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Meditation on God’s Peace
This guided Christian meditation focuses on God as the God of peace, seen through the Father’… (visit YouTube for more)
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Our God is a God of peace. We see this through the kindness of the Father, the reconciliation of the Son, and the ministration of the Holy Spirit.
Join me as we meditate on three important relevant scriptures and prayerfully seek inspiration and guidance through the Holy Spirit.
First, let’s just breathe in and out. This breath is given us by God, and this helps us to settle and prepare for meditation. Three times we’ll breathe in deeply for seven seconds and out for seven seconds.
Follow my voice and the progress bar.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Again, breathe in.
Breathe out.
Last time, breathe in.
Breathe out.
Before we meditate, please offer a brief prayer in your head or out loud, thanking God for His Word and asking Him to meet with you today. I’ll give you a moment to pray.
We’ll meditate on three passages starting with Isaiah 26 verse 3.
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you.
Please repeat that after me out loud or in your mind.
You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you
because he trusts in you.
As a meditation aid, I’m going to ask two questions. I’ll leave the passage and the questions on screen for you. Do pause the video if you’d like more time on this.
Question one: What kind of peace does this passage reveal?
Question two: How can we keep our minds on God?
Our second meditation passage is John 14 verse twenty-seven.
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”
Repeat that after me:
“Peace I leave with you;
my peace I give to you.
Not as the world gives do I give to you.
Let not your hearts be troubled,
neither let them be afraid.
Two more questions. Question one: How is Jesus’ peace different from the world’s?
Question two: Why needn’t our hearts be troubled?
Our final scripture comes from Romans 12 verse 18.
If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.
Please repeat that passage now.
If possible,
so far as it depends on you,
live peaceably with all.
And two questions. The first is, what areas of your life lack peace?
And the second question, how can you live peaceably?
Thank you, God, for your good word, which you have provided to us as a help, a guide, and a revelation of your own holy person. Please continue to do your work in us through your Holy Spirit to transform us evermore into the likeness of Jesus Christ, in whom no evil is found. Amen.
I’ll make some space now for you to offer your own prayer to God, or simply to rest quietly in His presence as you reflect on this time of meditation.
Please come back to this meditation as often as it helps you. God is infinite, and he can show us so many different things in just one verse. With the Holy Spirit’s guidance, each time we meditate can be fresh and full of his life.
Can I pray a blessing over you?
How can we thank you, Lord God, for the ultimate peace you brought reconciling us to you through the death of your precious Son? May your peace now live in my friend in this time of meditation and beyond. Amen
