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As you can see, we are not in my normal studio.

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My husband and Bruce and I were on a road trip this week.

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We traveled North Carolina to visit some family.

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And Bruce and I thought it would be great to wait to record this week's episode

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so we could do it on the water. We could record at the beach.

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But we overlooked one minor detail, and that was the weather report.

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So as you can see, we made it to the water, but it's really wet outside.

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So we are going to take a posture of peace today, if you are watching, totally vlog style.

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We're just going to go with the flow today.

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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 keeping with this road trip theme, I've got my digital Bible and notes here.

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And I'm going to be reading today from Psalm 34, verses 1 through 5.

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It says,

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Now, David wrote these words in the middle of crisis and betrayal.

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Saul was out to kill him. David was on the run for his life.

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And this happened even after all God had promised David.

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This happened after David killed Goliath, after there was victory.

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And you can read that story, you can read what was going on when David wrote this in 1 Samuel 21.

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But I want us to focus today on verse 4 specifically, where he writes,

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What stuck out to me is that what he doesn't write is,

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Now, God did that eventually.

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David was delivered from Saul, and he was eventually made king.

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All that God had promised happened. Of course it did.

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However, in the middle of crisis, in the middle of pain, in the middle of very confusing circumstances,

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David says,

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What incredible freedom David must have had.

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Imagine the freedom, the power, the peace that you would experience being unafraid in the middle of crisis.

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This is what God can do for you.

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You can live unrestricted, unrestrained by fear.

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And think about this, you know, in the years, and it was years,

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that it took between David being anointed as king and David becoming king,

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there was so much opportunity for him to allow fear to take hold of his heart,

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to take over his mind, and to take him out completely.

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But the Lord delivered David from all of his fears,

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so that when David faced the caves, when David faced the threats and the dangers,

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when David faced the injustices, when he faced the battles, when he faced failure,

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when he faced loss, when he faced any circumstance that did not align with what God had promised him,

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David was still able to move forward because he was unrestrained by fear.

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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 on replay.