Good morning, everyone.
This is day nine of our journey.
This is labeled Kingdom of Peace.
Restful one, I speak to your spirit in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Listen to the Word of God for you.
The people walking in darkness have seen a great light.
On those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy.
They rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the plunder.
For to us, a child is born.
To us, a son is given.
And the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace, there will be no end.
He will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
Isaiah 9, 2 through 3 and 6 through 7.
I formed a light and create darkness.
I bring prosperity and create disaster.
I, the Lord, do all these things.
Isaiah 45, 7.
Restful one, you are under the protection of God who can do the impossible.
I bless you with peace that comes from God who created light in dark places, in great darkness, who brings light into the very shadow of death.
I bless you with knowing that God makes peace regardless of your circumstances.
You are living in troublesome times, troublesome days, when governments of the world are turning frequently to war, when terrorism is increasing and there is much uncertainty.
The earth is convulsed.
There are judgments from God and iniquity is increasing.
Many circumstances that you will face in your life are not conducive to peace.
Although you are living in a sober time in history, you can walk in the light because God decrees that the light of his presence shines in darkness.
I bless you, restful one, with not being dependent on circumstances in your world, but receiving from your Father the peace that he offers in your life, no matter how dark it is around you.
I bless you with peace that can only come because the Prince of Peace rules you.
I bless you with understanding the kingship of the Prince of Peace and the willingness to bow your knee and submit to him.
I bless you with seeing the kingdom of peace established in your life for the Prince of Peace is your ruler.
Everything you touch is part of his dominion and his exercise of the rule of peace in your life grows larger from day to day.
I bless you with peace that he decrees in your life and around your life.
I bless you with experiencing the difference between living in the kingdom of light and peace and living in the kingdom of darkness.
I bless you with an anointing for taking the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ to those who do not know it as an overflow of your life.
When you walk in this peace, the peace of those around you will increase, although they carry turmoil.
I bless you with being known as someone who carries the peace of God with you everywhere you go so that people will seek you out because they are so desperate for the peace of God.
I bless you, restful one, with being part of a community of faith that experiences the peace of God that walks in deep submission to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and the Prince of Peace.
A fellowship that has learned to enthrone Jesus so that their peace is pervasive enough to bring peace to the world that is in darkness.
I bless you with finding and connecting with others of like mind so that in a community of faith, your peace can be a part of that great light that shines out among a people who are in darkness.
I bless you, restful one, with an intimate relationship with God who makes peace.
I bless you with that peace. In the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Well, Lord, there was a season of my life where I prayed every day certain things and one, I was that Lord that you would come and take your position as first love in my heart, you would take the throne of my heart and be my first love.
And that I knew that is a feeble human being I, I couldn't maintain that myself.
There was a time in my life where I was so broken that my prayers, I couldn't even trust that the things that I was telling you were true.
And I would say, Lord, you are my only hope of truth.
If the things I'm telling you are not true I asked you to make them true in me.
And so in that same respect, I often had to pray that I had to trust the Lord to uphold that place of being first love and taking that seat upon my heart.
And that place, the same place of being the Prince of Peace to rule and reign over our hearts as the Prince of Peace, that we come to a place of trust, trusting that it can be, and that it isn't just a mental ascent.
It's not just a conquering of the mind.
If we just believe right, we'll be right.
And there is an aspect of our will where we have to yield it to you, Lord, but I pray today that the unconquerable one, that Lord, it says, blessed are the peacemakers.
Well, there's an aspect of an enforcement and encroachment and advancement of peace that is a making of peace that you would make a way that Lord, that you would make peace in situations where there is seemingly no peace.
And that Lord, you would be the umpire of our hearts to make peace within us and without.
That again, that Lord, we would ooze, that we would leak you, that we would release the aroma of heaven, that Lord, that your peace to be pervasive, that it be expansive, that it be confronting, that it be displacing.
Again, I don't want to keep using his name. I don't know why his name keeps coming up to me, but I think it was Graham Cook that said, I just don't want to take credit for these things, that the fruits of the spirit are like tornadic forces that turn about us.
One aspect of who you are, of course, being the prince of peace, one of the fruits of the spirit is peace.
And that there's a place that we can come, that we can extend whatever fruit of the spirit is needed for a person in a given time.
What does this person need, Lord? And we can extend that fruit, that aspect of who you are, that part of your nature to that person at that time.
So Lord, that there be a place of an effulgent, a place of, what's the word? It's like an infusion of peace, where it's like a sponge that becomes soaked and saturated.
It's a saturation of peace, that the disciples, when they left, that their peace was to remain.
There was something about the peace that had a substance that would stay.
And you said that, you know, my peace I leave with you, I give to you, and I don't give as man gives.
That there was something that is an aspect of your peace, Lord, that lingers, that gets on things, that stays and remains, that isn't just a wind or a thought or a moment or a feeling.
That there's a tangible thing, that it can be extended and withdrawn.
So today, Lord, I've released what peace that I have over each and every person here.
Lord, and that this peace, the shalom of God, the fullness of this to get into every aspect, every crack, every bit of marrow of their life.
That your peace, Lord, that you give and release has no end.
that, Lord, it would get on them, it would be sticky,
it would be a tart-like substance, an oil that they cannot get off,
that that sheen of the Spirit to be upon them,
and that you truly would be the umpire of our hearts, Lord,
that right now, this season of the holidays can be very difficult for some.
There are all kinds of memories, good and bad, that come up,
and some that are good or bad because of things that have happened,
and some it's because things aren't,
or just by the change of seasons or growing of age that things just change.
I pray, Lord, that this be the most peace-infused holiday season
in the midst of all of the stuff that the news and our present day
seems to be releasing, that there be the greatest move of peace
that there has ever been, at least in the lives of these people here,
and that that peace that they would carry to be extended to every place,
every relationship, every exchange, every home,
that they would visit or meet with or encounter.
And some it'll be volitional, and others it's just accidental.
I remember once I was just getting started, I didn't know anything from anything,
and a woman had come to me and said, I think you met my daughter.
And I was like, Oh yeah? I don't think I even knew who this lady was.
And I think she may have been a board member or something at this particular ministry.
And I was like, Oh yeah? She came in and she said she met this guy,
and she went in the room and sat down and he had just this peace upon him.
And I was shocked. I was thinking myself, me?
I didn't feel particularly peaceful. I felt as lost as I'd ever been.
But there's an aspect of an instillment of who God is, of his nature,
of this stuff that we're talking about that is an intangible thing.
It's like a transmutation. It just comes through us.
And it's a natural outgrowth of spending time with the Prince of Peace.
So Lord, I pray that the time that each person is speaking and spending with you
to be infused with your peace, which is a part of your nature
and your kingship of your position as the Prince of Peace,
the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings.
And that as it's been said, it's not that we don't go through what other people do,
but when we do, it just looks different than everyone else.
And that difference is you. We bless you, Lord, in Jesus' name.