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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by showing up and sharing our message.

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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 Isaiah chapter 61 verses 1 through 3, it says,

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The spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim

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good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim

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freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim

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the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn

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and provide for those who grieve in Zion, to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,

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the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.

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They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of

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his splendor. So if you are watching this right now, I would first like to apologize for my

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appearance. I am coming to you full-blown casual today, and I'll tell you why. It has been a crazy,

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beautiful, busy week, and I have had the time of my life. I birthed something this past week,

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and no, it wasn't a baby. She's about another month or so from coming, but this past week

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I launched a one-week workshop to help Kingdom Messengers launch their channels online, basically

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to do what I did with this Posture podcast around this time last year. Our first one-year

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anniversary for Posture is actually coming up pretty soon this month, and you know, when I

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started this workshop, I didn't know if five people would show up or 50, but it turned out 250 people

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joined this workshop. 250 Kingdom Messengers from 39 countries representing every continent, except

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for Antarctica. We'll get them next time. You see, I launched this workshop because for months I had this

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prompting, it was this like deep sense that God is stirring the hearts of his messengers all over

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the world right now to innovate and create, to leverage this digital landscape to disciple nations,

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and now after these past seven days, it's no longer just a sense that I have. It's a deep

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knowing, and I realized, you know, many that are watching and listening right now are Kingdom

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Messengers too. You have something stirring in you. You are carrying a message, a testimony, an

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encounter with Jesus that you just can't shake, but you know will shake the world around you.

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There is something that the Lord has redeemed in you that you want to restore in others, and that

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is the treasure of Isaiah 61. God has redeemed our ashes and given us a crown of beauty so that we

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can be that for other people too. He has given us the oil of joy instead of mourning, so we now have

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it to give away to others. What gets redeemed in you empowers you to restore people in the places

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around you. It's how you get to experience and live out that promise in 1 John 4 17. As he is,

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so are we in this world. So I want to ask you a question. What has been redeemed in you

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that you want to restore in others? I would love for you to comment and tell me. Maybe it's peace

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like me. Maybe it's physical healing. Maybe it's wholeness and marriage and families. Maybe it's

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bringing kingdom culture to your specific industry like education or government or the marketplace

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or entertainment. Maybe it's freedom from addiction or trauma. Maybe it's the fullness of

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joy. You know, the world doesn't need just one of us or a few of us or only 250 kingdom messengers.

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It needs thousands of us.

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So today, I want to encourage you, act on this truth, you know, because we all have

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an enemy, and it's not each other, and it's not the person to the right or the left of

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us, and it's not the person on our social media feeds.

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His name is Satan, and the one way you can shut his mouth today is to open yours.

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As you show up in other people's lives, whether it's in person or online, scrolling through

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your social media feeds, instead of, you know, opening your mouth to criticize or correct,

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open your mouth and be a massive encouragement today.

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You are an oak of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor.

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Amen.

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