Finding Lasting Peace: Spiritual Alignment and Trust in God

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chapter 5 and verse one in the uh English standard version of the scriptures. Let's read this together.

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

And we're speaking today from the subject simply, it is well. It is well. It is well. Hallelujah. You may be

seated. You don't really realize how valuable peace is until you no longer have it.

>> You can be in the finest of homes with the most beautiful and serene of views from your

home, but if you don't have peace on the inside,

>> peace is an inside job. And so if you could have the finest

financial portfolio, the best looking spouse, >> wonderful children, a great school

district, but if you like peace on the inside, >> what good is it really?

If your hair is slayed, your nails are done, your outfit is immaculately put together in saratoral

splendor, and you lack peace on the inside.

What good is it? Every person, every person should seek to have peace with God.

the peace of God and then peace with fellow humans. You got to have peace with your fellow

man because what good is it for you to be saved and you can't get along with somebody that lives next door to you or

better still somebody under your own roof? The people who have the greatest

capacity to vex you and to disturb your peace are not down the street. They're down the hall.

Sometimes they're on the other side of the bed. So, I want you to get this

biblical perspective that the apostle Paul was writing to the church at Rome

in Romans 12 and verse 18. Notice what it says. Do all that you can. Do everything within your power to live in

peace with everyone. Now, I know some people are hard to get along with,

>> but even knowing that, do all that you can to live in peace with >> everyone. Because when people mess up

your peace, they mess up your sleep. >> When people mess up your peace, they mess up your health.

And do you really want somebody to get up underneath your skin to the degree now that your health is affected, your

sleep is affected, the sanity and quality of your thoughts and your mind, your mental attitude, your outlook, you

know, you don't want to be with anybody that disturbs your peace. I mean, if you're dating somebody and if your peace

gets jacked up with them a lot, >> just cut it off now. just just get out while you can

>> and and allow the peace of God to prevail in your life because God is not the author of confusion but he is

the God of >> peace. There's a reason that Jesus is called the prince of

>> peace because we all need to be able to come into that place where we have the peace of God. And that's why we start in

Romans 5:1 that we are justified by faith so that we have faith. We have peace with God

through our Lord Jesus Christ because of our faith. We have peace with God. The question is, have you made peace with

God? You've got to have peace with God and then not only have peace with God, then you need the peace of God. cuz you

can with you can have made your your your peace with God, but you don't have the peace of God.

>> You you're already saved, but you're disturbed because you're lacking the peace of God. So, notice what uh the

Bible says as Jesus was teaching in in John chapter 14 and verse 27. Notice what he says. Jesus said, "Peace I leave

with you." I'm getting ready to go. But he says peace I leave with you. >> He didn't say joy. He didn't say love.

He says peace I leave with you. My peace he said I give you. That's why I said you've got to have the peace of God. He

says my peace I give with you. Not as the world gives do I give you. Because you see the world says as long as you

don't rock my boat I won't rock yours. You scratch my back I'll scratch yours. He says not as the world gives do I give

to you. He says, "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." And so Jesus is saying, "I want to give you

my peace. I give you my peace." You not only need to make peace with God, you need the peace

>> of God. And then you've got to have peace with fellow human beings. And that's why he says, "Do all that you can

to live in peace with everyone." Cuz you know, when mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. And so you want to be able

to have peace on your job. If you're if you're part of a team somewhere, you want peace to be on the team. It is it's

worth it. You know, the only reason that Ananas and Safara died, they the Holy Ghost killed them.

>> You know that there are some people that are so evil, you know, you got to be jacked up when the Lord himself would

strike you down. >> This was a husband and wife team that were in cahoots with the same lie. And

God says, "Uh, excuse me, Ananas, bam, there you go out." And then they gave the wife Safara a an

opportunity to vindicate herself. And she corroborates the same lie. And the prophet of the Lord said to her,

"Sweetheart, the very people that just took your husband's body out to bury him, they'll be coming in for your

body." And and then her knees got weak. And then that boom. Then there she falls, collapses, and dies.

God removed the ones that were breaking the peace and the unity among the group rather

than leave them there as a source of corruption destroying the peace and the unity because until there is a a peace

there, there can be no unity. >> And so he's he's he's saying we need to make peace with God. We need to have the

peace of God. And then we've got to have peace with other human beings. He's looking for us to be peace makers, not

merely peacekeepers, >> peace makers. Because if there is no justice, there is

no peace. And have you ever noticed in the scriptures how often as the the the apostle Paul as he was

writing to the various churches whether it was the church at Ephesus or the church at Philippi or the church at

Galatia or the church at Rome he would often times say grace and peace be multiplied to you. Grace and peace. I

wonder why grace and peace. It is because if you don't extend grace to people you'll never have any peace.

If a husband does not extend grace to his wife, there won't be peace in the marriage. As a wife, if the wife will

not extend grace to her husband, there won't be peace. If parents do not give grace to their children, because

children are going to do stupid things. And if you don't give some grace to them as they are growing and making mistakes,

if you don't give them any grace, you won't have any peace. And if you're an employer, if you don't give any grace to

people, there won't be any >> peace. And so he says, "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you." And so he would

constantly greet them with that whole thing of grace and peace. Peace is so valuable that if you are living in an

environment or working in an environment where there's no peace, you are in an atmosphere that is a breeding ground for

sickness. Because the word peace comes from the original Greek word aren.

