Priscilla Shirer - Welcome the Peace of the Holy Spirit

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So awareness might be the place that's hard for someone
like me, where because we're just moving forward and we're
taking care of the people in our lives. I think of,
for example, the scenario that we are in right now,
having experienced so many hard things personally and in our
family life in the last several years. But then even
in these last few weeks, I've been taking care of

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my husband, taking care of my sons, and I've been
so busy in being mindful about their emotional health that
I've noticed that when someone asks me how I am doing,
it actually makes me pause for a second to go,
I don't even know. I haven't even taken time to
really have an awareness to what it is that I'm

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feeling because I'm so busy taking care of everything else.
So I feel like busyness then can become a scapegoat
for us, where it's just easier to tend to everybody
else than to sit for a second. And if I
can just say, I think that one of the gifts,
and I say that loosely because I want to be
careful not to imply that the chaos of twenty twenty

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has been you know, has been a good thing. It
has been chaotic. There have been many people who have
suffered so much loss, whether financially or with grief with
loved ones because of COVID. But if there is one
of the benefits or gifts that have come out of it,
is that a lot of us have had an opportunity
to sit still and actually develop an awareness of what

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we actually feel in a way that we haven't had
an opportunity to do before because it's been masked and
numbed underneath the guise of business.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
So I created us in his image, and so if
he did that, then we do feel love. We feel joy,
we feel disappointment, we feel hurt, we feel pain, we
feel all of it. I find doctor Anita and Priscilla
that that we can't let emotions control as but we

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need to control our emotions. But if we don't feel
that God is always in control, then we can lose it.
We can lose our emotions. And I think we're seeing
so much of that today. You know, Jesus said my
peace I give to you, and I believe he fought

(02:15):
for that peace. I believe exactly what you were talking about,
doctor Anita, him going through all of those emotions before
the cross. He paid that price so that we can
have that peace. My peace I give to you my
peace I leave with you, Priscilla. People that don't have

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that peace, that don't feel that God is literally in control,
because we know he is. As Christians and christ followers,
we believe that God is control of every mess that
we make, of every mess that's going on today.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, no, I appreciate that. Just you bringing up basically
the work of the Holy Spirit. That's what you're talking about.
The peace that he leaves with us is the person
of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit comes into
the life of someone who has placed faith in Jesus.
Ephesian Chapter one says that at the moment you believe,
you receive the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit is

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not an it or a ghost, or a fire or
a dove. He's symbolized by those things often in scripture,
but he is the third person of the Trinity. And
when he takes up residence on the inside of you,
all the power, the presence of God the Father is
in the person of the Holy Spirit. And the Holy
Spirit's job is to shake awake those things that are

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spiritually slumbering and separated from God in us. That is
our soul, which is our mind, will and emotions, our conscience.
That's what comprises our soul. So our emotions is a
part of that. And the Holy Spirit takes up residence
in us. He shakes your emotions awake from their spiritual slumber,
your conscience away from it, awake awake from its spiritual slumber,

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and he allows those things now to be under the
jurisdiction and the power of the presence of God, so
that every aspect of who you are now becomes sanctified,
molded into the image of Jesus Christ, so that we
start thinking like he thinks and feeling in line with
how he feels, so that what breaks his heart breaks

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our heart, so that the things he would be angered
about we are now angered about. As we watch things
unfold on the news or on social media feed or
in areas of justice or government or whatever, our heart
begins to break about those things that are happening underneath
the roof of our house that are out of alignment
with God's best design for our family or for our relationships.

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The Holy Spirit allows that our emotions then become instruments
used by Him to help us to walk and feel
and breathe and experience a life that is in line
with the will and the plan of God. And I'm
so grateful for that that he doesn't discard basically discarding
our inhumanity, like doctor Anita was just saying while I

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was laying on her couch a few minutes ago. But
basically he allows our humanity under the control of the
Holy Spirit. All of it is not pushed to the curb.
It is molded into the image of Jesus, and he
utilizes us as we are underneath and submitted to the
control of the Holy Spirit, for His glory and for

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Speaker 2 (05:34):
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