Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to the Messy Masterpiece Podcast, which had

in Tori. Happy Christmas Eve. Happy Christmas Eve. You want to hear the funniest thing? What?

It turns out yesterday, the day before Christmas Eve, what I call Christmas Eve Eve, is

called Christmas Adam. What? Because Adam came before Eve. What? Isn't that awesome? You're

told you that. The Discord towel. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I am shocked. They know everything. It's so

impressive. And today's just such a special day. So we're going to try to keep this quick on you guys.

At the end of the episode is when we're going to be announcing our day 11 winner of our Christmas

giveaway, which is a thrive Bible or a men's equivalent, of course. And we're picking up on day

five of our God with us devotional from the Bible app. There's a link to that in the description.

If you want to fall along with us, I'm going to read the description. I try to make it up on you

guys. You don't just fast forward or just get bored of the same old same old. Oh, anyways,

the scripture is John 16 verse 33 and it says this, I have told you all this so that you may have

peace in me. Here on earth, you will have many trials and sorrows, but take heart because I have

overcome the world. The devotional says Prince of Peace. What a gift we have in Jesus who set aside

the glory of heaven to come to earth in order to give us life, light and healing. He truly is a

king worth glorifying. In Isaiah 9, 6, God spoke through the prophet and foretold of the coming Jesus

that among many of his roles, he would be known as the Prince of Peace, which translates Lord

of peace. But how do we move from seeing and believing this truth to truly walking in and experiencing

the peace only he can provide? In the New Testament, Jesus told his disciples, I have told you these

things so that in me, you may have peace. It's no accident that when God announced Jesus is coming,

he called him the Prince of Peace. God knew the struggles his disciples would face after his departure

and he knows the struggles we will face today. We so often try to control every aspect of our lives,

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