And it actually has to do with a person coming into that that is tied up in wholeness.

Wholeness. So peace is not just about peace out. No, no, no. Peace is about wholeness

body, mind and spirit. When you are in peace, there is a harmony that is working with body, mind, and spirit. All

of them work together. This peace of God that Jesus gives to us, it refers to an inner rest. It refers to tranquility and

it refers thirdly to wholeness. You notice that inner rest, tranquility, wholeness. It has nothing to do with

what's going on on the outside. has everything of what's going on the inside. Peace is about a journey inward

to find that place of stillness. And so when he's talking about Irene, this is peace. The Greek word for peace,

it means to tie together into a whole. To tie together into a whole. It is peace that makes a family a family. It

ties together into a whole. It ties together into a whole. If you don't have peace, you're not going to be tied

together into a whole unit, into a whole family, into a whole team, into a whole department, into a whole church, into a

whole body of Christ. It has to be peace. Dwell together in peace. He He wanted peace to be multiplied. He wanted

them to be able to operate in the spirit of of of of unity, in the bonds of peace. In the bonds of peace where

you're tying different people together in one. It unites us because God's gift of peace equals wholeness. God's gift of

peace equals wholeness. Peace is wholeness. It's not enough to just seek to be healed by God. You want to be made

whole. You want to be made whole. You want to be made whole. I love the words of uh of Thomas Watson who said that

safety consists not in the absence of danger but in the presence of God. Wholeness. It's something about the

actual presence of God being with you. It's not the absence of danger. It means that God is with you. That's how you can

have peace that God is with you. I mean when big daddy is with you. When you got somebody bigger than you

who can protect you and provide for you and heal you and restore you and catch you when you fall and love you back into

a a place of restoration, that's what peace does. Body, mind, soul, spirit, all of that tied up together into unity.

So when you find peaceful people, it's it's a wholeness that comes to them. It is not segmented. And that's why I I'm

reminded of of the man Horatio Spafford who wrote the wonderful song, the hymn of the church, It is well. It is well.

He was financially ruined in the fires of Chicago back in 1870, 1871.

It it ruined him financially. I mean, to be to have your portfolio wiped out is enough to mess you up.

And to add insult to injury, here he goes

trying to start a new life and and so he's going to move from Chicago over to England and he sent his wife along with

his four daughters. November the 22nd, 1873. He's been struggling since the Chicago

Fire destroyed his business. Can you imagine losing your business and now you're having to move and go to

another country with your wife and your four daughters? And on November the 22nd,

while they in voyage, their ship collides with another ship and it sinks in 12 minutes.

All four of his daughters lost their lives. his little baby Annie,

Maggie, Bessie, and Tanetta.

All four of his little girls lost their lives. And his wife had to be revived. She almost died.

He had sent them on ahead. And while he now gets that news and he's on the next ship

to get to England now to be with his wife and mourn the loss of their four children.

When they get to the place in the ocean approximately of where the ship went down,

he went into his room and pinned the words, "It is well with my soul. That's when he looked at those things

and said, "When peace like a river >> attendeth my way, when sorrows like sea billows roll, whatever my lot,

thou hast taught me to say, it wasn't natural. It wasn't a natural reflex and instinct of my flesh." He

says, "You taught me through everything that I went through, the hell that I went through. You taught me through the

sickness that came my way, through the death of loved ones that came through my family BEING LOST. YOU THOU HAST TAUGHT

ME TO SAY, "IT IS WELL. >> It is well with my soul." It didn't say it didn't hurt.

>> It didn't say he didn't it didn't pain him. It didn't say HE DIDN'T CRY. HE DID.

>> And that wasn't the end of his sorrows. He had another child, a son finally that he named Junior Horatio Spafford

Jr. He lived for four years and developed scarlet fever and died. Tragedy strikes again,

but he knew God. And the one who is peace personified, >> hallelujah,

>> gave a peace to his soul amid all of the loss of his children. >> God sustained them.

>> And so after that tragic loss of those four daughters, they had three more children. One of them that was the son

that died, but he left them with two more. Somehow when you learn how to have your

roots in God after you've lost everything that is dear to you and trying to figure out why is it that I'm

experiencing tragedy when I'm trying to live for you God. But he knew God and he realized that God in the midst of

everything that I'm dealing with, you have taught me to say it is well. Not because it didn't hurt. It is well,

but because I was trusting in someone bigger than me. I was trusting in the God who's able to

sustain me and restore me and renew me and and the children that I lost. He's able to give me more and he's helped me

to start again when I felt that divorce obliterated my life. When I've gone through public embarrassment and I've

been shamed and I've made mistakes. The one who's able to make your feet to be able to stand. The one who's able to

find something that is usable on the inside OF YOU. THE ONE THAT WILL SAY WHEN OTHER PEOPLE ARE JUDGING YOU ON

YOUR PAST AND GOD IS SAYING THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE DESTINY THAT I HAVE for you and THAT IF YOU'LL JUST WALK WITH ME

AND TRUST ME, WATCH WHAT I'LL DO NEXT THAT I AM EXCEEDING GREATNESS AND I'LL DO SOMETHING THAT WILL HELP TO HEAL THE

PAIN of your past if you'll just walk with them. It is well. I dare somebody to shout in this place today and say it

is well. SAID TO SOMEBODY ON THE OTHER SIDE, "IT IS WELL. IT IS WELL. It is well." Yes.

