Be reinvigorated, as we highlight five practical and powerful keys to inner peace, in a world full of problems and worries. 

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Joakim Hjortland

Five Keys to Inner Peace

I recently came across a quote that I thought was pretty good.

It said the following, happiness is the new rich, kindness is the new cool, health is the new wealth, inner peace is the new success.

Today I'm going to talk about 5 keys to inner peace.

5 keys to inner peace in a world full of problems and worries.

But before we get into that, let's have another short word of prayer.

Dearly Father, thank you for this opportunity.

We pray that you may bless this time and lead my words.

We pray that as we open your word, that you may inspire us, strengthen us, invigorate us.

We pray that we may live from here with a sense that you are here, that your spirit ministered to us.

Thank you God for what you will do, we pray these things in Jesus' name, Amen.

In John chapter 14 verse 1 Jesus said, Let not your heart be troubled, You believe in God, believe also in me.

A lot of things in this world can trouble and hurt our hearts.

There are a lot of things in this world that can lead to fear and anxiety.

You know, things like disease and stress and finances and aging, death, work, education, loneliness, confusion, uncertainty concerning the future, pain.

Many things that can lead to anxiety, that can trouble our hearts.

I heard a story about a man that was very, very troubled.

His heart was beating rapidly, he felt terrible all over, he had headaches, he couldn't sleep at night, he knew that something must be wrong.

So he went to his family doctor and he said, Doctor, I feel terrible.

And he started to describe his symptoms and the doctor ran a whole bunch of tests on him and he called him into the office, they sat down together and they were looking through the charts, they were looking through the results and he says, your heart is fine, your liver is fine and he went down, you know, check by check and I can't find anything wrong with you, he said eventually.

But the man, he shook his head and he's like, there must be something that is wrong.

Just around the corner here, there is a school, and sometimes I go there Saturday nights, and there is a clown that used to go there, and he's there, he's performing for the children, and the kids laugh, and when I go there, I laugh, and when I'm stressed, it makes me feel better.

It makes me feel better going there sitting and listening and looking at that clown you know.

You need to go there and you need to sit in front of that clown and relax and laugh.

As he said that, the man, the patient in that office, he dropped his glasses, he took down his glasses and he looked straight into the eyes of the doctor and he said, Doc, I am that clown.

I don't know what the doctor said to him, But I know that all too often that is reality.

All too often people laugh out loud, but their hearts are crying.

Their hearts are full of trouble and pain.

Now come with me to the book of Mark, Mark chapter 4.

The context of this story is that Jesus and his disciples, they're out on the lake.

They're out on the lake, but as they're out on that lake, things do not go quite as expected.

Mark chapter 4, and we'll begin in verse 37.

And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat so that it was already filling.

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?

So they are out there on the lake and even though God led them into that boat, even though God led them out on that lake, they are experiencing this great storm.

They are experiencing something very tough on that journey, even though God was leading them to go out there.

And they are desperate and they are like, do you not care that we are perishing?

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.

But he said to them, Why are you so fearful?

And they feared exceedingly, or they marveled, as it says in Matthew's account, and said to 1 another, who can this be that even the wind and the sea obey him?

I think this is a powerful story because, you know, in this story, right, you see that they are in this, they have this great problem, They have this serious problem, this great storm.

They are in a situation basically which would have made a great deal of people greatly anxious.

The situation is so bad that the disciples, many of them used to being on the sea as fishermen, right?

They probably experienced some crazy storms in the past and also they have seen lots of miracles.

They have seen Jesus perform these marvelous miracles but yet when they are out on that lake that night they are super afraid.

But even though it's so severe situation, so severe storm, so serious situation, even though you have all of that and that's the case, Jesus is here on that same boat and he sleeps.

He's here and he's perfectly calm and peaceful.

They're like freaking out, they're scared to death and Jesus is just like peacefully sleeping, as if he was at the most peaceful place on this planet.

Anyone recognize this man on the screen here?

He's A hero of faith of yesteryear, 1 of my heroes.

George Miller, a man of prayer, a man of the word, a man of faith, lived a powerful life.

1 thing he did that he's well known for is he took care of thousands and thousands of orphans.

He started orphanages and he had a lot of responsibility.

He did other things too, but lots of responsibility.

You can imagine waking up and you need to care maybe for 2, 000 orphans and you need to feed them, you need to educate them, you need to clothe them, and deal with the people that are hired to take care of them and all these things.

You can imagine so many things waking up every day.

You have lots of things to think about, worry about every day probably.

But 1 night, Arthur Pearson, who later wrote a biography about George Miller, he was visiting George Miller, and before bedtime or as they were going to go to bed, they had a season of prayer together.

And Muller, at that point, He said to him, he said to Pearson, he said, hey, actually, we do not have any food for tomorrow.

But George Miller, he says, he wouldn't really have mattered.

They lived many times from hand to mouth.

They had, oh, they didn't really have huge savings.

So anyway, he's like stressed out, but George Miller, he's like, he's calm, he's peaceful.

They're kneeling down and he says, let's pray.

And George Miller is praying a simple prayer and then he goes to bed.

And I can't believe it, like what is this?

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