The Path to Serenity

Serene - marked by or suggestive of utter calm and unruffled repose or quietude. ~ Merriam-Webster Dictionary

“Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

John 14:27Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

The Path to Serenity

• Repent and accept God’s forgiveness

Luke 24:46,4746 Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

Acts 3:19Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.

1John 1:8,98 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

The Path to Serenity

• Repent and accept God’s forgiveness

• Forgive others

“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.” ― Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love Is Letting Go of Fear

Matthew 6:14,1514 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

The parable of the unforgiving

servant(Mat. 18:21-34)

Matthew 18:34,3534 And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him.

Matthew 18:34,3535 “So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.”

The Path to Serenity

• Repent and accept God’s forgiveness

• Forgive others• Forgive yourself

2Samuel 12:13So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” And Nathan said to David, “The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

Acts 10:15And a voice spoke to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed you must not call common.”

Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed;

The Path to Serenity

• Repent and accept God’s forgiveness

• Forgive others• Forgive yourself• Put your trust in God

Isaiah 26:3You will keep him in perfect peace,whose mind is stayed on You,because he trusts in You.

Psalm 119:165Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble.

“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.” ― Meister Eckhart

The Path to Serenity

• Repent and accept God’s forgiveness

• Forgive others• Forgive yourself• Put your trust in God

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