Peace Over Panic - Pastor Will Roos

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Yes, I just want to speak to you today about peace.

Somebody say peace, peace, brother and sister, peace,

peace, tears, peace. OK, Now this peace that I'm

talking about this way, it's not the kind of peace that you get

on a holiday, go on a vacation or in a spa, OK, It's all good

to go on holiday and have a spa treatment, all of that.

That's good. But the the peace that I'm

ministering today, what the Lord's been showing to me, I'm

talking about supernatural peace.

This is a piece that is higher than the understanding of mind

of man. This is a piece that the Bible

calls about. It is higher.

It is that surpasses all understanding.

OK, so it defies logic. So this is a piece that is above

fear. OK, so it's a piece over panic.

It's a very strong peace we are talking about today.

Peace over panic. Now that's somebody said peace

over panic because that's the title of of our message today,

peace over panic. Here we go.

Now I really believe this is a prophetic word straight from

heaven for such a time as this. Because the times that we are

living in, the world that we are living in is filled with panic,

fear and anxiety. Okay, It's from headlines to

hospital rooms for politics to personal battles.

People are overwhelmed, anxious, exhausted.

People are dressed up but depressed, scrolling on phones

but stuck in panic. OK, but drowning.

Many drowning in depression, fear, anxiety.

But I have come here this morning with some good news.

Who's ready for some good news here this morning?

Somebody good news. Believers don't have to live

stressed out, OK? We have not been called to live

stressed out. We have not been called to live

stressed. We have been called to live

blessed. Can you say I mean, somebody?

Yeah, blessed and not stressed, somebody shout Hallelujah.

I feel like preaching in this place.

I feel the anointing of God in this place.

I'm sensing hungry hearts already pulling on the word here

this morning. And so I just received the word

today because something is about to happen in this place.

Something powerful is about to happen in this place.

The Prince of Peace is about to walk in.

The Prince of Peace is about to show up and calm every storm,

calm every difficult situation, calm every circumstance.

The Prince of Peace is about to show up and he is the one Jesus

Christ. And the same Jesus who said

peace be stalled is the same one who's about to say peace be

stalled over you, over your family, over your circumstances,

your community, your region, peace be stalled.

And there is calmness because Jesus Christ, the peace, Prince

of Peace, calm the storm. Oh my God, there is a peace that

will come. Any storm that is coming against

your life, somebody shout Amen. And so peace is not a feeling

that you wait for, is not a mood.

Peace is a person and his name is Jesus.

And so when Jesus comes on the scene, when Jesus shows up,

change, fall off. When Jesus shows up, prison

doors break wide open and miracles start happening.

When the Prince of Peace walks into a room, Hallelujah,

somebody said, Hallelujah, give God some praise.

If you are ready for supernatural peace in your life,

in your home, in your family. Now let's go to Acts chapter 12

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in our Bibles and we will pick it up there from verse 6.

The night before here it was to bring him to trial.

Peter was sleeping. Everybody underlined that in

your Bibles. So remember, they were sleeping

between two soldiers bound with two chains.

Sentries stood guard at the entrance.

Suddenly an Angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in

the cell. He struck Peter on the side and

woke him up. Quick get up, he said, and the

chains fell of Peter's rest. Hallelujah.

Let's pray Father, we come before you with open hearts this

morning. Speak Lord, until peace floods

in. Speak your word, Lord, Holy

spirits, anoint this word, make it come alive.

Holy Spirit, move, fall afresh. Let hearts be changed,

transformed, transfigured. Lord, we pray, let your presence

fall in this place. In the mighty name of Jesus, we

pray and somebody say Amen. So you're in Acts chapter 12.

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We step into a scene that it looks like it is the end of the

story. It is the end of Peter.

He is in a maximum security prison.

Now, Herod has just executed and killed James.

Now, James is one of Peter's closest friends.

And here's Peter. He's in prison and he is next in

line. He's chained between two guards

and the Bible says that there is 16 soldiers surrounding Peter.

So there is no escape route. There's no way out, there's no

legal defense. And so in all natural means, it

looks like his story should have ended.

But listen, this is, yeah, where it gets interesting because this

is, yeah, the miracle begins. This is where the miracle start.

Because when we open the text, we do not see Peter panicking.

Peter is not stressing, He's not panicking.

He's not pacing. Peter is sleeping, he's resting.

Oh, come on, somebody. Are you getting this verse 6?

The Bible says that he is sleeping.

Now, how do you sleep with a death sentence on your head?

How do you stay calm in that type of circumstances?

How do you rest with that sentence that is hanging over?

If you know, how do you race and say calm and stay at peace when

your life is about to end? Let me tell you, Peter had a

revelation. Peter had something that we need

to grab hold of. Yeah, this morning.

OK. You can be in prison and still

be in peace. Come on.

Somebody are you? That's.

Did you catch that? Did you?

Did you that you could be in prison and still be in peace.

OK. Because too many of us are

saying when the storm passes, then I will be at peace.

When the problem is over, then I will sleep again.

When the bulls have been paid, then I will sleep restfully.

When that problem has been solved.

When then, when that door, that breakthrough has come, then I

will able to rest and have peace.

Listen, the word of the Lord today is this.

Peace is not about the absence of trouble.

Peace is not the end product after the breakthrough, OK?

Peace is the starting point. Peace is the beginning.

Peace is the doorway, the pathway to breakthrough.

The piece is the forerunner to the breakthrough.

