WHAT DOES IT MEAN PEACE BE STILL?

And when we are praying and communing with the Lord ...

We must remember that we are oft times awaiting a still small voice …

 To hear a still small voice, we too must BE STILL.

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Being unable to have our mind and body BE STILL is also a major hindrance to prayer. Remember back in school when teachers would always tell the class to calm down and sit still? Remember how hard that was sometimes?  Why can’t we learn while running around?  We can listen and move at the same time, can’t we?

Why must we BE STILL?

When you want to hear what someone has to say, what do you do?  Get up and move around while they are talking?  No, you sit down with them. While they are talking, you do not ponder on and worry about other matters, you still your mind and body, while focusing on what they are saying.

What about with God? Do we still our bodies and minds when we seek to commune with HIM? Are we to pray to Him while constantly moving about never stilling ourselves enough to hear what He has to say back to us and then have the audacity to claim that He never talks to us?

Do you find it difficult to BE STILL?

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The TRUTH is that we are usually so busy trying to deal with matters in our lives OURSELVES that we do not HEAR Him.  This happens so often that He has to come to us in our dreams when we are not ... SO BUSY:

If we want to HEAR GOD, then we must CHOOSE to still our mind and body by putting away Worldly thoughts… Refuse to run at any whim … Be still and listen to and for God. Still our spirit/mind by refusing to worry about anything for a few minutes, by refusing to think of everything you need to get done that day… but just focus on GOD and listen.

When a lil child is frightened or worried, how do we comfort them?  Do we raise our voice and throw our hands up in panic or do we hold the child still and say quietly, “Shhhhhhh, everything is alright”?  We try to still the child’s body and mind so they can focus on our whispers of comfort and peace…just as God tries to do with us.

We must practice the art of BEING STILL … Just as waves are constantly moving every second of every day, our minds are bombarded with thoughts all day long. GOD can calm the waves, just as He can calm your spirit and body:

Our souls long for serenity within all day, every day.  Some kind of comfort. Some kind of quiet.  Someone to slow down our thoughts, worries and anxiety from our troubled lives.  GOD is the One who can and will calm the storms within us and provide us peace when we are still. From this peace will come forth … Our desired HAVEN.

We must CHOOSE to ASK Him:

So let us ASK Him to calm us ... To help us to be still within. Do not forget, you must believe that He can and will calm you within for Him to do so. 

We MUST Believe to receive:

 When Jesus and the Apostles were out on a boat, a terrible storm came upon them.  While Jesus was sleeping, the disciples feared for their lives. They awoke Him and ASKED HIM for help. They knew He would be able to keep them safe.

You know of these Distractions don’tcha …

Consider the times you have prayed in the past.  You finally silence your surroundings and try to calm your mind and you start talking to God and ask Him a question. 

And suddenly WHAM …….

Yeah, one of the most effective tools that the enemy of our soul uses to negatively affect our time with God is to pour in thoughts … Thoughts about ANYTHING … EVERYTHING. Having us ponder or worry about our “to do” list in the midst of communing with God. Yeah, this is probably NOT God telling you to leave Him to go deal with something YOURSELF.

 However, there are times when God DOES have things occur or places HIS thoughts within our mind or even body …  For example … Ever notice your hand tingling and slowly closing as if Someone is holding it? Maybe God is saying I am holding your hand. Are your knees tingling?  Maybe He is asking you to kneel? Does your ear itch?  Maybe God is telling you to listen more carefully. Do you get a CHILL up your spine?

Maybe God is saying … I am HERE.

God also might use pictures or thoughts to speak to us. When we are completely still and in the presence of Him, He may put a thought of something that He would like you to do for Him in your mind, or a picture of something that you need to work on. 

Yeah, we need to learn to BE STILL. Only when we are still… Can we truly TUNE IN to God. Stilling our body, will still our mind which in turn will still our soul and spirit. Then peace will overtake us. You feel comfort and rest. Overwhelming peace.  And it all starts with being still and focusing on the Lord ... This is REST FOR OUR SOULS.

Rest for our souls? Is that really possible to possess in our troubled lives? 

 We need only turn to God instead of having confidence in ourselves.  Be still and faithful as we await the Lord. In quiet confidence … In HIM:

Jesus says it Himself …

 Jesus wants you to know that HE has everything under control. HE will take care of everything. TRUST in Him. When we STILL our busy minds and CHOOSE to trust in and focus on HIM, He will keep us in perfect peace:

TRUST ... IN THE LORD