Latest / DA CREW Podcast / DAILY DEVOTION WITH QUEEN ANGELA DAY 18 THE PEACE THAT GUARDS – Philippians 47
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning, good morning,
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- 0:33Speaker 1: Y'all.
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- 0:42Speaker 2: Come on in the room, y'all.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Peace beyond understanding. It's our listen for today. Peace beyond understanding.
- 1:00Speaker 1: M hm, come on in, come on here, come on here, Yeah,
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- 2:10Speaker 1: We are day number eighteen on this twenty one day journey.
- 2:14Speaker 1: We are enough day number eighteen on this twenty one
- 2:17Speaker 1: day journey. Y'all. Day number eighteen on this twenty one
- 2:21Speaker 1: day journey and the title is Peace Beyond Understanding, Peace
- 2:25Speaker 1: beyond understanding. Hmm, Peace beyond understanding. I tell you I'm
- 2:31Speaker 1: grateful for I'm just grateful for the opportunity.
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- 4:44Speaker 1: being said, Father God, in there ain't much Jesus what.
- 4:46Speaker 2: I thank you for this space.
- 4:47Speaker 1: I thank you for yet another opportunity that we can
- 4:49Speaker 1: come before you, Lord God, and share that that you've
- 4:51Speaker 1: placed on my heart. I'm not a theologian. I don't
- 4:54Speaker 1: walk in the office, but I just walk in experiences
- 4:57Speaker 1: these things that you have allowed me to experience to
- 4:59Speaker 1: bring you, Lord, but to help me out on this
- 5:02Speaker 1: journey we call life.
- 5:03Speaker 2: So Lord, I thank you for this hour. I thank
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- 5:06Speaker 1: I thank you for yet another opportunity to allow me
- 5:10Speaker 1: to see a day that I've never seen before. So Father,
- 5:13Speaker 1: I asked that you will decrease and decrease me in
- 5:16Speaker 1: the flesh and allow your spirit man to rise up
- 5:18Speaker 1: within me, Lord God, that I will be able to
- 5:21Speaker 1: carry the message that you placed on my heart, Lord God,
- 5:24Speaker 1: and that the person on the other end that's receiving
- 5:26Speaker 1: these nuggets, that's receiving these seeds, R God, that they
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- 5:33Speaker 1: to produce fruit from the seed that's on And Father,
- 5:36Speaker 1: I thank you, I thank you, I thank you, I
- 5:38Speaker 1: thank you, and I ask that you will just have
- 5:40Speaker 1: your way throughout this time that I am on this
- 5:43Speaker 1: live and I thank you and your son Jesus name, Amen, Amen, Amen,
- 5:48Speaker 1: and y'all again we are coming from this devotion is
- 5:51Speaker 1: called God is my refuge and my present health. God
- 5:55Speaker 1: is my refuge and my present help. We are they
- 5:58Speaker 1: number eighteen on this journey. We're day number eighteen on
- 6:02Speaker 1: this journey, and it is a twenty one day journal
- 6:06Speaker 1: Journal devotion. Today's title is peace beyond understanding, Peace beyond understanding,
- 6:17Speaker 1: Peace beyond understanding. Our scripture today is going to be
- 6:20Speaker 1: coming from Philippians four and seven, and it says, and
- 6:24Speaker 1: the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, regard your
- 6:28Speaker 1: heart and your mind, and Christ Jesus. Our affirmation for
- 6:35Speaker 1: today is God's God's peace guards my heart and mind,
- 6:42Speaker 1: bringing calmness in assurance. Again, God's Peace guards my heart
- 6:47Speaker 1: and mind, bringing calmness and assurance. Some days I'm sure
- 6:54Speaker 1: we feel like at we're at a stormy see news headlines,
- 6:59Speaker 1: personal pressure, and unexpected setbacks all at once. Yet the
- 7:04Speaker 1: scripture promise a peace that does just soothe, it guards.
- 7:11Speaker 1: Today's lesson invites you to experience God's peace at a
- 7:16Speaker 1: steady pace around your heart and mind no matter what
- 7:21Speaker 1: you are facing, He'll give you peace in the midst
- 7:25Speaker 1: of a storm. A little backstory on Philippians four and seven.