YEAH. YOU MADE DECISION, BAD DECISIONS. YEAH. YOU'VE LOST MONEY. YEAH. YOU GOT INTO SOME SORT OF SHADY DEALS, BUT IT IS

WELL. ALL OF THE WATER THAT'S UNDER THE BEHIND THE DAMN, IT IS WELL. EVERY RELATIONSHIP THAT I MESSED UP AND LOST,

IT IS WELL. IT IS WELL. IT IS WELL. GOD STILL HAS A FUTURE FOR YOU. I DON'T WANT YOU TO ASSUME THAT WHAT FELL APART, THAT

WHAT DIED, THAT WHAT YOU LOST, THAT IT CANCELLED GOD'S PLANS FOR YOU. HE SAID, "I KNOW THE PLANS THAT I HAVE FOR YOU,

DECLARES THE LORD. PLANS TO PROSPER YOU AND NOT TO HARM YOU. PLANS TO GIVE YOU A HOPE AND A FUTURE. HOW DARE YOU COUNT

YOURSELF OUT WHEN GOD SAYS, "I'VE GOT A PLAN FOR YOU." IT IS WELL. SHOUT IT IS WELL.

I feel God in this place today. I FEEL HOPE SPRINGING UP ETERNAL. I JUST KNOW THAT. I I JUST KNOW THAT IF WHEN YOU

TRUST HIM, THE FUTURE THAT IS AHEAD OF YOU IS GREATER THAN THE PAST THAT IS BEHIND YOU. THE HEALING THAT'S AHEAD OF

YOU IS GREATER THAN THE HURT THAT IS BEHIND YOU. I'M JUST TELLING YOU, THE VISION THAT IS AHEAD OF YOU IS GREATER

THAN THE NIGHTMARE THAT IS BEHIND YOU. GOD WILL HEAL YOUR HEART. YES, HE WILL. YES, HE WILL. YES, HE

WILL. IT IS WELL. DECLARE IT TODAY. IT IS WELL. WHO TOLD YOU

that it was too late for you? That you were discounted and that God could never use you again? I hear the Holy Ghost

say, "Think again. Think again. Think again. DREAM AGAIN. DREAM AGAIN. IS ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR THE LORD? IS

ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR HIM? MOSES WAS A MURDERER. NOAH WAS AN ALCOHOLIC.

I'M JUST HERE TO TELL YOU, DAVID WAS A WAS AN ADULTERER. GOD'S GOT A FUTURE. BEYOND YOUR FAILURE, GOD HAS A FUTURE

BEYOND YOUR DIVORCE. I KNOW YOU FELT LIKE IT BROKE YOU AND TOOK EVERYTHING when key PEOPLE THAT YOU THOUGHT WERE

GOING TO MARRY AND THEY WALK OUT OF YOUR LIFE. BUT GOD'S GOT A PLAN. GOD HAS A PLAN. GOD HAS A PLAN. TRUST

HIM. TRUST HIM. TRUST HIM. MY GOD. THERE'S SOMETHING GREATER THAN THE PAIN THAT YOU'VE EXPERIENCED BACK THERE. IT

IS WELL. IT IS WELL. IT IS WELL. IT IS WELL. YES, IT IS. YES, IT IS. YES, IT is well.

Well, take your seat. Let's go just a little deeper. How in the world can we go on when

tragedy strikes? Isaiah 26 and:e3 tells us you will keep in perfect peace.

>> How many? >> All who trust in you. >> All who trust in you. Look up toward

heaven and say, "Lord, I trust you." >> My God. TELL THEM AGAIN. LORD, I TRUST YOU. TELL TO TELL THIS TO YOUR DOUBTS

AGAIN. LORD, I TRUST YOU. LORD, I trust you. >> TELL THIS TO YOUR FEARS. LORD, I TRUST

YOU. LORD, I TRUST YOU. >> TELL THIS TO YOUR MISTAKES. LORD, I TRUST YOU.

>> TELL THIS TO YOUR PAIN. LORD, I TRUST YOU. >> I TRUST YOU.

>> ALL WHOSE THOUGHTS ARE FIXED ON YOU, he will keep you in perfect peace. Perfect peace. Perfect peace. All who trust in

you, all whose thoughts are steadfast on you, fixed on you, fixed on you, fixed on you,

>> we can still have peace. >> Even when the future is unclear to us at the moment,

>> you can still have peace where God can bring you to a place in him. Peace is a journey inward to stillness that where

God calms you down from everything that has been frightening you, everything that has been robbing you of sleep,

>> robbing you of joy, robbing you of feeling like I am enough. He he's he it's a journey inward until

you come rooted into the solid rock of who Jesus Christ is on the inside of you.

But I love the words of Corey Tinboon who said, "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

>> You may not know who what the future holds, but you know who holds the future.

>> And we trust him. We trust him with everything that we've got. We trust him with everything that we've got." And I

want to remind you of what the prophet, the weeping prophet Jeremiah said in Jeremiah 17 and:e 7. He said, "But bless

it." But bless it. But bless it. When you see the word, but it means everything that came ahead of that is

canled. >> I know you made mistakes, but weeping may endure for the night, but it's going

to cancel out all of your crying, >> all of your shame, >> all of your disgust. But those who trust

in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence, your confidence is not in your track record.

>> Your confidence is in the Lord who's able to make you stand after you've fallen.

