Be at Peace today | Pr Janaronson Nagarajah

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The topic for today is be at peace. Today. I'm

going to share the same word in x neelai because

his x Neli. Later we actually run it in bilingual

Swangi in Onean Hawaii, so we will have the Mandarin

word right. So those of you today who can read

the Mandarin do enjoying the slightes as well. The contact

is taken from the Book of Judges, chapter six, and

the Book of Judges is the time when the nation

of Israel do not have a king, do not have

a king yet, And the Bible says in the Book

of Judges that they all live their life in what

is right in their eyes. Okay, it was a time

when they were already entered into the Promised Land. But

yet this new generation did not know God. Despite the

commandments that was passed down to them, despite the great

stories of how God has delivered them out of Egypt,

the house of Bondage, to their promised land, they did

not live alife that was honoring to God. They did

not live a life that was pleasing to God. The

Book of Judges basically is a time where God raised

different individuals up to lead the nations, especially when the

nation is being attacked by different enemies. God raised people

like Deborah. God raised people like Gideon to deliver the

nation of Israel out of every oppression. So in Judges

chapter six, I'm going to give you a context. We're

going to read in chapter six ver was one. Then

the children of Israel did evil in the side of

the Lord. So the Lord delivered them into the hand

of Median for seven years was two, and the hand

of Median prevailed against Israel because of the Median knights.

The children of Israel made for themselves the dance, the

caves and the strongholds which are in the mountain. The

scripture is very clear that the children of Israel did

evil in the side of the Lord. And what evil

was this. They departed from the commandment of the Lord.

They began to worship are the gods, which are obviously

against their commandment. And the Lord delivered them into the

hand of the media Mediannites. And we know that they

stayed basically in quattas, in squats right in dance caves

around the mountas. They don't really have a place of dwelling.

I have a slight to talk about the overview, and

they were greatly impoverished. You can read later on in

verse three. So it was whenever Israel has sown Midia,

nights would come up, also am kinds and the people

of the eaves would come up against them. Then they

would and came against them and destroy the produce of

the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance

for Israel, neither ship, nor aucs nor donkey. So whatever

they have sown, whatever they have farmed in the land,

it was all taken away by the enemy. So think

about living in a life where there is great impourishment,

great poverty. The harvest was destroyed, but praise God. In

verse seven to eight, it says that they cry out

to God because of this oppression. They tried cry out

to God. God. Now man no mistakes that God is loved.

The Bible says God loves us, God loves his people.

And often undesired things happen in our life could also

be stemmed from the fact that we ourselves we have

departed from the Lord. And always remember that we're seeing

there is a consequence. So the consequences of the seeing

of the people back then led them to a place

where they were oppressed, led them to a place where

not only they were poor in spirit, but there was

no progress in this nation. So when the people cry

out to the Lord, the Lord answered, and the Lord

sent an angel to speak to Gideon, and basically the

Angel of the Lord told Gideon that you will deliver

this nation out as one person. One person. Sometimes God

doesn't need to use one hundred people to deliver. Sometimes

he just need that one person to awail himself or

herself to be used by God greatly. And a classic

story here where we all know that Gideon doubted his

calling in God because Gideon begin to give excuses like, Lord,

I'm from the weakest tribe you know who am I.

God loves to use people like this. God loves to

use people who doubt themselves because the Lord will affirm you,

the Lord will annoying you. The Lord will use you

mightily for his glory. So after the affirmation, we know

that in verses nineteen to twenty one, Gideon gave an

offering and the Angel of the Lord sent fire to

consume it. So after all this in worse trentyy true,

I believe so correct. So we look at what's twenty two. Now,

Gideon perceived that he was the Angel of the Lord.

So Gideon said, alas, oh Lord God, I have seen

the Angel of the Lord face to face. Then the

Lord said to him, peace be with you. Do not fear,

you shall not die. I resonate in my spirit that

salvas this morning. We are facing a situation where it

seems bleak, a future that you can't envision, a relationship

that you feel is impossible to reconcile. And the Lord

prophetic word for you this morning in your spirit, I

believe is peace be with you. Do not fear you

shall not A sense that very strongly for some of you.

