His Name Brings Peace!

Judg 6:23-24

23 Then the LORD said to him,"Peace be with you; do not fear, you shall not die."
24 So Gideon built an altar there to the LORD, and called it The-LORD-Is-Peace [Jehovah Shalom]. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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Mark 4:38-40

38 But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him,"Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?"
39 Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm.
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John 14:27-28

27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
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My Comments:

In the light of recent tragedies, the world is struck with fear and panic. Everyone's looking for answers for the storms in their lives. Likewise in the Old Testament, Israel lived in fear of the Midianites, who oppressed them through war and fear.

 God raised up a man called Gideon who was also a coward with storms in his own life, and revealed Himself as Jehovah Shalom, or "God Your Peace". That calmed the storms in Gideon's life and caused him to rise up as a man of God and we see him recorded as one of the heroes of faith in Hebrews 11.

In the New Testament, we see the physical demonstration of peace in Jesus, who is the Prince of Peace! He gives us His Peace, and He shows us how to walk in that peace! The disciples were in the midst of the storm and like Gideon, feared that they were going to die. Jesus spoke "Peace, be still" and the storm ceased.

Likewise when we go through the storms of life that will surely come, we have the Name of Jesus that brings peace to calm those storms! We can boldly say to those storms "Peace, be still in the Name of Jesus!" And know that those storms will have to obey!