It starts with peace. Okay, Peter did not wait for his

breakthrough. Peter did not wait for the Angel

to show up. He was already in peace.

He already had peace in the prison.

He didn't wait for the breakthrough.

He has already made-up his mind that I trust in God.

He's already made-up his mind in the prison, in the Dave

sentence, that God is the one that holds my future, that I

trust in him. And so he laid his head down on

the concrete floor in the prison.

And like Lord, I am not in control of my life.

You are Lords and in charge. You are God, and I know that you

are in charge. And yes, Peter, he wasn't

panicking, he wasn't stressing, he wasn't rehearsing his final

words. Oh, here, it killed James.

I'm next. Tomorrow I'm dead.

He wasn't writing his last goodwill and testament.

He wasn't writing it. Farewell.

A goodbye later, Peter was sleeping like a baby in the

dungeon. Peter was at peace, the Bible

says. So he was sleeping so sound and

so deep that the Bible says that the angle didn't just touch him.

To wake him up, the Angel had to strike him.

To wake him up just shows you how deep he was sleeping.

I mean, that is a peaceful sleeping like a baby sleep.

My my God, Hallelujah, deep sound sleep.

That's peace in prison. That's peace in the middle of

chaos. Okay, that is peace over panic.

Somebody say peace over panic, peace over fear.

Oh my, my God, Hallelujah. I mean, Peter had that kind of a

peace. It just doesn't make any sense

in present difficult searcher. But it's a peace that surpasses

all understanding somebody. It is just the kind of a peace

that you cannot work it out in the mind.

It doesn't make sense to the world.

It defies logic. It's a peace that moves heaven.

It's a peace that shakes hell. It's a that's the kind of a

peace that defeats the devil. Oh, the God of peace, Oh my God,

my God, the God of peace shall what crush?

What crushes the devil? What crushes depression, What

crushes anxiety? The peace of God, The God of

peace will soon crush Satan. My God.

I feel the peace of God in this place because peace is not soft.

OK, listen. Peace is not passive.

Peace is not flaky, weak. Peace is a weapon, my God, is a

weapon against the devil and every anxiety and every spur of

fear, every panic, Oh my God, somebody found this and they had

a panic attack on on the phone. They're like I'm onto the

ambulance. I believe need to be I've got a

panic attack. I'm going to.

I said peace on the phone, peace be still.

And the person said all stress anxiety attacks left.

And when the ambulance arrived, they said all anxiety is gone.

Peace be still. When that storm arose on the sea

and Jesus gone on, he said peace.

Commerce is a weapon. It's a declaration in the face

of every devil, every lie, every fear, every anxiety, every panic

that I will not fall apart, but I will be at rest in the hand of

God at peace. Race, relax doesn't mean I'm at

the spa. Relax in the prison, Peace in

the prison. Hallelujah.

Listen, let me just tell you something, OK?

Life will test you. Storms will come to all of us,

storms and challenges in this wipe, this life before heaven,

there's going to be challenges, difficulties.

That's why God has given me this message.

This is a powerful message for this time because God is saying,

tell my people, this is the remedy for anxiety.

This is the remedy for stress, fear.

Live peaceful on purpose, OK? Peace doesn't fall out of the

sky, doesn't come naturally, doesn't come ultimate

intentionally. Live peaceful intentionally, OK.

And so the remedy I want to give you, this remedy for anxiety,

there's so many remedies, so many pills and tablets and

counseling things out there in the world for one of the biggest

problems that the world is facing today, and that is

stress. You can go to any farmers, any

shop, any plan and they will be remedies for stress.

Now let me give you Heaven's remedy for stress.

And we find this in the book of Philippians chapter 4, verse 6,

Philippians 4:6

where it says very simple but very deep.

And this is a powerful revelation.

The Bible says do not be anxious for nothing.

OK, now let me show that to you. It says here Philippians chapter

Philippians 4:6

4 verse 6. Do not be anxious for nothing

about anything different translation about anything, OK?

So do not be anxious, not anything, not the storm.

Do not be anxious for the job situation.

Do not be anxious, not for the rejection, not the obstacles,

not the mountain, not the storms, not the difficulty, not

the courtroom. Do not be anxious for nothing

because nothing gets to steal your peace.

We will not allow it to rob our peace.

Nothing means nothing. No difficulty, no problem,

nothing. Do not be anxious about

anything. And that is how you live.

Blessed and not stressed. Very simple.

Blessed and not. Can you say?

I mean somebody, Yes. OK, So while Peter was sleeping,

and here it is, God was moving. And so just like Peter, you

won't need to fight your way out because when you rest, when

you're at peace, God will fight the battle for you when you

race. Peter is demonstrating and he's

showing us what to do, sleeping and resting in the prison in the

difficulty, and God starts intervening.

God's on the move because when peace fools your heart, Heaven

sends the rescue. OK, glory to God.

And so he said, while we're resting, while we're at peace,

God is working. That is such a powerful

revelation that while we stay our ground, while we stay at

peace, God's working. It's the moment we stop

stressing and panicking and wanting to try and solve it.

That's when God takes his hands off.

But the moment we surrender and we give it over and we address,

God says, now I'll work. I will step into your situation.

The moment we take hands off and we say God, you hands on God

comes on the scene. That's why PC is so powerful.

Now I'll picture a man and he's walking a long dry Rd. with this

massive heavy backpack strapped on his back and he is tired and

he's sweating and he's stumbling walking this long dry road.

And that backpack is not filled with clothes.

That backpack is filled with heavy bricks and every brick

represent what if? So what if I never get well?