And let me say that again, peace be with you.

Do not fear you shall not die. Because some of

you you're feeling like the people back then. Everything that

you do, it yielded no result. Everything that you build,

someone else took it away from you. You felt a

sense of oppression, you felt a sense of injustice, just

felt a sense of betrayal. So it's like a picture

back then, these people they actually worked hard, safe you

were gripped by fear. Gideon was found thrashing at the

floor away from other people. He was hidden basically because

of fear of the enemy. But today the Lord wants

you to come out of that fear, and he's saying

to you, peace be with you. Do not fear, You

shall not die. With God. There is no date end.

Here's your cry. And you have been And if you

have been far away from the Lord, come back to him, please,

Because the children of israelle they came back to him.

They cry out to the Lord, and the Lord send

an angel to speak to Gideon, affirm him, to say

that he will save this nation. Maybe today it is

also a call for some of us to come back

to the Lord. He loves you. He loves you verse

twenty three, sorry, verse twenty four. So Gideon built an

altar there to the Lord and called it the Lord

is Peace. Many of you will be familiar with the

term Jehovah shalom. That's where this scripture came about. The

Lord is Peace. To this day, it is still an

opera of the biders Abey's rights. First point for today,

when there is no peace in our heart and our mind,

and when there's no growth or success, we need to

check where are we with the lot Instead of looking outwards,

look inwards. Where are we with the Lot? Are we

living alive honoring him? Or have we turned our hearts

away from him? Have our hearts grown cold before the Lord?

And when undesired situations happen in our life, our hearts

grow colder and colder, harder and harder, more away from

the Lot. If we want to say progress in our life,

if we want to see change in our life, the

first step is always to reflect on our walk with

the Lord. And if at all we have been far away,

if at all we have grown cold, it is to

return to him. God is always there. God has never

left you. God have never forsaken you. God have never

left the people. It is the people who have left him.

In a time of chaos, darkness, and doubting of even

his own calling, Gideon proclaimed the Lord is peace. I

find it amazing. He could have proclaimed that the Lord

is our deliverer. He could have proclaimed that the Lord

is strong and mighty. He could have just proclaimed that

the Lord the Lord, he is Lord, he is almighty.

But Gideon chose to proclaim the Lord is peace. To me,

it speaks of He proclaimed a need that the Lord

had met. There is a lot giving them peace, the

Lord giving him peace. So the peace Gideon experience came

from his confidence in God's protection and provision even when

the task ahead of him seemed impossible. How can I,

as a one person deliver the nation among the nations

who are stronger than us? And it serves as a

reminder that peace is not dependent on circumstances, but our

peace is dependent on God's presence. So if you are

looking for peace, I pray that we will find peace

in the right place. The piece here speaks about wholeness, safety,

and a restoration of order. And when it's chaos, it

always speaks about disorder. But when the peace of God

comes into that situation, when a piece of God comes

into your life, he will bring about an order. So

the key point today that I will leave you with

is God is peace. The Lord is Peace. Jehoah shalom

seek God sik is peace. Peace is not a state.

Peace is not a feeling. The world will tell you

need to do certain rituals before you can have peace,

and that ritual may include a certain form of meditation.

That ritual may include disconnect from your routine of life,

go to somewhere where it's serene, it is quiet, and

you begin to focus on your inner self so that

you will have peace. The world is looking for peace

in different methods, in different practices, but for us as Christian,

it is clear. The Lord is peace, meaning peace can

only be found in God. And if you're a Christian

here you have been walking with the Lord and you're

trying to find peace in different rituals practices. Today, I

want to encourage you to just turn your heart fully

to the Lord, because when I reflect on my life,

sometimes me too fall into the temptation where I would

try other things, and the Lord will always be you know,

when all else feel you turn to the Lord. But

today the Lord wants to flip it around. Let him

be the first. If you want peace, turn to him.

So path to peace the first step we need to know.

The most important peace is peace with God through Jesus.

