Finding Peace

Today I have been thinking a lot about peace. Where can I find it, how did I lose it and what does it really look like or mean?
I have had a battle with anxiety my whole life. It’s a mental health issue for me not just a bad day but I have been completely debilitated by it so peace and I have had our struggles. Mostly my struggle on where to find it. For me peace is probably one the highest value kingdom commodity because of the struggle I have been through to find it and keep it.
There’s different types of what people would describes peace I’m finding. Some of those I believe you can find in the natural but there’s one that can only be found supernaturally.
Peace is found when chaos ends. Ask any mother who’s baby finally decided to sleep and not just sleep but deep sleep. That mom looks at that baby and she knows on the inside of her, for 1 hour or two hours that nothing will bother that child and therefore she finally has a few moments where she finds peace because she knows she can actually rest. This is a form of peace…a good one. There’s environmental peace. Go sit by the ocean, go stand in the woods. There’s something in it that brings peace. It’s not the absence of sound because the ocean is loud. There’s something in the environment that brings our inside to a place of peace.
There’s another type of peace when you are in distress and no answers and somehow, a solution comes up. In that moment your mind and your body rests. It knows that things are lined up again. There’s peace when you’ve been in physical pain and finally it either goes away or you get medical relief. Your body goes from intense stress to release. There’s 100 examples of natural peace.
There’s another type of peace that is supernatural and can only be obtained that way. This type of peace is a person and is a fruit of being aligned with Him. This transcending peace is important because it transcends circumstances. No circumstance actually has to change for me to experience this type of peace which is what makes it supernatural. Each of the other things had something change.
This week while lying in a hospital bed I had many struggles finding peace. We did some natural things, (got me out of pain, breathing, Ativan helped) but I would still lay in bed with this sense of dread. I wanted quiet so much I didn’t turn on a tv for 3 days. I was in a room alone and most of that time I spent just laying quiet. I didn’t read. I didn’t talk. I was just looking for peace and quiet. There were times when even in that I couldn’t find it.
A friend texted me a playlist of healing scriptures and told me that they had been listening to them several times a day and that it really helped. This friend has some serious heath issues they are facing and I figured if it’s helping her, I’ll try it. I took my phone and put it by my head, closed my eyes and played it. A man started speaking healing scripture after scripture and I laid there and listened. Many of them I knew by heart. In that moment, I found Him. Nothing changed in me. My circumstances were the exact same but I was not the same. My spirit connected with Peace and that’s where I found rest and supernatural peace. I found it in a person.
I want to encourage us today. We are in a season where we need supernatural peace. There are situations that people are facing that they won’t find peace without it. You would either have to stick your head in the sand and ignore life or live in torment. There’s just no natural way of overcoming it. There is a supernatural way though.
I’m learning that in this season that peace is a spirit problem fixed by spending time with God. It sounds cliche but it’s not. I’m big on taking care of all three parts, body, soul and spirit and equally and that still applies. What I am saying is in this season if you are having trouble finding peace, start with the spirit. Your spirit needs to be like a heat seeking missile locked on to Him to find and keep your peace. It’s super important right now to do because the peace I get is the peace I can give and extend to others. Right now this world can use a lot of peace.
Here is the link to the scriptures. https://music.apple.com/.../healing-from-on-high/426617915
https://www.bennyhinn.org/hs/