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                                “The Peace of God, My testimony “

Psa 29:11  The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace 

He can and will bless us with peace at any time. 

🌟🌟However, I highlight the peace that manifest within our spirit, in my spirit. I felt this peace at -age 13 when I accepted him into my life.

Years later, when I was prayed for during an alter call. I experienced his spirit roll through me. 

An alter call happens in some church denominations at the end of the pastor or minister’s message has been delivered, he or she invites anyone who either needs prayer or don’t know the Lord to step forward and receive prayer.

There are times when the pastor/minister feels led by the Holy Spirit to voice other concerns that may be on someone’s mind to also step forward for prayer,

Not every church denomination offers alter call. Some do it differently in there church.

When I say the manifestation of the spirit of God rolling through me, this is my personal experience. I remember this strong “flutter” like feeling that started at my stomach and continued to move upward through my body.

Psalm 55:18 NLT

He ransoms me and keeps me safe from the battle waged against me, though many still oppose me.

I wasn’t getting along with everyone in this church. There were a couple of individuals that I did not like and they did not like me. 

None of the three of us had a problem letting the other one know this. There definitely was attitude and bad feelings present. The love of Jesus was not among us.

I would describe myself as being in a broken state. Someone trying to build my relationship in church with the Lord. I knew him, was faithful in prayer to him, but did not go to church . 

My husband passed away that winter from cancer and I was not in a good place. I was hurt, angry, and confused. 

I moved from the apartment I shared with my husband to a new place, got a new job, but in that year I lived away from family was very lonely. I drove to my hometown every weekend and stayed with one of my sister and her family.  

I went to church with them every Sunday then that evening headed back. It was one of these trips back up the road where I lived that I had clear understanding that the Lord wanted me to move back home.

That did happen in the months ahead. I looked for a new job and place to live in my hometown every weekend town and by summer I was back home.

It was one of these church services that we had a pastor who visited. It was him prayed over us at the altar. 

It felt like it took forever for him to finally come to me and pray for me.

When he did get there, he was speaking truth over me, meaning he was speaking facts about emotions and conflict I was experiencing in this church. 

He prayed for me then touched my shoulder and st that point, I experienced what felt like “a wave” that started at my stomach and went upward through my body. 

The feeling was so intense that I cried out and then I went down. No, I did not pass out, I was laying on the floor but I was awake and could hear everything going on in the church. 

I felt this wind blowing in my face and I didn’t understand where it was coming from because I knew there was no fan on in there. 

It was a small church and though the air conditioning was on, it was very hot in there with a full house of people. 

I laid on my back and I could not move a muscle. My eyes were closed, but I was awake, alert to everything going on around me. 

When I did get up I remember feeling exhausted but there was the most profound feeling of peace in my spirit.

This peace was so strong, I remember thinking about the other individuals I was having conflict with in the church and I thought to myself that none of that mattered anymore. 

I did not feel any animosity towards either one. It was very interesting as I went down stairs to grab a seat for the dinner we were about to have.

I just sat down, not thinking about it being “ the destinated table for the visiting pastor and the church pastor.

I did see the look that was exchanged between the two women who were already at the table. 

My sister saw it too, she said, “ why don’t you come over here” do I got up and went over to sit with her. It was after people filled up the tables did I realize that table was for the visitors and house pastor and his family.

I point this out, because my spirit was operating in the peace of God flowing through me at the time. I wasn’t focussed on “issues and attitudes” I was far from those feelings.

The peace of God is this awesome feeling of calm and tranquility that had me feeling like nothing else mattered. The person across the room  with attitude and hate had no idea what this peace feels like.

I remember at age 13 when I accepted Christ in my heart. That feeling stayed with me for a few days. 

We had company to stop by because I want to say it was around Christmas time and my mom was loved by everyone, so people who were in town to visit family would stop by to say hi to her.

I just remember sitting in a chair thinking to myself, these people have no idea what peace I am feeling, they think as adults that they have it all, but they have no idea. 

At age 13, I was looking at these adults who stop by to visit my mom, and I was thinking, they have no idea what it is like to feel this kind of peace.

I did ask the pastor st a later point about it though. He told me I was down on the floor about 45 minutes and there was no fan. He said the “ breeze” I felt was the Holy Spirit of the Lord blowing on me.

This Psalm 55:18 👇🏽

Psalm 55:18 He ransoms me and keeps me safe from the battle waged against me, though many still oppose me.

When it says, he keeps me safe from battle waged against me, though many still oppose me, I felt that.

In the days ahead, that peace I felt from the experience gave me the feeling of being immune to any hostility I would have encountered or been aware of before this happened to me.

In Psalms 29:11👇🏽

Psa 29:11  The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.

The peace he blesses us with surpasses anything that we might count as peace from this world. There is nothing of this world that can come close to the peace of God. Nothing.

🌟KJV

Php 4:7  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 

✨passes all understanding✨

Pass

To go beyond (a point, degree, stage, etc.); transcend; exceed; surpass.

🌟NLT

Philippians 4:7 Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.

✨Exceeds anything we can understand.

Exceed:

to go beyond in quantity, degree, rate, etc.

to go beyond the bounds or limits of:

Her performance exceeded all the others.

🌟NIV

Philippians 4:7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

✨transcends all understanding 

Transcends:

to transcend the limits of thought; kindness transcends courtesy.

to outdo or exceed in excellence, elevation, extent, degree, etc.; surpass; excel.

Each of these words give description of going beyond, exceeding in excellence and going beyond the limit.

It is all of these and words i cannot come up with to explain how much the peace of God surpasses limits, beyond what we can comprehend.

It is my prayer for all to feel this incredible peace and power of the Lord flowing through us as his spirit takes up residence within us.

I can speak about it all day. and I still cannot express, describe or bring understanding to what it is like to feel the spirit of God manifesting his peace within us.

I can only pray for this aweexperience to touch each of you. It is life changing, in the name of Jesus. Amen.