Sermon Messages

Don't Miss Out on This Blessing

Proverbs 12:20; Matthew 5:9

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Crossway Mission Church
Teaching Ministry
August 7 2023

This message presents peace as one of God's foundational blessings and as a fruit meant to be multiplied rather than merely enjoyed in private. Even with physical weakness and opposition pressing in, the sermon keeps returning to the goodness of the Lord and to the promise that his people are blessed when they make peace. The hope in the message is that the believer does not need to surrender joy or fruitfulness to the warfare of the moment. God still gives beauty for ashes, gladness for mourning, and peace for those who stay near his heart. Do not let pressure or discomfort steal the peace God wants to grow in you. Stay attentive to his goodness, choose the path of peacemaking, and trust that his blessing is stronger than the opposition around you. Lord, establish your peace in us and through us. Keep us fruitful in hard seasons, make us peacemakers, and let your blessing rest on every place where we choose your way.

  • The sermon begins by naming physical difficulty and spiritual opposition, then reframes that resistance as part of a moment when God wants to impart peace.
  • It ties the fruit of peace to the wider fruitfulness of God's kingdom and uses Proverbs and the Beatitudes to show that peacemaking carries blessing.
  • The message moves from resistance to promise.
  • Do not let pressure or discomfort steal the peace God wants to grow in you.
  • Stay attentive to his goodness, choose the path of peacemaking, and trust that his blessing is stronger than the opposition around you.

Do not let pressure or discomfort steal the peace God wants to grow in you. Stay attentive to his goodness, choose the path of peacemaking, and trust that his blessing is stronger than the opposition around you.

Lord, establish your peace in us and through us. Keep us fruitful in hard seasons, make us peacemakers, and let your blessing rest on every place where we choose your way.

Sermon Messages August 7 2023 1:28:01

Don't Miss Out on This Blessing

Proverbs 12:20; Matthew 5:9

Crossway Mission Church Teaching Ministry
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Sermon Messages Proverbs 12:20; Matthew 5:9

This message presents peace as one of God's foundational blessings and as a fruit meant to be multiplied rather than merely enjoyed in private. Even with physical weakness and opposition pressing in, the sermon keeps returning to the goodness of the Lord and to the promise that his people are blessed when they make peace. The hope in the message is that the believer does not need to surrender joy or fruitfulness to the warfare of the moment. God still gives beauty for ashes, gladness for mourning, and peace for those who stay near his heart. Do not let pressure or discomfort steal the peace God wants to grow in you. Stay attentive to his goodness, choose the path of peacemaking, and trust that his blessing is stronger than the opposition around you. Lord, establish your peace in us and through us. Keep us fruitful in hard seasons, make us peacemakers, and let your blessing rest on every place where we choose your way.

  • The sermon begins by naming physical difficulty and spiritual opposition, then reframes that resistance as part of a moment when God wants to impart peace.
  • It ties the fruit of peace to the wider fruitfulness of God's kingdom and uses Proverbs and the Beatitudes to show that peacemaking carries blessing.
  • The message moves from resistance to promise.
  • Do not let pressure or discomfort steal the peace God wants to grow in you.
  • Stay attentive to his goodness, choose the path of peacemaking, and trust that his blessing is stronger than the opposition around you.

Do not let pressure or discomfort steal the peace God wants to grow in you. Stay attentive to his goodness, choose the path of peacemaking, and trust that his blessing is stronger than the opposition around you.

Lord, establish your peace in us and through us. Keep us fruitful in hard seasons, make us peacemakers, and let your blessing rest on every place where we choose your way.

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