Peace From God

I have been back to work now for 2 weeks and i was ok leaving Rowyn. i felt like since i had them change my schedule at work that getting home at 2:30 isnt so bad. Today for some reason i have been so sad to not be home with him. i dont know why today. Maybe its because Rowyn has to go have his 4 month shots today when i get off or maybe its just setting in me leaving him....its was so nice to tell him good morning when he wakes up and see him smile so big seeing me when he first wakes up. it just melts your heart. i loved starting my day out seeing him smile. 

Being down today and wanting some peace and comfort, i looked up some verses to help me get thru the day. John 14:27 popped up. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled and do not be afraid. A great verse, and i was passing it alone to my friends but i wrote John 14:12. 

12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 

I was like thats not the verse, but i was curious to see what it said. so i read from 14:12 to 14:27 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit

15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 

17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 

18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.

19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 

20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 

21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” 

22 Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, “But, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?” 

23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 

24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me. 

25“All this I have spoken while still with you. 

26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 

Just reading those words today lifted me up to think that God is always with me and whatever i ask of him he will do. We are so blessed to have a savior that loves us and will take away our pain, sorrow, anxiety, depression,or whatever you are feeling if you have faith and follow his commandments. Worrying is hard not to do. i try not to worry. i know it does no good, but sometimes i get bogged down by the things of the world and forget that there is no reason to worry. God will take care of everything just like he always does. 

Matthew 6:25-27  “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?  Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

Psalm 55:22  Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved

1 Peter 5:7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

I hope this helps someone that is down, depressed or worrying over things they cannot do anything about. Just bring it to the Lord and let hem carry your burden.