Peace With Ourselves

This weekend intensified Catholic child emotions turn away, causing deep distress in today's program helps you focus on key truths that are essential for letting ourselves deserves that all of those have the desires that we have a threefold piece piece with him, which is the result of having the gift of eternal life, and knowing please with elbow switches their capacity to have a harmonious relationship will the people and peace within ourselves with ourselves, which is a quietness of the surrender to browse so that is the result of learning to accept ourselves the way we are realizing that God has something special for each and every one of ours. God desires that we have peace with ourselves and that is the part of peace that oftentimes eludes people and that's the section of peas that I was there with in this message and when you turn if you will.

34. Saul and the type of this message is simply that that is peace with ourselves. I just want to read one single verse out of this passage and it is a twofold admonition to others. In Psalm 34 and verse 14 is what the psalmist says depart from evil and do good, and then listen seek peace and pursue it.

That is, go after that is fine. He says pursue it. That is, don't give up until you discovered it is the will of God that we have peace within ourselves with others and with himself. So what I want us to do.

This message is this. I want us to look at those things that are absolutely essential for us to believe and to experience an auto to have peace with ourselves because you do if you don't have peace with yourself. You are not going to enjoy peace with God.

Peace with others because we had to live with ourselves. So let's think about what these necessities are not on the encourager to jot them down. Be honest enough to look at each one of them and say God is this true in my life. Is there some area of my life here that I need to look at the something that's causing me to miss out on the best of light because I don't have any peace with myself.

I don't have this tranquility, the serenity of heart. I don't feel harmonious on the inside but rather opulent stripe and separation and being a fragmented on the inside and is a look at my life and I look around me somehow on the inside. Things just don't connect right is just not right and just unhappy God with you willing to be honest and wicked yourself something can happen to you during this message limit is say this is not any one of these things that I'm going to talk about. It's all up and when you hear them you realize you don't yet that's true that's true that's true they're all true. And so it's not about us and like if I get this fixed up I'll be okay. All of them are true and so I want to encourage you to get out pencil piece of paper.

Give it time for second or so to do that and begin and the first three of these would be the ones that would be the most evident, but as we move along will see some the not so evident. Remember what we are talking that we talking about those essentials in your belief system and your actions that will make it possible for you to live at peace with yourself a sense of tranquility, a sense of calmness and since of quietness since of harmonious relationship with yourself that will make a difference in whether or how much you enjoy God how much you enjoy others and it begins with this very first requirement and that is that you not receive the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal savior and you say, what does that have to do with minor peaches. What it has to do with this settles once and for all where you going to spend eternity.

Let's face it, you cannot have peace with yourself when you do not know where you going to spend eternity. All you believe and think the possibilities that you can be separated from God forever and ever and ever and is he says living in outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth.

There is no way you can possibly live with peas. Knowing that is a possibility. So step number one yet to settle this issue with your relationship to God, which is to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal savior.

He says he gives us the gift of eternal life to those who believe that the second thing that is very essential is this and that is that you believe and accept the truth that God is absolutely sovereign, that wise that essential because if we accept the truth that God is absolutely sovereign that protects us from the continuing fear of safety. Suppose this happens in my life.

Suppose that happens, he says in that hundred third Psalm the 19th verse that he has established his throne the heavens and his sovereignty rules.

Overall, that is, God is an absolute control of all things.

If I can accept the fact that it is an absolute control of my life in every aspect of it. I don't have to be fearful. Listen, you cannot live with fear in your heart and peace in your heart the same time you have to make a choice and it is a choice we make. So if we don't have peace in our heart. We must settle the issue not only listed where we go to spend eternity.

We must settle the issue of who is in control, that we don't have any reason to live.

Walking around in fear that is 1/3 essential and that's this this principle is so clearly written throughout God's word, that is, that God is going to be every need that you have. He says my God shall supply all of our needs according to his riches in glory. Those of us who walk up rightly shall not want any good thing not a single thing he's going to provide every single need our heavenly father does not want you waking up in the morning or any day, going to bed at night rolling and tossing and tumbling all night long worried and concerned about what may happen or that you needs are not going to be met with. It is a material need a physical need or that is a spiritually some emotional need is a God who answers prayer. You see, the reason I know that you can have peace and have those kind of fears is this because to doubt God's word is the doubt, the living God. And if you're in doubt of God about one thing more than likely you gotta be in and out with him about some other things you can't live with peace in your heart.

