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
Marilyn passed away peacefully at her home on April 25, 2026. But before she graduated to heaven, God told Marilyn not to be buried with her mantle. Instead, she was to pass it on to all who were willing to receive it. Marilyn obeyed this directive and spent decades developing, discipling, and commissioning partners and team members. Because of this, when Marilyn slowly stepped back from active ministry in her 90s, she did so with peace and confidence. Marilyn knew that what God had started would be carried into the future by faithful hands on whom a portion of her mantle rests.
A large portion of Marilyn’s mantle also rests on her granddaughter, Isabell, who stepped into a powerful teaching ministry with Marilyn in 2023. Isabell brings both reverence for the foundation that has been laid and a God-given ability to preach the Word in fresh, effective ways. Along with Marilyn’s ministry team, Isabell is powerfully walking into the future, using decades of Marilyn’s teachings—thoughtfully curated and digitally restored—to expand the reach of her grandmother’s ministry through modern platforms, international outreach, and the daily television program. Marilyn’s powerful teachings are currently being translated into multiple languages that will reach people around the world with the gospel of Jesus Christ in their native tongue.
Marilyn’s vision to cover the earth with God’s Word is still alive and powerful today. Her ministry is continuing to walk through open doors, taking the gospel to nations that desperately need to experience the miracle power of the Word of God and reaching future generations with the hope of the gospel.
