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Peace Is a Person

God’s peace prevails over every situation in my life because the Person of Peace lives within me.

If we look around us at the circumstances—political, economic, social—the enemy has succeeded in raising up voices that best represent hopelessness. It doesn’t take much. We can simply turn on the news to immediately hear all that is wrong with the world. It is hard to find a voice of hope and easy to find hopelessness. Some give it a different name, calling it discernment, realism, or intelligence. But, whatever name it’s given, hopelessness is not a part of God’s kingdom. His intention for this world is to fill it with His presence. The angels declared, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!” (Luke 2:14). That is the will of God.

Peace is the prevailing substance of the atmosphere of heaven, and God has given us His shalom—everything coming into alignment with Him—as our inheritance. Peace is not the absence of something. It’s not the absence of war, fear, or noise. True peace is the presence of Someone. It’s the Prince of Peace who crushes the powers of darkness under our feet when we become permeated with Him. It is Peace Himself who offers Himself as the Comforter so we might never need to be afraid. It is for peace that God gave us His Son so we might taste eternity. How could we know that and choose to live without hope?

Though we can look at the circumstances of the world and feel overwhelmed, we are not here to announce the enemy’s victory; we are here to announce his defeat. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in us. Hopelessness has been defeated. His peace—that which touches our spirit, soul, and body—tames every opposition. God’s peace prevails over every situation in our lives because the Person of Peace lives within us.

Where do you see the world’s greatest need for the Person of Peace to invade? List some of the breakthroughs that would result from heaven invading these situations.