Daily Affirmations - Day 2 - The Way of Peace - The Lord Promises Peace to His People

Day 2: The Lord promises peace to His people

The Lord is my peace

I will listen to what God the Lord says; He promises peace to His people, His faithful servants — but let them not turn to folly (Psalm 85:8)

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There is one special reason given by the Psalmist why the people of God should be most willing and eager to hear what God the Lord shall speak, and that is because “He will speak peace unto His people, and to His saints.”

You, beloved, will hear nothing from the Lord but that which will calm your fears, and cheer your hearts. The Lord speaks no thunders against you. His tones are tenderness, His words are mercy, His spirit is love, His message is peace.

I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for He will speak peace, and nothing else but peace, unto His own people.

~ C.S. Spurgeon

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Thou hidden source of calm repose,

Thou all-sufficient love divine,

My help and refuge from my foes,

Secure I am, if Thou art mine:

And lo, from sin, and grief, and shame,

I hide me, Jesus, in Thy Name.

Thy mighty Name salvation is,

And keeps my happy soul above;

Comfort it brings, and pow’r, and peace,

And joy, and everlasting love:

To me, with Thy dear Name, are giv’n

Pardon, and holiness, and heav’n.

Jesus, my all in all Thou art:

My rest in toil, my ease in pain,

The healing of my broken heart,

In war my peace, in loss my gain,

My smile beneath the tyrant’s frown,

In shame my glory and my crown;

In want my plentiful supply,

In weakness my almighty pow’r,

In bonds my perfect liberty,

My light in Satan’s darkest hour,

My help and stay whene’er I call,

My life in death, my heav’n, my all.

~Charles Wesley ~ 1749

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