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Today, we are going to take a posture of peace

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by wielding the power of patience.

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Posture is a short, audible fist bump

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to remind you God is with you in everything.

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Together, we're going to be emboldened

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to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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Okay, I'm gonna be reading from a few scriptures today,

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starting with Psalm 27, verse 14.

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Soak this in today.

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It says, wait on the Lord.

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Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart.

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Wait, I say, on the Lord.

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Psalm 33, verse 20 says, our soul waits for the Lord.

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He is our help and our shield.

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Micah 7, 7, therefore, I will look to the Lord.

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I will wait for the God of my salvation.

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My God will hear me.

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And then Romans chapter eight, verses 24 and 25,

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it says, for in this hope, we were saved.

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Now, hope that is seen is not hope.

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For who hopes for what he sees?

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But if we hope for what we do not see,

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we wait for it with patience.

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Now, here's a strange thing that I find really encouraging.

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There are a lot of scriptures in the Bible about waiting.

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And that's encouraging to me because it means

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having to wait doesn't necessarily mean

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something is wrong with me,

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or that I'm doing something wrong.

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You know, I used to think that if a prayer

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wasn't answered quickly,

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or if a circumstance wasn't resolved instantly,

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that it was because I didn't have enough faith for it,

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or I wasn't behaving correctly,

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or something like silly like that.

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But here's the truth.

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Waiting on the Lord is actively waiting with him.

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And it is a beautiful opportunity to discover

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and experience that joy and peace and believing

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that we talked about in last episode.

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Romans 15, 13 talks about it.

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You know, sometimes the most discouraging thing

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about a negative circumstance or a hard situation

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is just how long it lasts.

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I mean, you probably have experienced this.

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Some circumstances in our lives,

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they are not resolved in a week or in a month

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or even longer, you know,

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they're not on our timeline whatsoever.

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But the gift, and it is a gift,

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of enduring those long lasting circumstances

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is that they are our opportunity

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to learn how to patiently abide in who God is for us.

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And abiding is relational.

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It's not situational.

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It's not transactional like we talked about last episode.

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That means that patience is really about responding

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to God's invitation to be with him

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as you walk through your life,

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as you walk through every season,

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as you walk through battles.

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Hidden in him, safe with him,

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not surrendering to striving or stress or freaking out,

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but staying in his rest and peace.

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You know, without the power of patience,

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you would be depleted easily

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by those long lasting circumstances

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because instead of carrying an expectation

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of who God is for you, in you, through you,

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you would get caught up in the desperation

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of doubt and fear.

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Without patience, our focus becomes fixed

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on who and what is all against us

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instead of the one who is for us

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and the one who is in us.

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You know, without patience, we live in dread

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because of all that is happening to us

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or all that's happening around us

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or all the things that are happening to the people we love

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instead of living delighted by who we are becoming in God.

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You know, the Lord is eager.

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He is so eager to give you his elevated perspective

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of your circumstances.

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And when you wait with him,

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he reveals who he made you to be in Jesus.

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You were made in God's image, Genesis 1.26.

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His peace can become your peace.

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His joy can become your joy.

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His patience can become your patience.

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And when you experience this truth,

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I'm telling you, the waiting isn't difficult

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because it renews and restores you continually.

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Think about this.

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You could come out of your hard circumstances

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even stronger than when you entered them.

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All the while, your enemy, who has no patience at all because it's a fruit of the spirit

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that he doesn't have access to, Satan will become totally depleted by your negative circumstances

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as you wait.

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So just embrace this glorious truth today.

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You could totally be depleting your enemy, Satan, right now by simply waiting with the

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Lord.

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The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26, 3.

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In Hebrew, it is shalom, shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken.

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This is who you are in Jesus, because of Jesus.

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You are a living testimony of Jesus' ultimate win.

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With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus' victory on display and Satan's defeat

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on replay.