Hello and thank you once again for the opportunity to come and spend these few moments with you this day and pray with you. As we are meditating on this theme, total shalom or perfect peace, we are trying to understand how we can live in a place of perfect peace and various aspects of that as presented to us in scripture. We are going back to John chapter 16, verse 33, and I want to highlight another aspect from that verse, Jesus 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 the early part of that scripture. Jesus said, ‘These things I have spoken to you.’ In other words, I have given you all of these teachings, truths and my word, these things I have spoken to you so that in me, you may have peace. So, He is saying, look, get a grip on my words, on all that I have taught you and spoken to you and I have intentionally spoken all these things to you so that in me, you can experience total shalom and peace that comes from God. When we said shalom, we mean total wellbeing in every aspect of life. He said, in the world you will have tribulation, the world is going to throw things at you that will hurt, cause pain and turmoil but He said, look, I have given you my word and spoken to you so that in me you can have peace. That teaches me something that if I take a hold of the word of God, the teachings of Jesus and begin to live by that word, whatever Jesus taught us; I just live that and practice it and do it then I can be in this place of having perfect peace in Him. So, when there is tribulation all around and all kinds of things happening, just go back to the word and say, I’m going to the word and I say, I’m going to do the sayings of Jesus, I’m going to do what the Lord Jesus has taught me because He said, these things I have spoken to you so that in me you have peace. I’m going to tighten my grip on His word, I’m going to be more deliberate in my practice of His word because if I live by that word and do the things that Jesus taught us and do the things of having faith in God and loving people and walking in the truth that He has given, I’m going to find myself living in the peace that is in Him, in Christ. So, that a key that we must practice. Let us pray, Father, we thank you for this place of total shalom. We ask that you help us take a hold of the sayings and the teachings of the Lord, what is put in the word of God and be determined to live by it so that we can live in the peace that is in Jesus Christ, in Jesus’s name, Amen.

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