Losing Your Peace

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Good morning everyone. Pastor Gale here and I'm so glad
you chose to join us today. I have myself and
I have This.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Is Stephanie Butler. We're so glad you're here today.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
I've got a great topic I've chosen called losing your Peace.
How about that?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
That sounds positive?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
It does. Maybe it'll get some listeners, you know, because
everybody wants to know how they can keep their peace.
But how about losing your peace? Well, what do you
think happens out there in the world when people lose
their peace?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Stephanie, I think the things become confusing and difficult and
feel lonely and hard, and life becomes a struggle. My
good one of my spiritual son says, Mama, step the
struggle is real.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
There really is. And it doesn't appeal. And the struggle
was real. We know that's for sure. So when I
was thinking about losing your peace, scripture that really came
to my mind is the Scripture of the Sore who
went out the soul of the Seed. You want to
read that scripture in Matthew, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
I'd love to. That's Matthew thirteen three through nine, and
this is the NIV version. It says, Then he told
them many things in parables, saying a farmer went out
to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed,
some fell along the path, and the birds came and
ate it up. Some fell along rocky places where it

(01:38):
did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because
the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up,
the plants were scorched and withered because they had no root.
Other seed fell among the thorns, which grew up and
choked the plants. Still, other seed fell on good soil,

(01:58):
where it produced a crop one hundred, sixty or thirty
times what was sown. Whoever has ears, let him hear.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
So you know today we know that in the midst
of a world full of distractions, Jesus gave this powerful
illustration and this parerful the soar and the seeds. You know,
the number one thing the enemy does, and this scripture
talks about this, is that when God soul's truth into
your heart. What God gives you truth to set you

(02:31):
free from stress, to set you free from anxiety, the
enemy comes immediately. He calls it the birds, yeah, to
come to snatch the truth from our hearts. Why does
he do that, Stephanie.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, because frankly, we're made in the image of God
and he can't stand it because he himself wanted to
be God and was rejected from that position. Right, So
he hates the fact that God made you in his
image and you remind him of what he could not attain. Frankly,
and because he wants to thwart your destiny. God has
such such good plans for you. He has formed you

(03:08):
in your mother's womb and set you in this time,
in this earth, in this family, in the city that
you're in, so that you can do the great exploits
and the good works that He plan in advance for
you to do. See, the enemy doesn't want that to
happen because when you fulfill the destiny and the plans,
the good plans that God has for you for your life,

(03:29):
it frankly destroys the kingdom of darkness and Satan. So
he definitely doesn't want you coming into who it is
you're called to be. So do it anyway, amen.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Amen, you know there's another reason why the enemy comes
to take the truth, Because if the truth sets you
free and you allow the enemy to take it, you're
still bound. You can't be free until you say, Okay,
I receive the truth. I reject a lie. I'm not
going down that path. I'm not gonna lie the bird

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come or the enemy come and snatch what God has
given me. Now, in this parable, there's a parable of
the different soils, right, and so you want to talk
a little bit about that there step.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well, my favorite, of course is the good soil, because
that's a heart that's been plowed and it's ready, and
it's steady, and it's free of the weeds. You've done
the work. You love truth, right, Really, ultimately, all good
soil needs us to love the truth. And truth is
a person and his name is Jesus Christ. Right, I
am the Way, the Truth and the life. And when

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we love truth and our heart isn't a posture. Love truth,
whether it's something that's going to cause us pain or
something that might push us in a different direction, it
always helps us to be able to recede the seed
of the truth and to multiply it in our lives.
That's probably my favorite soil.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Well, you know, how about the times in your life
when you feel like your heart is a rocky place,
or maybe you're in a time of your life where
things aren't sinking in very deep, the soils kind of shallow. Well,
when you're in those situations, the cares of this world
in some translations, that says the thorns and the thistles

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crop up and they choke out, and so the cares
of this world, especially in today, there's no cares going
on today? Is there stuff that cares? And anxiety effect?
You know, when I look at these recordings later on
the podcast channel, anything on stress and anxiety has really

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got a lot of listeners because that's what people are
dealing with. You know, I turn on the news, a
CNN constant of negative network. Fox is constantly everything is negative, negative, negative, negative.
I mean, and then you get on Facebook. You know,
maybe it's time to get out of Facebook and get
your lower eyes in the book. Right, You get on

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Facebook and then while you start watching the reels, Well,
the reels can be addictive, and they also can be raunchy.
There's a word for you right there, raunchy. Right, it
hasn't heard that lately, but the reels can get really terrible.
I mean, you look at all of this stuff that's
going on and where you're getting your input from. If

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you want to talk about losing peace, Let's talk about
some of the things that come into our life are
like things that suck the peace right out of us.
I call them peace suckers. They suck the piece right
out of us. Okay, how about negative people, people that
are always negative, negative, negative, negative, negative negative. They'rehearsing, they're nursing,

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and they're rehearsing everything they've ever been through with anybody,
even if it was thirty years ago. Well, I'm not
saying anything negative about that, but they just need healing,
that's all. Just refer them to spiritual care two six
two nine oh one, get some help. What would be
another thing that would just suck the piece right out?

