THE NTEB SUNDAY SERVICE: Having Peace In The Midst Of Trials, Difficulties And Struggles

The word ‘peace’ appears exactly 429 times in your King James Bible, the first time it’s ever mentioned is when God was prophesying over Abraham in Genesis 15. We would do well to take note of that as Paul says in Galatians 3:29 that the born again believer is the ‘seed of Abraham’. When you read through both Testaments, peace becomes an elusive commodity all the way up to the false peace under Antichrist. But did you know that real, true and lasting peace is one of the attributes of Jesus? He’s called the King of Peace, and this world will not know peace until the Second Advent. But for those of us who are saved and in the Body of Christ, we can have that peace right here and right now. Do you have it? We are not in the age of Signs, Miracles and Wonders, but God is still doing miracles, mainly the miraculous and supernatural action of seeing lost souls getting saved even at this late hour. For the Christian, peace comes from being satisfied in your salvation, something that’s easy to say but hard to do. How easily we let the cares of this life – sickness, bills, children, jobs, finances, marriage, divorce – slowly eat away at our joy in the Lord until peace seems all but gone. Instead of peace, the root of bitterness. I see many saved Christians walking around in a bitter spirit, with hate in their hearts. These things ought not to be when we know the King Of Peace. Today’s message will address what I feel is perhaps the number one problem afflicting Christians today, having no peace and no joy despite being saved and heading for Heaven.