MONDAY January 6th
Well that is the Christmas and New Year break over and as I get back into sending the devotions, for this week, I am going to break down the ministry that I brought to the church at Emmanuel on the Sunday morning of December 22nd into a few segments as not all the fellowship were present and may not have turned to the video to watch and listen.
The reason for this is that the ministry I gave was linked to the verses that I shared at the AGM in November as being the verses I believe that the Holy Spirit had led me to for our motto for 2025. It also gives the opportunity for those who were there to read it through and to be reminded, for there is no doubt today that we need the promise of peace as contained in these verses.
Here are the verses from Isaiah 26:3-4
‘You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock’,
and then for today, the other verses that I shared that are linked to peace and sometimes it does us good to just stop and to meditate upon what it is we have read from the word of God.
Isaiah 9:6-7
‘For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.’
John 14:27
‘Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.’
John 16:33
‘I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.’
Philippians 4:7
‘And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.’
to be continued . . .