{"id":109440,"date":"2021-01-19T04:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/?p=109440"},"modified":"2021-01-16T05:41:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T11:41:28","slug":"18-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/19\/18-v\/","title":{"rendered":"18.v. “For he will speak peace to his people”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John 16:31 \u00a0 <\/span>Jesus answered them, \u201cDo you now believe? Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Psalms 85:8-11<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Micah 5:5<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0And he shall be their peace.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Ephesians 2:14-17<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0For he himself is our peace<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Philippians 4:7<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>2 Thessalonians 3:16<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jesus relied upon His close relationship with God all the way to the cross, and even upon it. In the loneliest moments imaginable, He understood that the Father was with Him. (Guzik)<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI remember that passage about Abraham going with Isaac to mount Moriah, where Isaac was to be offered up. It is written, \u2018So they went both of them together.\u2019 So did the Eternal Father and his Well- beloved Son when God was about to give up his own Son to death. There was no divided purpose; they went both of them together.\u201d (Spurgeon)<\/p>\n

Jesus offered His disciples\u00a0peace<\/b>. He made the offer in the most unlikely circumstances. At that very minute, Judas met with Jesus\u2019 enemies to plot His arrest. Jesus knew that He would be arrested, forsaken, rejected, mocked, humiliated, tortured and executed before the next day was over. We think that the disciples should have comforted Him \u2013 yet Jesus had\u00a0peace<\/b>, and enough to give to others.\u00a0 <\/span>Jesus did not\u00a0promise<\/i>\u00a0peace; He\u00a0offered<\/i>\u00a0it. He said, \u201cyou\u00a0may<\/i>\u00a0have peace<\/b>.\u201d People may follow Jesus yet deny themselves this peace. We gain the peace Jesus offered by finding it\u00a0in Him<\/i>. Jesus said, \u201cthat in Me you may have peace<\/b>.\u201d We won\u2019t find real peace anywhere else other than in Jesus. This word of peace is especially meaningful set in the context of conflict \u2013\u00a0tribulation<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0overcome<\/b>\u00a0both speak of battles to fight. \u201cHe promises a peace which co-exists with tribulation and disturbances, a peace which is realized in and through conflict and struggle.\u201d (Maclaren)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus also made the promise of\u00a0tribulation<\/b>. Peace is offered to us, but tribulation is\u00a0promised<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span>Understanding this removes a false hope. Struggling Christians often hope for the day when they will laugh at temptation and there will be one effortless victory after another. We are promised struggle as long as we are in this world; yet there is peace in Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John 16:31 \u00a0 Jesus answered them, \u201cDo you now believe? Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me. I have said these things to you, that in me … Continue reading “18.v. “For he will speak peace to his people””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5749,4709,199,4931,454,5748,448,14772,3133,4628,76,3175,180,4,2905,165,5320,103,75,13234,208,3975,239,14773,2094,126,322],"class_list":["post-109440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-all-times","tag-alone","tag-believe","tag-christ-jesus","tag-coming","tag-every-way","tag-father","tag-folloy","tag-folly","tag-give-you-peace","tag-god","tag-guard","tag-hear","tag-heart","tag-hearts","tag-jesus","tag-minds","tag-overcome","tag-peace","tag-peace-of-god","tag-saints","tag-scattered","tag-speak","tag-surpasses","tag-tribulation","tag-understanding","tag-world"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109630,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109440\/revisions\/109630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}