My Peace I Leave With YouMy Peace I Leave With You
Hope, Healing & Freedom
Lee Whitman talks about finding God’s peace amid family addiction, health struggles and daily anxiety, using scripture and personal stories. The episode focuses on trusting God, setting boundaries and releasing the pressure to have a conflict‑free life.
14:39•26 May 2026
Finding Peace in the Chaos: Faith, Conflict and Letting Go of Control
Episode Overview
- God’s peace is not the absence of conflict but a supernatural calm that can exist even in chaos, such as addiction or family breakdown.
- Keeping your mind focused on God, rather than circumstances, is presented as key to experiencing “perfect peace” from Isaiah 26:3.
- It is normal to feel fear and trembling in hard times; faith does not remove humanness but invites God to work through it.
- Romans 12:18 is used to show that peace with everyone is not always possible, and it is not anyone’s job to keep everybody happy.
- Philippians 4:7 is highlighted as a promise of peace that “passes understanding” and guards the heart and mind like a military guard.
“There is a peace available to you that passes understanding… You can receive a type of peace from Father God that will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol, anxiety and constant inner chaos? This episode of *Hope, Healing & Freedom* follows Lee Whitman as he talks honestly about finding peace with God when life feels anything but peaceful. Lee starts with a simple but familiar mistake: watching the news before bed and then lying awake with his mind spinning about world conflict, politics and the clash between good and evil.
From there, he moves into something far more personal – a friend’s 22‑year‑old child who went from model Christian teenager to heavy drinking, drugs, multiple sexual relationships and dropping out of college. Their story raises the big question: can anyone really experience God’s peace in a mess like that?
Drawing on scriptures such as Isaiah 26:3 and John 14:27, Lee explains that the peace Jesus talks about isn’t the absence of conflict, but a supernatural calm **in** the middle of it. As he puts it, “The perfect life is one in which there is no conflict… What a great world it would be if there were no conflict… How boring would that be?” Different opinions and hard circumstances are part of life; the issue is where your mind rests.
He shares his own fears about his wife Cindy’s unresolved back pain and how they repeatedly hand their anxiety to “Father God” and ask what He wants them to know about the situation. The answer doesn’t erase pain, but it does bring a sense of being held. Lee also tackles people‑pleasing head‑on through Romans 12:18, pushing back against the idea that it’s anyone’s job to keep everybody happy, even your own child.
For those dealing with addiction in the family, or chronic stress and worry, this conversation offers a practical, faith‑centred way to face reality without being crushed by it. If peace that “passes all understanding” really exists, what might change if you let it guard your heart and mind too?
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