Stephanie Ike: Finding Peace When God is Silent | Better Together TV

yeah i really love that and i love that you even brought up david because you know when i think about david i think about someone who was just so focused on the lord he was so intimate with the lord that he was never really shaken you know goliath shows up to the scene and goliath is like a as a battle that they've never really seen before it's a giant that they've never really fought before and literally it's off or nothing you know it's either you defeat goliath or they serve them and become servants but nothing ever shook david up and that really stands out to me because you know right now in this season i've counseled a lot of people that talk about how they're losing their peace in this time but what i'm learning more than ever is that peace is about focus it's not that we're losing our peace in this season but we're losing our focus because when we focus on jesus when we focus on what his word says and knowing that god has never and will never change his mind about his promise to you about what he said to you then that focus allows me to even now receive wisdom receive strategy and receive the instruction of how to navigate fighting and slaying my giants and so this season i think more than anything is really teaching me that peace is about focus and as long as i'm focused on jesus then i would have the wisdom because jesus embodies everything he embodies wisdom he embodies peace he embodies knowledge and so in my intimacy with the lord what happens is i'm also intimate with his knowledge i'm intimate with his peace and from that place i can function through any season what do you think has been the secret to people's like defeating the enemy and listening to the right messaging in their own lives yeah i think honestly to be really tied to what we are all saying because i'm just thinking about the scripture that talks about blessed is the one who meditates on the law of the lord day and night and it goes on to just so much into that and when he talks about he will bring forth his fruit in every season every season which is i mean this season a season of a pandemic no matter what is going on that he is producing fruit and so just even going back to what christine said because when we're looking at what are we meditating on you know are we meditating on what the world is saying or are we meditating on what the word has said and i think that's where the shift comes because even right now you see how you know it's almost like we're asking like god what are you saying in the season one of the things that i've also noticed is you know this the feeling that god are you silent right now you know don't you have anything to say and it's so fascinating because i was even in the presence of god and i was asking him that i'm like lord why does it feel like you're not saying much about this season because here we are and we're like okay lord what are we supposed to do and he said something to me that i really just held in my heart and he said that my silence is directional when i am not speaking then you need to go back to what i already said and he took me back to abraham when the lord had said to abraham hey abraham you are going to have a son and all this amazing things and god has integrity when god speaks his word carries his integrity so the lord is not telling abraham knowing that he's married to sarah that you're going to have a son and he expects it to be with another woman he meant it for who he was married to and so abraham obviously you know there were circumstances connected to their um with their age and all of that that when his wife tells him hey why don't you have my maid what is crazy is that for many years god was silent it was many years until ishmael was i think about 13 or so that the lord came like came back and visited abraham and said the same thing to him and then he tell he told him that you should walk blameless before me and what i what was intriguing to me about that is that god's silence was so directional that it was always pointing back to what did i already say i'm not surprised by what is your limitation i'm not surprised by the obstacles that you're facing my word is is purpose for that because when you have a word from god then you have the weapon in your hands and i think that that is why even david it didn't matter what david used if it was the stones if it was a baby bottle because david carried the word of god in his heart he said who is this person that will come against the armies of heaven he understood that we have a word we don't belong to this natural life we belong to the kingdom of god and so right now i believe that what would keep everyone and their focus on god is to meditate be intentional about what you're meditating on be intentional about the conversations that you're having be intentional about what you're taking in and if when you start taking in fear then replace that you know really look at check for the roots what is this connected to because every any fear any doubt is connected to a lie so check for the root and replace that with the word of god and build on that word and so for me i think that has been the biggest encouragement in my life and what i try to impart in others as well i hope you enjoyed this video subscribe today and you'll never miss a new upload and don't forget to check out our better together shop thanks for being a part of our community

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Length: 5min 32sec (332 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 08 2020