- 7:29Speaker 1: The Philippians is a joy filled letter Paul wrote from
- 7:33Speaker 1: prison to the believers of Phili, a Roman colony known
- 7:38Speaker 1: for its military presence. In chapter four, Paul addresses real
- 7:42Speaker 1: concerns conflict in the church, anxiety, and daily needs, then
- 7:48Speaker 1: gives a pathway to peace. Rejoice, pray with thanksgiving, and
- 7:53Speaker 1: focus your mind on what is true that it is
- 7:56Speaker 1: Philippians four, verses four through nine. It says, when pop
- 8:00Speaker 1: God says the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding,
- 8:05Speaker 1: regard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. He
- 8:08Speaker 1: is using a military tarb for God fair Rura, and
- 8:14Speaker 1: it invokes the image of Roman garsan standing watch to
- 8:19Speaker 1: a city familiar with soldiers. Paul paints God's peace in
- 8:24Speaker 1: a divine serenity, actively protecting us from fear tomorrow and
- 8:30Speaker 1: mental spiral through Christ. Our word of today is understanding.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Understanding is our human capacity to make sense of this
- 8:43Speaker 1: thing we call life and Philippians four and seven, it
- 8:47Speaker 1: says God's peace surpasses all understanding. It is a higher
- 8:53Speaker 1: than what we can analyze, what we can predict, or
- 8:57Speaker 1: what we can control. In other words, God's peace is
- 9:01Speaker 1: not a result of everything making sense. It is a
- 9:04Speaker 1: result of trusting the one who holds everything together. Huh,
- 9:09Speaker 1: our creator, our creator. So I want to focus on
- 9:14Speaker 1: this thing. God's peace is not dependent on circumstances because
- 9:18Speaker 1: it transcend understanding. Offering serenity amounts chaos. Everything can be
- 9:26Speaker 1: going haywire around you. But know that you can have
- 9:28Speaker 1: peace in God when we place our trust in Christ.
- 9:34Speaker 1: Peace is a person's presence, not the absence of problems.
- 9:40Speaker 1: Just say this, My peace I give to you, not
- 9:47Speaker 1: as the world gives. Again, my peace I gives to you,
- 9:52Speaker 1: not as the world gives. And that's coming from John
- 9:55Speaker 1: fourteen and twenty seven. Worldly peace demand control. Christ's peace
- 10:01Speaker 1: flows from his nearness. The Lord is near, he says
- 10:07Speaker 1: it in his word Philippians four and five. Peace is
- 10:10Speaker 1: the fruit of prayer for surrendering. Paul links peace with
- 10:16Speaker 1: a pacific practice. Do not be anxious about anything, but
- 10:21Speaker 1: in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, Let your
- 10:26Speaker 1: requests be known unto God, and peace of God regard your.
- 10:31Speaker 2: Heart in your mind.
- 10:34Speaker 1: We don't earn peace. We receive it as we release
- 10:38Speaker 1: our burdens and thank God in advance for faithfulness. Peace
- 10:42Speaker 1: is maintained by the renewing of our mind. Right from
- 10:46Speaker 1: the promise of peace. Paul instructs us where to go
- 10:51Speaker 1: to the place our thoughts true, honorable, just, pure, lovely,
- 10:56Speaker 1: and commendable. Peace strives where the mind is stayed on God.
- 11:02Speaker 1: So you got to be stayed on God. You gotta
- 11:04Speaker 1: stay focused on the one that created us. You keep
- 11:08Speaker 1: him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you
- 11:12Speaker 1: because He trust in you. And that's Isaiah twenty six
- 11:16Speaker 1: and three. We gotta understand these three things. God's peace
- 11:21Speaker 1: is protective and personal. If you go over to Philippians
- 11:25Speaker 1: four and seven Isaiah twenty six and three, you will
- 11:28Speaker 1: see this peace is not fragile. It stands guard over
- 11:31Speaker 1: Christ and stabilize both our heart, which is our emotion,
- 11:36Speaker 1: in our mind, which are our thoughts.
- 11:39Speaker 2: Secondly, God's peace is different from world peace.
- 11:43Speaker 1: You can go over and read it in John fourteen
- 11:45Speaker 1: and twenty seven and John sixteen and thirty three.
- 11:49Speaker 2: It says the world.
- 11:49Speaker 1: Promises peace to control or escape, but Jesus offers peace
- 11:54Speaker 1: in himself even in tribulation. Thirdly, God's peace is access
- 12:01Speaker 1: through trust, feel prayer in obedience. You gotta be obedient
- 12:06Speaker 1: to his word. Go over to Philippians four, six and
- 12:09Speaker 1: nine and Collosians three in fifteen and read it for yourself.
- 12:14Speaker 1: As we pray with thanksgiving, fix our thoughts on what
- 12:18Speaker 1: is true, and practice what we have learned in peace,
- 12:22Speaker 1: the peace of God will rule in our hearts. You
- 12:27Speaker 1: gotta do these three things again. I say, God's peace
- 12:30Speaker 1: is protective and personal. God's peace is different from world peace.
- 12:34Speaker 1: And God's peace is access through trust, feel prayer in obedience.
