Prayer: Prayer and Peace (#913)
We’ve been having a series on prayer and we are just planning a fellowship weekend the end of March/the beginning of April, on Stayed Mind and the Peace of God; so I thought I’d have a little segue here where we’ll talk about prayer and peace.  And by the way, this will be the last teaching in our series on prayer.  Then I’m going to start another series on the abundance of God.  Where we’ll be talking about how God, in every single area of life, provides abundantly.  Whatever the area of life is that you may have a concern or need, God is there and God can provide, not only what you need, but much more.  So, we’ll go into the abundance of God starting next time.  But today, we’ll wrap up our series of many weeks on prayer.  And this will be a bit of a segue into our class on Stayed Mind and the Peace of God, which we’ll have at our fellowship weekend, in about six weeks.  And several of the verses, because of other things they cover, we would have already talked about in this series on prayer; but some of them we haven’t.  So let’s get started here; let’s start in Psalm 37 and in verse 7…
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Verse Listing and Notes
Ps. 37:7-11           The meek shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace
Ps. 37:34-40         The end of the perfect man is peace (vs. 34 – wait: expect)
Ps. 119:165           Great peace have they which love thy law
Prov. 3:1-6            God’s commandments add peace (vs. 2)
Prov. 3:13-18        All the paths of wisdom are peace
Isa. 26:3-4             Perfect peace whose mind is stayed (steadfast, steady)
Isa. 32:17              The work (achievement) of righteousness shall be peace
Isa. 48:18              Peace like a river
John 14:25-27       Not as the world gives
Rom. 5:1                Being justified by believing, we have peace with God, so how do we get that peace in our hearts?
Rom. 15:13           Joy & peace in believing
Rom. 8:6               Think spiritually, not thoughts of the senses
Phil. 4:6, 7            Be anxious for nothing (moderation – gentleness, patience)
Don’t worry over anything whatever; tell God every detail of your needs in earnest and thankful prayer, and the peace of God, which transcends human understanding, will keep constant guard over your hearts and minds as they rest in Christ Jesus – JB Phillips
Philippians 4:6-7   6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.  7 If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. – NLT
Col. 3:15-16    Let the peace of God rule [be an umpire, decide, determine, direct, control] in your hearts
Teaching
Prayer: Prayer and Peace (#913)