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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by disempowering disappointment.

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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 Psalm 37 verses 1 through 4 it says,

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This is such good news guys, this is such good news especially for those of us who have found ourselves stuck in disappointment.

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In last week's episode, episode 171, you know I talked about pointing our imaginations in the

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right direction, pointing our imaginations towards the goodness of God. Because where our minds go,

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we eventually go. You know I have been so disappointed before that eventually it became

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my lifestyle. Disappointment became my lens for how I viewed the world around me, how I viewed myself,

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even how I viewed God. I lived with this exhausting responsibility of trying to make

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the gap between my expectations and reality as small as possible. So what happened was I just

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ended up living with really low expectations in an effort to protect myself from more disappointment.

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I expected rejection so I avoided asking for help. I hated asking for help. I expected things

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not to work out so I would enter into situations you know pointing out all that could go wrong

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ahead of time just to make sure that I wouldn't be disappointed if it did go wrong. I expected

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to be let down so I just didn't depend on other people. And here's what's so sad about that

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lifestyle. It wasn't obvious to me that I was living that way. In my mind and heart it was just

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the way that I was. Like it was my personality. But in Christ you don't have to stay the way you are.

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You get to become all he is so that as he is so are you in this world. And Jesus Christ is not

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stuck in disappointment. You know the world's solution for dealing with disappointment is what

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I did. Lower your expectations so that you don't continue to be disappointed. So you don't become

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disempowered by disappointment. But the kingdom solution for disappointment is the opposite.

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It's to raise your expectations to a place of total delight so that you disempower disappointment.

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You see disappointment is not to be ignored or avoided. It's to be confronted with the truth of

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God's word, his promises, his economy, his beauty, his character, his majesty. When we feed on his

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faithfulness and give way to delighting in who he is with us, for us, in us, through us, his majesty

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expands our hearts and minds to the point where disappointment no longer diminishes us. We diminish

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it. So today I want to encourage you disempower disappointment by giving way to delight. And a great

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place to start is with giving thanks. Become thankful for who he is. Get into the promises of

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his word. Delight in what he said to you about you and then become delighted in who you are becoming

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in him. Guys this disappointment is not your inheritance.

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Delight is. So today go ahead and give yourself a way to delight.