00:04let peace stand guard for as long as you can remember you have been the one on guard watching for
00:11what might go wrong running scenarios so nothing arrives unexpectedly it is tiring work and it never gets a night
00:19off
00:20paul offers a trade do not be anxious about anything but in every situation by prayer and petition with thanksgiving
00:29present your requests to god and the peace of god which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and minds
00:37in christ jesus the word translated guard is a soldier's word it means to stand watch to be posted at
00:45the gate
00:46so look at what is actually being offered not that the thoughts stop coming not that every situation becomes easy
00:54but that the peace of god takes the post you have been standing at so you do not have to
01:00keep watch over your own mind alone
01:02notice too that paul does not say this peace will make sense it transcends all understanding you can have it
01:10on a day when nothing is resolved and nothing has changed
01:14that is not peace you talk yourself into it is peace that gets given and the way in is simpler
01:21than we make it tell him in every situation with thanksgiving not pretending to feel grateful but because remembering what
01:30he has already done makes it easier to trust him with what he has not done yet you were never
01:36meant to be the sentry over your own mind
01:39you can step down today's step take the thing you have been turning over all week and pray it as
01:46a request instead of a rehearsal say plainly what you want to happen and then leave the outcome with him
01:53the way jesus did in gethsemane finish by thanking him for one thing he has already done
