Peace That Exceeds My Understanding | The SHE IS Awakening Seasonal Journal | AUTUMN - Week 10

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Happy new week! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving day, and weekend…

Here we are closing out the final week in November. I don’t know about you but I’m looking forward to December and moving into the Winter season. Maybe it’s because we’ve had some chilly days and I've pulled out my sweaters that’s got me in the mood. Whatever it is I'm excited!

This week's focus in the seasonal journal is PEACE.

One of the prompts to think about as we move through this time is actually asking the question if you struggle with receiving peace in your life.

We all walk through seasons of change and uncertainty and maybe that’s where you find yourself today as you are listening to this podcast episode. And seasons that are filled with uncertainty can CERTAINLY challenge our peace. It can feel very unsettling when life is shifting around us or we experience a loss in our lives. Life around us keeps moving ahead as if everything is normal and we can feel like we are walking around holding it together. But there comes a point when we don’t have the ability to hold it together. It’s easy in these moments to look to something to numb the pain we are experiencing in the hopes of experiencing some kind of relief and peace. Some turn to alcohol or food or escape through binging on something on a device like shows or endless scrolling on social media…

These things can distract us for a while but at the end of the day, we want to live healthy and whole.

I love how Philippians chapter 4 from the message reads…

6-7 Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

There are moments when praying instead of worrying is so hard. You don’t have the desire or the energy to shape your worries into prayers. And talk to God about what is heavy on your heart.

But I want to encourage you if this is you to do it even when you don’t feel like it. And I’m not going to promise you that it will be instantaneously (even though it can be) but at some point, you will sense God breathing fresh life into you and hope that he is working all things for your good and your nervous system will settle down.

And it’s hard to explain that haven't experienced this peace that passes our human understanding …

Because it’s not something we can manufacture our positive think our way into

It’s the presence of God manifested perfect peace in our spirits.

True peace is available no matter what is happening around you.

That is my hope and prayer for us as we close this month. We will get still and honest about any area we are not walking or living in peace. Areas where we are still expending mental and emotional energy trying to figure things out and it’s exhausting and it’s not getting you the peace you are so desperate for.

So I want to leave you with the final journal prompt for this week.

How can you be more intentional about shaping your worries into prayers?

I pray you have a beautiful week trusting him with everything you aren’t meant to carry.

Love you guys. Talk soon!

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