Good Morning Sunshine! You can let your guards down, because God  Wants To Be Your Guard! 

Philippians 4:7 NIV ~ “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 4:7 AMP ~ “And the peace of God [that peace which reassures the heart, that peace] which transcends all understanding, [that peace which] stand guard over your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus [is yours].”

Philippians 4:7 ERV ~ “And because you belong to Christ Jesus, God’s peace will stand guard over all your thoughts and feelings. His peace can do this far better than our human minds.”

Philippians 4:7 NKJV ~ “and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

Yes, I wanted you to have this scripture in all of these different versions so that you can be sure to understand what the Bible is saying. As you can see, I made the following words “Will Guard” or “Stand Guard” bold and underlined it for clarity purposes! This is what the Peace of God will do for you! 

Let’s talk about what a guard is, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary, it means that one is assigned to protect or oversee another. According to Easton’s Bible Dictionary, it means a defense to a point of danger; to take great care of something, to pay close attention, and to protect from intrusion (Nehemiah 4:22; Ezekiel 38:7).

The Hebrew word for “guard,” mišmār, which tells the nature of how someone should guard another. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon says that guarding is active, not passive. You see you are not trying to protect yourself from loving others love, but you are trying to protect yourself on how to love others. You cannot let the pain of what you are going through consume you and cause you to be a carrier of hurt instead of a conduit of God’s love! “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)! God wants your heart to be a wellspring of our life and the source of everything that you do. Just as a polluted well pours out water that causes pain, so can your heart, this is why you have to allow God access to your heart, where He can stand guard to protect you, and sometimes it is from, you! 

This Peace that God is offering you is a peace that transcends, rises, surpasses, goes beyond and any other kind of peace that you can ever experience. When you are going through a thing, you will sometimes reach out to someone else first before you reach out to God, you try to find peace in other people, places, and things, but there is no peace like the Peace of God! I want you to know that the Peace of God will outshine every other attempt made by you to produce peace anywhere else. This Peace, the Peace of God is in a category all on it’s on, it can stand alone and not fall or fail! There is absolutely nothing in the world that can compare with the Peace of God that is in and on you! 

Paul wrote in the Bible, what the peace of God will produce in your life! He says that this peace “…shall keep (guard) your hearts and minds….” Guard in this verse, is a military term that expresses how soldiers stood faithfully at their post at the city gates to guard and control anyone who went in and out of the city. They were the gate keepers, and no one could enter or exit the city without their approval or knowledge. The word guard is used to explicitly tell you that God’s peace, is everything you need to be safe! The only thing is, you have to allow Him to work in your life, and then He will stand at the gate of your heart and mind as a Guard that has been positioned there to control and monitor everything that tries to enter your emotions or exit in your responses to your emotions. When God’s Perfect Peace rules over you, nothing can get past that divine Guard and slip into your mind or heart without His approval!

Do you see this good thing that God is doing for you!  It means you can refuse to allow the devil access to you or throw you into panic mode or push any button inside of You that is contrary what God says! When the peace of God is standing guard at the entrance of your heart and mind, the devil has lost his access to your thought life and your emotions! God’s peace is different from the world’s peace (see John 14:27). True peace is not found in positive thinking or in good feelings, it comes from trusting God to work everything out in a way that is best for you as you fulfill the role God called you to do in this world!

Your citizenship in Jesus Christ Kingdom is sure, your destiny has been set, and you have victory over sin, because of what Jesus did for you on the Cross! Today, let God’s Peace guard your heart against all your troubles, test and tribulations of this world that try to bring you down and keep your focus off Jesus. When you trust God, He will give you a peace in a traffic, and He will interrupt anything that is trying to distract or pull you away from Him no matter what, because you made Him your Guard! Today, let your guards down so that God can Guard you properly and keep you from harm and keep you safe at the same time!  

Father, I am grateful that You have positioned Your Peace to stand at the entrance of my heart and mind and that it may dominate and control my lips and life because of what You put on the inside me is what rules me! Today, I choose to let Your Peace and Presence rise up and conquer me. For I am assured that with Your Peace standing at the gate of my heart and mind, I know it will disable every trick of the enemy in my life, for I was chosen by You and I belong to You! 

Let’s Pray:

Father, Thank You! Thank You for Your Peace! Father, the greatest desire of my heart is to love and to have Your Peace and to love others the way You love me. Father, I worship You and adore You with all of my heart, mind soul and strength. You reign from heaven above with wisdom, power and love. How excellent is your Name! Father, sometimes I go through difficult dynamics in my life, and it can get a little tough in my natural relationships, so I’m asking for Your help in navigating this season, I need You to help me walk in Your ways. Show me how to approach my closest relationships with both compassion and a commitment to emotional health and healing, for I desire to be more like You, for You are my righteousness. Father, disable, destroy, and dismantle every illegal activity that would try to disrupt or disturb my peace, attack my emotions or slip into my mind to cause chaos!  Father, I Thank You for loving me enough to put Your powerful Peace in my life as a guard! Father, I’m praying for a refilling of Your Holy Spirit and for You to cleanse my heart that I may act like You want me too. Father, guard my mind and put Your sweet savor on my lips and let your healing balm of virtue flow through my organs that each one of them may function in the way You have designed it. Thank You for shielding me and sustaining me with your peace, the peace that surpasses and exceeds every fiber of my being in the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen! 

Blessings…

Love, Minister Jean