How can I experience peace in my life?
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We have so many anxieties. We carry so many burdens. We are concerned about many problems in our lives and in our world. Is it possible to have peace in our lives? How can we experience peace? The prophet David said ‘Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil for you, God, are with me’. Clearly God must be the answer to finding peace in our lives.
Can Allah give me peace in my life? Jesus taught us that we should seek first God’s plans and purposes. If we do that, our anxieties and worries will disappear.
Jeremiah, the prophet, wrote these words: ‘Call to God and He will answer you’.
There is no burden that God cannot lift from your shoulders.
There is no fear or anxiety that He cannot replace with His Peace. Jesus said: “come to me all who are weary and carrying heavy burdens and I will give you rest”. Watch on video Jesus’ teaching about worry. What is God saying to you through this?
Then listen to a story about someone who hands over their problems to God.
Finally, respond by calling out to Jesus to lift your burdens.
Watch what Jesus teaches us about how to experience peace in our lives.
The video clip comes from the Lumo Project (www.lumoproject.com)
Matthew 6:25-33
Read what Jesus teaches us about not being anxious about anything
Matthew 6:25-33 (NIV)
25 ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
28 ‘And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labour or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendour was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you – you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
