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Position of PEACE<\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Your position of peace affects everything you create; your creative expression, your relationships, your mental and physical health and the life you create for yourself affecting others. Without peace we are less than ourselves; less happy, less focused and less capable.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Listen to the audio: <\/strong><\/em>https:\/\/youtu.be\/nIvzhmsoS_c<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (or scroll to the end of article for video podcast)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Discovering Peace<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In 2005 while my mother was visiting her hairdresser their conversation went something like this.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u2018That must have been so traumatic \u2013 you know, what happened to you daughter?\u2019<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u2018Yes, we nearly lost her because of that\u2019 Mum answered.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I moved away from where the worst day of my life unfolded and this woman had been cutting my hair until then. She was imagining how difficult it was to recover from the ordeal.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u2018How is she?\u201d she inquired with real concern.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

My mother thought for a second and replied, \u201cActually, she\u2019s so at peace now!\u201d She assured her.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Later mum replayed the conversation to me. Surprised, enlightened and immediately delighted by her observation I remarked, \u201cActually Mum, that is exactly what I am now \u2013 at peace. I still hurt terribly, cry all the time and struggle with all that happened, but I have peace. It\u2019s because of God.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I knew she\u2019d likely dismiss what I said but I couldn\u2019t help but speak the truth out loud. I was so frigging<\/em> relived and grateful for what God had done! I had to speak it. Jesus was showing up all over the place delighting me with a multitude of wonderful things. He was the only reason for my position of peace.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I love this quote from C.S. Lewis. He wrote, \u201cGod can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

God is peace and the source.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We can\u2019t manufacture or strive for peace; it will eventually exhaust us. We need a well of peace to drink from, something easy to access, and with little effort provides untapped true harmony.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

God\u2019s peace isn\u2019t fleeting, but remains accessible, straight from the well of life, that is Jesus.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

If not for my mother\u2019s observation, I would not have realised the emphasis, that was on my newly realised position of peace. She saw a notable change she described as peaceful. From a crushed and tormented soul, I was emerging as someone full of peace; calm and happier. I didn\u2019t even have this peace before the events that ripped through our life. I was being restored, but not to what I was before, to something different, softer but stronger, calmer, safer, more hopeful, encouraged \u2013 thank God!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It was weird, new, strange and different, but I didn\u2019t care \u2013 it was better! I felt better!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

It is challenging to describe this to anyone who hasn\u2019t experienced the presence of God, his love, joy, peace and healing. Perhaps harder to write. Though, I can testify it happened and is worth pursuing for yourself<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

To me, and those who have experience the same, PEACE eventually becomes the most obvious advantage of relationship with Jesus.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

For those (like myself) who feel unworthy (and are) they appreciate it even more.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Those who have this position of peace morn for those who do not. Why? Because not one of us wants to see another suffer unnecessarily and we see it as totally unnecessary. We know the difference it makes to every part of our existence \u2013 it is huge!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

PEACE is happiness. The absence of peace is a living hell!<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In a world so polluted with injustice, peace can be a hard catch, but honestly – there is an easy way!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

PEACE as described in the bible is something, we all should want for ourselves and others.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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\u201cThe Hebrew word for peace, \u0161?l\u00f4m, translated in the Septuagint most often by the Greek word, eir?n?, has a wide semantic range including the notions of totality or completeness, success, fulfillment, wholeness, harmony, security and wellbeing.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\r\n (Credit and Recommended reading: https:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/religion\/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps\/peace-bible<\/a>)<\/em> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

A position of peace fights against the storms.<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When my world was in absolute chaos, and at my lowest, Jesus was there waiting for me to reach out. I felt like a rag doll who\u2019d been caught up under a wheel arch, dragged along on the longest long road trip. I wished it would all end and could not see no way out. But there was a way out. I just needed someone to tell me. That is why I\u2019m sharing this with you.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Jesus came to quieten the storm. Like the storm that rocked the boat in Matthew, he breathed into my soul, appearing to me in a dream \u2013 be still, I am here, you\u2019re going to be okay. I woke with his hands still firmly on my arms, stunned at someone touching me! Then he was gone!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But he never left. God revealed himself to me many times more and in many ways.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\"Romans<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

POSITIONED Peace activates change and the power of God.<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

As humans, we can\u2019t dodge all the trials of life, but can have the peace of God through the trial. Obtaining peace is a by-product of faith that can flip situations around. It activates the move of God. If you let go He takes on your mountain. Your climb becomes easier.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But peace doesn\u2019t come from wishful thinking. It comes from the Holy Spirit working within us assuring us to relax and trust God.\u00a0It comes supernaturally. It needs to be supernatural or it would pass all too quickly and we\u2019ll find ourselves trying to manufacture it. There is no way I could have manufactured what was happening in and around me – no way!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Peace cannot be imagined for a long length of time<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I tried everything from meditation to self-help, think it until it manifests theories \u2013 nothing stuck for long. Nothing felt absolute or true. The gap was never filled until I let Jesus into my heart. The minute I did that, it changed, with someone else doing much of it for me. No more striving. It was time to just walk along with God at my side.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I didn\u2019t just change friends. God took my gut-wrenched, smashed to smithereens heart, supernaturally soothed it into healing. He was my heart salve.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I wish he put on a light show at the time so people could see the miracle I experienced but he didn\u2019t. But I still share, hoping someone will be freed from their misery as I was.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

He only asks one thing from us. To trust enough for him to reveal himself individually, drawing us voluntarily closer and closer. Like a Romeo to his Juliet, he wants us to take his invitation to walk daily with him, to see all he has for us. The following becomes natural this way. We are led, not controlled, to understand His ways, not all the religious baloney.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Where is you PEACE my child? Do you not trust me or see who I am?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This is his voice when I worry and the key words that remind me to let go. He speaks the same to you. Do you trust him enough to see him move or are you missing it? Please don\u2019t!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

For all who read this, my prayer for you is that you find that peace, and your way to the only one who can give you that peace – the Prince of PEACE- Jesus. Ask him to reveal himself in a way you cannot deny. He is truly real. When he does (because he will!) lean into that relationship and watch the difference it makes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

When you let go of what you can\u2019t change, you activate change that only God can make.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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But he said to me, \u201cMy grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.\u201d Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me <\/em><\/p>\r\n 2 Corinthians 12:9<\/em> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

God wants to sprinkle miracles across your path of faith that invite you to stand up and declare \u2013 that must have been God! He delights us in this. The worship is not bowing down to a God but singing his praises because he first loved on us. Your shout is a Father\u2019s delight in a happy child.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

God loves you. Give your worry to him. He will give you peace and move on your behalf.\u00a0Lay that thing down today. Give it to him so you can rest and walk, not strive.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Let peace be the testimony that draws everyone in your life to the one who wants to be the first love of your life.\u00a0Then you will know true happiness.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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May the GOD OF HOPE fill you all with JOY and PEACE as you TRUST IN HIM, so that you may OVERFLOW WITH HOPE by the power of the HOLY SPIRIT.<\/em><\/p>\r\n Romans 15:13<\/em> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Be blessed<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Kayleen<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n


Reading for children: My picture book, When I\u2019m Shining with Peace <\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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