Reflections from "My Utmost for His Highest"

Today I was reading from my devotional and I thought this was a very awesome passage to share with everyone.  As you do ministry work it can be tough and overwhelming.  A number of times I have found myself saying, "How can I possibly do this? Will I ever make it?" and here I am still only working on fund raising!  Yet here in the midst of the stress of fund raising and the worry of having what I need, I am promised peace.  When I'm worrying about my funding, I'm only thinking about this one little thing and forgetting that God promises peace if I just continually focus on Christ instead of my circumstances.  I become overwhelmed, worried, and anxious when my focus strays from the place of true peace.  Fund raising brings up all types of emotions but the One I am working for says that in the midst of that He shall grant me peace.  I found this passage so relevant and encouraging to my season of life I had to share it with everyone.
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August 26th

Are you ever disturbed?

Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you. John 14:27.

There are times when our peace is based upon ignorance, but when we awaken to the facts of life, inner peace is impossible unless it is received from Jesus. When Our Lord speaks peace, He makes peace, His words are ever “spirit and life.” Have I ever received what Jesus speaks? “My peace I give unto you”—it is a peace which comes from looking into His face and realizing His undisturbedness.

Are you painfully disturbed just now, distracted by the waves and billows of God’s providential permission, and having, as it were, turned over the boulders of your belief, are you still finding no well of peace or joy or comfort; is all barren? Then look up and receive the undisturbedness of the Lord Jesus. Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him. If you are not right with God, you can never turn your mind anywhere but on yourself. If you allow anything to hide the face of Jesus Christ from you, you are either disturbed or you have a false security.

Are you looking unto Jesus now, in the immediate matter that is pressing, and receiving from Him peace? If so, He will be a gracious benediction of peace in and through you: But if you try to worry it out, you obliterate Him and deserve all you get. We get disturbed because we have not been considering Him. When one confers with Jesus Christ the perplexity goes, because He has no perplexity, and our only concern is to abide in Him. Lay it all out before Him and in the face of difficulty, bereavement and sorrow, hear Him say—“Let not your heart be troubled.”

Chambers, O. (1986). My utmost for his highest: Selections for the year. Grand Rapids, MI: Oswald Chambers Publications; Marshall Pickering.