I admonish every pastor, every leader, every counselor in the Body of Christ.
We do not need one more person in our lives telling us what we need to do.
We do not need any more practitioners of "counseling" and assistance to point us to ourselves, or to keep us dependent on running to them for help.
It is an untenable and painful outrage that so many parents, teachers, and pastors teach their children or their young charges to keep running to them for peace in their hearts.
Where do we find peace? In Christ!
"1Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me." (John 14: 1)
God Bless the ministry of Joseph Prince -- no one can "let not" for you. Why? Because no one can believe for you.
If you do not want your heart to be troubled, then believe in Jesus, who is God, and who has been with God since the beginning (John 1: 1-2)
He grants us peace because of all that He did on the Cross:
"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:" (Romans 5: 1)
and
"For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." (Romans 14: 17)
This peace is connected with the gift of righteousness, a gift which He invites us to receive every day!
"For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." (Romans 5: 17)
and
"For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;" (Ephesians 2: 14)
We need to grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus (2 Peter 3: 18), and not work empty steps which take us nowhere.
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