What if I can? I cannot pay the bills.

What if my kids don't ever change?

What if the marriage or the relationship fails?

What if I don't have what it takes?

What if is another wait? It's another layer of anxiety

and of fear and of panic. Now watch this.

Now a car pulls up and the driver rolls his window down and

he says, Frank, you don't have to walk another mile.

I will take you to your destination.

And the man gets in. Now here's the crazy part.

As he gets into the car, he never takes the backpack off.

He's in the vehicle. He's in the vehicle of grace on

his way to his promise, and he's still under the old weight.

That's exactly how many too many believers live.

We are on our way to heaven, born again, save, but still

carrying the weight of hell, forgiven but bound.

Many are saved, born again, child of God, saved on our way

to heaven, but still carrying the weight of the world.

Now listen, because this is the word of the Lord today.

God didn't just invite you into the vehicle of grace.

He didn't just invite you to become a child of God born again

on your way to heaven. That's good and that's great,

but that's the starting point. He also invited you to drop off

the backpack, to let go of the heavyweight, to take off that

backpack and to throw down the burden.

Many Christians are saved, born again on their way to heaven,

but walking with weights, stressed out, panicked,

suffering, struggling, where God never meant for one of us to

carry that burden. So it's not just about getting

saved, going to heaven. It's also about dropping the

backpack. Come on somebody, you are never

meant to bury it. When you look at sheep and I go

to my where I used to buy grandmother's farm with and

father's with the sheep, you don't they are not burden burial

animals. It's not like a horse.

Sheep are not meant. We are not meant to carry

burdens. So the Bible comes in first

Peter 5 and it says cast all your anxiety on the Lord.

Now it says here first bit of five 7 cast all your anxiety on

him because he cares for you. So underline the word all

because that means all of it, not just some of it, not just

some of the stress or some of the worry or the things that we

cannot fix or the things that we cannot handle, OK?

He says, listen, cause all of the stress, all of the anxiety

and all of the fear on him, not just the little these ones, all

of it, all the big stuff, all of it, you've got to let it go, OK?

Peter got that revelation and that is why he could stay calm,

sleeping, resting at peace between two gods in the prison.

That's why he could rest with a death freaking down his neck,

OK? Because he made a decision that

listen, the battle is not mine, it belongs to the Lord.

So yes, when you say born again, you're already in the car.

You've already been picked up by grace already on your way.

OK, but and there yes, you are saved seated in heavenly places.

OK, but lay your burdens down. You have got to take off that

backpack. You've got to take off the heavy

yoke from your shoulders. Lay the burdens down.

Let it go because whatever you release.

To God he replaces with peace, and I love that exchange.

That's a powerful exchange because the moment you release

it to God, he replaces it with peace.

Beautiful, beautiful. I love that because that's what

the Word of God says. Jesus just says, Listen, if you

are tired and if you're worn down, if this world has been

rough and hard, just come to me last night.

I just like, Lord, I'm just going to get in the car and I'm

just going to talk to you. I'm just going to have a chat.

My God, the whole car was full of glory.

I'll tell you, the glory of car was in my car last night.

I couldn't get out of the car. I'm like, Lord, it's already

9:00. I've been the kids, It's there.

I was sitting in the car. The glory there.

The glory of God is in the I'm like, I just wanted to chat.

But then he shows up because that's what he says.

He says if you tie it, just come to me.

Just come to me. It's better than a holiday.

It's better than a vacation. So don't wait another moment.

Don't carry another brick, OK? Don't drag on another burden,

another worry or stress. Just let it go and make the

decision. I am going to and use the key

live peaceful on purpose because listen, Judge, it is a daily

habit. I get up early in the morning

and especially now in the lovely way that I go for a walk, I get

out of the house, I go. I walk to the fish pond, the

pond there and I sit there calm or I sit there and I just give

it all. I don't let the stress go into

my day. It's a daily thing where I pour

it out. I say, Lord, I empty out the

negative. I empty out the stress.

I empty out that worry. I give it to you because that's

what the Bible says. I need to give it to you.

So Lord, there it is and and that's how that's prayer it it's

a exchange of burden. So the Lord comes, you talk to

him and sometimes put a chair out there and look at the chair

and say, Lord, this is where you are.

And you start talking and you're having a conversation like you

chat to anybody else because he's he's person.

And you start talking to the Lord and you say, right Lord,

this worry, this stress, right yetis.

And you walk away and you leave it with the Lord.

I'm letting it go. That's what we do.

I'm letting it go. Somebody say I'm letting it go,

I'm letting it go, tell your name, but I'm letting it go.

I'm letting it go. Yeah, yeah.

Because that's powerful. Because when you let it go, that

is when God intervenes. When you let it go, that's when

God moves. That's when God takes control.

And when God takes over, that's when the chains break.

Come on, somebody. That's when.

When God takes over, then the gates of the prison gates break

wide open and God sets the captors free.

Prison doors open. Hallelujah.

Praise God, somebody. That's what I love about it when

I go to the Lord, because I know He's going to do something about

it and I know what He's going to do is going to be better than me

because if I need to reply to the e-mail, I might say

something. So I'm like Jesus, I'm going to

give it to you and you are going to do that.

Thank you, Lord, I let him defend me.

I let him fight for me. God's my vindicator.

Now let's go deeper. Can we go deeper here?

OK, You're ready to go deep because I want to show you this

first Peter 5 this very powerful.