- 12:39Speaker 1: You gotta pray, you gotta submit, and you gotta be obedient.
- 12:44Speaker 1: How can you apply these things that I'm sharing with you?
- 12:48Speaker 1: How can you apply these things? Practice the exchange a
- 12:51Speaker 1: worry for prayer. Write down those things that are worrying you,
- 12:58Speaker 1: one by one, turn each into a pacific prayer, adding
- 13:03Speaker 1: one sentence of thanksgiving by faith For how God will
- 13:07Speaker 1: work y'all. Trust me, He's already working it out. He
- 13:10Speaker 1: just wants you to acknowledge it, so all you got
- 13:12Speaker 1: to do is write it down and give it back
- 13:15Speaker 1: to him. He tells us that in Philippians six and
- 13:20Speaker 1: seven by prayer with thanksgiving, cast all your anxiety on him.
- 13:27Speaker 1: Whatever's troubling in you today, give it to him and
- 13:30Speaker 1: leave it with him on today. Why it works because
- 13:33Speaker 1: Thanksgiving shift you're focused from problem to the provider. You
- 13:38Speaker 1: won't no longer think about what you're going through, but
- 13:42Speaker 1: the one that can see you through. Opening your heart
- 13:46Speaker 1: to receive peace. Set your mind God, refocus every time
- 13:51Speaker 1: anxiety knocks, anytime anytime you feel like the enemy.
- 13:56Speaker 2: Is coming up.
- 13:56Speaker 1: You got to refocus your mind. Refocus your mind in
- 14:00Speaker 1: your heart to think about those things. Remind yourself of
- 14:03Speaker 1: these scriptures. Write it down, put it on a sticky note,
- 14:06Speaker 1: post it up so that you can reference it, so
- 14:08Speaker 1: that you can see it, so you can speak it
- 14:11Speaker 1: over your life. You gotta understand that you have the
- 14:14Speaker 1: power to act. It's this without truth. You can ask
- 14:18Speaker 1: God these things. Spend time with him and ask him
- 14:21Speaker 1: and he'll show you. He'll give you the verse to
- 14:24Speaker 1: go to. He'll show you in the scripture. He'll do
- 14:26Speaker 1: it for you. Know that peace grows where your thoughts
- 14:30Speaker 1: aligned with God's truth. Go in that word, because that
- 14:34Speaker 1: is our basic instructions before leaving this earth.
- 14:37Speaker 2: That is the truth.
- 14:39Speaker 1: Go read it.
- 14:39Speaker 2: He said, his word is the truth.
- 14:41Speaker 1: And the life. Understand that. And then we got to
- 14:46Speaker 1: walk in a gentle rhythm of peace with others. Let
- 14:52Speaker 1: me repeat that, walk in a gentle rhythm of peace
- 14:56Speaker 1: with others. Okay, how can we do that? Intentionally? Respond
- 15:01Speaker 1: gently in one tense interaction. Speak slowly, listen fully. That's
- 15:07Speaker 1: why we got two of these and one of these.
- 15:09Speaker 1: We got two ears and one mouth. So be quit
- 15:14Speaker 1: to listen and slow to respond. Take it in and
- 15:19Speaker 1: aim for unity, not victory. A lot of us we
- 15:22Speaker 1: want to get one up. We want to get one
- 15:24Speaker 1: up on this person, one up on that person. When
- 15:26Speaker 1: it is for us, when it is for us to
- 15:33Speaker 1: just stay there and just do what God is telling
- 15:37Speaker 1: us to do.
- 15:39Speaker 2: That's it. That is it. Totally. Let your relationships and
- 15:48Speaker 2: be rational, y'all. Let your relationship, let it that.
- 15:55Speaker 1: Inner piece come out in your relationships and the inner
- 15:59Speaker 1: counters that you have on today, y'all, you never know
- 16:02Speaker 1: what the next person is going through. That's why you
- 16:05Speaker 1: got to allow your inner peace, that that thing that
- 16:09Speaker 1: He is doing for you, allowed that to trickle out.
- 16:14Speaker 1: Because God peace is near and He's always there. So
- 16:20Speaker 1: I got a poem for y'all before I lead, before
- 16:23Speaker 1: I close out, I'm gonna share this poem with you guys.
- 16:26Speaker 1: In this devotion, we have a stripture, an affirmation, un lesson,
- 16:32Speaker 1: a press starter or takeaway in a poem each day.
