God’s Powerful Prescription for PeaceIt seems today that there are so many things in life that work against an abiding sense of peace. The ways of the world produce for many just the opposite. Rather than peace, there is turmoil and many times even grief. Is there any solution for these kinds of issues? Are they the work of an enemy against us? Or just how should we understand things that are present to make our walk in life difficult? Listen to this message from our Pastor / Teacher Landis Fisher as he presents a message which he has titled: ” God’s Powerful Prescription for Peace”
Old Testament Scripture Reading: Isaiah 26:1 – 4 (KJV)
Isa 26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
Isa 26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
Isa 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Isa 26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
New Testament Scripture Reading: 1 John 2:15 – 17 (KJV)
1Jn 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1Jn 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1Jn 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Transforming Power Statements:
1) The world is filled with many troubling situations, and negative circumstances that tend to attack our minds, emotions, bodies, and thwart peace, making it very difficult for many to dwell with a consistent abiding term of peace; which creates stress, anxieties, disillusionment, grief, depression, and a host of other undesirable conditions that are many times overwhelming, and are the exact opposite of what the Bible refers to as “Peace” / Shalom.
2) Isaiah the Prophet wrote a song which is an excellent vehicle of ushering in a mindset of faith, which is absent of “normal fallen human concerns” and on the other hand it also is one of God’s best prescriptions for inner and outer manifestation of true Peace, which is the original state of the relationship God intended for mankind when He created him in His own image and there was no sin.
3) The Apostle John teaches us with great simplicity the sources of such anxieties and gets down to the root of the sources of lost peace, as he identifies the things that continue to press fallen mankind deeper into the traps of the world the flesh and the devil.
