WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.560 Today we are going to take a posture of peace by becoming more than a conqueror. 2 00:00:07.840 --> 00:00:12.560 Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything. 3 00:00:13.120 --> 00:00:17.360 Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace. 4 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:26.400 So all this week we're talking about the power we have in Jesus to prevail in 5 00:00:26.400 --> 00:00:32.560 every single circumstance. I read last episode in episode 121 from Romans 8 where Paul talks 6 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:36.080 about how we are more than conquerors. We're going to continue that conversation today. 7 00:00:36.080 --> 00:00:41.040 I'm going to be reading from Colossians chapter 2 verses 13 through 15 and it says, 8 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:47.040 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, 9 00:00:47.040 --> 00:00:56.560 God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge 10 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:03.840 of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us. He has taken it away, 11 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:10.880 nailing it to the cross, and having disarmed the powers and authorities, He, being Jesus, 12 00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:19.760 made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. You know, you can never 13 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:27.360 lose your real life in Christ, but you can lose your awareness of it. And this often happens when 14 00:01:27.360 --> 00:01:34.080 we allow the circumstances of life to completely overwhelm us and steal our focus. When we become 15 00:01:34.080 --> 00:01:41.360 more aware, more astonished by what is happening around us than the one who is living within us. 16 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:50.080 But when the nature of God is our greatest reality, when we are fully persuaded, like Paul 17 00:01:50.080 --> 00:01:56.240 in Romans 8 talks about, fully persuaded that nothing can separate us from who God is for us, 18 00:01:56.240 --> 00:02:03.520 when our full focus is on being alive with Him, then any negatives, any hardships in our lives 19 00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:11.200 serve only as signposts that point to who God wants to be for us and who we are becoming in Him. 20 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:21.440 Do not miss this. What God is offering us is Himself, His unchanging Self, so that we too 21 00:02:21.440 --> 00:02:29.120 can become unchanging in our nature and character, no matter what is occurring. We can become as 22 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:37.040 constant and consistent as He is. You become a conqueror. You win in battle when the enemy, 23 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:44.560 Satan, knows that no matter what he does, you are going to use it to discover something new 24 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:51.120 about the nature of God, His goodness, His kindness, His faithfulness, His peace, His joy, 25 00:02:51.120 --> 00:02:58.000 and you are going to become that also. That's when you become an overcomer. And eventually, 26 00:02:58.720 --> 00:03:05.760 the enemy won't even want to challenge you because he knows that you know how to use everything he 27 00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:13.360 throws at you to your advantage. That's when you become more than a conqueror. This is what 28 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:18.560 happened with my battle with anxiety. You know, I've struggled with anxiety for years growing up, 29 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:23.120 and then there was this reprieve, there was this relief, there was this overcoming of anxiety, 30 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.360 and I lived for years without being under the weight of it. But then in my late 20s, 31 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:33.440 it stirred back up in my life and almost more intensely than what I had dealt with before. 32 00:03:33.440 --> 00:03:37.840 You know, I was having panic attacks and constant anxiety attacks, and I lived under the weight of 33 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:46.560 worry always. And there was this temptation to believe the lie that I was starting from scratch 34 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:52.720 again, that I had done something to deserve this, that whatever territory I gained earlier in my 35 00:03:52.720 --> 00:03:59.360 life when it came to anxiety, I had lost that victory. And the real lie, the temptation was 36 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:05.440 to believe that I was never healed in the first place, that there was no such thing as true 37 00:04:05.440 --> 00:04:13.520 victory over anxiety. But thankfully, the Holy Spirit and wise counselors led me back to the 38 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:21.200 truth. The reality is this. I had overcome anxiety. I had gained territory in that area of my life. 39 00:04:21.200 --> 00:04:25.760 But the enemy, though he is stupid, he is strategic, and he's not going to give up without 40 00:04:25.760 --> 00:04:30.880 some kind of fight. And so he was poking and he was prodding to see if he could take that 41 00:04:30.880 --> 00:04:37.680 territory back. So I had to stand firm to maintain that territory. But it wasn't just so much, you 42 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:42.800 know, being a sitting duck and sitting still all the time. It was standing firm in the truth, but 43 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:48.480 it was also moving forward and discovering, okay, God, who do you want to be for me now? 44 00:04:49.120 --> 00:04:51.840 That perhaps you couldn't be for me before because I wasn't 45 00:04:53.520 --> 00:04:59.760 aware that I needed you in this area of my life, if that makes sense. And so I began to 46 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.000 discover a new depth of peace like never before. 