April 24 – Peace Over Pressure

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, April 24th.

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Peace over pressure.
Pressure has a way of filling

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every corner of the mind.
What do people think of me?

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Am I falling behind?
Why does their life look easier?

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Why do I feel so tired?
Proverbs chapter 14 verse 30

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says a tranquil heart gives life
to the flesh, but envy makes the

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bones rot.
That is a vivid picture.

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Comparison does not just
distract us, it drains us.

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Romans chapter 8 verse 6 says to
set the mind on the spirit is

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life and peace.
And Romans chapter 8 verse 37

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reminds us that in all these
things we are more than

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conquerors through Him who loved
us.

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Peace does not come from having
a perfect schedule, perfect

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relationships, or perfect
confidence.

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Peace comes from where your mind
is set.

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When your mind is set on
comparison, you will feel

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restless.
When it is set on fear, you will

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feel trapped.
When it is set on the Spirit,

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you begin to remember what is
true.

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You are loved by God.
You are held by God.

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You are not fighting for victory
alone in Christ.

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You are living from His victory.
That does not mean pressure

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disappears.
It means pressure does not get

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to rule you.
Stress may be real, but it is

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not your master.
Envy may knock, but you do not

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have to invite it in.
Fear may speak, but the Spirit

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speaks.
Life and peace.

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Today, notice what your mind
keeps returning to.

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Then gently turn it back to God.
Set your thoughts on His

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promises.
Set your heart on His presence.

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You are not just surviving
through Jesus.

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You are more than a conqueror.
Let’s pray.

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Heavenly Father, thank you for
offering peace that is stronger

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than pressure.
Help me set my mind on Your

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spirit instead of comparison,
fear or stress.

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Remind me that I am loved and
held by you.

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Teach me to live as more than a
conqueror through Jesus today.

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In Jesus name, Amen.
What if you could rise up and

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declare with full spiritual
authority, I shall not die, but

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live?
Death Defeated is a powerful

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believers who are ready to

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confront premature death, break
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God’s covenant of life over
their destiny and household.

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Book 1, Deliverance from Death,
breaks chains of premature death

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and generational attacks.
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Devices, exposes hidden traps
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schemes.
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against Death, activates
supernatural protection and

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divine preservation.
Book 4, Disarming the Destroyer

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overthrows deadly assaults and
silences the spirit of

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destruction.
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establishes resurrection
authority, victorious living,

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and destiny fulfillment in
Christ.

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This series equips you with
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prayers to reject fear, cancel
dark decrees, and walk in divine

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preservation.
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Proverbs chapter 14 verses 30 to
31 World English Bible.

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The life of the body is a heart
at peace, but envy rots the

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bones.
He who oppresses the poor shows

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contempt for his Maker, but he
who is kind to the needy honors

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him.
Romans chapter 8 World English

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Bible There is therefore now no
condemnation to those who are in

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Christ Jesus, who don’t walk
according to the flesh, but

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according to the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of

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life in Christ Jesus made me
free from the law of sin and of

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death.
For what the Law couldn’t do, in

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that it was weak through the
flesh, God did, sending His own

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Son in the likeness of sinful
flesh and for sin.

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He condemned sin in the flesh,
that the ordinance of the Law

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might be fulfilled in US who
don’t walk according to the

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flesh, but according to the
Spirit.

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For those who live according to
the flesh set their minds on the

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things of the flesh, but those
who live according to the

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Spirit, the things of the
Spirit.

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For the mind of the flesh is
death, but the mind of the

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Spirit is life and peace,
because the mind of the flesh is

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hostile toward God, for it is
not subject to God’s law,

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neither indeed can it be.
Those who are in the flesh can’t

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please God.
But you are not in the flesh,

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but in the Spirit, if it is so
that the Spirit of God dwells in

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you.
But if any man doesn’t have the

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Spirit of Christ, he is not his.
If Christ is in you, the body is

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dead because of sin, but the
Spirit is alive because of

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righteousness.
But if the Spirit of him who

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raised up Jesus from the dead
dwells in you, he who raised up

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Christ Jesus from the dead will
also give life to your mortal

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bodies through His Spirit who
dwells in you.

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So then, brothers, we are
debtors not to the flesh, to

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live after the flesh.
For if you live after the flesh,

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you must die.
But if by the Spirit you put to

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death the deeds of the body, you
will live for as many as are led

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by the Spirit of God.
These are children of God.

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For you didn’t receive the
spirit of bondage again to fear,

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but you received the spirit of
adoption, by whom we cry, ABBA,

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Father, the Spirit himself
testifies with our spirit that

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we are children of God.
And if children, then heirs,

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heirs of God, and joint heirs
with Christ, if indeed we suffer

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with Him, that we may also be
glorified with Him.

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For I consider that the
sufferings of this present time

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are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which will be

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revealed toward us.
For the creation waits with

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eager expectation for the
children of God to be revealed.

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For the creation was subjected
to vanity, not of its own will,

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but because of Him who subjected
it, in hope that the creation

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itself also will be delivered
from the bondage of decay into

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the liberty of the glory of the
children of God.

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For we know that the whole
creation groans and travails in

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pain together, until now not
only so, but ourselves also, who

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have the first fruits of the
Spirit.

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Even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for adoption,

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the redemption of our body.
For we were saved in hope.

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But hope that is seen is not
hope.

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For who hopes for that which he
sees?

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But if we hope for that which we
don’t see, we wait for it with

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patience.
In the same way, the Spirit also

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helps our weaknesses.
For we don’t know how to pray as

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we ought, but the Spirit Himself
makes intercession for us with

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groanings which can’t be
uttered.

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He who searches the hearts knows
what is on the Spirit’s mind,

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because He makes intercession
for the Saints according to God.

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We know that all things work
together for good for those who

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love God, for those who are
called according to His purpose,

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for whom He fork knew.
He also predestined to be

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conformed to the image of His
Son, that He might be the first

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born among many brothers whom He
predestined, those He also

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called, whom He called, those He
also justified, whom He

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justified those He also
glorified.

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What then shall we say about
these things?

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If God is for us, who can be
against us?

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He who didn’t spare His own Son,
but delivered Him up for us all,

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how would He not also with Him
freely give us all things?

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Who could bring a charge against
God’s chosen ones?

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It is God who justifies.
Who is He who condemns?

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It is Christ who died, yes,
rather, who was raised from the

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dead, Who is at the right hand
of God, who also makes

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intercession for us?
Who shall separate us from the

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love of Christ?
Could oppression, or anguish, or

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persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?

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Even as it is written for your
sake, we are killed.

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All day long we were accounted
as sheep for the slaughter.

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No, in all these things we are
more than conquerors through Him

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who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither

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death, nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor things

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present, nor things to come, nor
powers, nor height, nor depth,

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nor any other created thing,
will be able to separate us from

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God’s love, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.

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