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Next on In Touch, how to protect our peace. How to Protect Our Peace

When is the last time that you could ever remember experiencing

absolute peace in your heart. How long did it last? Why did you lose it? Is that kind of peace something that just comes once in a while in your life

or is it something that is there most of the time? Would you say that your life is characterized by one of peace or would you say it's rather by disturbance,

anxiety, fretting, caring, sometimes even to the point of being angry over your circumstance.

Whatever happened to that piece that you experienced and you thought,

this is absolutely wonderful.

Could you explain it?

Could you determine why you are so peaceful at that moment?

Was it something because of your outward circumstances that everything at that moment

seemed to be in such perfect order in your life, but why did you lose it and could you

have kept it and can peace really be an attitude and an experience and a joy in your life

that's there most of the time and not just sometime. Is it only there when you get some spiritual

high or is it that you just don't believe that's the way life is? Have you

finally concluded that somehow peace is just something that comes once in a while,

and certainly in this perturbed world that we live in, peace is a very rare commodity,

and therefore don't expect it lest you be totally

disappointed in life. Well I want to tell you you don't have to look at life that

way and I want you to turn if you will to Philippians chapter 4 and here is the answer to how to protect that

peace. Here's the answer to understanding what it is and how to protect it and

how you can live in it daily.

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