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Billy speaks on a strategy for peace in your daily life.
Message Notes:
1 O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. 3 O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth and forevermore. – Psalm 131v1-3 (ESV)
How to evaluate:
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
– Psalm 90v12 (ESV)
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. – Isaiah 26v3 (ESV)
Strategy for peace
1. I UNDERSTAND MY PLACE AS CREATION, NOT CREATOR
O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high. – Psalm 131v1a (ESV)
4 “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. 5 Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? – Job 38v4-5 (ESV)
21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. – Romans 1v21-25 (ESV)
2. I DON’T ALWAYS NEED TO KNOW THE DETAILS
I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.
– Psalm 131v1b (ESV)
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! – Romans 11v33 (ESV)
The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. – Deuteronomy 29v29 (ESV)
3. FINDING CALM STARTS WITH MY DECISIONS
But I have calmed and quieted my soul… – Psalm 131v2a (ESV)
The results of your life are found in the practices of your life. – Rich Villadovas
Daily Practices:
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. – James 4v8 (ESV)
How to pray
4. I’M CONTENT IN My ARMS
like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.
– Psalm 131v2b (ESV)