>> He's the one that is to help you to be able to rebuild. He's the one that help you to heal when you don't think that

you can make it through. Life will sometimes hit you so hard and slam you to the ground, it will knock the wind

out of you. When the wind gets knocked out of you, you can't even inhale properly. And and THERE'S A PANIC THAT

COMES OVER YOUR SOUL. And God is saying, "Let your confidence be in me. Let your hope be in me when life has bodys

slammed you to the ground and you don't feel like you could even breathe anymore."

>> Hallelujah. >> You got to be able to trust him. So blessed, blessed, blessed. You know what

another word for blessed is? Happy. Happy, happy are those who trust in the Lord and who have made the Lord their

hope and their confidence. >> Let me remind you of this. Peace is not the absence of trouble. Peace is the

result of the awareness of the presence of God with you. And peace is less about where you are. Peace is less about who

you are with. And it is more about where you are in alignment with God's plan for your life.

Because whenever you lose your peace, it means that you have somehow come out of alignment with God's plan for your life.

It's like the alignment of your of your spine. When things come out of the alignment in your back, you can have

pain radiating down your leg going to your foot and it's your back that's out of alignment. And when God comes brings

you back into alignment in in in your spine, when he gives you a courage to be able to hope thou in the confidence and

in the strength of God, it brings everything else. When your body comes out of alignment, pain ensues,

sickness ensues, organs begin to suffer, and nerves that run from that place. The alignment allows the life flow of God to

flow through to everything that that needs it. And so it starts flowing through. So when your life comes into

pain, it often means that something is out of alignment. And if we're going to I was talking with a a younger man and

and his hair had started coming out and he didn't know what the problem was. It wasn't male baldness, male pattern

baldness. I knew immediately and I told him, I looked into his eyes and I said,

"There's something in your life that is out of alignment with God's will for you."

And sure enough, the problem was out of alignment in his home. And if you'll ever

allow God to bring you back into alignment, and sometimes

alignment, coming back into alignment is not always a comfortable experience. And so when he has to pop some things

and crack some things, >> you might jump, >> you might scream,

>> but he's popping you back like if something comes out of out of joint and they have to pull it back. You have to

put pressure on it for it to come back into alignment. And there's a lot of pain. And if you

ever pull your arm out of socket, it'll be sort of hanging there. And you can only do so much with it because it's

out of alignment and it hurts like the dickens for them to try to put enough pressure

on it to pop it back in place. And you might scream and sometimes you're going through something and you're wondering,

God, why are you hurting me like that? Maybe he's realigning you and he needs to let it hurt enough so

when you get ready to do the thing that pulled it out the first time, you'll think twice.

It's amazing. But peace is not merely about a going to a new place

or finding new people, taking a cruise and going out on the beach or going to the mountains or

wherever your happy place is. Real peace is a journey inward that goes until you reach this place of

stillness. Because peace begins with alignment, not escape.

Peace begins with alignment, not escape. So whatever you are drinking or snorting or smoking

or injecting, peace begins with alignment, not escape. >> So when that happens, peace begins with

alignment, not escape. Ask yourself some questions. What has the Lord told me to start doing? Cuz he will disturb your

peace. You'll rob your peace. If he's told you to do something and you're sitting dragging around,

>> God will disturb your peace. I don't know who I'm talking to today. And if God TOLD YOU TO STOP doing something and

you're still doing it, he will disturb your peace. What has the Lord told you to stop doing? And what where has the

Lord led you to go? Where has he led you to go and you're still hanging on? Sometime God will tell you to quit your

job and trust me. >> Where has God led you to go and you'll lose your peace. I'm just telling you,

you thought that you were hanging on to security. You'll lose the piece of the security when God has led you to go

someplace else. And then where has God told you to stay? Sometime you want to jump out of the

frying pan into the skillet and you're trying to get out of a hard situation and God says I'm going to develop you

here. You you this is the place where I'm trying to get you done. Yes, it's hot. It's an oven. I'm trying to bake

you because he says you are like a a a cake that is half turned. You're only cooked on one side and I'm going to get

you done on the other side. So I want you to stay here so that I can do my work and let God be God in your life

because a divided life cannot produce a settled peaceful heart. And I this is why the Bible tells

us in Proverbs 4:23, "Guard your heart, protect your heart above everything else over keeping your makeup from running

because you get wet in the rain." Guard your heart. Guard your heart, not your hair.

Guard your heart. You can get your hair fixed again. Guard your heart above all things. For it determines the course,

the direction, the elements of your life, its fulfillment. Guard your heart. Guard your heart. THE PEACE OF YOUR

HEART. >> When you learn to treat people right, my God, just a simple principle. You treat

people right, you can sleep well at night. >> You have to YOU GOT TO YOU GOT TO BE

FAIR WITH PEOPLE. YOU CAN'T TREAT people any kind of way and then expect to go home and have peace.

>> The only people who can do that are mentally deranged people. >> I mean, I know some of them.

>> You know some of them. >> I I I'm so tempted to call names up. Just

>> I'm not going there. I'm not going there. But I want you to understand that your

heart is a thinking creative part of you.

I am not talking the heart is not merely the pump, the muscle that forces the circulation of your

blood and your body. I'm not talking about that. You remember you know the scriptures that as he thinkketh in his

heart so is he. The pump doesn't think >> but the spiritual heart the inner core the spirit man

>> that heart is a thinking creative >> element of you in

>> in fact in an embryo that is developing the baby's heart starts beating before the brain is formed

>> which is when you're walking with God can let you feel and discern things in your heart that your head can't wrap

itself around yet. And something you CAN KNOW IN YOUR HEART before your head has the proof.

