not an experienced piece because whenever we let our guard down and net hope the road and fade away. Guess what, we leave the door open and everything looks like it's bigger than life, everything looks like it's bigger than what we can handle. But if we hold on to God, and keep that help he restores that piece. Set aside Internet look at Psalm one nineteen sixty five R one sixty five# and it says great. Please have they who love your law and nothing some so we have to have number one, our trust in him number two, we have to have a love for God 's word. He gave us there so we can know his heart. He gave us this so we can understand his ideas and how he wants to move in our lives. This is this is our our rulebook. This is what we live by. This is what we go by Mrs. the heart of God. This is how we know him so if we love God and obey his commands. We will have great piece, so we can't walk in disobedience and have great peace in our anesthetist is sometimes you get out of step at its face it, we all do we all get out a step we get out of the right-thinking and begin out of what we should be doing over. Get focused on around lives you know which we do have lives. It is a different time. It's a busy world, stopping to a gentleman yesterday up at the shop and is a you know, I remember when everything close down on a Saturday evening at five o'clock and nothing really open back up until Monday morning, so if you're going away for Sunday and get gas Friday night or Saturday night because you're out a lot and is an and everything was closed Sunday. Does I love to go back to that simpler time. You know, we work ourselves into the ground for what one we strive so hard that robs us of our peace because you're so busy doing doing doing doing and going and going for what goal. Even in our jaws. We have to keep God in a balance that if he's very near there to do your job and you're doing it the best you can, to the glory of God that we can overextend ourselves either doesn't really overextend ourselves who suffers we suffer number one is working to be a physical wreck, and our family suffer because were away from them. So there's this class and you have to just him keep it simple to step back. Even a simple and because I know we have our trust in him alone for his word and get together it that you buy yourself take a couple minutes and alone with God and his word in the family may strike up conversation and now bring up a bottle versus something that you like and read over it and asking if they think about it is different things we can do in the last thing is the working of his the working of God 's righteousness produces peace. Okay, so Isaiah thirty two seventeen it says we see here effect of righteousness will be the fruit of righteousness will be peace and quietness and confidence forever was in a something effect of righteousness will be quiet confidence quietness and confidence forever in the fruit of righteousness will be peace in the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever cemented things that you think about Sanders Lenin, James Terry James three thirteen through eighteen games to have been familiar. There okay. James three thirteen, three chain says it is wise and understanding among you, let him show by his good life by the deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts in a post about it or deny the truth. Such wisdom does not come down from heaven. It is a earthly and spiritual end of the devil. For where you him being selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice, but the wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure, then peaceloving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness. So there's a disbursement by now the fruit of righteousness to be produced only by healing our lives to the Holy Spirit, the more we get out of stepping back and listening to what God wants is handy and still speak your heart is speaking through his word, the more we disconnect with him to show us what he wants out of us to show us where we need to be with him. He's a snack given a heavy-handed, but he just leads us gently intervene. He needs us to where we need to be supposed in the Old Testament and New Testament at point to the promise society was called in Isaiah, Jesus, who said he's called the Prince of peace, and in Isaiah fifty three. He brings personal peace and also in Ezekiel thirty four twenty five and all. So, thirty seven, for a sixty seat. He brings cosmic peace conversation about this memory Jesus birth. How the Angels proclaim peace on earth and goodwill to all the men. So we see that that's over thing when he says costly PC now to everything and everyone said in Ephesians two eleven three twenty two by Christ's death and resurrection. The hostility and barrier between God and man has been removed so that he is our peace brings a covenant of peace to men and makes peace with God through the blood of his cross. Today's are things that we need to think about when we think about peace in our lives and we also need to think about the need to have hope so that we can experience that piece. Psalm thirty four fourteen and believe that slices seek peace and pursue it. So we also see that the man who the men him peace with God must pursue peace is not something that we just let go that okay yeah because again, we don't have our hope is that piece so we pursue peace by keeping hope keeping our trusting God. So we need to strive for peace and don't be hard to get along with you now and when life is difficult. Don't focus on the Giants because that's who we get out of step. This is where believe that door open for other things to come in and ruin our peace, it upsets us. They gets her eyes up where we should be early start to think I'm not good enough. I can't do it all. Not big enough, it's just me know if you have the doubts the belts come rolling in. You lose hope so. There are times whenever pieces disrupted if truth isn't being presented. But we always have to make sure that we present truth you have said that's what we have to do so we have to pursue peace, so that we may grow in unity and love and we are to pray for the peace of our communities, our nation never forget about that our countries really a sad state of affairs because a lot of people just want to do what they wanted to, they don't have no hope because they don't know the God of hope. They have no peace because they don't know the God of peace swinging to pray for our communities. We need to pray for our country. We need to pray for those rows so caught up in their own thinking. A lot of that going on today in a remix and a lot of things together to promote with their own religion or unthinking or to water down the gospel that certain things are okay and other things are not delete your sin is sin. Don't get me wrong. Sin is sin and we all have to turn from sin. But when people blatantly stand up and raised there and say it's not Sam is such a blindness in the world today so we need to pray for community. We need to pray for our country need to pray for this nation. So not just for an absence of conflict, but also that the peace of God that only comes from knowing Christ can be revealed to them so the peace of God which keeps our hearts. It passes all understanding and we just need to just look at ourselves than if or not experiencing peace look and see what were focusing on the begin distracted to some really don't mean look. Sometimes they go through painful stuff and sometimes you're the only person he knows it now. But if we just focus on those things. It robs us of that piece and that help we need to just focus on Christ and then he'll restore peace to our lives that only he can restore so the one thing I would look at was only restored hope it restores peace and forget that number to close it. John fourteen twenty seven Mrs. 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. That's it. Jesus says to us, do not let our hearts be troubled and do not be afraid to have the peace of God is to know and have the God of peace in our hearts and in our lives. It's pretty fatherly to thank you praise you that you are hope you give us have. If you are our keys and father. We just pray that you would just sustain these in our lines were, by going through the darkest valley area darkest that we never experienced born five you just continue to hope and peace growing our hearts and in our lives for our friends Lauren and may need to touch for community Lord for our country father I pray that I should turn to you and it will be be restored. Lord, let there be a piece in the hearts of our nation again, we thank you father for the opportunities that you give us every day to meet with people to offer them grace to offer them hope Lorne site is pretty you be with us and speak to our hearts, Lord knows we in our day-to-day every day lives. Lord come in contact with other people. I pretty you give us the words to say if you give us the comforting things that they need whatever it is in Jesus name we pray and get redone up