47 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:08.840 I began to have fresh revelation, 48 00:05:08.840 --> 00:05:12.160 deep revelation of what perfect peace actually was 49 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:15.500 and who the Prince of Peace was for me, 50 00:05:15.500 --> 00:05:19.160 his power and his presence that were constant in my life. 51 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:23.280 And so I began to, I continued to maintain that territory, 52 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:26.200 but I began to advance and take new territory 53 00:05:26.200 --> 00:05:28.760 and new territory and I became, 54 00:05:28.760 --> 00:05:32.120 I gained more victory over anxiety, 55 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.040 more victory than I had before. 56 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:37.480 I was an overcomer and then it got to a point 57 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:39.240 where I could sense, I'm in a season now 58 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:44.240 where I sense that the enemy is so depleted by me, 59 00:05:44.400 --> 00:05:47.680 so depleted by my partnership with God 60 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:50.600 in this journey to peace, 61 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:52.080 in this journey discovering perfect peace 62 00:05:52.080 --> 00:05:54.920 that he won't even poke and prod anymore. 63 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:57.400 He won't even try to mess with me in this area of my life. 64 00:05:57.400 --> 00:06:01.000 I have become more than a conqueror 65 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:03.120 when it comes to anxiety and panic. 66 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:04.800 I have become more than a conqueror. 67 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:06.520 I have determined in my heart 68 00:06:06.520 --> 00:06:08.400 that anything that the enemy throws at me, 69 00:06:08.400 --> 00:06:11.160 I will use to my advantage. 70 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.480 I will use to discover even more about the nature of God 71 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:16.720 and not just discover more about the nature of God, 72 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:18.720 but become more of that as well. 73 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:22.040 I don't just have peace, I am with peace, 74 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:24.400 the Prince of Peace and I am becoming peace, 75 00:06:24.400 --> 00:06:26.520 his peace is now mine. 76 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:27.360 And you know what? 77 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:28.960 I'm taking people with me. 78 00:06:28.960 --> 00:06:29.880 So what is it for you? 79 00:06:29.880 --> 00:06:32.240 Maybe it's anxiety, maybe it's panic, 80 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:34.760 maybe it's depression, maybe it's a physical illness, 81 00:06:34.760 --> 00:06:36.840 maybe it's an anger issue that you've dealt with, 82 00:06:36.840 --> 00:06:38.240 maybe it's an addiction. 83 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.720 What have you, what do you wanna become an overcomer in? 84 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:43.840 And what have you become an overcomer in? 85 00:06:43.840 --> 00:06:46.920 And then what do you wanna become more than an overcomer, 86 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:48.480 more than a conqueror in? 87 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:49.920 It's available to you. 88 00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.180 This is your real life in Christ. 89 00:06:52.180 --> 00:06:54.260 This is the point of hardship. 90 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:56.740 This is the point of negative circumstances. 91 00:06:56.740 --> 00:06:59.660 It points us to who God is for us 92 00:06:59.660 --> 00:07:01.260 and who we are becoming in him. 93 00:07:01.260 --> 00:07:02.740 We are more than conquerors. 94 00:07:02.740 --> 00:07:04.420 You are more than a conqueror. 95 00:07:04.420 --> 00:07:05.340 And you know what? 96 00:07:05.340 --> 00:07:07.400 Let's determine in our hearts today, 97 00:07:07.400 --> 00:07:09.220 whatever the enemy throws at us, 98 00:07:09.220 --> 00:07:11.700 whatever territory he wants to take from us, 99 00:07:11.700 --> 00:07:13.460 we refuse to give it up to him. 100 00:07:13.460 --> 00:07:15.340 We're going to continue to maintain 101 00:07:15.340 --> 00:07:16.860 the territory he's given to us. 102 00:07:16.860 --> 00:07:18.640 We're gonna continue to move forward 103 00:07:18.640 --> 00:07:19.920 and take more territory. 104 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:21.580 We're gonna deplete him so that he doesn't even 105 00:07:21.580 --> 00:07:22.420 wanna mess with us. 106 00:07:22.420 --> 00:07:23.260 And you know what? 107 00:07:23.260 --> 00:07:26.220 We're gonna take people with us. 108 00:07:27.380 --> 00:07:31.940 The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26, 3. 109 00:07:31.940 --> 00:07:35.180 In Hebrew, it is shalom, shalom, 110 00:07:35.180 --> 00:07:37.540 meaning complete wholeness, 111 00:07:37.540 --> 00:07:40.540 nothing missing, nothing broken. 112 00:07:40.540 --> 00:07:45.420 This is who you are in Jesus because of Jesus. 113 00:07:45.420 --> 00:07:49.460 You are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win. 114 00:07:49.460 --> 00:07:51.500 With every step you take today, 115 00:07:51.500 --> 00:07:54.260 you're putting Jesus's victory on display 116 00:07:54.260 --> 00:07:56.580 and Satan's defeat on replay.