John 14:27. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Peace is a gift. And therefore peace we recieve. “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid”. I’ve heard it said before but recently I have seen it afresh. To fear, or not to fear, is a choice. And therefore Jesus says, “Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid”. Sometimes we may feel that we don’t have a choice but Jesus clearly says that we can choose, by an act of our will, not to be afraid. We can choose to rest in His peace. We can put this phrase into a faith confession & say, ‘I will not be afraid’. ‘I will not’ is to make a decision, I choose not to be afraid. I choose peace. And practice makes perfect, or we could say, practice makes progress. Imagine playing a game of cards. In some games, some cards like the’joker’ are laid aside. We too can lay aside the (joker of fear) card & pick up the (King of faith) card, which triumphs every time. We can recieve the faith of God, the faith of Jesus & then it becomes ‘my faith’. It becomes personal as we behold JESUS – who is the Author & the Finisher of our faith. The Author, Jesus holds the pen & each day is a new journey of faith in Christ. Jesus is writing the pages of faith & bringing heaven to earth with every word He writes.