- 16:35Speaker 1: This is what is included in this devotion. And it
- 16:38Speaker 1: is only a twenty one day devotion. Y'all were day eighteen,
- 16:42Speaker 1: so we got three more days. And then at the
- 16:45Speaker 1: end section four, there's a self reflection section that will
- 16:50Speaker 1: allow you to reflect on every day that we have
- 16:53Speaker 1: went through. So it breaks down each one of the
- 16:56Speaker 1: twenty one days and it gives you some scripture, and
- 16:59Speaker 1: it gives you some that you can dive a little
- 17:01Speaker 1: deeper into it. And it's not to replace the Bible.
- 17:04Speaker 1: It's only to supplement the Bible so that you can
- 17:06Speaker 1: dive a little deeper into the things that you're learning
- 17:09Speaker 1: and the things that you're reading. I just encourage you
- 17:12Speaker 1: just to spend time, just to spend time in the
- 17:15Speaker 1: world and being able to connect and have that connection
- 17:18Speaker 1: with Him.
- 17:19Speaker 2: Because at the end of the day, all God wants
- 17:21Speaker 2: us to do is to.
- 17:23Speaker 1: Acknowledge Him and invite him in because we have no
- 17:27Speaker 1: power but through him we have all power. But we
- 17:30Speaker 1: got to invite him in and acknowledge him because he
- 17:33Speaker 1: wants to work it out for our goods so that
- 17:36Speaker 1: he can be glorified. So know that. So the poem
- 17:40Speaker 1: for today is in storms of Life your Peace, I
- 17:44Speaker 1: seek a common presence, strong yet meek.
- 17:49Speaker 2: In your embrace, I'll find relief. And y'all, that is
- 17:55Speaker 2: that piece.
- 17:57Speaker 1: I tried to make them short, then want to make
- 17:59Speaker 1: him loan. Just wanted something that would touch your heart
- 18:02Speaker 1: and encourage you to be encourage you to stay on
- 18:06Speaker 1: this journey. And I'm thankful that God has given me
- 18:10Speaker 1: an outlet through books and through poetry to be able
- 18:13Speaker 1: to continue to share his goodness and to share the
- 18:16Speaker 1: things that He's done for me. Because when he raised
- 18:18Speaker 1: me up, I find bed of affliction. I wanted the
- 18:20Speaker 1: way to share what he had done for me. But
- 18:22Speaker 1: I didn't want to stand in the porpit. I didn't
- 18:24Speaker 1: want to have these titles, didn't want to have all
- 18:26Speaker 1: those things. And he allowed me to do it through books.
- 18:30Speaker 1: He allowed me to do it through podcasts, and he
- 18:31Speaker 1: allowed me to do it through coaching and the things
- 18:34Speaker 1: that he allowed me to do. Those gifts and those talents,
- 18:37Speaker 1: and He's done the same for you. Don't sit down
- 18:39Speaker 1: on them, y'all. So as we close, I'm gonna share
- 18:43Speaker 1: these things with you. It's just a little short recap
- 18:45Speaker 1: of what I've shared with you on today and again.
- 18:47Speaker 1: If you miss this, you can go back. You can
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- 19:02Speaker 1: any lesson that I've been sharing over these last five months. Y'all.
- 19:06Speaker 1: We've been doing demotions now for five months, so you
- 19:09Speaker 1: can grab these nuggets. So as we close, God Peace
- 19:13Speaker 1: does not wait for perfect situations and circumstances. It meets
- 19:18Speaker 1: you right where you are through prayer, with thanksgiving, a
- 19:23Speaker 1: renewed mind and gentle obedient living. His peace guards your
- 19:27Speaker 1: heart mind in Christ. So today trade anxiety for prayer,
- 19:33Speaker 1: refocus your thoughts on truth, and practice peace in your relationships.
- 19:38Speaker 1: The Lord is near, receive his guarden peace. Join me
- 19:43Speaker 1: back here tomorrow for day number nineteen, y'all, love without limits.
- 19:48Speaker 1: We're going to be coming from First John Chapter four,
- 19:52Speaker 1: Verses nine and ten. Let's discover the measure less love
- 19:57Speaker 1: that fuels our faith and reshapes our lives. You can
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- 20:16Speaker 1: that there has been something that I have shared on
- 20:19Speaker 1: today that have blessed you and would encourage you to
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- 20:58Speaker 1: I'm grateful and thankful for that outlets and the opportunity
- 21:02Speaker 1: that God allows me to be able to share with
- 21:05Speaker 1: you guys. So thank you for your support know that
- 21:08Speaker 1: I love you with the love of Christ, and there's
- 21:10Speaker 1: absolutely nothing you can do about it. I pray that
- 21:12Speaker 1: your day is blessed beyond what you can see in
- 21:14Speaker 1: the natural, no matter what comes, that you know that
- 21:17Speaker 1: you have peace in God.
- 21:20Speaker 2: All right. I love y'all and be blessed.