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Well, in those situations too, I found if you say something, well,
have you considered maybe we can be thankful for this,
or have you considered maybe this is going on with
that other person, one or two things is going to happen.
Either the person's mindset's going to change because you've helped them,
or they're going to stop talking to you about all
their negative stuff. So there are ways to set up
boundaries in your life that keep those types of individuals

(07:26):
from really being peace suckers. I guess like Pastor Gale said,
you know, you kind of detached the octopus from the
arm and you can breathe again.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Maybe we should call this episode peace Suckers. I don't
know what we should call it, but I think another
thing that can really affect your piece is the music
you listen to. Are you listening to I'm on the
high Way? That we won't finish that, but anyways, what
does the music? What? What are you listening to? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
From a quantum physics perspective, music actually changes your biophysical body.
It doesn't just affect your neuropathways in your mind and
your thought patterns. It also affects you physically. I was
just listening to some teachings and frequencies today, and whatever
you're listening to, for example, on a song or in
a car, or on a radio show, that same frequency,

(08:21):
if you're tuned to that particular station, you will eventually
begin to respond to everything around you with that same
tune or that same attitude or that same approach.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Ok, how about video games? The minute I thought this,
I heard someone say, don't be picking on my video
games now. Well, you know, there's so many different video
games and a lot of them are really dark and moral.
I mean, if you are one who has a ton
of video games you're listening to. I remember talking to

(08:56):
a guy he really struggled with losing his piece, said,
you know what the problem is? He goes, what ago?
You got a portal to Hell on them right hand
side of your house. You gotta shut that off because
he was getting on cable TV and he was watching
some pretty bad stuff, almost X rated. What is R
rated now would have been X rated years ago. Right.

(09:17):
And so when you're getting all that input, when you're
putting all that stuff in, and you expect to keep
your peace, it's almost impossible because Satan doesn't want you
to have peace. You know why, Stephanie, you know why
Satan doesn't want us that piece?

Speaker 2 (09:34):
What do you want to say? Because I can't read
your mind, pace, why don't you tell me?

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Because he says a weapon? Peace is a weapon? What
do you mean the shoes shot with the preparation of
the Gospel peace? Think of the Roman shoes with six
and spikes underneath them made the God of Peace soon
crushed Satan underneath your feet. We could wrap that, but
I don't want you to shut the radio.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
All understanding God, your heart and mind in Christ Jesus.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
The enemy will inundate your mind from all angles. So
you're watching playing video games, you're watching TV, You're doing
all this stuff. But how much of that time are
you in the Word of God? See? The Bible says
that we get peace from God's word, and so are

(10:27):
you in the word? Or just think of this. What
if you did this for a month. I'm going to
give you a month experiment. All right, all the time
you watch TV, shut it off and read your Bible.
How's that? Just read your Bible and pray. Put some
worship music on, read the Bible and pray. Do it
for a month. Just shut off that TV. Just get

(10:50):
out of that Facebook and see what happens in your life. Now.
I use Facebook for the good And if you like Facebook,
you can find Gail Kroc Books Facebook, Gail Kroc Books Facebook.
I encourage you to like that, a lot of good
resources there. There are good things on Facebook and good
things that can be used for. But the things that

(11:12):
rob us peace, Oh my goodness. Uh, you know another
thing that can rob you of your piece is as
things we go through, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Hard circumstances, trauma, transition.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
The guy that passed me on the road is sickness, right, Yeah,
I'm going around in the snow and he decides to
pass when he can't see was coming over the hill.
I'm like, ah, yeah, ye, and I was going sixty
and I got an all wheel drive. I'm like, I
think I'll slow down. I think I'll slow down here. Yeah,

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lose your piece real quick. Christmas shopping? How's that? Hey?
You going out to go shopping and driving on the
roads these days? And yet Jesus said his name is
called wonderful counselor everlasting Father, everlasting God, and Prince of peace.
So you know, maybe we just say, Lord, you know what,

(12:08):
forgive me for being so distracted. Forgive me for just
looking to everywhere else but you.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, I love. There's a couple verses I want to share.
You might be listening to us and going, well, how
do I get peace? I don't know how to get peace?

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Right like?

