Jesus said to the disciples in John 14:27 ” Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” This word is the same word He spoke to the woman with the issue of blood, ” Go in peace and be made whole” It’s the same word! ” Wholeness” The world can’t make you whole, only faith in Jesus brings wholeness. In the Hebrew it is “Shalom” The peace of God, ” nothing missing and nothing broken”. That’s what Jesus purchased and provided for us on the cross. Nothing missing, no sorrows,no regrets, no longing to go back or “what if’s”, no empty bank accounts or lack of fulfillment, No broken relationships or infirmities!! Oh the redemptive power of the cross!!! All these things are now available to you by FAITH and faith alone! In John 21 after Jesus had not been seen of them for eight days, Peter said ” I go a fishing” and the others said ” We go also”. They were saddened by His absence and decided to go back to what they used to do before they walked with Him. We can never go back to the world’s way of existing, the world’s way of thinking. They fished all night and caught nothing! Suddenly He appeared to them on the shore of the sea of Tiberias and called out to them ” children have you any meat?” They said “no”. He said to them ” cast the net on the right side of the ship, and you shall find”. They did this and the net was filled to overflowing, so much they could barely make it to shore! There were 153 great fish and the net DID NOT BREAK. Recently a study did by marine biologists revealed there were exactly 153 different species of fish in the sea of Tiberias, one of every kind had to obey Jesus, and the the net didn’t break, ” nothing missing, nothing broken.” The peace He gave us is wholeness , but it is available only by faith, the ” right side of the ship”. There is only one right side for the believer, and it is the side of faith, the victory that overcomes the world.
Peace
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