Yehovah Shalom: Finding Peace Amid Life's Challenges

But church, do you know this? Our God is the author of peace. Today, you and I, if we are contemplating different things in life, if we are in the midst of losing our peace, if we are in the midst of thinking that I wish I was dead, or if you are thinking that I wish I were never born, then I would like to speak to you today using God's word. He can speak peace into every situation. God can speak peace into every fear. He can speak peace into every depression. He can speak peace into every chaotic things in your life. Just know that He is bigger than every single thing that you're facing. [00:14:05] (39 seconds)  #GodAuthorOfPeace

If you have God in your life, you know what you can do? You can look into the eye of the devil. You can look into that storm, and you can say, you know what? I have peace. Because the Lord of armies, He fights for me. And I know that Jehovah Shalom is with me, so He can give me peace. In the midst of the things, He will never leave me, nor He will forsake me. How beautiful is that promise from God to reverse. He is the peace. He is the peace. [00:14:44] (27 seconds)  #PeaceThroughFaith

Do not expect this peace of God in your life, if you try to juggle two lives, and what do I mean by that? If you are trying to shake the hand of the devil throughout the week, and if you come to church on a Sunday morning thinking your life will be peaceful, then nope, that is not how God works. [00:15:18] (20 seconds)  #NoDoubleLife

You cannot keep your feet on two boats. Can we have the picture please? You see this person, he's trying to keep his two legs on two different boats. He's trying to keep his feet here, and he's trying to keep his feet on another boat. So what happens when one boat goes right side, and one boat goes left side? What happens? He is going to fall, and he is going to drown in his own sins. That is not the way we should live as Christians. [00:15:57] (29 seconds)  #AuthenticFaithOnly

Today, church, if people come up to you, if people walk up to you and say that you are a scared person, you are a skeptic person, you have no value, you are very old, you are very young to be used by the Lord, then look into their eye and tell that no God can use me. If God can use Gideon, then God can surely use me. God can surely use me. That is how we should be speaking today. [00:34:35] (24 seconds)  #ClothedInTheSpirit

As I'm speaking about the idols don't we all have idols in our hearts we kept a person in our hearts today and we gave them the place of God we put the worldly things today and we gave that thing up and we gave it to God and we gave that thing up the place of God in our life. We think that making money is all we need in our life. And we gave money the place of God. We watch Netflix all the time. When you know that you can be spending your time with the word of God, you still want to watch Netflix. See, in life, everything needs to be balanced. You need to have a proper life. You need to have a proper boundaries. You know that you have set apart a time just specifically for God. But now instead of praying God in that specific moment, in that specific time, you got indulged in Netflix. You are addicted to a series and you want to finish that series. So instead of giving time to the Lord, you're robbing God's time and you have given it to something else or someone else. So you have made that man, you have made that show, you have made Netflix your God today. [00:45:14] (71 seconds)  #MercyDoorOpen

Peace only begins when we break down the idols in our lives. And when the people of Israel, when they're crying out, God did not say that, well, I waited seven years for you to come to me, but you never cried in those seven years. Now I'm going to push you away. God never reacted that way. As a loving father, he said, the door of mercy is not being shut. It is still open for you. If you can cry out to me, then I can give you peace. [00:47:27] (30 seconds)  #AvailabilityOverAchievement

I don't care about your degrees. I don't care about your achievements in life. If you are available to me, then I can use you so that you can be deep. peacemakers. Now Gideon was available to the Lord all the time, so God used him, not because of his degrees, but because of his availability. And I want you all to be available to the Lord. [00:47:58] (19 seconds)  #BreakIdolsForGod

And not only that, in order for God to clothe you, in order for God to live inside you, you need to break down the idols, church. And if you cannot break down the idols, I'm sorry to say this, God cannot dwell inside you. God is a holy God. He lives in a holy place. That is why Jesus Christ had to come. You know why Jesus Christ had to come? So that he can stand in the middle. He can hold us with one hand, and he can hold the hand of God with one hand, and he can make sure that we are joined together. [00:48:17] (32 seconds)  #JesusJoinsUs

``God's peace is bigger than our problems. That's point one for the day. God's peace is bigger than our problems. And point two, God's peace is found in his presence and not in our circumstances. Okay? God's peace is found in his presence and not in our circumstances. And point three, peace begins when we break down the idols, when we tear down the idols and we invite God in. So if you can do that today, then God would like to use you so you can be the peacemakers. For we know that the one who dwells in us is much stronger and much greater than the world himself. [00:49:04] (43 seconds)  #PeaceBeyondProblems