Peace with yourself have serenity and quietness of soul tranquility of heart. At the same time be doubting that God is going to do what he promised. Does he not say flowers that feel they don't fret and worry birds of the air, they don't fit where your heavenly father knows all of their needs and if he provides for them will not provide for you and yet there many people who worry and fret over not having this and suppose this happens. And suppose I don't have that our heavenly father's promise to supply every single need of his children and his time in his way. He knows what our needs are.

But there's 1/4 thing we think in terms of living with peace within ourselves, and the fourth one is this and that is to maintain a clear conscience maintain a clear conscience in the 24th chapter of acts, listen with the apostle Paul said 24th chapter and the 16th verse, he makes it very clear about his own interest in his own concern in this area. Here's what he says. He says having a hope in God, which these men cherish themselves. There should be something a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked inverse listen. He says in verse 16. In view of this, I also do my best to maintain always a blameless conscience both before God and before men jealously cover their supply is a blameless walk is a clean conscience so important and so essential to peace because God placed the conscience within us as a warning signal that is when we are heading in the wrong direction in our life to do something wrong or to say something wrong. Oftentimes we know in our heart.

All of a sudden we get this warning or having already done it.

Having already said it, and we say our conscience bothers us now what is it it's bothering as to what's bothering us his guilt. So they keep a clear conscience means that protects us from the very weighty harassment and listen the continuous shouting's of our conscience. God desires that you and I have PT says seek it, he says, pursuant he says my piece are given to you not as the world gives give on the let not your heart be troubled.

He says you but don't don't be afraid know it's it's peace. God wants us to be able to live with it because, listen the more peaceful you are, the more tranquil your heart the more settled your spirit, the more effective you got in your witness for him and not on that. The more you can enjoy like the better you gonna do it every single thing you do in your life, your vocation, no matter what it is you gonna do it better and be better added if you living with peace in your heart because you see the lack of it) should think and divide your thinking you cannot live with a guilty conscience and have clear thinking in your mind and heart.

It just doesn't happen. Another very important element at this point is this, we must be able to accept ourselves the way God made us now what does that do not watch this to accept yourself the way God made you help solicit protects you from trying to change those things of which you have absolutely no control that many things in life for which you have no control.

So if I'm going to have peace in my heart I must be willing to accept myself when a person says I'm not worthy.

I'm not fit.

I don't like me, you know what happens your attitudes and your actions become such other people don't like you is something you do to yourself. You don't like yourself is a lot I would like to accept myself and I feel so rejected. You don't like yourself, you can mark this down if you get up every morning you said I looked terrible. I just looked terrible is what happened. You can mark this down this is the law. Your actions will follow your imagination every time every time.

Not most, every time the way you imagine yourself to be.

You will become sooner or later, and so God is giving you an imagination he's given you reality.

He said for example that he loves you so much, that is his divine will to conform you and me into the likeness of his son. What greater complement could he give us the likeness of his son is maiming a look like, but it means that character. He wants to build a no such character what's the most important thing about you anyway.your flesh but your character your heart your soul your innermost being. That's who you really are and God desires the best for you.

He doesn't want you rejecting yourself and saying I'm not worth anything up. Who wants to be my friend.

