Good morning everyone and welcome back to another morning with the masters where we devote ourselves

to the Lord daily with you. Good morning you guys. We are picking up with day three of our

finding peace devotional in the Bible app. There's a link to that in the description of this podcast

if you guys want to follow along with us and as always I'm going to read the scripture and

then Tori's going to pick up with the Devo. Let's do it. The scripture is James 4 verse 7 and it says

this. So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. That's one of my

favorite verses. The devotional today is titled Why We Lose Our Peace and it says there's only one

way to experience an abiding peace that transcends circumstances by faith. Faith is the foundation

for living in God's peace. An active confident trust in his presence and power to sustain and comfort

you no matter the circumstance you face. There are however certain issues that can undermine our

faith and rob us of our peace. Let's consider a few of them. One, sudden fear. Some people are so

accustomed to responding to every little dip in rise of life with fear and small doses of panic

that they can't even imagine there's another way to respond. They're so upset by change of all

types that it never dawns on them they can live with greater emotional stability. Two, the enemy.

We can be attacked by our enemy the devil who may use various means to cause us to doubt and

lose faith in our God but we must stand up to him. Scripture urges us to resist the devil and when

we do he will flee from us. Three, sin. Peace and rebellion cannot coexist. The only recourse is

to confess sin to God, surrender to him and ask for his help in turning from and resisting

automation. Then God's peace can flow once again. Four, giving up peace. In times of crisis,

we sometimes lay down our peace willingly. We give it up, concede it, abandon it. Always remember

that no one can take our peace from us. We have to surrender it and as such were the only ones who

can take it back. Five, losing focus. We can allow a myriad of bad news scenarios we hear and read

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