Peace

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Jesus is your Peace

(Isaiah 26:3 KJV)
(3) Thou wilt keep {him} in perfect peace, {whose} mind {is} stayed {on thee}: because he trusteth in thee.

(Ephesians 2:13-14 KJV)
(13) But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. (14) For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition {between us};

(Isaiah 9:6-7 KJV)
(6) For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, the everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (7) Of the increase of {his} government and peace {there shall be} no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

(Romans 16:20 KJV)
(20) And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ {be} with you. Amen.

(Isaiah 26:12 KJV)
(12) Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.


Please feel free to add another portion of Scripture that is the Bible Prescription for peace.

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Who can be against us?

(Octavius Winslow, "Morning Thoughts")

"If God is for us, who can be against us?"
    Romans 8:31.

With such a Father, such a Friend, and such a
Comforter, who can wage a successful hostility
against the children of God?

God Himself cannot be against us, even when the
clouds of His providence appear the most lowering,
and His strokes are felt to be the most severe.
"Though He slays me, yet will I trust in Him."

The law cannot be against us; for the Law-fulfiller has,
by His obedience, magnified and made it honorable.

Divine justice cannot be against us; for Jesus has,
in our stead, met its demands, and His resurrection
is a full discharge of all its claims.

Nor sin,
nor Satan,
nor the ungodly,
nor suffering,
nor death,
can be really or successfully against us, since . . .
  the condemnation of sin is removed,
  and Satan is vanquished,
  and the ungodly are restrained,
  and suffering works for good,
  and the sting of death is taken away.

"If God is for us, who can be against us?"

With such a Being on our side, whom shall we fear?

Has He ever been a wilderness to you, a land of
darkness? Has He, in any instance, been unkind,
unfriendly, unfaithful? Never!

All His love,
all His grace,
all His perfections,
all His heaven of glory is for you!

Trembling Christian! God is on your side!

"If God is for us, who can be against us?"

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A system of divine and unfailing consolation!

(From Octavius Winslow's, "The Voice of the Charmer")

As a system of divine and unfailing consolation,
there is a charm in the gospel of Jesus of
indescribable sweetness. Originating with that
God, not only whose name and whose perfection,
but whose very essence is love, and who Himself
is the "God of all comfort," it must be a gospel of
"strong consolation," commensurate with every
conceivable sorrow of his people.

Let a Christian be placed in circumstances
of the deepest grief and sorest trial...
the bread and the water of affliction his food;
the iron entering his soul;
the heart bereaved;
the mind perplexed;
the spirit dark;
all human hopes blighted,
and 'creature cisterns' failing him like
a spring in the summer's drought; then let the
Spirit of God, the Divine Comforter, open this
gospel box of perfume, breathing into his soul....
the rich consolations,
the precious promises,
the strong assurances,
the divine counsels, and
the glowing hopes which it contains,
and in a moment the light of love appears in his
dark cloud, his fainting spirit revives, and all is peace!

Oh! that must be a charming gospel which can
meet the necessities of man at every point;
whose wisdom no human perplexity can baffle,
and whose resources of sympathy and comfort,
no case of suffering or of sorrow can exhaust.

Tried soul! repair to this unfailing spring of comfort!

God speaks to you in it.

It is the unsealing of the heart of Jesus.

It is the still small voice of the Spirit.

It speaks to you. It bids you.... "cast your burden
on the Lord, and he will sustain you;" "Call upon
him in the day of trouble, and he will answer you."
It assures you that amid all your perplexing cares,
"He cares for you." It promises you that for your
flint paved path, your "shoes shall be iron and brass;"
and that "as your days are, so shall your strength be."
It tells you that a "woman may forget her nursing child,
yet God will not forget you;" that in all your assaults,
you shall dwell on high, your place of defense shall
be the munitions of rocks;" and that though hemmed
in on every side by a besieging foe, and all other
supplies cut off, yet "your bread shall be given you,
and your water shall be sure."

It invites you to lay your griefs and weep out your
sorrows upon the bosom of Jesus, and so "leaning
upon your Beloved, ascend from the wilderness."

O to be led into the heart felt experience of these truths!

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Alone with Jesus!

(from Octavius Winslow's, "Morning Thoughts")

"Suddenly they looked around, and Moses and Elijah
were gone, and only Jesus was with them." Mark 9:8

It is possible, my dear reader, that this page may be
read by you at a period of painful and entire separation
from all public engagements, ordinances, and privileges.

The way which it has pleased God to take thus to set
you aside may be painful and humbling. The inmate
of a sick chamber, or curtained within the house of
mourning, or removed far remote from the sanctuary
of God and the fellowship of the saints, you are,
perhaps, led to inquire, "Lord, why this?"

He replies, "Come with Me by yourselves to a quiet
place and get some rest." Oh the thoughtfulness, the
discrimination, the tenderness of Jesus towards His
people! He has set you apart from public, for private
duties; from communion with others, for communion
with Himself. Ministers, friends, privileges are withdrawn,
and you are; oh enviable state! alone with Jesus!

And now expect the richest and holiest blessing of your life!

Is it sickness? Jesus will make all your bed in your
sickness, and your experience shall be, "His left hand
is under my head, and His right hand embraces me."

Is it bereavement? Jesus will soothe your sorrow and
sweeten your loneliness; for He loves to visit the house
of mourning, and to accompany us to the grave, to
weep with us there.

Is it exile from Christian fellowship? Still it is Jesus who
speaks, "I will be a sanctuary to you during your time in exile."

The very circumstances, new and peculiar as they are,
in which you are placed, God can convert into new and
peculiar mercies; yes, into the richest means of grace
with which your soul was ever fed.

The very void you feel, the very need you deplore, may
be God's way of satiating you with His goodness.

Ah! does not God see your grace in your very desire for grace?

Does He not mark your sanctification in your very thirsting for holiness?

And can He not turn that desire, and convert that thirst,
into the very blessing itself? Truly He can, and often does.

He can now more than supply the absence of others by the presence of
Himself.

Oh, who can compute the blessings which now may flow
into your soul from this season of exile and of solitude?

Solitude?

No, it is not solitude! Never were you less alone than now.

You are alone with Jesus, and He is infinitely better
than health, wealth, friends, ministers, or sanctuary,
for He is the substance and the sweetness of all.

And oh, if while thus alone with Jesus you are led more
deeply to search out the plague of your own heart, and
the love of His; to gather up the trailing garment; to
burnish the rusted armor; to trim the glimmering lamp;
and to cultivate a closer fellowship with your Father,
how much soever you may mourn the necessity and
the cause, you yet will not regret that the Lord has
set you apart from others, that you might rest awhile
in His blest embrace; alone with Jesus!