THE LORD WILL BLESS HIS PEOPLE WITH PEACE

Today’s Text: The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace. (Psalm 29:11)

Today’s Thoughts: This text doesn’t say that the Lord might give strength and peace; it does not say that He’ll think about it; it says that He “WILL” give strength and peace. It’s not always easy to trust the Lord to provide peace when we are facing problems and stressors. But He wants to bless us with that peace. The only thing that prevents us from receiving God’s peace is our failure to ask for it and then our failure to accept it.We need to believe that God can remove our stress, and then allow Him to do so.

Today’s Testimony: When I tried to send out the previous Today’s T’s I had numerous problems. Satan had an agenda to get me stressed on top of the fact that he already hates this ministry.
My uncle had told me to be sure to send Today’s T’s early in the morning so that he can read them as soon as he gets to work. I always try to send them as soon as possible, but now I will try my best to make sure that they do go out early every morning. I was trying to send them out early, but above the fact that Satan stuck a spanner in the works, I believe God wanted to teach me something.
We received a new lap-top while in Cape Town and I had started typing the previous Today’s T’s on it. It has a newer version of ‘Microsoft Word’and the format was slightly different. I’ve now figured out how to fix that problem easily, but at first I had to go about it the long way.
I’m used to turning Today’s T’s into PDF’s in ‘Open Office’ and the new lap-top doesn’t have that yet, so I put the word document on a flash-stick and did that on the other lap-top. I then somehow managed to save it in the wrong place. I finally found it and then proceeded to get Today’s T’s ready to send. Then I accidently misplaced my contact list and had to search for that.
Somewhere in the middle of all this I had to go for morning family worship. I was hoping to send them out before that. Then I still battled afterwards. Today’s T’s was not ready and waiting for my uncle when he got to work.
During family worship I was stressing. Time was ticking, and I still had problems to sort out. I knew that Today’s T’s wouldn’t be sent early enough. It was then that the Lord reminded me of what I had said in Today’s T’s just the day before: “If you need peace, comfort or strength ask the Lord to provide it, He will.”
The Lord has provided me with peace in the past but I can’t say something that is not true, and that I am not willing to try myself. If I really believe that, I have to prove that it works. So I asked the Lord for peace. He held it out to me, but I then had to accept it. In this case He calmed me down by saying the following: “It doesn’t matter what others require of you. Try your best to please them if it is not against my will, but what ultimately matters is what I require of you. Don’t stress because of people’s expectations whatever they may be, live for Me, and that’s all that really matters.” I accepted God’s peace.
Everything I say about what God can do for each and every one of us I believe with all my heart. I have seen it many times before. But it is far easier to speak from past experience than to put those words into practice when facing a problem. But I don’t expect you to do anything that cannot be done. I have an extremely rough year ahead of me and I will be drawing on God’s peace, comfort and strength continually. Won’t you ask Him for it too?

Today’s Task: No matter what Satan throws your way, allow God to use it for His glory. Ask the Lord to intervene. Ask Him for His peace, comfort and strength. He longs to hold it out to you. And when He does – please accept it. You need it.

Today’s Thanks: Lord I thank You that Your peace, Your comfort and Your strength are always available to us. Please help us to believe that You can give it to us, and please help us to accept it. I thank You that You can turn any situation around for Your names honour and glory. You are good Lord, and I praise You. Amen.