Do I need to protect my peace?

And if so, how do I go about doing that?

Let's talk about peace on today's episode of the Jada Edwards podcast.

Thank you. So a phrase that I hear a lot, and you may have said it is I need to protect my peace.

I think that is a common phrase where people are trying to express that they've got to put some boundaries in place or say no to some things or be careful about where they spend their time

or spend their energy because they need to

maintain some, you know, sense of tranquility, some sense of calm. There's some things

threatening that. And I think it's a really interesting phrase, especially for Christians, for

people who are like, I'm surrendered to Jesus. Like, what does that really

mean to protect your peace? So I think about questions like what makes me feel happy? What makes

you feel happy? What makes you feel heavy? Does it feel like your emotions are in charge or you're in charge of your emotions?

Does it feel like life is always coming at you and you're reacting rather than you are leading

your own life? Sometimes a lot of those external things can start to threaten our peace.

And what happens is because what we see are the external things that threaten our peace, we tend to try to solve it with external things. But really,

if we take a little time, we can go deeper and go beneath the surface, go inside. Like literally, this is the heart

of the Christian life. Scripture is going to always say, yeah, you may see some things with your

eyes, but it's always a hard issue. Let's start from the inside out so we can figure out how we can

be as healthy as possible and how we can have the peace

that we all want. Philippians chapter four is probably a familiar passage for some of you,

but I'm just going to read a few verses. Versus four, verse four of Philippians four, says,

rejoice in the Lord always. i say rejoice verse five let your

reasonableness be known to everyone the lord is at hand don't be anxious about anything but in everything

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