Greetings and thank you for this opportunity to come to you and spend these few minutes in God’s word and prayer. We trust that you are being encouraged to pursue total shalom and this place of perfect place, to enter into that place of perfect peace. Things will happen around us; we get pulled out of that place of perfect peace but get back in and say, I’m going back in, I’m not going to come out of this place of perfect place and I want everything in my world to be in this place of perfect peace. One of the things that Jesus taught us in John chapter 16, verse 33, He said, ‘These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.’ I want to emphasize what Jesus told us to do. He said, ‘be of good cheer’. What do you do when you have decided to be in a place of perfect peace but there is tribulation coming? You decided, I am going to stay in this place of peace but these tribulation/ things that are trying to disturb you. What do you do? Jesus said, be of good cheer, that means don’t let the troubles rob you of your peace and your joy, don’t let it do that. Be of good cheer, maintain this positive place of peace and joy even in the middle of these tribulations that come against you, be of good cheer. The reason we can be of good cheer is because He has overcome as we have mentioned in one of the earlier devotions. So, when the storm comes, the Lord has conquered every storm/ tribulation, so I can be of good cheer, that means I’m going to maintain myself in a place of peace and joy in the middle of the tribulation coming against me, I’m dwelling in a place of peace and maintaining my peace and joy. It is very interesting to look at how other versions render this. The Passion translation says, ‘you must be courageous for I have conquered the world.’ The Amplified Classic version says, ‘be of good cheer, take courage, be confident, certain, undaunted for I have overcome the world, I have deprived it of power to harm and I have conquered it for you.’ The Amplified Modern version says, ‘be courageous, confident, undaunted and be filled with joy, I have overcome the world, my conquest is accomplished, my victory is abiding. In other words, He is saying, look, I have won it for you, I have already done it, you be full of joy, confidence, peace, keep going, be of good cheer as you journey through the storm. There is an old chorus, with Christ in the vessel, I can smile/ laugh at the storm, I can be joyful in the middle of the storm because He conquered it. Let’s pray, Father, we thank you that you help us be of good cheer, full of peace and joy, undaunted, confident even in the middle of what we are going through, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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