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Hi, I'm your guest host Jennifer Miller from Prosper Always and today we're going to take

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a posture of peace by discovering Jesus as our way to fullness of life.

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Hey everyone, we have a guest host today. I am so excited to introduce you to my fellow

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kingdom messenger Jennifer Miller. Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily

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posture of perfect peace. In John 14, one through six, Jesus says,

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do not let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. In my father's house

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are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a place for you.

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And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself that where

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I am, there you may be also. And where I go, you know, and the way you know. Now Thomas said to

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him, Lord, we do not know where you're going. So how do we know the way? And Jesus said to him,

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I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.

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Maybe like me, you've heard these verses before and have assurance with them that it's salvation

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and our future eternity in heaven. Now, once we accept Jesus as our savior, we put this verse

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on a shelf to use in the future. While these verses bring hope to our salvation and eternity

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through Jesus, they also hold the key to daily living in fullness of life.

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Jesus said that he has prepared a place for us, a spiritual mansion, so to speak,

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filled with everything that we will ever need called fullness of life. Now this includes health,

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provision, freedom, joy, and perfect peace. So by believing we walk through the door of Jesus to be

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with him forever. Now, did you hear that? We already entered the door through Jesus. Today,

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we are already standing on the inside of fullness of life. When I was in high school, I lived near

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Newport, Rhode Island. Okay, Newport is famous for its mansions where the wealthy would vacation

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by the ocean. I love to take tours of these mansions and explore their different decor

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and their different rooms. The tour guide would show us around, but he would also point out the

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different details that we might have overlooked and provide history and information about the

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family and their mansions. Through Jesus, we have access to everything that we will ever need in life

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because we already reside on the inside of our spiritual mansion, our fullness of life in Jesus.

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Our part is to walk inside, enjoy fellowship with God, and explore this fullness of inheritance

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through Jesus. But we are not left to wander alone. You see, Jesus has also given us the gift

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of the Holy Spirit who acts as our spiritual tour guide, leading us into all truth and deeper

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understanding of our identity as a child of God. When we worry or act out in our old sin behavior,

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it's like returning to the door of our mansion. We turn around and face it, but we're still on

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the inside. It's just that our focus has shifted away from the abundance of our fullness in Jesus

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to our own personal struggles. Through repentance, we turn around, putting the door back behind us

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and focus on Jesus and the fullness in him. Now, since we're already on the inside of the door of

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salvation, when we act out of our old nature, our repentance looks different. You see, we're no longer

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repenting from our old identity. We're repenting towards who we are becoming in Jesus. Okay, for

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example, instead of repenting for acting out of fear or unbelief, we just ask God to forgive us

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for not living in Jesus' peace, for not having Jesus' faith, for not living in Jesus' freedom.

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And we ask the Holy Spirit to help us live in Jesus' fullness. Now, maybe this seems too good to be true

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and living each day in Jesus' fullness of life seems impossible. Believe me, I know. I've had those

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days when life just feels overwhelming and I've lost my focus on Jesus' peace. Well,

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Ephesians 3 19 through 20 says,

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The love of Christ which passes knowledge and may you be filled with the fullness of God.

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Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or things

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according to the power that works in us. Okay living in the fullness of Jesus is not a place

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of arriving or a place of striving for perfection. It is a daily journey in partnership with the Holy

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Spirit who is ready and willing to empower us with God's grace to live each day more like Jesus.

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Today I want to encourage you that in every difficult situation that you face Jesus is your

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way. He's your way to peace, freedom, healing, joy, and fullness of life. Ask the Holy Spirit to guide you

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and empower you with God's grace to live daily in the fullness of Jesus.