"PRACTICAL PEACE" From FROM TREASURES WOMEN'S CONFERENCE 2021

 All the resource that written here comes from Treasure Woman's Conference 2021 held by JPCC on 3-4 September 2021. The purpose to share this is to share blessing for other people. I am so blessed that Treasure Woman's Conference is online because I can tune in from Sydney. The event is in Indonesia, Jakarta. 

This time I want to share from "Practical Peace - Dr. Sandersan Onie" Session. He is Suicide Prevention Researcher and Mental Health Activity. There is a lot of information about him in google if you want to know more about Dr. Sandy. 

In the Conference he did 3 session. This is the first one, the second is about "She Shine" and the third one is "the question and answer part continuing from She Shine" which is I will share later. 

Dr. Sandy start by share us about Isaiah 54:10 

“For the mountains may be removed and the hills may shake,

But My loving kindness will not be removed from you,

Nor will My covenant of peace be shaken,”

Says the Lord who has compassion on you.

He highlight "My loving kindness will not be removed from you" This is the promise of God for us. Where we know that His love and Kindness will never removed. 

Philippians 4: 6-9 (NLT)

6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 9 Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.

Dr. Sandy explain God peace is not automatic but is a result of our godly habit for our thought, behaviour, in our day to day life. So he share three things about peace to us.

1. Peace comes from healthy boundaries

"Boundaries are about understanding that there are things we can control and there are things we cannot control. We mostly try to handling things we can't control while in our part (Thing we can control) we abandon and not try to work on it. We need to remember about we need to take the responsibility in our part." said Dr. Sandy. 

Matthew 11: 28-30 said "28 Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light."

"Light and heavy is relative and when God said "the burden I give you is light" that mean our responsibility, our yoke, our part, is right for us." Dr. Sandy said. So we need to make categories like the picture above in every situation to find peace. 

2. Peace comes from obedience to God's will

Philippians 4:9(NLT) "9 Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you."

One question comes from Dr. Sandy "Is there something you need to do but you haven't? like it said in Matthew 5: 23-24 (NLT)" 

Matthew 5: 23-24 (NLT)

"23 So if you are presenting a sacrifice[h] at the altar in the Temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, 24 leave your sacrifice there at the altar. Go and be reconciled to that person. Then come and offer your sacrifice to God."

3. Peace comes from managing our thought 

We have short term and long term memory. Short term memory also called working memory we use this memory to think about what happen now. For example like now I write this blog, In my mind I think about "what the next word to write." We also have long term memory here we save our memory that we not use for example I know mathematic formula to solve multiple but I don't need that information now. 

Lamentations 3:21-24 (ESV)

21 But this I call to mind,

    and therefore I have hope:

22 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;[a]

    his mercies never come to an end;

23 they are new every morning;

    great is your faithfulness.

24 “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,

    “therefore I will hope in him.”

So to have peace "it is about what you called to mind for your day to day basis."