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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by trusting our teacher and loving our learning.

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Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.

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Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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In John 14, verse 26, Jesus said,

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But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,

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he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

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So just a quick recap.

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Last week's episode, episode 178, we talked about how to live in peace in troubled times.

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Really, what we talked about was how to live in peace all the time.

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The key was making all of our life situations

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first about God instead of making it about yourself.

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You know, when you come into a hard circumstance, instead of asking why,

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first ask who.

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Place your focus, your attention on who is God.

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Who does he say he is?

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What is his nature?

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What is his character?

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What is he really, really like?

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And then ask who am I becoming in him?

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Genesis 126, we are being made in his image and likeness.

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So who he is, is who we are becoming.

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Isn't that so exciting?

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We are constantly learning and becoming from glory to glory,

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and there is grace upon grace as we learn and become.

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So the real treasure is found in the journeying with God

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through all of life's situations and seasons.

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It's not a treasure that we only discover or only enjoy

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at a destination somewhere when we finally arrive,

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when we finally learn the lesson.

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No, the process, the learning, the practicing, the becoming,

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that is where we experience the presence of God so rich and powerfully,

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and it's where we discover more and more of what he is really, really like.

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Colossians 3 tells us that we have been brought to fullness in Christ.

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We have been brought to fullness.

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It is done.

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John 1 16 says, for from his fullness, we all have received grace upon grace.

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So Christ's fullness is our starting point.

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It's where you're standing right now, today,

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in every situation, in every season of life.

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And all of life is really about discovering just how full that fullness really is.

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And that truth alone should just have you loving your learning.

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It should have us all delighting in the process that we're in right now.

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But often, the way that we approach learning produces pressure instead of peace.

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I mean, think about even the language we use in the world around learning.

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Like, I hope you learned your lesson, or you better learn your lesson.

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Or we give tests, you know, and it's like you get one chance to pass or fail.

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Or we teach just to the test.

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You know, this used to be a huge issue for me.

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I would learn a new revelation.

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I would gain more understanding of scripture.

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I would get a sense of just how full fullness really is.

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And I would get so frustrated with myself.

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Because I would think, there is so much to learn.

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And there is so much I don't know.

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And this would really challenge me, especially in hard circumstances.

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Because I would think, I must have done something wrong.

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Or I must have missed something.

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Or I must have not fully understood.

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If I did understand, if I did know, then things would not have gotten this hard.

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Or an old struggle would emerge.

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Or I would be triggered by something.

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And I would think, well, I guess I'm not as far along as I thought I was.

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Or I must have missed it.

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I must have lost it.

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I would lean on my own understanding.

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I would make it about me before making it about him.

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Instead of resting in his nature, I was leaning on my lack.

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I've had several conversations with friends in the past couple weeks.

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And they've included phrases like, I just don't want to miss out on God's will for me.

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Or I don't want to get it wrong.

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I don't want to miss out on what God is trying to teach me right now,

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in this season, or through the circumstance.

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Have you found yourself in that place as well?

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Maybe saying some of those things?

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I mean, we just all want to get it right.

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We just want to get it right.

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And while that desire to wanting to get it right, it seems so right.

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But it actually places our focus on the wrong things.

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It has us paying attention to what's not there instead of who is there with us always.

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It has us leaning into the scarcity around us

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instead of leaning into the abundance of God's presence in us.

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You know, that wanting to get it right.

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just get it right and get it right the first time.

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I don't want to fail at this, you know.

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It has us living these lives powered by pressure,

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powered by stress instead of powered

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by peace and his presence.

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It places our focus on achieving instead of abiding.

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Abiding in the Lord is where we practice

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the presence of God in all of our life situations

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so that we become fully focused, fully engaged with God.

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It's not that we just have a relationship with him,

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it's that we have fellowship with him.

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We're learning, we're practicing speaking his language

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over our situation.

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We're learning to see our circumstances

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through his perspective.

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We're practicing thinking about our lives and ourselves

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and the world around us with the mind of Christ.

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This is the process of becoming.

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And it's really about being and becoming

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based on our heart's experience,

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not on doing and demonstrating a skill or behavior

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based on head knowledge.

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Your heart represents that inner place

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where Christ and you abide together

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in relationship, in fellowship.

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Let me read Ephesians three.

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It really illustrates what I'm trying to say here.

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It says it much better than how I could say it.

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Ephesians chapter three, I'm gonna start in verse 16.

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It says that according to the riches of his glory,

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he may grant you to be strengthened with the power

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through his spirit in your inner being

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so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith

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that you being rooted and grounded in love

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may have strength to comprehend with all the saints

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what is the breadth and length and height and depth

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and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge

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that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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You have everything you need to live emboldened,

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empowered, and equipped in every situation.

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And every situation is an opportunity

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to practice living emboldened, empowered, and equipped.

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And the good news is we get a lot of practice.

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And the good news is we are not alone in the practice.

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You have a helper, you have a teacher, the Holy Spirit.

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Okay, true confessions.

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Even recently, like within the last few weeks recent,

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I became so frustrated with the process

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that I am in right now because I was believing

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that my lack of knowledge was keeping me stuck.

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And I heard the Holy Spirit say,

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Lindsay, do you not trust me to get through to you?

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Don't you think that I know what it is that you need

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in this circumstance, in this process?

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And don't you think I love you enough

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to make sure you get what you need when you need it?

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Do you think I'm gonna let you stay stuck?

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I just began to feel all the pressure release

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in that moment and peace began to rise up within me

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because I trusted my teacher

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and I started to love my learning again.

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You will love your learning.

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You will savor the process you are in

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when you trust your teacher.

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So today, remember, you don't have to know everything.

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You just have to know God.

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In everything, you already have the Father's love,

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Christ's fullness, and the Holy Spirit's help.

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You're not gonna stay stuck.

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The presence of God is in you today, right now,

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in this circumstance that you're facing.

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And you are becoming, you are being made

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into the image and likeness of God.

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So I wanna encourage you,

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trust your teacher and love your learning.