Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for January 27, 2026

BE AT PEACE WITH ALL PEOPLE

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Romans 12:18

If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.

Additional Verses

📖 Isaiah 32:16-20; Matthew 5:43-48; Romans 12:14-21

Peace is one of the virtues of the fruit of the Spirit. Just like all the other virtues of the fruit of the Spirit, this virtue is dependent on the other eight virtues mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. This peace only comes from Jesus Christ. Peace transforms your character to be like that of Jesus Christ. The Christ kind of peace distinguishes you from people of this world. Peace in you as a child of God is a product of the work of righteousness in you. According to Isaiah 32:17, righteousness is the nature of God in you. You cannot therefore have peace in and around you without first having the nature of God. Righteousness was freely given to you by Jesus Christ when He took your nature upon Himself according to 2 Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.” From the day you became born again, you put on righteousness of God and rivers of living water from Jesus Christ came into your life transforming you into the mirror image of God. These rivers of living water must also flow from your belly to influence all those around you. As you are now the righteousness of God, the goodness of God must flow from within you to all those you encounter with. Because God is good, His goodness in you must now affect all people you meet with every day. When Jesus Christ was hanging on the Cross and was being subjected to all forms of abuse, the first people He showed the goodness of God were the soldiers who had nailed Him to the Cross and all those who were mocking Him. He prayed to the Father to forgive them because they were ignorant of what they were doing. These people still had the nature of Satan and therefore it was the nature of Satan which is wickedness that was causing them to inflict evil upon Jesus Christ and hence it was God’s purpose to blot out this evil from mankind through Jesus Christ’s death at the Cross. Because of God’s nature in you, you must always aspire to be good to all people in all situations. The fruit of your new nature is goodness. This means that if you have all the virtues of the fruit of the Spirit you have the ability to master any situation. Matthew 7:18 says, “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.” Many children of God, because they have not yet been fully converted to Christ, they still live and behave like the world. Once you allow Jesus Christ to completely take over your life, you will be able to view life from His perspective and His goodness in you will manifest in you and influence the world around you. The LORD Jesus Christ in Matthew 7:19-20 said, “Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.” With these words of the LORD Jesus Christ, I would like to leave you with the following question: What type of fruit have you been bearing? If you have not been bearing a fruit that befits a child of God, would you now begin to work on being a mirror image of Jesus Christ today? In other words, this is your hour to be transformed as a shining child of God in order that you may also be able to influence your world and all those around you. Alleluia!

Prayer

Dear LORD Jesus Christ, I am sorry for the time that I have been unfair to others. I pray that I may always show love by doing only the good in the same way that Jesus Christ did. Not hating anyone but love them all and only do the good. In Jesus Christ’s mighty name. Amen.