God’s peace always resides where He is. Therefore, when there is no peace, it’s a good possibility that you are heading the wrong way:
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:7)
The late William Barclay, a world-renowned Bible commentator and minister with the Church of Scotland, made the following profound observation regarding God’s peace:
It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God’s voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.
I have learned from personal experience that this kind of perfect peace is an important key to discerning God’s will. When my heart is filled with an indescribable peace that surpasses all human understanding, I am in the center of God’s will.
The wonderful minister and writer R.A. Torrey wrote this simple-yet-profound statement:
The only man who is at all competent to interpret the will of God is the man who is in harmony with God, and the only man who is in harmony with God is the man whose will is fully surrendered to God.
Throughout Scripture we read of a loving God who seeks to communicate with His people. His purpose for creating us, in fact, was to enjoy a close relationship with us. He wants us to follow the Lord’s example, Jesus said, “My meat [purpose] is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work” (John 4:34).
To be in the will of God, we must be willing to obey Him and do His will.
www.BennyHinn.org Copyright © 2008, Benny Hinn Ministries. All rights Reserved. Excerpt from Your Will, Lord Not Mine by Benny Hinn (Irving, TX.: Benny Hinn Ministries, 2003). This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without prior consent of the publisher
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