Why would anybody want to be my friend, nobody, and I don't have this not in on this and on the you know what that's all erroneous thinking is somebody special in God's eyes. But you know what, as long as these, the attitude you have. You cannot have peace and so I'm servicing. If you can have peace. You got to start with you. You gotta start with your attitude toward yourself. Not that you rejected but the Jew greatly loved by Almighty God. The mother very important. Essential is this. Listen, you must have a sense of purpose in life. A sense of purpose in life protects you from floundering and wondering and wasting your life. God made you for a purpose he will show you that purpose. He will give you that purpose until you find it until you discover until you believe that you are walking where God wants you to walk doing what he wants you to do you not going to have the page you have all the money all of this and all that it begins with Jesus Christ and then we have to look on the inside. If you can live with yourself, you can accept yourself. Where's the peace you need a purpose in life and his parents. You need to instruct your children so they can emit when you start say God has a will for your life. God has a purpose for your life. God has a plan view I got is something you do drilling in their minds and hearts so they don't waste time and waste their life that is a purpose in life. If you going to experience peace. You got have a purpose. You say well just a homemaker say just in God's made your wonderful wife take care of your family. You not just anything that is your purpose for now. God may change what you do in your life. But listen, he has a purpose for and he will give you direction at every season and every stage of your life, what you should do but it begins with knowing what that purposes so let's think about this whole idea. Likewise, that we might not only must have a purpose, but we Melissa you must have a sense of competency, which means you must have a sense of the fact that you are able you capable you qualified you can do it a sense of common disorders that do that protects us from the cause of failure, which oftentimes is an overwhelming sense of inadequacy.

I can't God made every single one of us competent, capable able ready to do whatever he wants us to do that we may have to get an education to do. We may have to hold on our skills but listen, God would never call you to do anything.

All require you to become something he does not help you in ages.

So if you have this feeling of being very encounter with you, and I couldn't do that. I never have done that when you know all of us have done things we never had done before. You can't wait for you got it all together because about time you get it altogether sums gonna fall apart. Listen you trust in the living God, your competencies in him and you not going to ever have any peace in your heart if you go to work everyday thinking. I'm so an adequate is probably not going to work. I'm gonna fail in this message, you cannot feel like you're a failure and have peace you can't feel like I can't do this and I can't do that I can't do the things that are required of me and have any peace in your heart you listen, you will condemn yourself, you will judge yourself. You criticize yourself you put yourself in despair. That's not the will of God, seek peace and pursue it. He said my peace I give you. Not as the world gives give on you. Let not your heart be troubled. God want you to walk in peace but you got have a sense of purpose clear conscience. Listen know the that you accepted by him.

You know what difference does it make what the world thinks as long as God loves you and he has accepted you and so we have had a sense of competence, but not only that something else very, very important.

When I think about all the essentials and that is we must have a sense of belonging very important.

We have a sense of belonging and what does that do a sense of belonging protects those listen from feelings of rejection. You know why because, listen, every single person needs a sense of worth, a sense of belonging in the sense of competency.

You know what a tripod is. It has three legs take any one of them out and it goes down it doesn't stand on two legs and stands on three without a sense of worth, I'm somebody I'm somebody important. God is accepted me a sense of competency I can do it with the help of God docketed a sense of belonging. I belong to him. He belongs to me and so a sense of belonging is very important because it protects us a protects is in lots of ways. God want you he want you to feel you belong to him because you do and then I would just mention one other new lots of think we can say about that and that is you must be Christ centered and not self-centered Christ centered and not self-centered Christ at the heart of your life. Jesus is I am your life. He said I have your life living on the inside of every single one of those is a person of Jesus Christ.

Now it's one thing to have peace with God.

That is to be saved, not the peace of God. Peace with God because the peace of God is not going to be in your heart as long as all these things are messed up peace with God means the battles over you trusted him as your Savior and you have the gift of eternal life harmonious relationships of other people are going to be greatly affected by your capacity to live in peace with yourselves and so my prayer for you is simply this, that you would be willing to stop and ask yourself the question that I really have peace of inside it's my prayer that you would be willing to look at yourself and make whatever decision you know it's wise to deal with that area of those areas of your life that you've never trusted Christ as your Savior as number one. I want to encourage you to ask him to forgive you of your sins and telling that you messed that up. You tried to do. It hasn't worked and you will start in step number one in discovering your peace with him and then be willing to look in yourself and say God I want to deal with this loan I want to deal with that. Lord, Lord, I'm going to deal with this and you know what he will show you exactly what to do and how to handle and then his and there was going to happen. Then you gonna wake up and look in the mirror and you're going to think something's different. Same old beard or same old face something different. It was different when the inside changes, you cannot keep it can keep it. Why because that's the real you coming out and you discovered peace and you can thank you for listening to peace with ourselves if you'd like to know more about Charles Stanley in touch ministries, Intel started wagging his podcast is a presentation of intense ministries Atlanta to attend