SUNDAY (LIVE) - Jan 25, 2026 | Philippians 4:6-7 - God's Peace and Rest

``And my my mind started agitating. I didn't have any peace. I was afraid that where they were taking her, I was afraid she was gonna come out differently or at all. I and she saw it in my eyes, and as she they're taking her away from me, I'm like, ah. She said these simple words that encapsulate what the peace of God means. She simply said this, don't worry, I'm floating in the arms of God. That's peace. In the middle of all of our craniotomies that we could say, I'm floating in the arms of God. [00:38:09] (44 seconds)  #FloatingInGodsArms

I don't know if you caught it, but there is a divine exchange there. A divine exchange that we deaf desperately need. It's the exchange, all our worries, all our junk, all the what ifs of life, all that for a peace that surpasses all understanding. It's a supernatural peace that you will never understand how you got it, and you can't figure it out. It's that good. [00:31:25] (32 seconds)  #DivineExchange

He says, peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Isn't that interesting? It's different than the peace the world gives. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let it be afraid. When you have this peace that Jesus left us, when you have that imparted by God's spirit, you will not be afraid, and you're literally in there in the original your mind and your heart will not be agitated. It will be ordered, and you'll be able to, in a supernatural eerie way, be able to be okay in the middle of it all. Amen? [00:35:49] (48 seconds)  #PeaceHeGives

Divine rest operates out of complete and utter desperate dependence upon God at work in us. And if we don't try to do it all by ourselves, but instead learn to rest on what God is ready to do in and through us and around us and expect him to do it, then we are observing the perfect seventh day, divine, Sabbath day rest. [01:02:52] (30 seconds)  #DivineSabbathRest

The stuff that we go through is real, and it's heavy, and we aren't designed to carry it. And every one of us, the Christian, the pagan, and the worst of us all, the self righteous people that don't think they need it, need spiritual rest. Amen? We all need it. And I'm happy to tell you, our Lord gives it to us. And in those famous words of Matthew chapter 11 verse 28, he says, you weary people, come to me. [00:58:15] (32 seconds)  #ComeToMeRest

Yeah. We can feel like a bunch of books pushed over, falling off shelves because we have no bookends. We truly need some way, or more accurately someone to gently but firmly push us back together and squeeze us upright yet again in our lives. And today, we're in luck because God's scripture, we will find Jesus Christ himself giving us a set of spiritual bookends to hold us upright when we feel like we have been pushed over spiritually. [00:29:11] (47 seconds)  #SpiritualBookends

So one thing that's quite obvious to me is that we all have times in this crazy thing we call life, this wild ride that we're all on, where we feel a bit pushed over. Pushed over emotionally, pushed over mentally, and most importantly, pushed over spiritually. The reality of it is is the energy that our lives can bring down upon us is great. The gravity and the inertia of it can push us over. And if you're like me, you can find yourself feeling a lot like a spiritual pushover. [00:27:29] (43 seconds)  #StandUprightInFaith

And you know what I know about worshipers? They're not anxious because they've just been with God almighty. They look square in his face as they're worshiping him, and their troubles grow really dim. It's like that old hymn, turn your eyes upon Jesus. But what happens then? The world grows strangely dim. Your anxieties will go away. Worshippers are not worriers. [00:44:42] (31 seconds)  #WorshippersNotWorriers

Romans chapter five verse one tells you that you have peace with God. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Christian, you've embraced the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. You've believed that and embraced that. You have peace with god. You're not an enemy with god anymore. In a sense, he's okay with you. You're justified through believing in his son. Amen. That's done. We all have peace with god, but only spiritual Christians can get the peace of god because it's his. [00:34:24] (35 seconds)  #PeaceWithGod

You're carrying a load that's way outside your payload capacity. Am I talking to the right people again? Somebody gave me a yeah. Yeah. That's you and I. The devastating realities of our current suffering is not meant to be bared by our humanity. We are not capable of it, and we ought to be careful. It just wears us down. We're about ready to buckle under the strain. [00:52:18] (37 seconds)  #NotMeantToCarryThis

