{"id":5298,"date":"2016-12-03T00:41:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T08:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prayingpint.com\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2016-12-03T00:41:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T08:41:01","slug":"perfect-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/03\/perfect-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;and you were not willing!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Psalms 9:9<br \/>\n<strong>The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.\u00a0And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Psalms 18:2<br \/>\nThe LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield,<\/p>\n<p>Hebrews 6:18<br \/>\nwe who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.<\/p>\n<p>Nahum 1:7<br \/>\nThe LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.<\/p>\n<p>Luke 13:34<br \/>\nO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and <strong>you were not willing!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 18:10<br \/>\nThe name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.<\/p>\n<p>Psalms 91:1-2<br \/>\nHe who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.\u00a0\u00a0I will say to the LORD, \u201cMy refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah 26:3-4<br \/>\n<strong>You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.\u00a0Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever needed peace about something? \u00a0What if someone told you that you could have &#8220;Perfect Peace&#8221;? \u00a0We search after it. \u00a0We want it and yet at the same time we don&#8217;t seem willing to run toward it. \u00a0We go after what seems right in our own eyes never approaching the One who can give us what we are desperately seeking. \u00a0Paul said we can have &#8220;Peace that passes all understanding in Christ Jesus&#8221; by faith, trusting and seeking Him in our time of need&#8221;. \u00a0The peace we seek apart from God is never lasting. \u00a0It is a peace that is short lived and lacks any enduring substance. \u00a0The next time you are seeking peace &#8211; seek and run to Him who is able to give and keep you in &#8220;Perfect Peace&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you&#8221; &#8220;and you were not willing!&#8221; &nbsp; Psalms 9:9 The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.\u00a0And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O LORD, have not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/03\/perfect-peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Perfect Peace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1893,1898,177,42,1828,1827,1826,1824,1677,1894,1896,711,1890,1891,1892,1897,1895],"class_list":["post-5298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers","tag-encouragement","tag-everlasting-rock","tag-hold-fast","tag-hope","tag-my-deliverer","tag-my-fortress","tag-my-rock","tag-my-shield","tag-perfect-peace","tag-refuge-in-him","tag-runs-to-it-and-is-safe","tag-seek-you","tag-stronghold","tag-times-of-trouble","tag-turst-n-you","tag-whom-i-trust","tag-you-were-not-willing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298","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=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5300,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}