OK, let's go back there. Let's stay there because Peter

says something. Yeah, amazing.

Now he says cast your cares, your insights on him because he

cares for you. OK, so Peter is not just giving

us good advice. He's giving us a revelation.

This is a revelation. This is not just theory.

Peter is not just speaking theology.

Yeah, he's giving us his testimony in the book of Peter.

He's writing that. Remember that is now to the

church. It's a letter to the church from

what he experienced in Acts chapter 12, from what he

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experienced in prison. Come on, somebody.

He's writing not theory. He's writing from his life.

I have been there. I know what I'm talking about.

So I'm writing to you something powerful yet, and he's writing

that from memory of what happened in the presence.

He knew what it was like to be surrounded and to be chained to

God. He knew what it was like to fear

death in the face and anxiety and panic.

He was trained. He was sentenced to death, but

instead of panicking, he rested. Instead of panic, he did not

carry the weight. That's where he got it.

He learned to cast it, to let it go.

And so he's telling us and he's writing to the church and he

says, listen, guys, I've been there.

I've been in the panic. I've been in the streets and the

worry. In fact, I've been in prison.

I've been there. I know what it is to face fear.

I know what it is to face death. I know what it is.

I felt the pressure, I felt the fear.

And you know what? I have discovered a secrets and

I'm not just going to keep it a secret.

I am going to my lesson that I've learned in prison.

I'm going to share it with you with the church.

And he comes and he writes that that I've discovered.

He's like, listen, you've got to let it go before it weighs you

down. They've proven scientifically

stress breaks down the immune system and here in the Bible we

get the remedy for it. It says Peter says he gives that

he says cast your anxiety and your fear on the Lord, and he

writes that because he hacks experienced that in prison and

God intervened cast it. Now let's make it practical

because cast that word cast is a practical.

It's a it's intentional. OK, So it's something it takes

action casting. Like you cast a fishing rod.

So you pull back and you focus release.

And when you throw the rod, because I enjoy fishing, when

you throw the rod, you you release the tension that's

casting, you release the tension of the shoulders.

So when you cast the rod, you cast it with an action and so

you release attention. Now let me tell you about my

son. The other day I I took my boy,

my son fishing. So we've got the fishing pond

there and I'm like, get the fishing rod.

And so I am now coaching him. It's my youngest and I'm

coaching Josh. I said, listen, this is how you

cast the rod. So he's like daddy and, and he's

like I said, my son, hold the fishing rod really bad.

And then when you throw it, when you cast it, you got a release.

Yeah, no, not a lot, but you got to release the line, OK?

You got to release that tension and so focus it and 'cause it is

like yesterday, I want to catch a big cop.

So I guess my son, you can catch some big cop.

But you know, you got to cast it right out there, OK, For the,

you get it in there deep and and then you leave it there because

she takes patience to catch a big cop, right?

OK, you leave the rod in. And so I told him Now it wasn't

my I was really amazed how quickly he learned to catch the

cast. I mean, he's like a four year

old that he's he's casting, but he's casting and and not a

problem. But there's the issue is it's

like, but now can we really back in?

I said, he looks at me. It's like, Dad, can we really?

I said, you've released it now, my son.

Now leave it, leave it with you've cast.

You've released. Now every two minutes, my son

comes. Daddy, OK, can we reel it in?

That that's the problem and not the casting.

It's like I said, leave it, my son.

Stop trying to reel it in what you've already released.

And that's exactly what some of us do with our burdens.

Yes, we cast it, but then it's like, can we reel it back in?

I want to. It's like we cast it in worship,

but then we really back in and worry.

We granted casting the care in worship at time of church, but

then we really back in worry. The man made the choose to the

winds that we're really back in again.

We drop it in prayer, but then we pick it back up in panic.

And so we release it to God at the altar.

We release that family member, that situation, that prodigal or

that son or that kid, that daughter.

We, we release them at the altar, but then we grip them

again with anxiety. And so this and casting only

works when you let it go. The casting part, yes, but you

got to let it go. And so that's what happens

during a time of pray when we leave it with the Lord and we I,

I just hear the Lord saying that the fear, that anxiety, that

stress does not belong to you. Throw it off doesn't belong to

you that but it doesn't that's listen, that what if that's what

if that's not yours? Throw it off, let it go.

And so once you cast it off, leave it, release it with God,

don't carry it again. So let me ask you a question.

Are you carrying something that you should be costing?

Because you weren't created to carry keys.

You weren't created to carry anxieties and worries about what

if that's going to happen? What if the economy?

What if my marriage? What if my family?

What if the bulls, the finances, you weren't created to carry

warriors, you were created to walk in peace.

So here's your mindset shift. The next time fear creeps in,

you just say, listen, I already gave that to God.

So the next time anxiety tries to knock on your door, you say,

listen, you've got the wrong address.

OK, listen, this is the wrong address.

Anxiety if you, OK, I've I've got rid of that.

In fact, I gave that to God. I let that go.

OK, I don't carry that anymore. I've casted it.

It's and I left it with God. OK, so you just leave it with

God. And so let's declare it right

now, everybody, I want you to declare out loud.

Say I declare every care, every weights.

I'm throwing it off, I'm casting it out.

I am releasing it into the hands of God and I receive God's

peace. Let's put our hands together and

praise God for His Word. Hallelujah.

Some of you already feeling lighter.

I see some smiles coming through.