And some of us, even more of us, are carrying around the hurt of losing our loved ones. We have a hard time in our souls wrapping around the finality that there is no more good mornings. There are no more I love yous. They're gone, at least on the set of heaven. Right? That's something that's hard. That's a load to carry. We're not meant to carry it, and we're buckling hard under it. [00:53:53] (34 seconds)  #GriefIsALoad

We have a wrong idea about peace a lot of times. We think it's serenity. That's what the world will say. That you'd get in a certain position on top of a mountain and think about your belly button or something, can get to the state of peace where the seas are glassy. I've never lived in that world. I don't know about you. That's not the peace of God. The peace of God is in the middle of it all, in the middle of the disasters, in our day of trouble, our tribulation, right in the middle of it all. [00:36:40] (36 seconds)  #PeaceInTheMiddleOfIt

They've studied worry, anxiety for centuries. And you know what always comes up? Oh, the the worries change because our world's changing. Right? What takes up our anxiety? The little specifics are different, but you know what never changes? The categories. You could take all those studies since they've been doing this decades, and you can summarize it this way, is that 85% of the time, 85% of what we worry about is either never gonna come true, is in the past that you can't change, or untrue statements. [00:32:43] (38 seconds)  #WorryPatternsRepeat

That that isn't just your general, I'm gonna communicate with God. It has the root word in the original of worship. We're to worship him. You want peace? It starts with getting on your knees and telling back God what he is and what he testifies to be to his character and his nature. Something like this, God, you are a God of love. You are a righteous God. Father, you are a compassionate God. Oh god, there is none like you. You are holy. [00:44:02] (38 seconds)  #KneelAndWorship

Let me just put it this way. Real simple. It it is a needy ask. It's really a yelp for help. It's like, Lord, I don't even know what I need, but I need you. It's like that beast that's caught in the fence, tangled up, has tried everything you they could do in all their power to get untangled, to help themselves, and then they just laid down, tired out, looking for someone to help them. Lord, I've come to the end of myself. I don't even know what I need, but I know I need you. That's supplication. [00:45:21] (41 seconds)  #AtTheEndOfMyself

To have an attitude of gratitude in the midst of devastating tribulation, we are still told to be a thankful people. And one of my favorite prayers to pray is, Lord, make me a thankful people because we need to be thankful. We need to realize that in every situation, no matter how disabling it is to us, there's always something to be thankful for. There's always this day that he's giving you. [00:46:26] (31 seconds)  #AttitudeOfGratitude

I found myself in a quiet moment in some beautiful pocket water, and I just started loading my line with worship, false cast. I would load it back up with thanksgiving, false cast. I would line it up just with asking him, asking him to help my widowed mom, and then I would cast it. Boom. Right at the feet of the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings. [00:50:28] (27 seconds)  #CastYourPrayers

Sometimes we just have not because we ask not. There's something about asking that gets it off of our chest when we asked the creator of the universe for things. Man, I love when my kids ask me something, especially when they were younger when I could afford their request. Sometimes they'd ask me for stuff I couldn't deliver, but I like that they asked because they thought that highly of me. You think I could do that? Silly boys. [00:47:58] (40 seconds)  #AskAndTrustGod

This is silliness. This is God Almighty. This is the one that is omnipotent, that has an inherent, inexhaustible source of power that he can do anything. His arm is not short. Nothing is difficult for him. So why did he rest? He didn't rest because he was tired. He rested to show you and me a perfect sense of completion, a perfect rest is found in him. [01:00:32] (38 seconds)  #RestIsPerfectCompletion

Because I don't know if you know who I'm going to pray for, young lady. I'm going to pray in the name of Jesus Christ, the king of kings and the lord of lords, the creator of the ends of the universe, that one, the all loving god, the all loving god who is compassionate and he has mercy. [00:57:07] (26 seconds)  #PrayingInJesusName