>> Anybody know what I'm talking about? >> He's saying, "Guard that. Guard that so that you don't lose your peace." And

you've got to walk in your integrity in order to be able to guard the peace of your heart. Because unchecked thoughts,

hear me carefully, unchecked thoughts become anxiety and directed thoughts become stability.

Unchecked thoughts become anxiety and directed thoughts become stability. So I would I would encourage you to do

this because our minds are naturally geared toward overthinking and we are negative by nature. So we we start

thinking the worst. So instead of saying what if what if we get caught? What if the money goes bad? What if the the my

401k you know loses incredible value right before it's time to retire? What if what if what if? Instead of asking

what if, ask this what is true. Because what if will cause anxiety. What is true will cause stability.

>> It'll cause stability. If you just ask what is true, what's true right now. The other one is speculative. You can't

really control what is speculative. Because when you anticipate horrible things happening,

you die a thousand deaths because of what could happen. >> But when you deal in reality, what is

true? >> What is true in this situation? And most of the time,

we're only asking all of these questions. What if? What if? Because we're control freaks trying to control

everything and everybody. And most of the time you can't control getting a run in your stocking and your mascara

running. So just learn to surrender. Surrender whatever you cannot control. Surrender

whatever you cannot control. Surrender whatever you cannot control. And please understand this surrender here does not

mean to give up. It means to give over. So when I surrender what I cannot control over to Jesus,

>> Lord, I can't control these children, so I surrender them to you. >> Lord, I can't control who files suit

against me, so I surrender that to you. Are you listening? >> Whatever you cannot control, surrender

it. Turn it over to Jesus. when you've done the best that you could do with your children

>> instead of stressing out and crying yourself to sleep every night, you know, turn them over to Jesus. Surrender them.

It's not giving up. You don't give up on what you love. You don't give up. Love never gives up. Love does not give up,

but it will give over. And it is saying, "Lord, I'm going to turn this son over to you. Lord, I'm going to turn this

daughter over to you." Anybody ever had to be in a position where you couldn't control something and it was messing up

your peace? Turn it over to Jesus. Turn it over to Jesus. Say, Lord, into into your hands, Lord, I'm turning it. I've

done everything that I know to do. I've said everything to them that I I know to say. I'm I'm going to surrender this.

I'm going to turn this situation over to you. I'm going to turn my health over to you. I know what the doctors have told

me. I know what they've said about blood sugar levels. I know what they've told me about blood pressure. I know what

they told me about your your liver, your kidneys, your pancreas. I know what Lord, I'm turning it over to you. I'm

turning. There's something that you have to surrender to Jesus. Turn it over to him. You can't control it anyway. YOU

CAN'T CONTROL YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE. YOU CAN'T CONTROL YOUR SLEEP DISORDER. TURN IT OVER TO HIM. LORD, I SURRENDER THIS

INTO your hands. I PUT AND CALL THEIR NAMES. CALL THEIR NAME. Call your supervisor's name. CALL YOUR NEIGHBORS

NAME. THE FOLKS DOWNSTAIRS WHERE THAT REEF WAS COMING UP FROM THEIR PLACE UP THROUGH YOUR TURN IT OVER TO JESUS. TURN

IT TURN TURN IT OVER. PUT IT IN HIS HANDS. WHATEVER YOU CANNOT CONTROL, SURRENDER IT. TURN IT OVER TO JESUS.

Whatever is going on with your business, in your neighborhood, in your child's school, with your finances, with your

health, turn it over to Jesus. In your marriage, turn it over. Surrender it to Jesus. It doesn't mean that I'm giving

up. It means I am putting this in a in a in a higher power's hand. I'm surrendering this into the authority

in the lordship of Jesus Christ. Lord, you take it. You take it. You take it. You take it. You take it. And now you

deal with it. You know, when my oldest brother was about to get married and he had sent out wedding invitations, my

mother grabbed me one day and she said, "Come on, we're going to pray for your brother

cuz somebody has worked some stuff on him." And he was ready to get married and sent out the wedding invitations

already. And when I went in, when it was time for me to pray, I laid my hands on my oldest

brother and I said,"Lord, if he's about to make a mistake, disturb his peace."

>> I didn't pray a long prayer. I said, "Lord, don't let him sleep night nor day."

The next three nights, he couldn't sleep. On the fourth day, he sent out

retraction notices for the wedding. And I'm telling you to break it off

ahead of time is a lot better than trying to fix it and deal with all of the drama and all of the stuff that you

have to deal with in the divorce and all the divorce people said. I'm telling you, God knows. GOD KNOWS.

THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN TALK and try to rationalize. But you know when people are under that spell

>> when they done work that put that thing on them. I MEAN YOU CAN'T EVEN OPEN YOUR OWN

EYES. YOU YOU KNOW YOU YOUR EYES ARE OPEN BUT YOU STILL CAN'T SEE ANYTHING. YOU know you you got to surrender that

into the hands of Jesus. Say Lord Jesus. Lord may you open their eyes. Disturb their peace. JESUS DON'T LET THEM REST.

DON'T LET I'M JUST I DIDN'T PRAY A LONG PRAYER AT ALL. I prayed a real simple prayer, but sleep escaped him.

