Your Personal Grow-Pray-Study (GPS) Guide

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Day 1: Read Isaiah 52:7. In a world that often feels out of control, God remains in control. Where do you need to remind yourself God is in control? What worry do
you need to turn over to Him in prayer?

Day 2: Read Luke 2:14. Where do you sense God working peace in your world? What burden do you need to give to Him to receive the peace He brings?

Day 3: Read Isaiah 52:10. The path for peace on earth is the pain and price our Savior pays for on the cross. How has God been working in your life that brings peace and leads you to praise Him today?

Day 4: Read John 1:14. Jesus comes to earth to be with us. What pain is crying for Jesus presence in your life right now?

Day 5: Read Isaiah 52:8-9. How is peace coming into your life this day? Is there not merely an absence of conflict, but a sense of wholeness, meaning, and significance?

Day 6: Read Ephesians 1:2. Paul reminds us of the source of grace and peace is not circumstance but Jesus Christ and God our Father. He writes those grace and peace words from a prison cell. We live life best when we share what God has first given us: Himself, and then His grace & peace?

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Day 1: Read Isaiah 11:1. If you’re an ad exec and you must pick a tree to symbolize your client as a leader, wouldn’t you pick a majestic oak? A towering redwood? At least an evergreen tree, right? Isaiah picks a stump, and not even the stump, a branch from the roots of the stump. Why? What would you pick to describe Jesus’ healing light? 

Day 2: Read Isaiah 11:10. Jesus’ healing light heals division. What are your praying for that divides people God would unite in His healing light?

Day 3: Read Isaiah 11:6. Jesus embraces people of all backgrounds as God uses animal images to paint a picture of how He works to make His creation operate. How you see God work such hope where there was division in your life? How has God embraced you with other people you were once divided? Are divided now?

Day 4: Read Colossians 3:14. Why is love essential in embracing people? How does Paul describe love’s power in your life today?

Day 5: Read Mark 4:39. If you were the disciples how would you respond to a terrible storm being silenced by Jesus’ words? Where do you need Him to bring peace in your life today? 

Day 6: Read Colossians 3:15. How can Jesus make you an agent of peace in your home? Work? Friendships? Church? Neighborhood?

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