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I Am Using The Six Biblical Principles
To Be A Peacemaker
Jesus, make me ready to practice using The Six Biblical Principles; help me practice them on me being a peacemaker. First, give me Your POWER-DESIRE to be a peacemaker. Second, empower me to STUDY the Bible and learn how to be a peacemaker. Third, help me PRAY the best kind of prayer as I ask God to make me into a peacemaker. Fourth, empower me to fix my spiritual eyes on You and wait until You give me the faith. Then let that faith empower me to BELIEVE that You are making me into a peacemaker. Fifth, empower me to yield to God’s LOVE so I can care enough about people to help them get peace in their lives. And, sixth, empower me to take FAITH-ACTION and start joining You in living on the basis of the fact that I am a peacemaker.
Jesus, everytime I hear these words of Your, empower me to always put them into practice. Let me be like a wise man who built his house on the rock (Mat 7:24). Teach me that at this point, I am STUDYING and learning what a peacemaker is and how to be one. Then help me see that on the next page I will be PRAYING and asking You to turn me into a peacemaker. Make it clear to me that the fact that I am doing these things demonstrates that I have the DESIRE to be a peacemaker. While I am STUDYING and PRAYING through these two pages, empower me to keep my eyes fixed on You. Give me faith to BELIEVE You have made me into a peacemaker. Once I BELIEVE You have empowered me to BE a peacemaker, help me yield to God’s love and take FAITH-ACTION. Help me start looking for opportunities to practice being a peacemaker.
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Mat 5:9 (NIV) Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS,
for they will be called sons of God.
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I Am Being A Peacemaker
I Have Peace
Jesus, make it clear to me that THIS is the moment I get your peace. You are speaking your powerful peace into me right now: Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid (John 14:27). Thank You for giving me this opportunity to read this Scripture from the Bible as it being from God’s Book. Thank You for helping me accept the fact that this verse is NOT telling you what to do. If I did, it would be a law that I would be responsible to obey; BUT instead, it is a creative word from You. When You said to me, “Do not let your heart be troubled and do not be afraid”, You gave me the power to accept Your peace into my mind, heart, and life. I now BELIEVE You have just SPOKEN the power into me to not let my heart be troubled and not be afraid.
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I Can’t Give What I Don’t Have
My peace I give you: Jesus, teach me that when I have faith in You, I believe that what You say is true. When You say: “My peace I give you”, I don’t have to wonder when that will happen, how it will happen, or where it will happen. Help me always understand that it happened to me, when I read it! But, make it clear to me that it can lay dormant in me. Now that You have spoken peace into me, train me on what You want me to do with it.
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I Can Get What I Need To Give
Jesus, help me be willing to apply The Six Biblical Principles to being a peacemaker? Empower me to DESIRE to have Your peace influencing my emotions. Empower me to STUDY and find out how to take advantage of it. I now PRAY and ask You to teach me how to apply it to all the situations of my day. Empower me to fix my eyes on You until You give me the faith to BELIEVE I HAVE peace. Empower me to LOVE people enough to allow You to use the peace in my heart and give me the power to be a PEACEMAKER. Empower me to take FAITH-ACTION and start living on the basis of the fact that You have spoken peace into me.
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The Peacemaking Requirement
I Can’t Give What Others Don’t Want
Jesus, show me that I can’t give peace to a group of people who are like those described in Romans 1:29-31? Rom 1:29-31 (NIV) They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Jesus, show me that in Romans 1:29-31, a person or group have to be open to peace. I can’t just go around solving arguments, conflicts, disagreements, and relationship problems wherever I see them. As I submit my attitudes and character to You, guide me to people with relationship problems; BUT, let those people DESIRE to be helped to get peace in their lives and relationships.
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They Must DESIRE Peace
Rom 7:15 (NIV) I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. Jesus, show me that there are people who want or DESIRE to be helped with their relational problems. They know they should do better with the way they treat people. They are TRYING to do better; feeling bad they aren’t doing better; and looking for a way to do better. Teach me that these are candidates for a peacemaker to bring peace into their lives. But, make it clear to me that these people can’t just be helped to get along with those around them. You are NOT making me into a mediator who is facilitating peace in a relationship. You are using their relational difficulties to help them look for the spiritual power to live a life of peace. Show me that secular humanistic advice and mediation only bring temporary solutions. If the person doesn’t have Your peace, then I can’t just try to make the relationship better.
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As A Peacemaker, I Must BELIEVE In Jesus
Jesus, teach me that peacemaking consists of providing people with salvation, justification, and sanctification (spiritual growth). If I deal with the issue they are having with a person rather than the CAUSE of the issue, the relational problem will never go away. Help me understand that an UNSAVED person can’t truly forgive; they can’t understand spiritual concepts; they can only ACT forgiving, nice, loving, and teachable. Help me always keep in mind that without Your power, I am remodeling the person, refurbishing them, repairing them, and replacing one of their problems with another. Show me that You don’t just patch up lives, You transform them. 2 Cor 5:17 (NIV) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! Help me understand that peacemaking is only possible for those who will receive Your peace.
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I Don’t Trust My Skills
Gal 5:22 (NIV) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, PEACE, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Jesus, help me see that if my attitudes and character have a certain amount of faith in me, I will move away from leading people into a relationship with You. I will start giving advice, counselling, mediating, and training people on how to get along. |
I Am Giving What I Have
Jesus, make it clear to me that The Six Biblical Principles must be used in helping others get Your help. Teach me that the objective is to help them DESIRE Your help with their relationships, You helping them be willing to start STUDYING Biblical principles about relationships, You helping them start PRAYING for Your help, You helping them look to You for faith so they can BELIEVE that only You can help them; You helping them yield to God’s LOVE so they can be empowered to have better relationships, and You teaching them how to take FAITH-ACTION and start basing their relationships on cooperation with You. Show me that the first step into this is me showing them the incredible benefits of receiving Your power through salvation and justification.
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This concludes your textbook studies and workbook prayers for today.
Just spend some time reviewing and believing you received
what you have studied and asked for so far.
Let Jesus use these truths to change your life.
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