>> It escaped him. And when he knew his peace was disturbed, he knew something is wrong with this. Something is wrong

with this. I'm just telling you, something that you got to surrender over to him. You got to surrender it to him.

Now, Bishop Brown, you have any scriptures for that? I'm glad you asked. 1 Peter chapter 5 and verse 7. Let him

have all your worries and cares. Whoever and whatever you're worrying about, whatever you're caring

about, for he is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you. TURN IT OVER TO JESUS and

let him work it out. After you've done what you supposed to do, let him have all your worries, ALL YOUR ANXIETIES,

ALL YOUR CARES, ALL YOUR STRESS. FOR he is always thinking about you and watching everything that concerns you.

>> And remember, surrender is not giving up, it's giving over. >> There is a quiet strength in

surrendering. A quiet strength. Because peace grows where control ends.

Peace grows where control ends. Stop trying to control what you can't control and turn it over. Surrender it to Jesus.

My God, I'm telling you, a higher power comes in who knows how to deal with the very people that you love because he

cares about what concerns you and what's keeping you up at night. He cares for that. And I would encourage you to do

this. I I'm a pragmatist. Write down whatever is weighing on you and then separate these two things. Number one,

what should I act on? What should I act on? Cuz see, you're not going to have any peace until you do what you need to

do. >> Yeah. You and you know, I I I studied for my test ahead of time. So, I never

stayed up worrying about it. What should I act on? What should I act on? Uh, you know, and then what must I surrender?

That's the that's the second thing. What should I act on? And then what must I surrender?

And out of those two things, let the second list go. That's the one you let go. Whatever you should

surrender, that's where peace enters. Peace enters when you surrender what you cannot control.

>> What should I surrender? Turn them over. Turn them over and seek the Holy Ghost on them.

>> Turn them over to Jesus. I'm telling you, he can take a person that's strung out on a substance, alcohol, drugs, sex,

porn, whatever it is. Jesus knows how to go in and make that stuff become repulsive to them.

>> He can make somebody that you couldn't stop thinking about. And all of a sudden, they you start they start

repulsing you, the thought of them. I'm telling you, it's a work that only God himself can do. Cuz you you know when

you try to talk people out of folks that they just didn't love. You can't tell people about who they love, they will

cuss you out. Turn up surrender to Jesus. Don't try to control everybody and losing your peace

because somebody got mad at you. Turn them over. Turn it over to Jesus. Just surrender it. Turn it over into his

care. Turn it over and let that second list go. The things that you should surrender. what you should work on, what

you need to be proactive in reconciling, in having sometimes a hard conversation with. That's on you. There are certain

things that you do. You do your part and let God do his part. But then have that second list. What should I surrender?

What should I surrender? Because peace begins where control ends. Peace begins where control ends. and trusting in God.

It serves as a refuge in times of trouble resulting in perfect peace, inner security,

and spiritual fruitfulness. Please remember this that peace does not mean that you won't have problems. It

means that problems will not have you. >> Problems won't have you. I love something that neuroscientist

Dr. Caroline Leaf said, she said, "If your peace depends on everything going right, that's actually not peace. That's

control." Learning to be stable in uncertainty is one of the most underrated skills that

you can have. >> Learning to be stable in uncertainty is one of the most underrated skills that

you can have. I mean when all hell is broken loose and you can say it is >> well. It is

>> well. It is >> well. There was a wealthy woman

in the Bible who was so wealthy. She was so wealthy she couldn't see her need.

But the prophet of the Lord said, "The woman has everything. What can I give her?"

And he said to her, "She's got everything but a child. She's got all of the success,

but she has no child." That's a cry of her heart. And he looked at this woman and told her prophetically, "By this

time next year, you're going to have a child." She said, "Don't mess with me, man. Don't don't play with my emotions."

And sure enough, next year that time she had a child. But that child got to a particular point

and one day the child got sick and the child died and she said, "You know, I'm going back

to the same man of God >> who told me that I was going to have this prophetic child. Something is

always coming after your prophetic promise." and it had died.

And when her prophetic promise died, now here she is, she said, "Saddle me a horse. Give me a

give me an animal. I'm going to see the man of God." And when she came in proximity of him,

he said, "Is it well with you? Is it well with your household?" And she looked at him and said, "It is well."

Come on. >> Her child was dead, >> but she said it is.

>> It is well. >> Blessed is the person >> who has their hope and their confidence

>> in the Lord. >> She knew she was dealing with a dead looking situation

>> that I've done everything that I can do. I can't do anything else. But she said, "It is

>> well." She didn't mean that her heart was not hurting. >> She didn't mean that she had not

experienced loss. She said, "It >> is well despite >> all of that.

>> It is >> well." And sure enough, things happen just as she said it.

>> And her child came back to life >> cuz the prophet of the Lord breathed life and a miracle happened in that

child. Don't ever count God out. Don't ever count God out. God is God. And peace is knowing that Christ in you is

the hope of glory. Peace is not you in a different set of circumstances. IS HAVING THE KNOWLEDGE THAT CHRIST IN YOU,

THE HOPE OF glory is living on the inside of you. And I will say this to you that whenever you forget

who you are in Jesus Christ, you'll define yourself by your circumstances. If you ever forget who you are in Jesus

Christ, you will define yourself by your circumstances and the situations with which you are dealing.

But may I give you this prophetic promise that God makes everything beautiful in its time.

