Today and yesterday I did something I’ve not done.  I shifted from asking God what He wanted me to know when I was at the end of my journaling to asking The Holy Spirit.  I’m struggling to find words to express this experience.  It is simply HOLY.  My first and biggest awakening is that He is Spirit as well as Holy just as His Name says.  He told me He is restoring within me a belief that Spirit is substance in and of itself.  He is not within me to help me convert spirit to flesh but to do the opposite.  I’ve somehow needed or thought I needed to have what is spiritual demonstrated in flesh.  Well, The Holy Spirit showed me that He is doing just the opposite.  He is helping me see the substance of faith and hope, trust and belief.  These intangibles in flesh are rock solid in Spirit.  These are demonstrated by a PEACE which transcends all humanness when they are working because I choose to allow them to complete themselves in me.

As I was pondering all of this and letting the Holy Spirit speak to me I thought about the substance of PEACE.  There is contentment, recognition and appreciation of others and so much more.  When man defines peace we say something like it follows war.  Someone has lost and so the result of winning gives me peace.  There may be fighting all around me in my flesh, but if I am living as the new creation God has given me I am able to be at peace because I choose not to fight but allow God’s Team to fight for me.  I’ve talked these words so many times in my life but this morning I somehow sense them within for the first time.  It’s incredible.  I’m struggling to not simply breakdown in tears of thanksgiving.

Yesterday had some tough conversations needing to take place.  They all materialized and The Holy Spirit did His Work.  I’m so grateful for this and experiencing it has only rooted more deeply my need to fully surrender “my control” to His Ultimate Control.  It is there I find this PEACE.  How glorious our Heavenly Team is.