A year of peace...
- Jennylee Machado
- Jan 17, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 2
I want a year of peace in my life, in all areas. In my mind, in my heart, in my friends, with my family, having the peace of Jesus at all times and understanding that if peace is not where I am, it needs to live within me.
Are you a person who gets stressed easily and doesn't know why? That's because you still haven't understood that peace, true peace, is within. Of course we can find peace in some places, maybe for you it's in the countryside and for me it's on the beach, that feeling of tranquility as if nothing could take it away from you, you know?
So this peace is Jesus and through the Holy Spirit we receive that peace that is greater than all human understanding can truly understand and put into words. I struggle with anxiety and yesterday I had a very strong attack, which I haven't had a mild attack in months. In the first WeekJournal of the year I talked about the fasting and prayer campaign that is held every year at the beginning of the year in my church.
Jesus, with his grace and mercy, blessed me with such wonderful peace during the three days of prayer and fasting, so complete that I still don't understand it and I never will. It was as if he were speaking to my heart every day that nothing and no one can stop God from blessing my life, an inexplicable and totally irrational certainty from the outside.
We are flawed, we make mistakes all the time, and yet God's love reaches us and protects us. I didn't ask for peace, but for things like health and material goods. But Jesus, in his infinite goodness, decided to give me what I needed at that moment, his incomparable peace.
And I ask you, do you want a year of peace in all areas of your life? Have Jesus in your life always, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and may peace come to you as it has to me.
Have a year in the peace of Jesus!
Beijim 💋
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