The more we make Jesus the Lord over our circumstances, desires, emotions, and decisions, the more we will find peace that is absolutely multiplied back to us.
Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
(2 Peter 1:2)
When I was 21 years old, my father had a nervous breakdown. His personality changed tremendously. He would drink heavily and say cruel, terrible things.
My brother and I were miserable; but my Spirit-filled mother experienced a tremendous peace. No one could understand it.
When my father turned himself in to a psychiatric center, the doctors tried to blame his sickness on my mother’s religion.
But she said, “No, my ‘religion’ didn’t bring him here; but my ‘religion’ will take him out.” And it did—her peace and faith in Jesus Christ finally rescued my father.
We live in a day when everyone wants peace. They want it so desperately, yet very few have real peace.
The reason there is so little peace is because there is so little knowledge of God and so few people who have really made Jesus the Lord of their lives.
The more we make Jesus the Lord over our circumstances, desires, emotions, and decisions, the more we will find peace that is absolutely multiplied back to us.
We need to saturate ourselves with the peace of God’s Word. 1
Meditate on the fact that Jesus is your Prince of Peace today. The more you know Him in that way, the more peace will be multiplied to you.
1 Marilyn Hickey, Daily Devotional (Denver, CO: Marilyn Hickey Ministries, 1985).
by Lindsay Roberts
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
Encouraging, optimistic, always upbeat and energetic—even in her 90s, Marilyn Hickey actively ministers internationally, most recently in Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, India, China, and Pakistan, as well as domestically in the United States through Bible Encounters and speaking engagements. Marilyn has had audiences with government leaders and heads of state all over the world. She is the first woman to join the Board of Directors of the largest church in the world, Dr. David Yonggi’s Church Growth International in South Korea. She has traveled to 146 countries and plans to visit many more in the years to come. She and her late husband Wallace were married over 50 years, and have two children and four grandchildren. Marilyn holds the following degrees of education: Bachelor of Arts in Collective Foreign Languages, from the University of Northern Colorado, and an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Oral Roberts University.
In 2015 Marilyn was honored at Oral Roberts University with the prestigious Lifetime Global Achievement Award. This award recognizes individuals or organizations that have made a significant impact in the history of ORU and in the world in positive ways as an extension of the university and its mission.
