Conversations with God- Peace

Message 10

Peace

God:

How are you today?

Matthew:

As it often happens I cannot sleep at the moment. I am good and ready to chat to you today. I am excited to hear what you have to say today.

God:

I am happy to be here with you and to visit you. I like speaking to you. All day long my Spirit is with you directing you and showing you what to do but I love it especially when I get to chat to you one on one. You are a great person to speak to. I love how sincere you are and how open to us that you are. You are such a great vessel to speak through to others. We really love you in heaven.

Matthew:

Yes, I am aware that you and other sin heaven love me. I love the company of you and other saints. It seems every time I go for a walk to the shop someone from heaven walks and talks with me. I know that I have great favor in your kingdom. You all know how to make me feel happy and special.

God:

You are special. We don’t need to make you feel special. We simply have to show you who you really are. We simply need you to come to know what sort of a person that you already are. I wish that all people could experience me and my ways. I wish that all people could experience my peace and comfort. Today, more than ever, people need to be able to access my peace. It is a peace that is not of this world. It is something that is life giving and sustainable even in the darkest times. Today, in the world, people need to know how to walk in my peace.

Matthew:

I am not sure if I have ever seen a book on how to walk in your peace. I am not sure if people teach on it. I have not seen it in my travels. I personally believe that I can only access you peace through faith. It is with the suspension of my worries and the trust in you and your answers that I can walk in peace. The enemy of my soul wants to get me into worry so often.

God:

Yes, the enemy wants you to worry about all sorts of things. He will have you worry about one thing and when you overcome that, he will have you worry about another. Finding peace in me is not about ignoring the issue or the problem, but it is all about drawing near to me and letting my presence fill you and come all over you. Some people who are being tortured in China can find my peace right in the midst of their torture. Finding my peace is not impossible to do, but it takes faith in me and a concerted effort.

So much of this comes down to what your believe about me. If you think that I have no concern for your worries and fears, you are more likely not to press into me and seek my peace when things are difficult for you. But if you know I am a loving God, who does not enjoy seeing people suffer, you can more easily approach me and allow my presence to fill you and carry you through any storm that you face.

Even Christians who were being fed to the lions in the days of the Romans, went forth to the lions singing and worshipping me in peace. Often their souls would leave their bodies before the lions first touched them. I am a God who cares and I wish that everyone knew how to enter into worship and be consumed by my peace.

Matthew:

I guess that people want to be in control. Even though worry can really wear you down, people I feel prefer to be in control and don’t want to relinquish their feelings over to you.

I guess some people aren’t even aware that your presence can take away their fears and worries. Many Christians, I would assume, would not have any idea about your peace and how to access it. I know for many years my life was not filled with your presence and since it has been filled with your presence I have not figured out how to tell people to access it.

I know Jesus talked about his peace and how it was available to his followers, yet many people, I feel, have no idea how to access it.

God:

You access my peace through my presence and you can enter my presence by worship and prayer. When a person seeks me in worship and prayer it is for my good purpose that I share my presence with them.

I know that it sounds contrary to how life should be. I mean, here is a person consumed by worry, fear and stress and I am telling them to enter into worship. When people are in that’s state, the last thing most of them would want to do is worship me, but that is the way that they will find peace and release.

You will remember my Son’s disciples when they were locked in prison, they lifted their voices in praise and the whole prison listened to them. They were beaten and whipped and hurting and yet what did they do? They lifted their voices and worshipped me. If they were beaten and hurting and locked in prison with no hope of release, and they worshipped me, shouldn’t you do the same in your situations?

Matthew:

Yes, you have made a good point there. There it is in the book of Acts, the disciples praising you in prison. There is no more clearer example then that. It is my prayer that the readers might learn to worship you and find your peace.

God

Have a good night Matthew!