{"id":6489,"date":"2018-09-19T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=6489"},"modified":"2018-09-19T13:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T20:27:42","slug":"gods-peace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/gods-peace-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD\u2019S PEACE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1850056508\">16:33<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><em>These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>World War I, sometimes called the \u201cGreat War,\u201d was a huge waste of human life. It has been calculated that some fifteen million people lost their lives in this terrible conflict that ended on November 11, 1918.\u00a0\u00a0It was thought back then that peace would prevail and no more such wars would be fought \u2014 but it was barely 20 years before the even more devastating World War II broke out.<\/p>\n<p>As we honor this day of peace it is important to get a picture of what peace means. It is the Hebrew word \u201cShalowm\u201d (shalom). The Hebraic concept of shalom is \u2018nothing missing-nothing broken\u2019 but\u00a0figuratively it points to completeness.<em>\u00a0<\/em>The word\u00a0<em>peace<\/em>\u00a0is found 429 times in Scripture and is a concept that is important to understand.<\/p>\n<p>Over the centuries there have been many attempts to secure peace between individuals, families, communities, or nations. These human attempts have always failed because it is only the Lord who gives true peace.<\/p>\n<p>The wonderful thing is that the Lord gives us peace in the midst of the storms of life. His peace comes from the inside out rather than from the outside in. His peace passes all human understanding.\u00a0\u00a0May He grant you His \u201cshalom\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>Blessings dear hearts.\u00a0\u00a0May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;\u00a0&#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John\u00a016:33 \u201cThese things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.\u201d World War I, sometimes called the \u201cGreat War,\u201d was a huge waste of human life. It has been calculated that some fifteen million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}