THE PEACE OF GOD.

DAILY DEVOTION.

DAY SIX.

PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7.    Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be know to God, and the peace of God, which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
This passage shows us the importance of taking our concerns to God in prayer. Paul says here be anxious for nothing, in other words there is no issue in our lives that God is not interested in because God knows what can happen if we allow anxiety to take root in our lives. So why is it so important that we do not let anxiety become an issue in our lives? Proverbs 12:25 Anxiety in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes it glad. Anxiety will cause us to become depressed or crushed spiritually, emotionally and even physically if we allow it to rule our lives. Yes, it is a process, anxiety is fear based, fear of what might or might not happen depending on the situation. In Joshua chapter one we see that God tells Joshua that he is to meditate day and night in the word of God and not to speak contrary to what the word says because as he does this he will be successful in all that he does, and then in verse nine God says to him, "Have I not commanded you to be strong and of a good courage, do not be afraid or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."  See the process, fear comes, we allow that fear to remain and don't deal with it through the word, through prayer and knowing what the word says about the situation and we the become dismayed, the word dismayed means to prostrate by violence or confusion or fear, to beat down, discourage. This is exactly what depression will do. So as Paul says there we are to be bring everything to God as we pray and ask Him for His will and His supply in the situation. Whatever it might be, and we do it with thanksgiving, Jesus said that when we pray that we are to believe that we have received the answer as we pray, This is the attitude of thanksgiving, "Lord I thank you that your will has been established in this situation, I thank You that You supply all my needs according to Your riches in glory in Christ Jesus." This is the sort of attitude we need to have, This is how faith works in this. As it says it Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. Faith always operates in the now, never yesterday or tomorrow, and the hope there is not like worldly hope which is fear based, Biblical hope is based on the fact that all God's promises are yes and amen in Jesus, that we can totally depend on God and His word that He watches over it to perform it. Note what Paul says then, "That the peace of God which passes all understanding will guard your heart and minds through Christ Jesus." The peace of God is simply entering into a state of rest, Paul says that it will guard our hearts and our minds through Christ Jesus. To guard means to protect, the enemy will have no access to you, as we allow the peace of God to fill our heats it will cause that peace to renew our minds and all those thoughts of anxiety will go. As Paul says in 2 Timothy 1:7 God has not given us a  spirit of fear, but of power, love and of a sound mind. So let us be encouraged, whatever it is, whatever we  are concerned about, whatever our needs are, let us bring them to the Lord in prayer, we must never let anxiety get a foothold into our lives, it will open the door to the spirit of fear which comes with on agenda, to rob, kill and destroy. Through the Holy Spirit we have the power or the authority to resist that, we can pray and bring our needs to our heavenly Father knowing that He will always hear us, and knowing that His peace will be a guard around our hearts and minds, as we  know that God will supply all our needs, whatever that might be, not according our ability, but according to all His riches in Christ Jesus.