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- 0:00Grace will meet you in places you thought would break you.
- 0:05Today's scripture is coming from Genesis chapter #33 verse 20.
- 0:09And this is the Message Bible and it reads.
- 0:12Then he built an altar there and named it El Elohi Israel, which
- 0:18means Mighty is the God of Israel.
- 0:22Sometimes the hardest opponent you face is your own memory.
- 0:29You're I should have known better.
- 0:32You're why did I do that? You're What if this goes wrong
- 0:38again? Jacob didn't just face Esau, he
- 0:42faced himself, his guilt, his story, his decisions.
- 0:49And God didn't say erase your past.
- 0:53He said walk back through it because I have already gone
- 0:58ahead of you. Listen, peace is not passive.
- 1:03Peace is not soft. Peace is not the absence of
- 1:07conflict, it's the presence of God's confidence.
- 1:12Peace will walk right into the moment you feared most and say
- 1:16this moment will not devour ye, it will develop ye.
- 1:21And when peace shows up, don't Sprint pass it, don't shrug it
- 1:26off. Build your altar.
- 1:29Honor that moment. Your altar might be a breath
- 1:33before you react. Adrenal entry, a praise
- 1:36whispered in the car, a text to someone you once avoided or
- 1:41acquired. Thank you on a Tuesday morning.
- 1:46Altars are not monuments. They are memory makers so you
- 1:52don't forget who walked you through what tried to break you.
- 1:57And here says reflection moment. Ask yourself this, where has
- 2:03peace already walked into my story and I didn't stop to
- 2:07recognize. And here's Philly's declaration.
- 2:12Say this out loud. Peace finds me before fear
- 2:17forms. Grace goes ahead of me.
- 2:22I do not run from my past, I rise through it.
- 2:28I build altars, not excuses. And here's today's prayer.
- 2:34God, thank you for the peace that goes ahead of us.
- 2:37Thank you for rewriting the moments our fear
- 2:41misinterpreting. Thank you for walking towards us
- 2:45when Shane told us to run away, give us eyes to notice peace
- 2:52when it enters the room and a heart that is responsive enough
- 2:56to build altars when grace shows up.
- 2:59Thank you for the grace that not only covers our life, but covers
- 3:02our actions and our past, our future as well as our present
- 3:06moment right now. Thank you dad.
- 3:08When we get up we are renewed every single day by the kiss of
- 3:13grace. Thank you for always making sure
- 3:16that we move in your divine favor in everything that we do.
- 3:19We are on you for these things in the matches.
- 3:22Name of Jesus surprise. How can we do pray Amen.
- 3:25God bless y'all. I love you and I hope you have a
- 3:29fantastic day today Y'all take care.
- 3:34One last stop. Peace wasn't just protecting
- 3:38you, it was preparing the room for your return.