Peace & QuietJeremiah 29:7, 1 Timothy 2:1-2

Seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.

Jeremiah 29:7

And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

Jeremiah 29:7 KJV

1. Settle in a hostile place and pray until prayer changes the atmosphere.

I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

1 Timothy 2:1-2

1. Settle in a hostile place and pray until prayer changes the atmosphere.

2. Those we least feel like praying for are the ones God wants us to pray for the most.

So that they may offer sacrifices pleasing to the God of heaven and pray for the well-being of the king and his sons.

Ezra 6:10

Furthermore, I decree that if anyone changes this edict, a beam is to be pulled from his house and he is to be lifted up and impaled on it. And for this crime his house is to be made a pile of rubble.

Ezra 6:11

1. Settle in a hostile place and pray until prayer changes the atmosphere.

2. Those we least feel like praying for are the ones God wants us to pray for the most.

3. A high view of prayer is to believe it changes the course of nations.

Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.

Proverbs 11:11

1. Settle in a hostile place and pray until prayer changes the atmosphere.

2. Those we least feel like praying for are the ones God wants us to pray for the most.

3. A high view of prayer is to believe it changes the course of nations.

4. Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted.

1. Settle in a hostile place and pray until prayer changes the atmosphere.

2. Those we least feel like praying for are the ones God wants us to pray for the most.

3. A high view of prayer is to believe it changes the course of nations.

4. Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted.

5. We aren’t just passing though, we are pushing darkness out.