God has allowed me to pray a healing prayer of peace for the hearts and minds of His people. I have witnessed the healings of so many people during the past 41 years of personal ministry. I am absolutely thrilled to see the light of life come back into a person's eyes, and I rejoice as I see a new glow of hope fill a mother's face. I really get excited as I see a load of guilt and fear leave a person's mind, and an "ash heap" become something beautiful.

God wants to sanctify our minds. This actually means that He wants to purify and to put His holiness within our thought life. God made our minds so powerful that we are able to think into existence what we are and have. Every waking moment, we are talking to ourselves by thoughts. We need to be careful about what we are telling ourselves because we will believe what we are hearing.

We must learn to think properly if we are to maintain a life of daily peace. It is entirely possible to live in peace every day if we are controlling our thoughts and actions from the heart.

We were created with the potential to think as Christ thinks. Philippians 2:5, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." 1 Corinthians 2:16, "But we do have the mind of Christ."

God wants our minds renewed, our wills conformed to His will, and our emotions controlled by His love. This statement is based on the truth of ........ Matthew 22:37, 39, "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment."

We cannot obey these verses until our hearts, souls, and minds have been washed, healed, and renewed by the touch of the Holy Spirit. It is impossible for us to love our neighbor as ourselves unless we have received healing and cleansing from old memories, hurts, and rejections of the past. Our emotions will not allow us to relate to others in love and understanding unless we are daily washed by the renewing of the Word of God, and unless we have been touched and healed by His understanding peace.

I do not have the ability within myself to love God with everything that I am. Without the wisdom of God, I do not even know how to relate to God as a Father, to Jesus as a total Saviour, or to the Holy Spirit as a constant companion and Helper.

The peace of God allows us to begin a renewing process in the thinking patterns of our minds. I have found through the years that I do not think on a high level of faith if my emotions and heart are living in defeat. My mind reacts to my "heart condition". I do whatever my heart and my spirit suggest. If I choose to be moody or iritable, them my mind picks this up and my mouth soons joins in and then sends this feeling of discouragement to my body.

My total personality is an interrelated unit, so that no part of me is left out of any decision or act in my life. This is just one reason why the writer in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 states, "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."

We as believers must understand that the peace of God is much greater than the human mind can understand.  This is the kind of peace that is capable of guarding our hearts and minds and keeping us controlled and patrolled by God's garrison of peace.  John 16:33, "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace.  In the world ye shall have tribulation:  but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."

The Bible is very clear in its teachings concerning peace.  The Word portrays God as a Father of love and peace for His children. Jesus the Son is pictured as the supreme sacrifice for man's peace.  In Ephesians 2:14 the writer says that "he is our peace."

I am thrilled to know that I do not have to depend upon my good works or the strength of my flesh to give me peace.  We must realize that Jesus is our peace, and as we "abide in Him" we will naturally be filled with His peace. John 15:1 says that Jesus is the true vine and that believers are the branches (limbs or shoots). We receive our nourishment (life) from the vine.  As we abide in the vine, we get our prayers answered and continually bear fruit.