Peace in Your Mind
Saddleback Church Weekend Messages
Saddleback Church
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Why does it feel so hard to live with peace? In the first message of our series, The Path to Peace, we look at how to experience peace in our minds. So often, we carry more than we were meant to, taking on thoughts and responsibilities that slowly erode our peace. Isaiah 26:3 reminds us that God keeps those who trust in Him in perfect peace. Peace isn’t the absence of chaos. It’s a steady life that flows from a right relationship with God, available in any circumstance. The battle for peace begins in our minds. This message explores how to pause, protect your thoughts, and pray. When we don’t guard our minds, we’re vulnerable to lies. But when we shift our focus to God’s truth, everything begins to change. God invites us to trust Him with what we can’t control and take responsibility for what we can. As we do, we experience His peace and come to know Him as the God of peace.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Andy Wood, and I'm the pastor here at Saddleback Church, and this is our podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these new messages every week, and I hope you enjoy today's message. |
| 0:14.2 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:24.4 | Well, Church family is so good to be together. |
| 0:29.1 | Today we're starting a brand new message series, and this is the post-Easter weekend. |
| 0:36.2 | I know that you've heard so much about what God has already been doing and actually did this last Easter in our midst. |
| 0:42.8 | But I want to take a moment just to celebrate, like you just heard, 519 people that made a first-time decision to follow Jesus. |
| 0:45.6 | Now, when you think about that, the amount of eternal impact that happened last week. |
| 0:50.5 | And there are so many of you that you invested in friends, you prayed, you brought somebody to church with you, and I want to say thank you. Thank you for being the hands and feet of Jesus. Thank you for loving people in your sphere of influence. God used you in a powerful way. And if you're one of the 519 people that made that first time decision, we want to celebrate with you. You made the most |
| 1:11.9 | important decision of your life. And we're here as your church family to do everything that we can |
| 1:16.4 | to support and encourage you. And this day, today, we have a gathering at the end of this service |
| 1:21.7 | called Activate, which is the starting point. You've heard about that. But if you're new and I haven't |
| 1:26.6 | had the chance to meet you, |
| 1:27.8 | I'd love to meet you there after service to get to know you a bit. That'll be at 11 o'clock right after |
| 1:33.4 | this service, and that's a great next step. Now, coming out of Easter, you know, there's a little |
| 1:38.7 | bit of a hangover. We talk about a holy hangover after Easter that maybe some of our volunteers and staff went through. |
| 1:45.6 | On Monday morning after Easter, after preaching seven, I can't even remember my name. |
| 1:50.7 | And there are some moments like the 1 p.m. service at the end of the day on Easter, I can't |
| 1:55.5 | remember what illustrations I've used. I can't remember where I am on my sermon notes. |
| 2:00.0 | So this last week, we took a little bit of |
| 2:01.8 | downtime with the family. We went away to San Diego. We rented an Airbnb with four families. And I want |
| 2:08.2 | you to see a picture of these four families. They've been friends for years. So these friends, one, |
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