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Be Led By Peace By Joyce Meyer

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Colossians chapter three says: And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds…].”(Col. 3:15 AMP)

The umpire in a ball game decides if you are in or out. Peace is to be the umpire that decides if a thing should be in your life or out.

Many people do not enjoy peace because they are out of the will of God. They follow their own will rather than God’s will. They do what they feel like or what they think is right rather than following God’s Word and being led by peace.

Quite often something comes up that I want to do. It sounds good, feels good, and can even be a good thing. However, if I do not have peace, I have learned to leave it alone. Be led by peace.
Do not buy something especially a major purchase, if you do not have peace about it. No matter how much you want it, you will be sorry if you go against the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Occasionally I will be offered an opportunity for a speaking engagement that I would like to take, but I do not have peace about it. I do not know why, but sometimes the peace is just not there. I have learned that if I take it anyway, a reason always turns up regarding why I should have followed peace.

One engagement I remember was when I first started traveling. Speaking engagements were very few and far between. Naturally, I wanted to take them all. I received an invitation to a church in Texas.

That was really exciting for me at the time. I said “Yes!” right away. A couple of weeks later, I got this gnawing on my insides every time I thought about it. It got stronger and stronger. I just plainly had no peace about going, and yet God gave me no reason why.

I waited and waited. Finally, I knew I had to call them and ask for a release from the commitment. I told them I would come if they could not find a suitable replacement, but for some reason, I had no peace about going. They did release me from the commitment.
A few weeks later I found out that my home church was dedicating their new building the weekend I would have been gone. I had been an associate pastor in that church for quite some time before starting my own ministry and it was very important for me to be with them on that occasion.

Why didn’t the Lord just tell me what was going on? For some reason, He chose not to. His Word says to be led by peace. Many times that is all He will give you to let you know if you are “in” or “out” of His will. Later you may know why, or you may never know why.

You will never enjoy a peaceful life if you disobey His leading and follow your own will.

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Be Still and Know God By Joyce Meyer

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"Let be and be still, and know (recognize and understand) that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations! I will be exalted in the earth!" (Ps. 46:10)

One of the main reasons so many of us are burned out and stressed out is that we don't know how to be still, to "know" God and "acknowledge" Him. When we spend time with Him, we learn to hear His voice. When we acknowledge Him, He directs our paths. If we don't spend time being still, getting to know Him and hearing His voice, we will operate from our own strength in the flesh. As we saw before, we can burn out because God is not obligated to anoint us in doing something He didn't direct. We need to learn to be quiet inside and stay in that peaceful state so that we are always ready to hear the lord's voice.

Many people today run from one thing to the next. Because their minds don't know how to be still, they don't know how to be still. At one time I didn't know how to stay home for an evening, and I was a full-grown adult! I felt I had to find something to do every evening. I had to be involved and on the go being a part of whatever was going on. I thought I couldn't afford to miss anything that happened because I didn't want anything to go on I didn't know about. I couldn't just sit and be still, look at a tree in the backyard or drink a cup of coffee. I had to be up doing something. I was not a human being - I was a human doing.

Our young friend Paul was like that. At the age of 22 he had the call of the Lord on him but didn't know what it was. Paul was so used to doing, the Lord required Paul to do only one thing: Stay home with his family for a year. Even though the requirement was simple, obeying would be hard. Paul was used to running around with his friends every evening. Paul knew every night his flesh would start screaming, "I want to go out with my friends!" For Paul to obey God's requirement took special obedience.

One of the reasons the Lord told Paul to stay home for a year was to establish good family relationships. So for the next year Paul was there in the family barbecuing for them, watching good movies with them - spending time with his mom, dad, brothers and sisters. But he was still so full of his old lifestyle, he found it hard to be still. In the evening he roamed all over the house. "I would rotate around the house at night. My mother said she saw me in the kitchen at least six or seven times a night. I just couldn't be still; I had to be up doing something."

The difference in him between then and now is amazing. It's hard to believe he was ever that way. The Lord wanted to keep Paul still for a year so that He could do the work needed in Paul. I believe if Paul had not obeyed God for that year, he would not be in the position he is in now, experiencing the blessings, including the peace and joy, that result from doing God's will.

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Accept Yourself By Joyce Meyer

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Are you tired of playing games, wearing masks, and trying to be someone other than who you are? Wouldn't you like the freedom just to be accepted as you are, without pressure to be someone you really don't know how to be? Wouldn't you like to learn how to succeed at being yourself?

God wants you to accept yourself and like who you are. He doesn't want you to reject yourself because of imperfections. He wants you to learn to deal with your weaknesses. Because the truth is, we all have plenty of them.

The Bible tells us that Jesus understands our weaknesses (Heb. 4:15), the Holy Spirit bears us up in our weakness (Rom. 8:26), and God chooses weak and foolish things of the world to confound the wise (1 Cor. 1:27).

If I look at my weaknesses and tell you what I believe my value is, it would be less than nothing. But I have learned that my worth is not based on anything I do, but in what God has already done.

It's wonderful not to start the day by waking up and hating yourself before you ever get out of bed. It's wonderful to no longer hear the devil rattling in your ears a list of all the mistakes you made the day before. It's wonderful not to have him remind you of what a failure you are.

Many people are beat down before they ever get their feet on the floor in the morning. The devil's plan is to deceive us into basing our worth on our performance, then keep us focused on our faults and shortcomings.

Satan wants us to have a low opinion of ourselves and be insecure so that we live ineffectively for God. This mindset makes us miserable and unreceptive to God's blessings, because we don't think we deserve them.

Once we come into peace with ourselves, we will begin to come into peace with others. If we learn to accept and like ourselves, we will accept and like others. I know this is true from personal experience. The more I am able to accept and like myself in spite of my weaknesses and flaws, the more I am able to accept and like others in spite of theirs.

Every one of us is imperfect, and God loves us just the way we are.

Source: Help Me I'm Insecure by Joyce Meyer.

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Being Spiritual By Joyce Meyer

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God wants to make a trade with you. He wants you to give Him all his cares, your problems, your failures - your "ashes"—and He will give you beauty.

He will take your cares, and for them, He will care for you. "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you" (1 Peter 5:6-7).

God wants to take care of us, but in order to let Him, we must stop taking the care. Many people want God to take care of them while they are worrying or trying to figure out an answer instead of waiting for God's direction. They are actually wallowing around in their "ashes," but still want God to give them beauty. In order for God to give us the beauty, we must give Him the "ashes." We give Him our cares by trusting that He can and will take care of us.

Hebrews 4:3 says: "For we who have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on God) do enter that rest." We enter into the Lord's rest through believing. Worry is the opposite of faith. Worry steals our peace, physically wears us out, and can even make us sick. If we are worrying, we are not trusting God, and we are not entering God's rest.

What a great trade! You give God ashes, and He gives you beauty. You give Him all your worries and concerns, and He gives you protection, stability, a place of refuge, and fullness of joy—the privilege of being cared for by Him.


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