Peace

 God promises peace-how do we find it on our most stressful days? Look carefully- resting on the edge of Isaiah’s prophecies sits the answer:

“The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for in God the Lord, we have an everlasting Rock.” Isaiah 26:3-4.

Steadfast means “to lean on for support”. Of mind means” to frame or to form”. Together, this phrase means God will give complete peace to you if your “frame of mind leans on and is supported”. On what should you be leaning? On God, as the verse says. “The steadfast of mind…trusts in you”. When you trust God, you refuse all other crutches and lean your entire weight on the One who gives stable support. Can God hold you up? As verse 4 says, He’s “an everlasting Rock.”

And how will he hold you up? In two ways: He will “keep” you, meaning he’ll “guard or watch over” you and He does this with “perfect peace”, which in Hebrew means shalom. Literally, God will guard you with shalom-an unending security, an uninterrupted rest, and a complete calmness.

Want a good summary of the above? God gives complete rest to those who lean on him for support-to those who trust Him as an unmovable and strong Rock.

Meditation and Reflection

Rest    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeRpItdjW7c&feature=related

None but Jesus    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqXMuW8x1U&feature=PlayList&p=B1940DAE102A8CF1&index=8

Crucified with Christ    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWe9nC_Jybs&feature=related

Made Me Glad    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Zc_VWJJoI&feature=related

Sunday LineUp

GOD IS A GOD OF RIGHTEOUSNESS    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ruLMhNqSQ&feature=related

HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQI5wxtH6OY

JESUS LOVER OF MY SOUL    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu5dNrjluDM&feature=related

HOLY UNCREATED ONE    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE_yTzv4-RU

GRACE

Offering: SO GREAT