This week we’re going to be digging into some favorite subjects! We love and want more peace, to enter His rest, and to grasp joy. We think that it’s only fair to prepare you that this may not be the average message on these subjects. 

In fact, ironically we found that this has been the most difficult series to write so far! Goodness! 

I mean - it’s about happy things, things we want! So why was it so much… work? Why was it so hard for each of us?

We think there’s a few things in play:

• Peace rest and joy is something that many women are chasing, and it’s easy that in pursuit of it - unbeknowingly, we bypass the actual way of acquiring it. In concern for women who are wondering “I strive to have peace, or enter His rest, or to have joy but it isn’t coming!” we’ve felt the need to identify, clarify, and caution women from going down this path.
• Defining what it is and what it is not to aid us and confirm for us that we are in fact, pursuing the right things.
• Solidifying our confidence in Him - SO THAT we are actually able to abide in peace, in rest and with joy - 2 of which are fruits of the Spirit, and therefore not just something we can have in our own strength - and we want to address this in these challenging times.
  
  So, in the next few episodes, we’ve decided after much discussion, a good approach would be to address each subject in 4 parts:
  
  1] What are these? 
  2] Is there a cost?
  3] What are they not?
  4] How do we receive and enjoy them?

In order to accomplish this, please realize that there will be highs and lows in each episode: there will be a sense of exhortation - we’ve been given so many promises of aid in God’s Word!

And - there will be some hard stuff. We talked this over a lot, as there were parts in reading and recording where one or both of us were like, “man- this is deep. Or Man, this is hitting hard.” and we had to keep going back in prayer - and if I may just lay it out… we had to determine if we ...we as ladies with a microphone, with a platform to voice on this podcast ...what is our style? What is our responsibility with how to handle what has been given to us? We must teach the word - and I’m just being transparent, it’s not easy. Ironically, this is feeling a bit heavy.

Ok, so we feel the need to address some ways peace, rest, and joy are being STOLEN from you - and dramatic as it sounds, it’s true… but if you’ll hang with us, we promise that while we get into some deep stuff - we won’t leave you there! 

There is no greater hope ever to be found in the heavens or on the earth than the hope we have in Jesus Christ.

Ok, are we ready? 

So before we get started on defining peace, rest, and joy. Let us all, all of us… ask ourselves:

How do we define them? What do we think peace is? I often hear the term peace partnered with “and quiet” and I quite like that and would likely gravitate to thinking of peace in that way… but that may not be the actual way peace is always given.

Or rest ...are you tired? Do you long to have some solitude? What does rest look like to you?

What about joy? What is joy? How close is it to happiness?

In these answers lie the hidden pursuits: what is it we’re searching for?

Verses Sighted

John 6:25-68
Luke 19
Psalm 23

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