The PEACE the surpasses ALL understanding

Philippians 4:6 NIV84

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Anxiety is the primary blocker for us to move from JOY to PEACE

Matthew 6:25–33 NIV84

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

The only true defense against anxiety is a FULL PRAYER LIFE

Philippians 4:6 NIV84

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Prayer -approaching and Conversing with God in ALL things: Supplication/petition(asking for yourself), Thanksgiving/eucharist(an attitude of the heart,giving thanks for all things), requests(definitive requsets asking for others)

Philippians 4:7 NIV84

And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

When we have the relationship with God that the above prayer life brings, then the PEACE of God won’t just lightly touch us but flood into us because: Ephesians 2:14 “For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility,”

How can our PEACE be transcended beyond understanding?

1 Peter 1:5 NIV84

who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

Being in God'’s presence, will shield our hearts like a garrison that guards our lives against the enemy which brings us God’s love and joy.