Peace, Peace in Times of Trouble

What do you do in Times of Trouble? How do you find Peace, let alone Peace, Peace in the midst of chaos and evil????

Irregardless, what situation we find ourselves in, whether political, physical trauma, disease, financial problems, relational distress....it doesn"t matter the problem, beaten with rocks or with rods, shipwrecked, hunger, shivering in the cold, storms, injustice and left to die ... It Does Not matter what the issue is....How we respond is a thermometer that shows where we are in our relationship with God. 

Now, listen up! Don't get mad, defensive and shut out what I am saying! Look at the vast number of Israelites who so easily and quickly went against God continually after they were delivered from Eqypt by the mighty hand of God and they turned against their leader who had led them out of bondage. Only 2 (Joshua and Caleb) plus Moses stuck with God and His Word. 

The more you know God the easier it gets to hold steady to His Word in terrible times of trouble. The more you spend time with Him and get to know Him, His nature, His character and His Word, the more your confidence (faith) in Him grows.

Through your life experiences you've watched and seen the awesome ways He has worked again and again. Many look only at the negative reports of what has happened when the devil has momentarily gotten the upper hand and even blame God for the trouble, but we must know Who our God really is. We must know that He is a Good God, a Just and Righteous God.  As His children He is For us and Not Against us. He is Mighty on our behalf and does exceedingly, abundantly and above ALL we can Ask or think. Psalm 103:8 tells us that 

The LORD is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. God tells us that the wicked will fall by their own devices, be entangled in the nets they themselves have laid and fall into the traps they themselves have out. Their evil deeds will be found out and Justice will prevail. God's Word is true. God Is Not a liar! It is Impossible for Him to Lie! DO NOT CALL HIM A LIAR!!!!! Expect His Word to come to pass. His Word never fails. God IS Faithfull

As you learn and grow in your relationship with God, you trust Him more and have more confidence to hold fast to Him in terrible times, but it still take commitment and FOCUS! 

Isaiah 26:3 says: You keep him in perfect peace (peace, peace) whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Where will your thoughts be if you are really trusting God? Your thoughts will be Stayed, Fixed on, God and His Word. Immovable from the truth. That is how you will remain in Great Peace in the midst of the worst situations and negative reports. You have your report from God. His report outranks and outweighs every other report regardless how it looks, feels or reports to the contrary. We must Know what a Mighty, Powerful and Awesome God we serve!!!! Do Not lose your Awe of God in the midst of the trouble! It goes back to taking charge of your thinking and making your thoughts and words stick to what God says. 2 Corinthians 10:5; Romans 12:2; Philippians 4:8. As you meditate on God's Word and Practice being a Doer of His Word not a hearer only. James 1:25, you will get more and more confident that God IS who He says He is and He Will do what He says He will do. You will see awesome things in your life as you watch and see what God will do!!!!!

There is far more going on in the spiritual realm, good and evil, than we can see. We must know that God is working even and especially when we cannot see it and when evil, unrighteousness and all forms of demonic actions, deception and lies and media and negative medical reports are working overtime to take precedent over everything. Know this: if what you are seeing, thinking and feeling stirs you up negatively and makes fear and disruption that depresses you, it is not God. If it is working to steal, kill and destroy, it is NOT God! God works for Peace, Righteousness, Joy, and Justice, Healing and Restoration ....  all things GOOD! He IS at work regardless of how it appears. Don't be a fearful, faithless Israelites who caves in on God in the rough times, thereby missing out on what God is working out. Choose to stick with God. Are you being carnally minded or spiritually minded? Romans 8:6-9. Believe what he says and make yourself be found faithful. God has not turned away. Fight with Him, not against Him. Fighting against Him is only taking your stand with those that are evil. Keep fighting. Hold Fast to God and His Word and watch and see what God will do!

Joshua 4:21-24 Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future your children will ask, ‘What do these stones mean?’ Then you can tell them, ‘This is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ For the LORD your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and he kept it dry until you were all across, just as he did at the Red Sea when he dried it up until we had all crossed over. He did this so all the nations of the earth might know that the LORD’s hand is powerful, and so you might fear the LORD your God forever.”