Accentuate Life: Everyday Leadership for Kingdom Living
Accentuate Life is a faith-centered podcast focused on everyday leadership for Kingdom living. Hosted by Dr. Rita Felton, each short segment offers encouragement, wisdom, and practical insights to help listeners lead with clarity, purpose, and conviction in their personal and professional lives. These moments are designed to inspire intentional living—one choice, one conversation, one step at a time.
Accentuate Life: Everyday Leadership for Kingdom Living
Accentuate Peace
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We explore the difference between worldly peace that depends on control and kingdom peace that flows from trust in God. Scripture anchors practical steps to pause, pray, and realign daily so leaders can carry less, listen better, and respond with wisdom.
• peace defined as God’s presence amid trouble
• contrast between worldly control and kingdom trust
• Philippians 4:6–7 as a pattern for prayer and peace
• practical choices to pause, pray, and align with truth
• leadership benefits of a settled, guarded heart
• reflective question on what to release to steward peace
Thank you for spending time with me on another Accentuate Life podcast. Until next time, lead with intention, live with purpose, and let's continue to accentuate the leader within
Welcome back to Accentuate Life, Everyday Leadership for Kingdom Living. I'm Dr. Rita, and I'm so glad you are here. Today we're talking about something many people are searching for, but few feel they can truly sustain, and that is peace. Peace is often misunderstood. Many people think peace comes when life settles down, when problems resolve, or when circumstances finally align. But biblical peace doesn't work that way. Scripture reminds us that peace is not the absence of trouble, it's the presence of God in the middle of it. In John 14, 27, Jesus says, Peace I leave with you, my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. That verse tells us something important. There is a difference between worldly peace and kingdom peace. Worldly peace depends on control. Kingdom peace depends on trust. To accentuate peace means we choose to highlight and protect what God has already made available to us. Peace is not something we manufacture, it's something we steward. As leaders, as believers, and as people navigating everyday responsibilities, we often carry more than we were meant to hold. When peace begins to feel distant, it's often because we're carrying burdens God never asks us to manage alone. Philippians 4, 6 through 7 reminds us to be anxious for nothing but in everything through prayer and supplication to present our request to God. And then Scripture gives us a promise that the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard our hearts and minds. Peace is not passive, it's a decision. It's choosing to pause instead of panic. It's choosing to pray instead of being pressured. It's choosing alignment when God's truth over the noise of the world. When we accentuate peace, we lead better. We listen better. We respond with wisdom instead of reaction. And when we create space for God to move where striving once lived, get ready for something amazing. Peace. Here's a question to reflect on today. What might you need to release in order to steward peace more intentionally in your life right now? If peace feels elusive, I want to encourage you. Peace is not lost. It's available. God's peace meets us when we align our hearts, our focus, and our trust with Him. You don't have to earn peace. You receive it. Thank you for spending time with me on another Accentuate Life podcast. Until next time, lead with intention, live with purpose, and let's continue to accentuate the leader within.