Peace in the Boat

✨ Peace in the Boat: A Reflection on Love, Fear, and the Gift of Heaven ✨

When we choose to live in the love of Christ, that love transforms and heals all our fear.

With fear eradicated, we can wait—in blessed peace—for our circumstances to align with the goodness of God.

Such an experience of peace—a regulated nervous system, a calm heart, a deep sense of psychological safety—can rightly be called “a gift of heaven while on earth.” This gift, left to us by a Very Special Person, is peace.

> “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”

—John 14:27

When we remember, process, and accept that we are loved—when we breathe slowly and deeply, inhale Pneuma (Spirit), and imagine truths that bring peace—we realize that the peace was always there.

Christ.

He was always there.

Right inside you.

Radiating his peace at the bottom of your boat. 🚢

All that’s required is to calm the worries and desires of the busy mind by knowing:

You are loved.

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📖 Scriptures on Knowing God’s Love:

Here are passages from Paul and others that echo and affirm this deep spiritual truth:

💗 Paul's Prayers for Love and Awareness

Ephesians 3:16–19

“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being... so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power... to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

Philippians 1:9

“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight.”

Romans 5:5

“God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

Romans 8:38–39

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life... nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

🕊 Additional Biblical Affirmations

Zephaniah 3:17

“The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”

1 John 4:18

“There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”

2 Thessalonians 3:16

“Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way.”