>> And we've got to trust him in doing so because that's how we find peace. Ecclesiastes chapter 3 and verse 11,

notice this. He has set the right time for everything. >> Not when you want it. He has set the

right time for everything. He has given us a desire to know the future cuz we want to know when. But never gives us

the satisfaction of fully understanding what he does. Lord, why is this happening? He says, "Trust me, he has

set the right time for everything." Start just declaring, "It is well. It is well. It is well.

Thomas Ampus in his classic work called the imitation of Christ taught four things that Jesus taught to his

disciples as a source of peace. And it's number one that strive to do another's will rather than your own. Number two,

choose always to have less than more. Number three, seek the lower place in life, dying to the need to be recognized

and important. And number four, always and in every desire that the will of God may be completely fulfilled in you.

Desire that the will of God may be completely fulfilled in you. And then Thomas Ampus said this that the

person who tries this will be treading the frontiers of peace and rest. And so instead of seeking peace,

we are more blessed if we become peace makers. >> Amen.

>> And just remember this thing is really about being in God's will, coming into alignment. Peace is about alignment. If

you're out of alignment with what God has called you, birthed you in the world, the purpose that he's designed

you for, if you're out of alignment with that, peace will escape you. And this is why the Apostle Paul was

able to say in 2 Timothy 4:7, "I fought a good fight. >> I have finished my course.

>> I have kept the faith." He didn't say, "I have fought a perfect fight." He said, "I have fought a good fight." He

didn't say, "I didn't get knocked down. I didn't miss the mark sometime. I had some swings and I missed. I fought a

good fight. >> It wasn't perfect. I fought a good fight." He said, "I have finished my

course. I didn't finish somebody else's course. I didn't try to do what somebody else was doing. I wanted to find out

God's will for my life. The course that he had designed for me to run. I have finished my course. And I kept the

faith. I kept the faith. It's amaze. I'm amazed when when people start off with God and then all of a sudden down the

road you discover that they have abandoned the faith because things didn't go well. Because something died

and they got angry with God instead of saying, "God, I trust you." >> Instead of saying, "It is well." Because

the very God that gave me those children is still with me and he can give me more. And he can make me a father even

to people that I didn't give birth to. God has a way of being able to enlarge and fulfill your heart and a way beyond

your wildest imagination. I'm just telling you, God's plan for you is bigger and better than anything that you

could have ever had uh in in your own mind concerning who and what God wanted to do. But peace is ultimately found in

the security of God's will. is ultimately found in the security of God's will. And so the safest place that

you could be is in God's will. >> God's will for John was for him to be exiled. God's will for Paul, it involved

jail. And God's will for Jesus involved the fact that he was going to be crucified.

And so, why on earth do we suppose that God's will for us is that we'll have uh, you know, a wonderful job and a

good-looking spouse and a large financial financial portfolio? Why do you expect that you won't have to deal

with pain and suffering and all of that? In fact, Jesus said, "Hey, listen. I want to break you up to real life and

and the real walk and the real issues of Christianity. In John chapter 16 and verse 31 through33, notice what he says.

Jesus asks, "Do you finally believe?" >> But the time is coming. Indeed, it's not here now when you will be scattered and

each one going his own way, leaving me alone. Yet I'm not alone because the father is with me. And notice this, he

said, I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth, you will have many trials and sorrows.

Do you see that? >> Here on earth, you will have many trials and sorrows. Here on earth, you will

have many trials and sorrows. But take heart. He says, don't worry about it. Chill out. It is well because I have

overcome the world. And maybe the strength of your overcoming something. Maybe God is saying, "I have written

something powerfully in the script of your life to be able to give you a testimony of what you lost, but what you

got restored back into your life in its place." Job lost all 10 of of of his children, but God gave him 10 more. And

and and at the the latter end of Job, he was better than the first because God gave him twice as much as he had before.

Maybe the trouble, maybe maybe just maybe everything that you have gone through, every trial that you have have

been going through. But when you keep the right attitude that God will breathe on you and multiply the seed that has

been sown and bless you beyond your wildest imagination, maybe he wanted you to become an inspiration and an example

to somebody else who would go through pain and suffering and trials and tribulation and they want to curse God

and die. But you'll be like Job where Satan naked came I into the world and naked am I going to go out but blessed

be the name of the Lord to where you don't lose your faith but in the midst of them that though he slay me yet

will I trust him. I'm going to trust him anyhow. I'm going to stand IN FAITH ANYHOW. I'M going to believe even when

it looks like I'm losing peace and I'm losing control. It is well. And when things died, when people walk away from

me, it is well. IF THEY CAN WALK AWAY, LET THEM GO. LET them let them. LET THEM. AND GOD, IF THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO

COME BACK TO YOU, THEY WILL COME BACK. AND IF THEY DON'T COME BACK, GOD WILL BRING SOMETHING BETTER. GOD WILL BRING

SOMETHING BETTER. TRUST HIM. Trust him. TRUST HIM. TRUST HIM. THAT THEIR REPLACEMENT WON'T BE REBELLIOUS. THAT

REPLACEMENT WILL BE ABLE TO LIFT YOU AND ENCOURAGE YOU AND HELP YOU TO BECOME WHAT YOU WERE NOT. I DECLARE IN THE NAME

OF JESUS, it is well. It is well. I know there's been some things that HAVE COME TO YOUR LIFE THAT HAVE TRIED to destroy

you, to decimate your faith TO CAUSE YOU NOT TO BELIEVE IN GOD. BUT WHEN THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN LIKE THAT THAT WILL MAKE

