“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”  (John 14:27)

Your chains have no power to remain when Christ is your King because as a child of the King, you have access to the greatest healing power that the world has ever known.

Jesus has a way of entering deep into the greatest emotional wounds of your life and bringing peace where there is no peace.  He remains calm when you are not calm.  He sits in the back of your boat resting when your greatest storms do rise.

Jesus is the great physician.  He is the master healer.  He has gone to prepare a place for you in heaven where there is no more sorrow and no more pain.  Even on this side of eternity we are afforded the luxury of great peace because “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” (Psalm 46:1)

There is nowhere you can run from His presence.  There is no situation that you are in that He cannot help you get out of.  It doesn’t matter what you have done—He will forgive you.  Even what we consider to be the greatest sins can be forgiven in Christ.  God has a way of forgiving and healing the gravest sins—all through the blood of Jesus.

Before I knew the Lord, I didn’t think He could forgive me because I was a wicked sinner.  There was nothing that I did not allow myself to do.  But I will tell you this, that even when I was lost in sin and had no mind for God. He came to me and spoke to me.  I wasn’t even searching for Him.  I was thinking about other things.  I didn’t even consider that He would forgive me and I didn’t even realize that I needed forgiveness for my sin.

In that moment when He spoke to me, great conviction fell on my soul, because I knew the purity of the one who was speaking into my life.  I knew the truth of my sinful nature, but I didn’t think He could forgive such a great sinner as me.

And yet He began to speak deep into my heart telling me of the plan that He had for my life and that He loved me very much.  It was too much for me to hear. I told Him to stop speaking and yet He continued to speak into my life.

Through time I began to realize that the shame and guilt of my sin had no hold upon my life.  I could feel His righteousness, joy and peace rising in me.  I began to understand that I was bound by sin no longer and that my life was made new—all this through the voice of God speaking into my life.

Each day my mind is renewed and I feel His love for me strongly like a fire in my chest.  He is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me.

When you understand that righteousness and good living is a gift from God, then you can begin to pray this prayer in Isaiah 45:8: “You heavens above, rain down my righteousness; let the clouds shower it down.”  The blessing of the Lord is to bring righteousness into the repentant heart.  Not by works of the flesh, but by the grace of God.  He has great things in store and all you have to say is “Yes, Lord.”

Get ready for a visitation of righteousness.  Get ready for the fire of God to burn in your heart.  Get ready for God to come closer than He has ever been before.  Your destiny is established, so just ask Him for more.