Speaker 2 (12:29):
But you know, the scripture tells Us in Ephesians two
fourteen that he himself is our peace. Jesus is our peace.
He says in me, you may have peace in this world.
You will have trouble, but take her I've overcome the world. Right,
So when you don't have peace, you can ask Jesus
for help. Right, he says, peace I leave with you
my peace I give you. Do not let your hearts

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be troubled. In other words, do you have control of
your heart? You have control of your mind. Sometimes you
can put a stop to what you're thinking. You know,
those crazy chaotic cycle of negativity that's going on in
your mind, and you can still those thoughts until you
can find that place of peace. I love Isaiah twenty
six y three too, which says you will keep in

(13:12):
perfect peace. Who those whose minds are stayed on you
because they trust in you. So in order to be
able to trust in someone, you have to know who
they are. So, just like Pastor Gal saying, getting the word,
listen some podcasts, listen some preaching and some teaching, keep
your eyes stayed on him because as you do that,
he will keep you in perfect peace. And then you're

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not focusing on all those circumstances, all the herd of
the past, all the difficulties, and the people you know
passing you and you know beeping at you on the highway,
and those kinds of things that helps you stay focused.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well, and everything we've just been talking about has one
goal in mind is that you would not have your
eyes on Jesus and you would not be in the
word or worship. That's the whole goal. You know. There's
the old song turn your eyes on Gene, and that's
really true. Get your eyes off your circumstance, which can

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be very hard to do, because your circumstances can be
like yelling at you. You know, pay attention to this,
pay attention to that, you know. And a friend of
mine would say, well, you just don't know what I'm
both through. You know, You're right, I don't. But we
all have different trials, right, You have one trial, I
have another trial. We all have trials. And Stephanie, what

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are you humming on?

Speaker 2 (14:28):
I can't get that song now you said that, and
I like hear eyes a pouneeeezy. Jesus look full, wonderful.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
And things overth.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Will grow strange.

Speaker 1 (14:48):
In the line of His glory and grace. There you go,
all right, don't need to copyright for that because we
sung it. So I hope you're still with us out there.
But really that is really, really true, and one of
the best ways I find. To soak in the peace

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of God is to find a really good worship song
that brings me into the presence of God. But not
a song that lasts for five minutes, but a piece
of music that might last for an hour. Get in
a place of quietness, lay down on your couch, put
your head on the pillow. Turn the music guys on,
turn the music on, and just focus your eyes on

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Jesus and just don't don't say a lot, don't pray
a lot, just think about Jesus and let him push
every negative thought out of your mind. We call that soaking.
Soaking right, you.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Do it all every day, all day long. Call it
practicing His presence.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, I was doing that at four thirty am this morning.
I was had my music, my Bible out, had my
coffee going. Oh the smell of coffee in the morning,
I love it. Sorry for those of you that can't
drink coffee when I'm talking, but it was really good
to be in the presence of God. I probably value

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that time of peace I have in the morning above
everything because I have made it a practice. Now. I
know four to four am in the morning is early,
especially when you work late, but there's like an hour
and a half to two hours in the morning that
I can take and I can just be in absolute
quietness and peace. Now, for a guy that's really shy

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like me, no, I'm not shy and very outgoing, that
peace is very helpful to be in. That It just
like kickstarts my day. It gets me going. And so
maybe say, well, you know, you don't know my day.
You don't know what I've been through, you don't know
who I am. Well, but I know Jesus, and I
know Jesus loves you, and I know Jesus came to

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give you peace, and I know he came to give
you life and that more abundantly. And just say, Jesus,
I've been so distracted. Forgive me, Lord, I come back
into your presence. I put my eyes back on you.
Fill me with your peace. Lord, in the name of Jesus.
Now's the time to come to the throne of grace.

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Now is the day of salvation. Now is the time
to come. And it doesn't matter who you are. If
you don't think the Lord will accept you because of
a sinful lifestyle, then ask forgiveness of your sins. Just say, Lord,
forgive me of my sins, come into my heart, close
me with your blood, because the Bible tells me that
he's waiting for me with open arms. That's right.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, and so I'm twenty nine to eleven promises once
you make him lord of your life, that the Lord
gives strength to his people, and the Lord blesses his
people with peace, and the peace of God will rule
in your hearts through Christ Jesus your new Lord.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
And hey, we would also like to hear from you.
By the way, I got a call the other day. Yesterday,
I got a call from a guy that's been listening
to the station for months. He's been listening on the radio.
I get emails. Love your emails, so please My email
is share at Healing Beegins radio dot com. That share

(18:12):
at Healing Begins radio dot com. We really would love
uh to hear from you, So, Stephanie, as we got
a couple more minutes yet, as we wind out, why
don't you pray? Will you pray for people that have
lost their peace to get the peace back?

