THE PROMISE OF PEACE
I Promise #9
Pastor Dennis Clanton
Woodland Church
Sunday, May 22, 2022
(Isaiah 54:10, GN) “The mountains and hills may crumble, but my love for you will never end; I will keep forever my promise of peace.” So says the Lord who loves you.”
(Luke 2:14, NLT) “Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased.”
1. MAKE PEACE WITH GOD.
(2 Corinthians 5:20, CEV) “We were sent to speak for Christ, and God is begging you to listen to our message. We speak for Christ and sincerely ask you to make peace with God.”
(Colossians 1:20, NCV) “God made peace through the blood of Christ’s death on the cross.”
2. MAKE TIME TO WORSHIP GOD.
(Ezekiel 20:12, NLT) “I gave them my Sabbath days of rest as a sign between them and me. It was to remind them that I am the Lord, who had set them apart to be holy.”
“What America needs more than railway extension, western irrigation, low tariff, a bigger cotton crop or a larger wheat crop, is a revival of religion. The kind that father and mother used to have. A religion that counted it good business to take time for family worship each morning right in the middle of wheat harvest. A religion that prompted them to quit work a half hour earlier on Wednesday so that the whole family could get ready to go to prayer meeting.” –Wall Street Journal, 1956
(Psalm 37:18–19, CEV) “Those who obey the Lord are daily in his care, and what he has given them will be theirs forever. They won’t be in trouble when times are bad, and they will have plenty when food is scarce.”
3. MAKE TIME FOR PRAYER.
(Philippians 4:6–7, NLT) “Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.”
4. MAKE JESUS THE CENTER OF YOUR LIFE.
(Isaiah 26:3, NLT) “You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!”
(Colossians 3:15, NCV) “Let the peace that Christ gives control your thinking,…”
(John 16:33, NLT) “I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”