How can we experience peace in the midst of chaos & confusion?

Today’s Big Question...

Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you

as the world gives.

John 14:27

The fruit of the Spirit is grownin the soil of the opposite spirit.

Graham Cooke

(Love, joy, PEACE, patience, kindness,goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control)

1. We had to acknowledge that the waiting was hard

How Did We Get Peace?

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

Proverbs 13:12

1. We had to acknowledge that the waiting was hard

2. We had to learn to be thankful in the midst of the waiting

How Did We Get Peace?

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and

petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the

peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts

and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:6-7

3. We had to learn to let go of our demands & expectations, while still pursuing God for the desires of our hearts

How Did We Get Peace?

Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for My sake will find it.

Matthew 10:39

3. We had to learn to let go of our demands & expectations, while still pursuing God for the desires of our hearts

4. We had to come to a place of knowing our identity in Christ

How Did We Get Peace?

If anyone is in Christ,he (or she) is a new creation.

The old has gone, the new has come!

2 Corinthians 5:17