Do you know what can ruin my peace in any given day?  Some tiny frustration.  For example: if I am writing on the computer, and I hit the wrong button and the page shifts, I lose my train of thought or the progress I am making.  Or, if I go to let my dog in, and his lead-line is not opening or got stuck on a bush, my comfort is interrupted.  Or, if I am preparing a meal, and an important dish drops, spills and breaks, my efforts get derailed.When these little things happen smoldering anger and irritation rise up within me.  It’s almost as if there are embers of a fire of frustration in my gut. That one tiny thing I can’t do puffs air onto the smoldering coal.  Then a flame erupts within me.I know this is not pleasing to the Lord.  Nor is it His will for me to experience frustration. His desire for me is to experience the peace of the Holy Spirit  at all times.So I sought the Heavenly Father this morning and asked Him what I should do about this.Here are the Lord’s suggestions:1.  Confess it, and rebuke it.  The frustration is a stronghold the enemy has thrown at me. Command the thoughts and feelings to leave me, stating that they have no legal right to influence me, as I am IN CHRIST and under His blood.2.   Declare out loud, “It is well.  It’s your will.”  God tells us that everything happens in conformity with his will. (Eph. 1:11)  The computer glitch, the hiccup with my dog, the disruption with food prep — these all happen under God’s supreme and perfect will.3.  Knowing this, I will intentionally offer my body as a living sacrifice (Roms. 12:2) , believing that in doing so “I will live.”  “To  live” in Hebrew is chayah (khay’-ya) means to be revived from discouragement and restored to life and positive thinking.   “Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live;do not let my hopes be dashed.”  Psalm 119:116.When I ask God to “sustain” me,  I am offering myself as a sacrifice. I am asking Abba Father to hold my head like a lamb for the slaughter and to cut my jugular so I die as a sacrifice for Him.  Incredibly image!  In that act of sacrifice (giving up my tiny little thing), I let my will, my goal, die.  So in each of these little things in life, my thoughts and feelings are transformed.  When I believe they happen as part of God’s will, I thank Him for them.And I am free indeed!In Christ,