I mean, I see some big smile, somebody's smiling and I'm like,

wow. Because the moment the word goes

out, it's like White's already falling off and it's going to

stay off. I prophecy and declare that it's

not going to the moment you walk out, it's not going to come

back. In fact, we leave it here today

at this alter. We are leaving that worry, that

stress. I don't care if it's a job

situation, a financial, a health, a family, a marriage,

children. God's got this.

God told me that he's in control today.

God said to me, he is Lords and he's in charge.

He told it to me, yes. Listen, God is ministering to

people powerfully because many people are sitting here with

storms in our lives, storms that is super, but God says his peace

will come. That storm, Oh Hallelujah,

Hallelujah. Somebody listen.

This right here, this Mesis. This is why so many people are

breaking down, burning out, exhausted, breaking down instead

of breaking through. OK?

They can't sleep at night. Food won't digest.

Tension in the shoulders, ulcers, migraines, insomnia.

Why? Because the mind never rests,

always trying to figure out how the future worried and stressed

about the future. How is this going to work out?

How is that stressed over the job, stressed over the economy,

the traffic, the relationship? Stressed over this spouse

burdened by bulls finances? Worried about this running

nonstop on the on the outside, but on the inside slowly

breaking down, stressed out. That is why the word of God says

to us, cast your case on the Lord.

Stress should not be on our shoulders.

We should cast it on the Lord. That's where it belongs.

Cast it on the Lord. Come on.

It should not go in our systems. We should get it out of our

systems church because when you cast it, the moment you cast the

Bible says cast your case anxiety, the moment you cast it,

you free your mind. It's a very free place to lift

church. And I'm not talking about all

the circumstances are perfect at work or in this world.

I'm, I'm talking about living at peace in the storm, in the

situation at peace when you cast it, you are making room for

peace, room for God's peace. And I came to tell somebody

today that, listen, you don't have to live another day

stressed out. You don't have to live.

You don't have to take it. You don't have to live straight

stuff. You don't have to live another

day way down or burdened down. This is, listen, the word of

God. There is another way to live.

There is a way to live free on this planet in the midst of the

chaos. And it's blessed and not

stressed despite what's going on around us, despite the

difficulties. The medical report, yes, it

might not be good, but I am not going to fear.

OK, OK. My Co worker has been rude, but

I am not going to react. I mean, the other day the guy

just jumped the traffic light. But boy did he come past me.

He rolled down the window. I mean his face is red, his

blood pressure. I mean he's just giving cuss

words to me and it's not my fault.

I mean he's just cussing. Never eyes is a blip, blip,

blip, blip. I'm like, you know what, That's

not going to rob my piece. I am enjoying and I'm going to

have fun. I'm not going to like, I'm not

going to react to that. If he wants to get a foot and

get angry and upset and scream a shot, bye bye.

Go shot in your car. It's not going to touch me.

I've seen some people get really mad and really tied up in this

world and I'm just like, I've been in some serious outsky

boardrooms where people really go off and I'm like, listen, I'm

not going to get pulled into that.

I'm not going to react, OK? I'm just not going to.

I will not be offended. I will not allow myself to be

offended. I will not allow nobody to

defend me because we can live at peace on purpose.

So just because the storm is around you, it doesn't mean the

storm must be in you. Even if it's around you, it

doesn't has to be in you. Let it stay around.

Let it stay there from the distance.

OK? A boat on the water.

A boat doesn't sink because it's in the water.

The problem is when the water gets into the boat, then it

sinks when the when the water gets into the boat.

OK. And so you can be surrounded by

pressures, by problems, by panic, by fear, surrounded by

chaos. But you don't have to take it on

board. You don't have to let the chaos

and the screaming and the shouting and the panic and the

politics. You don't have to let it get on

board. You don't have to let it in.

It can stay out in the world. It can stay out there, not in

me. You don't have to let it in.

Even at work. If the Co worker what's

happening, it does not have to come into you because

supernatural peace is not a feeling.

It's not a mood swing, OK. Supernatural peace, it's not a

place. It's not something that you find

in a place. OK, I understand holidays and

vacations. Or it's not something that you

find in a calm room, Soft music, scented candles.

Peace is a person. His name is Jesus, OK.

And so you don't need everything around you in a calming

environment to have calmness and peace inside of you.

You can be in traffic, in business, our fast traffic, fast

job, and you can still be at peace.

You could be 1000 miles in the air.

You can be in the office. You can be running a job.

You can be and you can be peaceful like Peter sleeping in

the midst of prison with death threats against him.

And he's at peace. We as Christians, that's our

portion. We can be peaceful in a very

stressful world that is ready to explode.

We can remain calm. That's our militants church.

Yeah. Because it's when Jesus is in

your boat. Yeah, because when Jesus is in

your boat. Yes.

The storms, my heat problems may come the difficulties even with

Jesus in your but listen, you'll be unshaken because Jesus is in

your boat. Jesus is in my situation.

I will not be shaken. I've got Jesus peace in my boat

and so you will live blessed and not stressed.

Amen. Somebody now let me show you

this in something powerful in Mark chapter 4.

Mark 4 · chapter mention

Remember when Jesus with his disciples, they are crossing the

Sea of Galilee and in the back of the boat Jesus is resting.

And while he's resting, a storm hits Jesus, the disciples, a

storm hits them. It comes to everybody.

The storms of life comes to everybody.

But what's amazing is, yeah, by the way, these disciples, they

are experienced fishermen, and they panic.

They're going to panic. Panic sets in.

They're fearful and terrible afraid.

They look at one another and these wind is howling.

The winds, the waves are crashing on the boat.

