Isaiah 9:6 – For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. KJV

Before experiencing God as my peace, every time I thought of peace, I associated it with external situations, i.e. if this and this happens, then I’ll have peace, or if people around me behaved better, then they wouldn’t irritate me so much and then I’ll have peace.

But when I was about 16 years old, I was in a very bad place mentally, (isn’t everything the end of the world when you’re a teen?). I zeroed in on what I thought was the cause and unfortunately, it was something out of mine, or anyone else’s control, and for the first time in my life I went to God, unable to help myself or find help anywhere else.

And God did something I didn’t even know was possible – he poured His peace into my heart. I had no idea that that was even available! The end result of that gift was that I changed and came out of that mental space. And most surprising of all, the thing I thought was the source of my sorrow was still true, but it had no hold on me anymore and could not dictate my mood.

God can, and does give us the gift of peace, even as we are inside the storm.

I have discovered since that time that whenever I’m in the middle of a storm, the situations don’t change first, but God works on me, and when I grow/change, these situations then change.

With God – it’s always works from the inside out, not the other way around. Cos if God only changes the situation, every time we find ourselves in similar scenarios, we’ll be right back at that bad place. But if God we can receive from God what we need for that situation, we’ll find that we’ll never go back to that place again

True Dominion right? God is Good!!