Satan knows that God\u2019s Word can only be received by a heart and mind that are at peace, so he will do everything he can to keep you upset. He loves it when you get into an argument just before church and spend the entire service feeling bad. That\u2019s why you must do whatever it takes to keep your peace. There is power in peace! If the devil can\u2019t get you upset, he has no power over you. He only \u2018gains\u2019 control when you \u2018lose it\u2019. He keeps you upset in order to steal your peace, confuse you, and make you run in circles. Don\u2019t let him do it! <\/p>\n
Next time you get worked up about some issue, stop and ask yourself, \u2018What\u2019s the Enemy trying to do here? If I give in to these emotions, what will the result be?\u2019 When you\u2019re stressed out, you lose your joy. And when you lose your joy, you lose your strength, because \u2018the joy of the Lord is your strength.\u2019<\/i> (Nehemiah\u00a08:10\u00a0KJV) So it\u2019s essential that you exercise self-control and try to keep your peace. James writes, \u2018The wisdom that is from above is\u2026 peaceable.\u2019<\/i> (James\u00a03:17\u00a0NKJV) More than that, the tells us that the wisdom that comes from Heaven is pure, peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness. (See James 3:17\u201318\u00a0NIV). So, while getting along with others can be hard work, it\u2019s worth it to have peace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Satan knows that God\u2019s Word can only be received by a heart and mind that are at peace, so he will do everything he can to keep you upset. He loves it when you get into an argument just before church and spend the entire service feeling bad. That\u2019s why you must do whatever it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}