And so, yeah, they are desperate and afraid.

Where is Jesus? In the store?

OK, Hallelujah. Somebody's getting their word

today. Jesus is at peace.

In the storm okay, Mark chapter 4 verse it says Jesus was

Mark 4 · chapter mention

interested sleeping on a cushion Hallelujah, sleeping while the

storm is raging, sleeping while people are panicking, sleeping

while people are screaming, sleeping in the storm and they

shake him and they cry out all teacher, don't you care that we

are going we're about to die. And so Jesus got up and he

looked into the chaos and he said three simple words that

changed everything. Peace be stall.

And suddenly the storm stopped, the wind stopped.

They obeyed the word of God, they obeyed the word of peace

and he calmed the storm with a word.

The sea calmed down and the disciples were amazed.

Now here's the revelation. The reason Jesus could speak

peace is because he was already in peace.

Man, yes, that's why you could speak peace in the midst of the

storm, because she was already in peace.

He did not panic in the storm, OK?

He did not be ruled by the circumstances, by the storm, but

by the Spirit, by peace. You understand this powerful

principle, somebody that he could calm the storm on the

outside because he had peace on the inside.

And that is a powerful principle for us as Christians, so that

saying Jesus, the Prince of Peace is living on the inside of

you and of me, the Prince of Peace, he is not stressed.

God, Jesus, when you get to know Jesus, when you hang out with

Jesus, one thing you will know is he's not stressed.

Over years and years of talking, having conversations with Jesus,

He's not stressed, He's not worried.

So he's living in you. So if he's not worried, why are

you OK? Because listen, I'm, I'm asking

somebody because when Jesus is in your life and he's not

worried, you can live in perfect peace at rest in the storm, in

this world, and you can sleep at night in peace.

And I've godly dreams this week I've had three godly encounters,

3 dreams, powerful encounters. Because when I go to bed, I

sleep in peace. Yes, sleep in peace. 1736.

John Wesley is a young preacher. He is on the ship crossing the

Atlantic, heading to America on a missionary journey.

And all of a sudden, this violent storm hit the vessel,

Waves crashing, passengers all crying out, cars breaking loose,

the crew and passengers recently included, panicked.

They were terrified, feared for their lives.

OK. But right in the middle, in the

centre of the stall, they were these German believers.

They're called the Moravians. Yeah.

They weren't screaming. They weren't panicking,

trembling. They were singing calmly,

worshipfully. Wesley wrote this in his

journal. Where others were screaming,

they sang. Where others feared, they

trusted. There was no panic, only peace.

And so when he asked them later, weren't you afraid, They said,

they simply said, no, We're trusting God.

We're trusting God. Our lives are in the hands of

God. And that moment touch the

preacher dung Wesley, it marked his life forever.

That contrast between panic and peace.

And that's something that we need to awaken to us to make a

decision every day, Hold your ground every day, every morning,

wake up. Nothing is going to upset me

today. I've been in the corporate world

and I've worked for some difficult bosses.

I know what I'm talking about that I have to get up and say my

boss is not going to upset me today.

I bless the people. Most of the times the problem is

because they are in trouble and they are struggling and so

somebody wants to take it out on and I'm like, I'm going to stay

calm. In South African Joburg, I

worked for a boss. That guy was half man, half

demon. That guy was one of the most

wicked bosses. Oh my Lord, God took me through

a very, very difficult lesson. I had to learn that level of

stress. I had to learn to curse it on

God and say that boss, my Lord, and I won't tell you how it

ended, but God is in control when we give it to him.

Hold your peace. Nothing is going to offend me.

I'm not going to react. Nothing is going to steal my

peace. Peace declares that God is in

control. Very simple.

Listen, I am not the one holding the universe together.

He's. And that is what true race looks

like when you have truly surrendered.

The spouse, the family member, the finances surrendered.

It's yours, God. And so true rest is spiritual

warfare, peace, cross, Satan. Oh, I see many, many questions

back ajar. I remember people burned out

intercessors doing spiritual warfare the wrong way.

Burned out. I said, listen, race the

spiritual warfare, you defeat Satan of every devil in hell

with peace. Oh yeah, that's how Jesus called

that stall. He didn't stop breaking fighting

the devil for peace. I'm telling you what I was

praying. I just said, Lord, I declare

peace. That whole situation shifted,

that an e-mail started coming through.

The situation was just diffused peace.

Many people want to fight things in the flesh, start getting in

the flesh and angry about certain things.

Leave it to God. Yeah, Because every time you

choose peace over panic, that's when you're pushing the forces

of darkness. When you choose to remain calm,

that's how we win the battle, because God will fight for you.

That's why Hebrews 4, verse 9, He says there remains then a

Hebrews 4:9

Sabbath rest for the people of God.

That's us. There's a rest for us, Judge,

and He's not talking about heaven.

Yes, we're going to rest in heaven one day.

Yes, for sure it's going to be good.

But we can rest on this planet. A Sabbath is not talking about

one day, not talking just about a Sunday.

A Sabbath. Wrath is.

It's a way of life. It's a position of peace and so

I trust in God in the valley trust in God the verse the IT

goes on verse senses for anyone who enters God's rest.

Please remember that because it's not automatic.

We don't automatically who who enters God's rest also raised

from the works. That means no striving, no

stressing. So the moment you step into that

place of rest and peace. OK, you step into a you in a in

in peace. That's when there's no stressing

no more sleepless nights trying to solve what only God can

resolve and what God can settle. Peace says I am not the

provider. He is.

