Covenant of Peace
In John chapters 14-17 Jesus told us many things regarding how we are to live on this earth and live successfully as His children in His Kingdom reality while we are here. These instructions He left us are very specific. They are such instructions as: He that has my commandments and keeps them loves me. I am going to prepare a place for you. Where I am, you may be also. He that believes on Me, the works that I do, He shall do also and greater works than these shall you do. I believe the Holy Spirit has an assignment for all of us. Read these chapters and meditate on them and do them. I am seeing the way to successful living in these chapters.
Today the Lord has told me to focus on John 14:27 (Amplified Bible). Jesus left us something when He left. This is what He said. Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled].
God is very precise in what He does. He does things very accurately. So, when Jesus said that He was giving us peace, that is a big thing. Not only did He say that He was giving us peace; He said that He was giving us His own peace. This statement tells me that peace is a big deal----and not the kind of peace that the world tries to give and work out on their own. If Jesus gave us His own peace, then we need to receive what He has given us. Obviously most of the Christian world has not received His peace or they would not be in so much fear and anxiety when things happen in their lives that are contrary to peace.
Peace from Jesus will keep us in faith and in joy because all of these are fruit which come from the Lord Himself. They are what we have in us when we accept Jesus as our Savior. What has happened is that we have not made the decision to exercise peace in our lives.
The word peace here is the Greek word eirene, which means untroubled, undisturbed well-being, rest, a state of peace that is a divine promise brought about by the mercy and grace of God whereby distress is removed and freedom is the result.
Do you hear that? It is God’s promise of His peace. Why? Because of His great unfailing love for us (mercy and grace). And why is peace so important? By and through peace, distress is removed and freedom comes.
If there is one thing the enemy of God’s children does not want them to grab hold of, it is freedom. Through peace freedom comes because we are not troubled. We do not take on cares. We do not become anxious. Why is that? We do not become disturbed because we know that Jesus is in charge. He is taking care of everything.
In the Old Testament Isaiah 53 talks about Jesus, the Head of the Body of Christ. Then in Isaiah 54 we hear God speaking prophetically to the Body of Christ. And one of the promises He makes is this in verse 10 (Amplified Bible). For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed, yet My love and kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace and completeness be removed, says the Lord, Who has compassion on you.
And then in Psalm 89:34 we hear these words: My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
God is not a covenant breaker. If He said it, He will do it. He has spoken. His covenant of peace and completeness shall not be removed ever. Everything else can be removed, but not His peace. So what is the problem? Why are people in the Body of Christ not more peaceful? It is like everything else with the Lord. We must receive by faith what we have been given by God Almighty. And sometimes there is a stand of faith, where we don’t bow and we don’t burn. When the pressure is on from our enemy, we want to bow, we want to buckle, we want to give up, we want to cave in and quit. As the old expression goes: It is much easier to die than to live. Living requires faith in a great measure. Let’s talk more about this tomorrow.
Today the Lord has told me to focus on John 14:27 (Amplified Bible). Jesus left us something when He left. This is what He said. Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled].
God is very precise in what He does. He does things very accurately. So, when Jesus said that He was giving us peace, that is a big thing. Not only did He say that He was giving us peace; He said that He was giving us His own peace. This statement tells me that peace is a big deal----and not the kind of peace that the world tries to give and work out on their own. If Jesus gave us His own peace, then we need to receive what He has given us. Obviously most of the Christian world has not received His peace or they would not be in so much fear and anxiety when things happen in their lives that are contrary to peace.
Peace from Jesus will keep us in faith and in joy because all of these are fruit which come from the Lord Himself. They are what we have in us when we accept Jesus as our Savior. What has happened is that we have not made the decision to exercise peace in our lives.
The word peace here is the Greek word eirene, which means untroubled, undisturbed well-being, rest, a state of peace that is a divine promise brought about by the mercy and grace of God whereby distress is removed and freedom is the result.
Do you hear that? It is God’s promise of His peace. Why? Because of His great unfailing love for us (mercy and grace). And why is peace so important? By and through peace, distress is removed and freedom comes.
If there is one thing the enemy of God’s children does not want them to grab hold of, it is freedom. Through peace freedom comes because we are not troubled. We do not take on cares. We do not become anxious. Why is that? We do not become disturbed because we know that Jesus is in charge. He is taking care of everything.
In the Old Testament Isaiah 53 talks about Jesus, the Head of the Body of Christ. Then in Isaiah 54 we hear God speaking prophetically to the Body of Christ. And one of the promises He makes is this in verse 10 (Amplified Bible). For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed, yet My love and kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace and completeness be removed, says the Lord, Who has compassion on you.
And then in Psalm 89:34 we hear these words: My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
God is not a covenant breaker. If He said it, He will do it. He has spoken. His covenant of peace and completeness shall not be removed ever. Everything else can be removed, but not His peace. So what is the problem? Why are people in the Body of Christ not more peaceful? It is like everything else with the Lord. We must receive by faith what we have been given by God Almighty. And sometimes there is a stand of faith, where we don’t bow and we don’t burn. When the pressure is on from our enemy, we want to bow, we want to buckle, we want to give up, we want to cave in and quit. As the old expression goes: It is much easier to die than to live. Living requires faith in a great measure. Let’s talk more about this tomorrow.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 11:36 AM
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