Peace is my word for the new year. I'll face many changes, trials, & joys. Resting in these peace verses will help me stay in God's perfect peace this year, as part of putting on the armor of God each day, no matter what it brings.
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Important Peace Verses to have the best New Year

(Last Updated On: December 31, 2019)

Peace is a great word for a coming new year. I’ll face many changes, trials, & joys. Resting in these peace verses will help me stay in God’s perfect peace, putting on the armor of God each day, no matter what it brings.

After a couple of difficult years, I’ve learned to stay in God’s word and keep important verses written on my heart so I am prepared for the difficulties life throws at me.

The word that I want to carry into the New Year is Peace.

A few years ago, I wrote about the challenges of the prior year, hoping that 2017 would be less challenging, but that wasn’t God’s plan for my family. I spent most of the year facing a debilitating recovery (as I have in 2019 as well) , but God used my circumstances for His glory.

Truly difficult years have clarified that life is a roller coaster. While crisis follows crisis, surprising joys sprinkled our days as well. None of either were things I could control or plan.

I can only control how I react.

So I want to have the kind of peace that never changes no matter what I’m facing.

Psalm 23:4 ESV Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

So I want to have the kind of peace that never changes no matter what I'm facing. Psalm 23:4 ESV Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

A few falls ago, we had an unfortunate circumstance that affected my husband greatly. Hunting is his absolute favorite pastime, and he lost the privileges to hunt at our local military base due to a GPS miscalculation. He was devastated.

My soldier was finishing up his active duty service at the time. What he saw during his military service changed him. Hunting has been what gave him a center, an identity, and he was absolutely heartbroken.

My reaction to his reaction was fear and panic. How would he cope in the long haul? How would this affect our family? our marriage? our finances? Because he provided all our meat through hunting.

But I realized my panic meant I wasn’t trusting God or His plan for our lives.

I had to realize God’s plan doesn’t mean everything works out my way. God’s plan doesn’t mean I never face difficulties. It doesn’t mean that the lives of those around me go smoothly.

And God’s plan is something I can trust because He has demonstrated his faithfulness. Even in the midst of the physical and emotional pain of dealing with my slow (and ongoing) recovery, God showed me that He was using it to bring my husband and I to a closer stage of emotional intimacy.

Now in 2019, I can look back and see that God provided the perfect job for my husband following the loss of his hunting privileges. He works outdoors and gets to be in the woods all the time. His unique talents and wildlife knowledge that made hunting enjoyable for him have made him excel in this new career.

In the midst of this heartbreaking crisis, God was already working to provide a solution for my husband, before he was even retired from the military. And through this job, he’s had opportunities that we never could have imagined. God has blessed us through this more than hunting alone ever would have.

John 10:10 ESV The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

While God doesn’t promise that we will always have an earthly life that is financially secure and abundant, in that circumstance, God’s plan for my husband was to take a devastating loss and show him love through an even better result.

I see God’s hand in this every step of the way.



But it’s all easier SAID than DONE in the moment.

In my human weakness, I forget. I freak out. Sometimes, I panic.

I need God’s Biblical truths to remind me that God is in control, especially in those moments I can’t yet see how God’s plan is working for good. These are some of the peace verses I cling to when faced with the chaos of a fallen world.

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Jeremiah 29:11 ESV For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

While, Jeremiah 29:11 is overused by pretty much everyone, that verse IN CONTEXT is a good reminder that even disaster can be a part of God’s plan when the plan encompasses eternity. The enslavement of the Israelite people was part of God’s plan to ultimately redeem all of us.

We may see a tragedy in our own lives on a monumental scale, but in God’s scale He sees how we cope with the tragedy, how we are faithful in the midst of the chaos, and how that ripple can affect and change the lives of others.

John 11:4 ESV But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

God may be ultimately glorified through difficulties that hurt and grow us. I continually wish it weren’t the case, but I haven’t often grown through easy times as much as I do the ones that test and stretch me.

But God doesn’t promise to give us what we want. He promises what we need, and what we need for His glory and purpose.

Philippians 4:19 ESV And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

But over and over He has shown that He supplies exactly what we need when we need it. When we had a vandalism issue and our water bill was $120 over budget, the next day I got a rebate check from an insurance policy we had cancelled years earlier for $122. I hadn’t even remembered the policy had existed.

I know God doesn’t always supply magical checks (or jobs) out of nowhere. But this moment, God chose to show me that He heard my prayer and saw me responding from His peace. Even though God doesn’t always providentially provide in such dramatic fashion, remembering and sharing such testimonies is an important part of maintaining peace because we remember how God loves us and provides.


As my husband now works in the civilian world, we face a great many unknowns. He loves his job and it has been a huge blessing, yet we miss some of the constancy and security of military life. But I know God will provide for us.

It might be less. It might be different. But it will be what our family needs. Because He has always been faithful, and I can rest in that truth no matter what the future brings.

When God clothes the lilies in such splendor, will He not do more for us? #PeaceVerses

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. …

I’m facing this coming year challenging myself to rest in God’s peace.

I pray you’ll find peace in these verses and in trusting God as well.




Philippians 4:6-7ESV Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

When I remember to trust in Him, the peace is perfect, even if my emotions are difficult.

In that moment of panic, I ask myself three questions:

  1. Do I believe God is real? Yes, I do. I’ve spent months studying apologetics and find more and more evidence to support our faith. 
  2. Do I believe God is good? His word says so.
  3. If God is good, do I believe He will be good to me? God’s word promises He will, and I’ve seen the results in my life. 
1 Peter 5:7ESV  Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

His idea of what I need might be different than mine, but His ultimate goal is for His glory and the salvation of as many as will believe. I have to believe that whatever I face is part of refining me and bringing more to salvation. Another reminder to focus on Heaven not Harvard.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

I am encouraged that God’s ultimate goal is to bring all of us to repentance and salvation. It’s easier to have peace when I try to see glimpses of the ripples of my trusting in God and having peace.

John 16:33 ESV I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”

Troubles are part of the package; we’re reminded in many places through the scriptures.

But by holding these peace verses close to my heart, I remember who my God is, His faithfulness, and how He loves me.

I don’t know what my new year will hold, but I will have hard days. In those difficult moments, I will pray to keep my mind focused on God.

Isaiah 26:3 ESV You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

When I keep my mind focused on Him, I remember that I am saved, the trials of this life are temporary.

And my eternity has already been purchased by my Lord, Jesus Christ.

1 John 5:13 ESV I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

With that perspective, I know I have nothing to fear.

Important Peace Verses to have the best New Year

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