We have all heard of pressure cookers, but what do you do when you feel you are in one? Athletes feel pressure in the heat of the battle. Children feel it in school. Marriages feel it. Job stress creates it.
Then there is the pressure of others’ expectations. They want you to act a certain way or talk a certain way.
Teenagers feel pressure at school – their peers wanting them to do what they normally never would. Pressure to do things for others.
Religion is like that. Jesus faced it all the time but He lived in peace. He said, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you, NOT as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27)
His peace takes the pressure off.
Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong
