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Peace that surpasses all human understanding

Peace is something that every human being is searching for, it is something core to our heart, we long for peace in our minds and heart. Quest for peace has been an eternal human endeavour and mankind has been substituting many other things in his pursuit for peace whether it is religion, success, money, materials, drugs, alcohol or sex and have miserably failed in finding peace. We know that we can find peace in Jesus, he is the Prince of peace and He said in the Gospel of John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid". The moment we trust Him as our Lord and Savior we experience this wonderful and unexplainable peace. But the sad part is that many Christians find it difficult to experience this peace in their daily life on an ongoing basis. The bible talks about peace that surpasses all human understanding, a kind of peace that the world cannot give or even u

Gift of encouragement

Encouragement is the greatest gift that you can give some one around you. Everybody loves to hear a few words of encouragement, it makes your day, it peps you up, it brings a spring to your steps. It is not natural for everyone to be an encourager, words of appreciation does not automatically come to most of us, we are more prone to find out the defects and faults in others and highlight it. To appreciate someone or to acknowledge a good work done needs to be more of an intentional effort for most of us, for some to be an encourager is a natural gifting, like Barnabas (Son of encouragement) of the Bible who encouraged Paul. A few words of encouragement can motivate people to achieve exceptional results, drives them to work harder and maximize their God given potential. We don't have to look for great skills, talents or accomplishments to appreciate someone. It can be on small, mundane and routine little things of life that we find opportunities to utter a few words of appreciat