YOU DOUBT, CAN GOD STILL DO THIS? YOU BETTER KNOW IN THE MIDST OF ALL OF THAT THAT THE SHALOM OF GOD, SHALOM WAS PEACE

IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. AND THAT PEACE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WAS NOT JUST ABOUT PEACE AND QUIET AND TRANQUILITY. IT WAS

ABOUT HEALTH IN YOUR BODY. IT WAS ABOUT THE PROSPERITY OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE. IT WAS ABOUT SAFETY. EVEN WHEN YOU WERE IN

DANGEROUS SITUATION, THAT GOD WOULD SAY, "YAY, THOUGH YOU WALK TO THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, THOU SHALT FEAR NO

EVIL." WHY? BECAUSE I AM WITH YOU. I AM WITH YOU. I AM WITH YOU. I BELIEVE THAT WHEN WHEN THEY WOULD BE GREETING EACH

OTHER AND CALLING IT SHALOM, IT WAS THE WAY THEY SAID HELLO AND THE WAY THEY SAID GOODBYE. IT WAS SAYING PEACE BE

UNTO YOU. PEACE WITH GOD. PEACE WITH MAN. PEACE OF GOD ON THE INSIDE OF YOU. IT IS PEACE WITH GOD BECAUSE I'M SAVED

BECAUSE OF THE WORK THAT JESUS DID. HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS, BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITIES. THE

CHASTISEMENT FOR OUR PEACE WAS UPON HIM, AND WITH HIS STRIPES, WE ARE HEALED. Today is a day where you ought to

realize that it is well. I know that there's been a lot of confusion, there's a lot of disturbance in our world.

There's violence, there's crime, there's injustice, but it is well. Not because there is no pain, there's no suffering,

there's no trials or tribulation, but it is well because we are connected to the one who never changes. We are connected

to the blessed hope. The one who is able to just turn on a dime where the heart of the king is in the hand of God and

God will turn it whichever way. I'm just telling you your fate is not in the hands of the government. There's one who

sits above the circle of the earth. I'm just here to remind you that there is a greater

one than what's in the White House. There's a greater one than the the nations that threaten us. THERE THERE'S

A GREATER thing that that sits OVER WHAT TRIES TO ATTACK your mind. There's a greater thing that that uh that that

what's is threatening our economy, the global economy. There's a there's a greater thing. And if we will trust God

>> who sits above it all, >> I want to give you the master key and the fastest

way to be able to get to it all. Let's go to the last scripture. This is the secret one. Philippians 4 6 and 7. Don't

worry about anything. Instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank him for

what he has done. And notice what will happen in verse 7. Then you will experience God's peace which exceeds

anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. The fastest road

to peace is prayer. The fastest road to peace is prayer. The fastest road to peace is prayer. And before you ask God

for anything, thank him for everything. The fastest road to peace. He says, "Then the peace of God will fill your

heart. A peace that passes all understanding where it doesn't make sense. You won't even understand that

with all of this going on and that going on, the uncertainty of this, and you messed up over here, it's amazing that

God can give you the ability to go and sleep all night long. God will give you ability to continue to dream even though

stuff behind you fell apart. But God says, "I'm that kind of God that when you pray, when you pray, my God, if you

need the peace of God, it's prayer time. >> It's prayer time in your house in your house. It begins right on the inside.

It's a journey inward to stillness to just say, "I'm going to be still and know because there's some stuff. There's

a war going on between your ears. The biggest war that you'll ever find is happening in between your ears." And the

only way to silence that war >> is to be able to go to the father >> and express that we trust him. And

nothing more says to God that I trust you >> than to declare

that Lord, in spite of everybody that has died that was close to me, my God, >> everything that I gave birth to that

fell apart, >> everything that died that imploded in my hand,

Lord, I still trust you. >> Though you slay me, yet will I yet will I trust you.

I trust you in what I couldn't control anyway. >> I surrender to you. I turn this over to

you. I turn it over in prayer. >> I give you all of my anxious thoughts. My tendency to overthink my wondering

why things didn't work out in the past. >> YOU CAN'T CONTROL THAT. But we can control our faith in God. Our

confidence in him. He is our hope. And by an expression of our faith, we declare it is well.

>> It is well. I mean, when peace like a river

attendeth my way, you will be surprised. Rivers are not calm.

Rivers are raging. Rivers are moving. They are not stagnant. Rivers are different than lakes. It has a mouth, an

origin, and it flows to a particular point of destination. Rivers are a flowing thing, not a steel thing.

And yet, in the midst of uncertainty, God allows peace. This fruit of the spirit,

righteousness, the kingdom of God is built in these three things. Righteousness, peace, and

joy in the Holy Ghost. righteousness, peace, and joy. Righteousness, peace, and joy. Righteousness, peace, and joy.

When you enter into God's kingdom, you don't have to die to enter that kingdom. Not physically. You don't have to die

physically. You die to yourself. You surrender to Jesus. You turn over to him.

You reach out in prayer and say, "Lord, all that I couldn't handle under my own watch and everything that I I messed up

and everything that went belly up under my care, Lord, I turn this over to you. Every relationship that I've ruined,

every person that I hurt, I not only ask your forgiveness, God, but I I turn this situation back over to

you. I turn them back over to you, Jesus. If you're here,

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