If we want to grow in our peace, we need to tuck in even closer with God. The further away we move from Him, the less peace we will have.
God’s Peace
Happiness or joy?
Left on our own, there is no way we can look at our circumstances or Paul look at his wrongful imprisonment and write about joy. But with God, even though Paul was externally in chains, internally he was free and partaking of the joy of the Lord. He was allowing himself to receive the fruit of joy from the Holy Spirit and he was choosing to let it overflow through him despite his present circumstances.
Joy that overflows
The reality remains that authentic joy is contagious.
Rusty taps.
"We have come into an intimate experience with God’s love, and we trust in the love he has for us. God is love! Those who are living in love are living in God, and God lives through them."
Love is…
"...Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up. Love never stops loving.”
Must be love…
If we know and believe that we are truly loved then we can then release that same love to the one’s around us.
You Choose.
As long as our soul is large and in charge, the fruit of the Spirit will not be able to grow and mature in us. A submitted soul is a thriving soul.
His strength, your will.
My soul was on the warpath but Holy Spirit came and said, "No, that’s not how we handle things".
Your spirit is king.
Once a branch is separated from the vine, it no longer has a life source. Likewise, once we are separated from Christ, we lose our life source and we slowly begin to die.
Back 2 Basics
Not only have we died to our old selves, we are made alive in Christ and He dispenses His life into us.
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