The Pattern of Peacemaking (Day 2)
Peacemaking Starts in the Private Places
Luke 10:5
“Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house!’”
“You can’t speak peace to the world if you won’t speak peace in your home.”
Devotional Thought
When Jesus sent out the seventy-two, He didn’t send them to preach in stadiums. He didn’t tell them to find a platform. He told them to go into homes—and the first thing He told them to say was, “Peace be to this house.”
It’s a recognition that peace doesn’t start in public—it starts in the places most people never see.
We love the idea of being a peacemaker when it’s about healing the world. But it gets real when peacemaking means dealing with our own attitudes, our tone in the kitchen and the table, our silence in conflict, or our passive-aggressive jabs in close relationships.
If peace is real, then it has to start where it costs something. And there’s no more honest place than home.
Because here’s the truth: private peace fuels public authority. You can’t walk into a room and carry the peace of Christ if you just left a house full of unresolved bitterness. You can’t offer clarity to a friend if your soul is still clouded by unspoken tension at your dinner table.
Peacemaking isn’t just about being calm—it’s about being courageous. And that courage is most tested not when you're preaching from a stage, but when you’re standing in a hallway, deciding whether or not to reconcile with your spouse, your child, or your sibling.
Jesus says, “Speak peace.”
That means you initiate.
You own your part.
You confront your patterns.
You don’t just hope peace happens—you release it, not like a water gun that you aim, but like a flood you let go...in your home.
It’s a recognition that peace doesn’t start in public—it starts in the places most people never see.
We love the idea of being a peacemaker when it’s about healing the world. But it gets real when peacemaking means dealing with our own attitudes, our tone in the kitchen and the table, our silence in conflict, or our passive-aggressive jabs in close relationships.
If peace is real, then it has to start where it costs something. And there’s no more honest place than home.
Because here’s the truth: private peace fuels public authority. You can’t walk into a room and carry the peace of Christ if you just left a house full of unresolved bitterness. You can’t offer clarity to a friend if your soul is still clouded by unspoken tension at your dinner table.
Peacemaking isn’t just about being calm—it’s about being courageous. And that courage is most tested not when you're preaching from a stage, but when you’re standing in a hallway, deciding whether or not to reconcile with your spouse, your child, or your sibling.
Jesus says, “Speak peace.”
That means you initiate.
You own your part.
You confront your patterns.
You don’t just hope peace happens—you release it, not like a water gun that you aim, but like a flood you let go...in your home.
Application Questions
- Where in your home or closest relationships has peace been absent lately?
- Have you been avoiding conflict or engaging it with the heart of a peacemaker?
- What conversation needs to happen for peace to take root where you live?
Today's Challenge
Speak peace over your home today—out loud.
Walk through each room and pray, “Peace be to this house.” Then ask God to show you any attitude or conversation that needs to change to back up your words.
Walk through each room and pray, “Peace be to this house.” Then ask God to show you any attitude or conversation that needs to change to back up your words.
Today's Prayer
Jesus, You told Your disciples to speak peace into homes—and I want to do the same. But before I speak peace, I want to live it. Show me where I’ve let bitterness grow, where I’ve avoided hard conversations, where I’ve chosen comfort over clarity. Give me the courage to be a peacemaker in the places closest to me. Let my home be ground zero for Your kingdom peace. In Your name, Amen.
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