God's will for you is peace.
Peace in Hebrew is SHALOM. That includes safety, healing and complete well-being. This peace comes only from God.
The peace of God involves reconciliation with God, a relationship with a Heavenly Father who is not angry with you, who does not want to threaten or punish you, who does not look at you with critical eyes.
You cannot have God’s peace with anger and a critical spirit. Even though you may have to stand up for controversial truth, you must also resist self righteousness. If you are proud and critical, you cannot enjoy the love, joy, and peace that God longs to give you.
Anger and criticism are not merely stressful. They rob you of the ability to love and forgive difficult people. Didn’t Jesus tell us to love all Christians and to love our enemies?
God longs to give you his peace. If you are traumatized, this is impossible without deep healing, but God is the healer, and he wants to heal your deepest wounds.
Traumatized people are often plagued by fear and anger. There is no peace possible without God.
Herrmann Zaiss was a dedicated evangelist in Germany who was deeply hurt in spite of amazing success. He was full on charismatic. His ministry resulted in numerous conversions and healings, but in 1924 the resistance of the anti-charismatic Christians was much stronger than it is today.
The persecution by other Christians was very hard to take. His wife had a complete nervous breakdown and his marriage failed. His wife was apparently permanently psychotic in a psychiatric institution.
Herrmann Zaiss was a broken man despite his amazing faith.
How is that possible? In the Bible, Elijah became desperate and asked God to let him die.
Herrmann Zaiss could not take it any longer.
He did not want to have anything to do with God anymore. He still believed in God, but he did not want to live as a Christian. God could kill him, he knew that. He told God he could call him back after 20 years if He so willed. That was up to God.
Zaiss became a successful entrepreneur and married again.
In 1944 he was in Solingen and Germany was falling to pieces. In Solingen and elsewhere, allied bombs rained down day and night.
His wife told him that despite everything he was a man of God. The time had come to re-activate his faith to encourage the suffering people around them.
Exactly twenty years after turning his back on God, he knelt with his wife, and they gave themselves completely to Jesus.
God forgave him and restored his miraculous ministry. His faith was stronger than ever.
One day they heard a bomber attack on Solingen from England was on their way. Herrmann Zaiss took to the streets and ordered the aircraft to return to England. Then they heard that the bombers had actually turned back.
His ministry increased. Hundreds of desperate Germans came to hear his message. Many were converted.
After the war, a businessman provided him with a bomb-damaged building.
People came from near and far, even from Holland. They saw amazing healings. Where despair reigned, new hope rose up.
Among the British occupation forces was a young soldier. His entire Jewish family in Germany had been wiped out by the Nazis. He was accepted as a refugee in England, and now as a British soldier he hated the Germans.
A Canadian officer was Christian and wanted to help the young Jew. He took the tormented you man to one of Herrmann Zaiss’s meetings. The broken-hearted young soldier heard the wonderful message and saw the amazing miracles. He felt the love of God and God gave him a new heart. Instead of blazing hatred, there was now a burning love.
At the same meetings there was an ex SS officer who had adored Hitler. He had been seriously wounded during the last days of the war, and he was cared for in an American hospital. He could not understand the love of American Christians, but Jesus also transformed his heart.
The young Jew and the no longer hate filled Nazi officer became close friends.
"I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near," Says the LORD, "And I will heal him." Isaiah 57:19 (NKJV)
Peace in Hebrew is SHALOM. That includes safety, healing and complete well-being. This peace comes only from God.
The peace of God involves reconciliation with God, a relationship with a Heavenly Father who is not angry with you, who does not want to threaten or punish you, who does not look at you with critical eyes.
You cannot have God’s peace with anger and a critical spirit. Even though you may have to stand up for controversial truth, you must also resist self righteousness. If you are proud and critical, you cannot enjoy the love, joy, and peace that God longs to give you.
Anger and criticism are not merely stressful. They rob you of the ability to love and forgive difficult people. Didn’t Jesus tell us to love all Christians and to love our enemies?
God longs to give you his peace. If you are traumatized, this is impossible without deep healing, but God is the healer, and he wants to heal your deepest wounds.
Traumatized people are often plagued by fear and anger. There is no peace possible without God.
Herrmann Zaiss was a dedicated evangelist in Germany who was deeply hurt in spite of amazing success. He was full on charismatic. His ministry resulted in numerous conversions and healings, but in 1924 the resistance of the anti-charismatic Christians was much stronger than it is today.
The persecution by other Christians was very hard to take. His wife had a complete nervous breakdown and his marriage failed. His wife was apparently permanently psychotic in a psychiatric institution.
Herrmann Zaiss was a broken man despite his amazing faith.
How is that possible? In the Bible, Elijah became desperate and asked God to let him die.
Herrmann Zaiss could not take it any longer.
He did not want to have anything to do with God anymore. He still believed in God, but he did not want to live as a Christian. God could kill him, he knew that. He told God he could call him back after 20 years if He so willed. That was up to God.
Zaiss became a successful entrepreneur and married again.
In 1944 he was in Solingen and Germany was falling to pieces. In Solingen and elsewhere, allied bombs rained down day and night.
His wife told him that despite everything he was a man of God. The time had come to re-activate his faith to encourage the suffering people around them.
Exactly twenty years after turning his back on God, he knelt with his wife, and they gave themselves completely to Jesus.
God forgave him and restored his miraculous ministry. His faith was stronger than ever.
One day they heard a bomber attack on Solingen from England was on their way. Herrmann Zaiss took to the streets and ordered the aircraft to return to England. Then they heard that the bombers had actually turned back.
His ministry increased. Hundreds of desperate Germans came to hear his message. Many were converted.
After the war, a businessman provided him with a bomb-damaged building.
People came from near and far, even from Holland. They saw amazing healings. Where despair reigned, new hope rose up.
Among the British occupation forces was a young soldier. His entire Jewish family in Germany had been wiped out by the Nazis. He was accepted as a refugee in England, and now as a British soldier he hated the Germans.
A Canadian officer was Christian and wanted to help the young Jew. He took the tormented you man to one of Herrmann Zaiss’s meetings. The broken-hearted young soldier heard the wonderful message and saw the amazing miracles. He felt the love of God and God gave him a new heart. Instead of blazing hatred, there was now a burning love.
At the same meetings there was an ex SS officer who had adored Hitler. He had been seriously wounded during the last days of the war, and he was cared for in an American hospital. He could not understand the love of American Christians, but Jesus also transformed his heart.
The young Jew and the no longer hate filled Nazi officer became close friends.
"I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near," Says the LORD, "And I will heal him." Isaiah 57:19 (NKJV)
