So when trouble comes, focus on God’s presence He is with you, and He has promised that He will never leave you (see Hebrews 13:5). It’s what you concentrate on that decides your amount of peace. But if you look at God, you’ll be at rest.’ God offers real peace of mind to those who focus on Him and trust in Him. If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. You Will Keep Him in Perfect Peace by Mike Bennett Isaiah 26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. I love that promise 'Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee. Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength ( Isaiah 26:1-4): Beautiful verses of scripture. When you think about it, stress can be God’s way of saying, ‘Get your focus in line: look at Me.’ The Bible says, ‘You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You!’ You have the choice of focusing on your troubles or focusing on the One who holds the solution.Ĭorrie ten Boom wrote: ‘The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the Word of God. For thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. And when we do that, we are going to get tense. We are staring at the problem rather than the solution. Wouldn’t it be great if we had a tiny internal warning light that informed us every time our focus was off the Lord? Or if we had a small beep or signal light that cautioned us we were out of tune with God? We do! It’s known as tension.īecoming tense is a sure indication that we have taken our eyes off the Lord and set them on circumstances. As adrenaline changes in your body, the dots change colour and reveal if you are under stress. Have you heard of stress dots? They are little pressure-sensitive dots that you place on your hand. ‘You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in You, all whose thoughts are fixed on You!’ Isaiah 26:3 NLT
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