You can have peace with man, but if you don't

have peace to God, it will lead you to know peace.

But if you have peace with God, even if you

do not have peace with man, you will always have

the peace of God, always always. Second Corinthians, chapter five,

verses eighteen to nineteen, say now all things are of God,

who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and

as given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is that

God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not

imputing their trespassers to them, and has committed to us

the word of reconciliation Romans five one to two. Therefore,

having been justified by faith, we have peace with God

through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have

access by faith into disgrace in which we stand and

rejoice in the in hope of the glory of God.

We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

So as the Angel of the Lord drew near to

Gideon spoke to Gideon, Jesus has also drawn near to us.

Are we ready to respond to say he is our peace?

Are we fully confident by saying that he is our peace?

Peace can only be found in Jesus Isaiah nine, verse six.

Foreignto us a child is born, unto us, a son

is given. Very popular scripture for Christmas fat Christmas is

coming December, so first right, wow, and the government will

be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called

wonderful counselor Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. If

you want peace, you're looking for peace, you should go

to the source of peace. John fourteen twenty seven. Jesus

said to his disciples peace I live with you. My peace.

I give to you. Not as the world gives. Do

I give you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither

let it be afraid. My peace I give to you,

the Lord, says Jesus, this morning is giving you his peace.

Would you open your heart and receive his peace for you?

The Lord is asking us this morning to find peace

in the right place. I thought about our life today.

I thought about the situation where we live in today.

I thought about the time of COVID and post COVID.

I thought about the time where even as a nation,

we'rein a span of five years, we had at least

three prime ministers of all lost count But it spoke

about political uncertainty. When things in the political realm is uncertain,

investors have no confidence towards the nation, which then impacted

our economy. UH. COVID also was a time where companies

were restructuring, resizing. UH some took pay hit and the

world that we've lived in today. Some have termed it

as v uca. Probably you have heard it Wukha world.

We basically stands for a world that is wallatoile. Even

Joe politics. No one would have imagined that Russia would

attack Ukraine last year, right, and we know different industry

took a hit as well. You look at South China

Sea today. China is testing the boundaries, pushing for South

China Sea, making their claim so it's walletown. Anything can happen.

The presidential election in US in November is thing to

be watching out for because you know, I'm sure it

will impact the world one way or another. You basically

sends for uncertain. The world that we live in is

uncertain as well. With the progress of Jenny I Generative AI,

people asking would I lose my job my company replaced me?

Where would where would AI bring us to wol we

create more jobs, So it things seems a bit uncertain.

Things are also getting more complex. Society today tends to

be more complex than simple. You have day to day

conversations with your colleagues, you have day today conversation with

your friends, with your family members, and sometimes the topics

tend to be either complex or the way to soft

things seems to be complex, but actually it's simple. Press.

We have complicated staff for ourselves, A basically sensu ambiguous.

The world that we live in is ambiguous. Is no longer, Yeah,

it's longer black and white. People tend to be gray,

but actually it should be black and white. But people

tend to be more ambiguous than ever. Right, So I

think about these things. I reflect on all these things.

Then I realize that all these things, if we are

not careful, it may affect how we perceive life. It

may effect how we perceive the future, and our perception

often can determine how we feel. Insight the peace Insight.

So many years ago, the Lord told me that regardless

of who is in power in Malaysia, can you trust

that God is still in control. I remember the election

night where they couldn't even decide who will be prime minister,

and they need to go and see the King. The

king need to worrify each mpeace world. Remember those days, man,

I was tuning into the news like every second I

will refresh my newspatter, and I realized that there's no peace.

And a lot says men may place their hope in

horses and shareots things that they can see. But we

the people of God, will place our trust in the Lord,

our God. Even my company, we're going through a form

of restructuring, potentially resizing. It's common with new leadership. New

leaders will come in to ship, the ship to move

in a direction where the leader wants to. It's common here, guys.

It's common new leaders, new way of doing things, new

strategies and such. That's how your company grow. That's how

your company progressed. That's how your company should, you know,

wit and move forward. But for small fries like me,

usually we take the impact right. So these few weeks

has also been very challenging for me because I don't

even know whether I have a future in this company.

