BLISS Part 7: How To Have Peace In Your Life

Blessed: [MARKARIOS]
Extreme happiness
Blessing
BLISS

God’s way to happiness isn’t about circumstances,
it’s about our attitude toward circumstances.

Matthew 5:9 NIV
9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Jeremiah 6:14 NIV
14 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious.  ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.

Shalom
harmony, wholeness, completeness, prosperity, welfare and tranquility

Matthew 5:9 NIV
9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

We are never more like God, than when we take the wholeness and completeness that we have into a world that desperately needs it,

How do we find Peace?

You can’t give out what you don’t have.

Romans 5:9 NIV
9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!

Philippians 4:6-7 NIV
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

When a problem causes you to lose your peace, don’t hurry to resolve the problem, in hopes of regaining peace, but first, regain peace, and then see what can be done about the problem

Philippians 4:6-7 NIV
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

John 16:33 NIV
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Isaiah 66:12 NIV
12 For this is what the Lord says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.

John 10:10 NIV
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

Genesis 1:27 NIV
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Romans 8:37 NIV
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Matthew 5:9 NIV
9 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

We can be the peace that we wish to see in the world
~Martin Luther King Jr.

James 3:18 NIV
18 Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.

John 17:20-23 NIV
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

We are never more like God, than when we take the wholeness and completeness that we have into a world that desperately needs it,