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Absolutely, Father, I pray in the name of Jesus, and
I come before you seeking the peace that only you
can give for everyone who's listening today. Your word says you,
keith in perfect peace them whose minds are stayed on you.
So today I ask that you a grant grace for
all of us to set our thoughts and our emotions
and our spirit on you. Lord Jesus, you said you

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are our piece. You said that your piece you leave
with us, that your piece you give to us. So
we receive your peace now, not the fragile peace of
the world, but the deep, steady, unshakable peace that comes
from your presence. I ask you to calm every storm
in the mind and the hearts and the lives of
every person listening. Silence every anxious thought in Jesus's name,

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Heal every hurt, and guard their heart and mind with
your supernatural presence. Fel every place of fear with your
perfect love, Feel every place of confusion with your wisdom,
Feel every place of heaviness with your comfort and your rest.
Holy Spirit. Rule in their hearts, that your peace be
an umpire of every decision, the atmosphere of their home,

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the anchor of their soul. Where there's been chaos, Bring
order where there's been stress, Brings stillness where there's been turmoil,
Bring release your gentle rest. Let it fill the room
or the place where they are right now, I decree
declare that no weapon formed against them will prosper, and
that the peace of Christ's rules in them. I declare
that the Lord of Peace himself gives them peace at

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all times in every way. Father, I ask that you
them grace to surrender every burden to you now, to
cast their cares upon you because you care for them.
Thank you for surrounding us with your presence which brings
perfect peace and joy, and fulfilling them with your peace
that surpasses all understanding. Just say, I receive it, and
I walk in it, and by your grace or Jesus

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helped me to maintain it. In Jesus' name.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Amen, and Lord, you are the Prince of peace. So
we invite you to visit the people that are listening,
whether or by radio or podcasts. Later, we thank you
that you can give us peace even in the midst
of the worst of storms. That you are the master
of the winds and the waves of Jesus' name. Amen.
You know, I was thinking of two things. We got
a couple of minutes left. First, I was thinking about boundaries.

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Sometimes you got to set up boundaries against things to
rob you of your peace absolutely. And the other thing
is what are you reading, what are you meditating on
beside the Bible? What other good books? Now, Stephanie, I
know that you have some good books. What do you
got out, Stephanie? And how can they get it? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (21:00):
I've got two books primarily geared towards Christian leaders or
individuals who have a desire to be an influencer. One
of them is called Magnanimous Love The Key to Transforming
a City, and it can be found on Amazon, and
the other one is called Rest is War and they're
both on Amazon dot Com. You can check them out there.
But they're really just geared toward individuals who are in
leadership positions and are maybe going through some not so

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peaceful circumstances, and how to come up into the fullness
of who it is God created you to be so
that you can overcome it. Well, grant you the grace
to labor to enter into the rest of God and
have that peace that surpasses all circumstantial understanding.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Okay, And then I have six books out right now
you can all find You can find them on Amazon
dot com just put in my name. Gail G. A. L. E.
Kroc k R. A. G. T. I've got God moments,
amazing stories of the divine and everyday life has got
a big cross on the front of it. Then I've

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got God moments, more amazing God stories that will lift
your spirit, lift your faith. I got Jesus in the Mountains.
That's the stories of miracles I've seen in the mission
field of Honduras and Costa Rica. Credible book, not because
I wrote it, because God's stories. I love God's stories.
Then we got the Heart of Healing, because God's heart

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is to heal you. It's about our healing process. Than
we have the Heart of Healing, a six week healing
journey where you can go deeper with the Lord. And
then there's I have a new devotional book coming out
December fifteen. It should be out on Amazon called Walking
in Freedom, a ninety day devotional And I didn't do

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it three months. What I did is I did day one,
day two, right up the day ninety. So if you're
looking for more freedom and you're looking for good stuff
to meditate on to think about, go to Amazon dot com.
Look us up Stephanie Butler, look up Gail Krock. We
would love to have you do that again. My email
is share at Heallybegins radio dot com and uh Gail

(23:06):
Krocbooks Facebook. I just invite you to like that page.
And so as we wind up this morning, just remember
if the enemy took your peace, take it back, and
maybe it's time for you to say your peace. Let
the enemy know how you think and feels. So in
the last few seconds here, I want to say, may

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the Lord bless you and cause his face to shine.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Upon you, and lift up your countenance.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
And be gracious to you and give you peace. And
I want to say, may he fill you with the
peace that passes all understanding, that will guard your heart
and mind in Christ Jesus. From Gaiale and Stephanie, you
have a good morning.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Take care bah.

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