I am not the healer. He is I am not the rescuer.

He is. He is Lords and in charge.

He is God almighty of the entire universe.

OK, so just rest is how you release heaven into your

situation is from a place of rest is rest.

Rest is your way of saying I trust the promise more than I

trust the problem. Amen.

What? So let's look at what Paul says

to his spiritual son Timothy, second Timothy 4 verse 5.

2 Timothy 4:5

But As for you, be clear headed in every situation.

Stay calm everybody. Say calm and cool and steady and

do every hardship without flinching.

Listen, we are living in a generation that flinches over

everything. Flinches over the economy,

flinches over the politics, flinches over delay, flinches

over everything. Every time life doesn't go their

way flinches. You know what I'm I mean when

I'm talking about flinches reacting in fear over

everything, reacting in fear over this product issue that

just reacting OK, but God is raising up a people who is not

freezing, is raising up a remnant who is not flinching and

reacting in fear because you are not ruled by what you see.

We live by faith, not by sight. OK, So it is faith over fear.

And that's how Paul lived. That's Paul's malter.

He lived by faith, not fear. And you know Paul, he faced a

lot. Everything that life could throw

at him. He faced shipwrecked.

He was imprisoned. He was beaten with rods,

starvation, bitten by snake, misunderstood, falsely accused.

I mean, Paul had he? And then in Acts chapter 24,

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Paul stands up and he says this. Nothing moves me.

None of this moves me. My God, how can he say that?

Paul was he had conflict. He came against people,

religious people. He was perfect shipwreck.

And now he says none of these things, none of these

challenges, none of these storms, none of these shipwreck,

none of these things. Listen, we're not even talking

about traffic, job this or that. We are talking about beaten with

rods. We are talking about physical

injury. We're boldly apart.

He says boldly. None of these things move me.

Acts, let me. That's Acts 20 verse 24.

Acts 20:24

None of these things move me. So how could he say that?

Because Paul had this revelation.

I don't live by what I see. I live by faith.

Steady. I don't fleece at everything.

I don't care if they call me a cuss word or if they slammed me

or if they gossip about me. I don't care what they say about

me. I don't.

I don't fleece at these things. Come on, somebody, come on.

Whatever critique, whatever enemy, whatever person trying to

slander you or trying to breathe, listen, it's not moving

me. It's not moving us.

None of it is moving us. We are the chance of Jesus

Christ. I mean, late for the time to us,

but no, late the stores. It will not move us because we

don't live by what we see. We live by 5 steady peace of a

panic, peace that doesn't flinch, 5 that does not fall.

So if they lie on you, OK, don't flinch.

If they slam the gossip about you, don't flinch.

OK, If the doctor gives a bad report, do not flinch.

If the bank account is low, do not flinch.

If it's difficult at work, do not flinch.

God didn't bring you this fault to leave you now.

Yeah, some of you. You would rise to a higher level

if you just stopped reacting to everything.

You would rise to a high level if you just stopped reacting to

everything, stop flinching to everything, you'd go higher.

Life is too short to live upset. Life is too short to live angry,

offended, have said anxious. Life is a gift.

Every single day life is a gift. The very fact that we are

sitting here and not lying in the hospital with a pipe in my

nose and ICU is the grace of God that we are here.

So somebody needs to be thankful that we got out of bed and

stopped fleecing and tantrum over every little issue.

My God, let's grow up in the jar.

Let's be the church that we are supposed to be these people

dying and be my God. Let's rise up church and be

stable. Let's be steady and get off the

roller coaster ride. Mood swings up and down,

tantrums this that that. Let's rise up.

Let's be gone and steady and get to a place like pizza.

I am not going to let that offend me.

And you get to a place where you're unshakable, unoffendable,

like pull your puzzle. You can beat me.

You could do this, Paul says. None of it moves me.

None of it moves me. And there comes a moment in

every believer's life, the most freeing releasing thing that you

can ever do is turn it over to God.

Yeah, it's release it into the hands of God, the one that has

got the answer, the one that is in control.

Because when you say God, that I'm living it with you, I'm

letting go. I am not going to fight this

thing. I'm going to let it go.

I'm going to give that person into your hands.

I'm going to let it go. And the moment you let go and

you say, Lord, I'm done stressing, done striving, you

place it in his hands and you turn it over to God, that's when

heaven says, now I can move. Now I can move my son, my

daughter, my church, because finally I've been waiting for

you to give it to me. Let me handle it.

Listen, His shoulders are big enough.

He can handle it. Oh, we can handle your case.

Oh my God, He can handle your case.

He can handle your job, your finances, your health, your

family. He can handle your situation.

Your situation will not escape the anointing of God when you

give it over to Him. God's power is strong.

God doesn't bless your stress. He does not bless your striving,

God does not place your stress. He places your surrender, Yes.

So let this be the day-to-day when you give that problem to

God once and for all, that problem, that situation, give

that e-mail to him. Give that text, that phone call,

that family member, that spouse, that person, that burden into

the hands of God. Lord, it is now yours.

That is the word of the Lords. And let me tell you what happens

when you do that and you give it to God and you enter into his

race. Change, break off bondages,

break off addictions, break off stress.

One of the number one problem in the world's killing of people is

stress. Stress breaks off, prison doors

open wide, the supernatural angels gets dispatched, and the

supernatural miracles begin to happen when you give it over to

God. Because peace doesn't just come

after the breakthrough. It doesn't come after the

miracle, but peace makes room for the breakthrough.