The more I hear, the more disappointment I get, and

a lot reminded me again, seek me because he is

my piece? Is it? Some of us we find peace

in a form of financial security. If we say that

if I have X number or fixed deposit in my bank,

if I have X number in my bank, then tonight

I can sleep well. I have the peace that is

only natural. Hey, we need money to go through our life,

but money shouldn't be our only dependency. Because if you

ask any rich people today, you ask them, can you

really sleep well? I think some will tell you that

I have a lot of money, but I can't sleep

well because a lot of worry, a lot of anxiety.

But when you place your security in the Lord, he

becomes your peace. He becomes your peace. So for adults,

young adults, here go earn all the money you want.

Money is a very good servant. Money is also good

for ministry, showing the missions and all right, go earn.

God has given us a power to make wealth. But

don't let money be your God. I always tell people

cash is not king. Right. You remember a politician once

say cash is king. Right during election time, the world

will tell you cash is king. I'm here as a

representative of the Church of the Kingdom of God, to

tell you that Jesus Christ is king, the Prince of Peace,

he is king, he is king. For a students, sometimes

we find our peace in our academic achievement. If only

I tain certain result, if only I get a scholarship

I want, then I will have a form of peace,

because then only I will get a good job. Then

only with the degree it opened doors for me. It

is God who will open the door for you. We

must do our part to study, we must do our

part to do well, but we must not idolize our achievement.

The moment we think that the door is open because

of our four point zero, the moment we think that

I got this great, fantastic job because of my involvement

in university, that is the path to destruction because it

speaks about pride. So the Lord holds our future. Maybe

there's some parents here who worry about our kids, and

we tend to be anxious even about their future, and

as a result, we have no peace in our hearts.

I can understand any good parent would want the best

for their children. But if you're a people of faith,

if you say that God is your God, he's also

the God of your family, and you've got to release

that trust to God to chill out a path for

your children, because what God wants and what God can

give to your children is far more better than what

we You know, sometimes spiritual parents or parents can give

to our children. And I wrote this yesterday, serves we

want to be in control because control, do you, represents certainty.

Control to you represent a form of assurance or peace.

I'm here very obediently to the Lord and very humbly

to let you know, learn to let go of control.

The only reason why you don't have peace this morning,

the only reason why you can't even sleep well at night,

because consistently you want to be in control. When I

say let it go of control, I'm saying, let go

of control and allow God to come in. You will

have your peace when you do so. So before I

leave four steps to consider Philippines four six to seven,

Paul wrote this when he was in prison. He was

a prisoner when he wrote this the church in Philippie.

He said, be anxious for nothing, but in everything by

prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving. Let your requests be made

known to God and the peace of God, which surpasses

all understanding. Will God your hearts and minds thrue Christ Jesus.

You think about it, right, Paul being in prison. Usually,

if we will do prison ministry, we will go to

prison and comfort the prisoner to tell them God has

a hope for you. God has a future. Don't worry.

This one is the bullet, you know. This is the

bullet basically means opposite. The prisoner is encouraging the people

outside of prison. You think about it. If you're a prisoner,

you should be the one having no peace at all.

You should be the one be the most worried at all.

And I really like this scripture because he started off

with saying be anxious for nothing coming around post Paul prisoner.

And this speaks to me that whenever there is an anxiety,

it is always about the future. Why are you anxious?

Usually it's about the future. You exam next week, the

assignment that you are falling behind, the project that is

not misting target, but you need to do a reporting

next week. There's no solution to this problem is anxiety

is always about the future, So be anxious for nothing.

I will counter it by saying God holds my future.

He holds my future. I will do my part, I'll

prepare the report, I will do the assignment. But I

will not let this bother me pertaining to my future,

because God holds my future. Proverabs twelve twenty five saysnxiety

in the heart of man causes depression, but a good

word makes it glad. So people who are depressed can't

see the future. That's why it's always a cycle of darkness.

