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ACTS 29 TODAY

coming to the knowledge of the TRUTH

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The Missing Ingredient: Supernatural Peace

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I didn’t understand how all of this worked until several

years ago when I fasted and prayed during an extended

seeking time. I was looking for the change in my life

that would make the difference. I wanted something I

could put my hands on. I was waiting for the angels to

appear or the heavens to open.

Those things didn’t happen, but when I came out of the

seeking time, I was left with something I never had

before. I entered into a degree of peace I never knew

existed. God put me on the Rock to stay!

You may ask, “Didn’t you always walk in peace?” If you

had asked me that before the fast,I would have

answered, “Oh, yes!” because I didn’t have anything to

compare it with. But this new peace was different. It

was unshakable!

This peace felt so good and so strange at the same time.

When things seemed to go wrong,I found out that I

could enjoy waiting with patience for God’s plan to

materialize! I could take my responsibility in a

situation without taking the care or burden of it.

So through prayer and fasting, God had caused me to

enter into a peace that was a tangible force keeping me

in a position to receive His power. He spoke to my spirit

about this peace,saying, “This is what you’ve been

looking for. It is the missing ingredient.”

You see, conditions on this earth aren’t going to get

better. Jesus told us in Matthew 24what the last days

would be like: wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes,

sorrows, persecutions, false prophets, and the love of

many waxing cold. The storms of life are getting more

violent. As time goes on, they will rage more and more

severely.

Fasting and prayer empty us of our fleshly nature and

allow God to fill us with His character. As the flesh loses

ground, the peace of God can begin to rule in our lives

(Col. 3:15). We climb from one level of peace to another.

Our faith becomes greater and greater.

All of this is waiting for you and me. We are capable of

so much more than merely over-coming the crises of

life. Each of us is meant to be a force on this earth for

God — and prayer combined with fasting are the power

twins that help us attain that goal!

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For in the quietness of My Spirit, My voice is known,and

My ways, My principles, and My precepts are shown. So

fly away with Me, saith the Spirit of Grace, for I and no

man will exalt you and give you your rightful place in

Myself. For peace will be the fruit, saith the Spirit of

Grace,the peaceable fruit,when you give me that

rightful place. (word given thru Dave Roberson)

UNTIL NEXT TIME

SERVANT LARRY