Peace makes room for the miracle.

Peace is the open doorway for the breakthrough.

And that's why Peter could sleep in the prison.

That's why Jesus could sleep in the.

But that's why you can sleep in. Rest in your storm and stay calm

in your pressure. Power of peace over panic.

Hallelujah, somebody. Now let me share a powerful

testimony in closing as I close this of a modern day Peter, a

man of God by the name of Brother Yun, a Chinese

underground church leader. They called him the heavenly

Man. And so he was thrown in a

maximum security prison, giant cross beaten.

His legs were shattered because of their beatings.

They refused medical care. He was left to rot in a prison

cell the his prison the other prisoner said.

Listen, he he'll never make it he's not going to make it.

But in that prison of pain, Brother Yun did not flinch.

He did not panic. He did not go into anxiety or

fear. He did not react and get

offended. He chose peace over panic.

And while his body was bound, his spirit was free.

He had peace. And so later he wrote these

words in the Heavenly Man. In his book it says here, the

more I was tortured, the more peace I had.

Jeez Lord, the more I was tortured, the more peace I had.

I didn't understand it, I only knew it was from the Lord.

Supernatural peace. And then one night God spoke and

he said get up and walk out now wait a minute.

His legs are shouted. The prison is locked tight,

cameras monitoring every gait. But Brother Yun obeyed, not in

panic, not in fear, in peace. And he got up and God healed his

legs. Number one, he walked to the

first gate, the gates opened by itself.

True story, there's some cameras did not caught him.

No sirens, no alarms, no God stopped him and he walked out

just like Peter, out of that prison, completely free.

Somebody shout Hallelujah, Hallelujah, glory to God Valley

God. And so when they're asking

later, weren't you scared? Weren't you worried, brother,

you said something profound. He said the presence of Jesus is

stronger than any prison. I wasn't walking in fear.

I was walking in his peace, my God.

And so this revelation, Brother Yun did not wait for the prison

to open before he had peace. He already had peace in the

prison. Inside the prison he had peace

right there and some closing. The word for somebody today is

that peace is what opens the prison.

Peace breaks change. Peace defeats the enemy.

Peace breaks chains of fear, chains of anxiety, chains of

worry, chains of sleeplessness, chains of anxiety of striving.

And if God gave brother you peace in prison, he will give

you peace in your pressure. Amen.

If you received it, can you say Amen?

Let's all stand to your feet in the presence of the Lord.

Peace over panic. That's your door, your pathway

to breakthrough. Now maybe you're here today and

you are carrying something that you should be casting.

Maybe you're walking around with a heavy load, tension on your

shoulders, worries in your mind when the arms of a loving father

is wide open and he says, give it to me.

So too many believers. They tired not because the

journey is long, they're exhausted and tired because they

are carrying a heavy baggage that you were never meant to

carry. The things weighing us down, we

never cast it off. Let it go.

Let this be the day when you stop caring and start casting.

So stop carrying it. Stop carrying and worrying.

Cast it. Start giving it away to the

Lord. Don't let the enemy rob your

peace because you were never created to worry, to love

stressed. You were created to walk in

peace. So here's what I want us to do.

This is how the Lord showed it to me.

There's going to be a divine exchange here this morning

because This is why the Lord showed me that he said, Kip,

bring it to me. So right now we are going to

release it to the Lord. We're going to give it to the

Lord, We're going to cast it and we're going to leave it.

So we're going to throw it on the Lord.

We're going to give it. That's the word of the Lord.

And we're going to cast everything on the Lord and leave

it here today. OK.

Are you ready for this divine exchange?

OK, right. So you you're going to get your

worry for his peace. So there's going to be this

exchange. So the Lord's ready to give you

his peace. So you're going to give him your

worry. You're giving your panic for his

presence. Sounds like a great exchange.

So we walk out, you're uplifted on fire, free, OK, Not one

baggage on our shoulders once and for all because there's

going to be a deep work. Yeah, you're going to walk out

your lighter whole healed, set free forever.

And it's never going to come back on you because God has

destined. God let me preach this word here

today because He knew there's some purpose of this to come off

once and for all because we are about to go to the next level.

OK, so right now lift your hands all over this room and say this

with boldness. I release every burden, every

worry, every anxiety, every panic, every fear.

I give it to you Lord, I will not live stressed.

I am blessed and I receive supernatural peace right now in

Jesus mighty name. Come on shadow.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Now put your hand on your heart. Let's pray.

Father, as we stand under this open heavens, we declare that

every voice of torment, fear, anxiety and worry.

A silence by the Prince of Peace.

Father, I speak over your people.

Peace will rule over every mind, every heart.

Lord, I declare every burden, every worry, every fear is being

cast off right now by the power of the Holy Ghost.

I declare that spur of anxiety, that spur of panic, that spur of

fear, it's pranking off their life right now.

It's lifting off. In the name of Jesus.

We are declaring we are not stressed, we are blessed.

In the mighty name of Jesus, somebody shout Hallelujah.

You are not stressed. You are.

Please come on, Somebody give God your loudest praise that

you've got this morning. Come on, Chase, this is your

mum. Right now.

Chains are falling off. Epixels are falling off.

Strengths and weights are falling off.

Break your name of Jesus. Break every chain.

Break every chain. Break every chain, press the

doors are wide open. Press the doors.

Miracles are release. Angels, you Jenny, cars are

being dispatched right now. Freedom, freedom, peace in Jesus

my name. Give God a shot of victory.