They would rather sleep, wake up sleep because my dad

battled with depression and alcohol was his way out. So

I lived with a depressed man. I knew exactly how

not very well up kept why you can see a future.

But the word of God will always make a heart

glad if we were to live, if we were to

keep it in our heart. So the end of two

anxiety at the end of the day, it is the

word of God. Because the Bible is good, It is

full of good word. And when you read the Word

of God, what it does is that it shift your

focus from anxiety to his revelational word. All it takes

is one word from God, one word from Jesus to

come the sea. All it takes is that one word.

Perhaps this morning, as you are looking for a word,

I pray you receive the word that will come you

down and give you that peace. Second prayer and supplication.

This to me speaks only God can answer my prayer.

You know, sometimes why we don't have peace because we

have been running from people to people hoping that they

will be able to help us. Praise God. Some people,

when you reach out to them, they will really help you.

These are good people and they will help you without expectation.

In return. These are very very good people. But you

a still need to be understanding that sometimes people can

only help you to certain extent. They can help you

with things that is outside, things of the heart. They

can give you a wid and they can counsel you,

but they can only do this much. Only God can

answer your prayer. People can answer your prayer. They can

help you, but you don't pray to them, do you.

Only God can answer your prayer with thanksgiving to me.

Gratitude opens the door to peace. If you have ten

things that you can complain about of why you don't

have peace, or ask that you also develop a list

of ten things you can be grateful for. Living a

life of gratitude opens the door to God's peace. It

helps you to focus. It shifts your focus from worry

in self, worrying of what you don't have. When you

put on a posture of thanksgiving, you move from worry

and you move to a position of worship. There are

a lot of things you can be thankful for a lot,

but sometimes we don't focus on these things enough. Second last,

the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding. I don't

know how to describe to you this except to say

that you should be feeling worries. Is it grammarchally correct?

I don't know, but you should be feeling worried, anxious concern,

but you're not. Today. Whatever happens to my company happens.

I should be worried, but I'm not. You have a

big presentation coming up, you have a big interview coming up.

You should be worried, but you're not. Why Because the

peace of God, which surpasses oh understanding. You want to

man a broken relationship, and you're going to meet an

angry person, You're going to meet an angry relative. Probably

you're going to meet an angry relative. I don't know.

You should be worried, but you're not. Why the peace

of God and no doubt told me before he and

his colleague went into the boss room. Two of them

lost the job because the company needed to restructure. Two

of them came out of the room. His friend was

looking at him. How come you're not worried?

The peace of God, The peace of God.

Next God, your hearts and minds, true Christ, Jesus. Our

heart is a set of emotions. Whatever you're feeling. You're anxious,

you're joyful, you're disappointed, you feel happy. It's your heart.

And the Bible always call to God our heart because

it is the well springs of life. You've gotta learn

to get our heart the seed of emotions. Our mind

is the seed of thoughts. Our mind is a very

powerful thing. Because I don't know whether mind is an

organ or not. Probably the scientist can let me know. Ah, right,

mind is a very powerful thing. The Hollywood drama, the

Bollywood drama, and the k drama often plays out here.

The worst case scenario drama, the fight, freeze or flee

drama is always here, very very powerful and if it

affects the mind, it will go to the heart. So

anything that is false that the mind is playing, we'll

be able to generate and emotions to you which actually

you are fearing the wrong thing. For example, say that

tomorrow I go to exam, I should feel you haven't

even started the exam. So powerful the mind is Jennet.

Jesus should be seated in our heart and mind. He must,

he must, all right, even if really like things go

against you, even if things didn't work out in your favor,

you must always have Jesus seated in your mind and

in your heart. You must the moment he's not seated

there the moment. That's a moment you will be robbed

off your peace. Amen, So let me read it again. Ex.

Extreme Comer Philippines, Chapter four, verse six to seven. Be

anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication.

Whatever situation you're in, you know you felt that your

peace is being robbed from you. Pray, by prayer and

supplication with thanksgiving. Let your requests be made known to

God and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding.

Will God your heart and Mind's True Christ Jesus.

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