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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by relying on real power and breakthrough.

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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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Okay, y'all, I am back in John 17 today. I just cannot get enough of this prayer

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that Jesus prayed for us. In John 17 verse 23, Jesus prayed this to the Father for us. He says,

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I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one and that the world may know that

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you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me. I want to continue the conversation

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from yesterday's episode by sharing some clarifying questions that I have had to ask myself

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recently in light of everything that is going on in our world right now. And those questions are,

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are you heavy? Are you feeling hopeless? Have you placed a higher expectation on what can be done

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by ministries, organizations, governments, influencers than what you are expecting God can do?

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Are you expecting influencers, governments, organizations, ministries to move in ways that

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you haven't even taken the time to ask God to move? Are you engaging more with human beings

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than the Holy Spirit? Are you leaning more on worldly wisdom than the spirit of wisdom?

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If you answered yes to any of those questions or perhaps all of those questions,

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there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. There is only holy conviction of

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the truth that sets us free. So I want to remind you today of the truth. The truth is that you are

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the beloved of God. He is permanently passionate about you. And beloved, we need the presence of

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God and we have it. So let's stay aware that he is the answer to every question we will ever have.

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He is the solution to every problem we will ever face. Lack of intimacy, lack of awareness of the

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presence of God in our lives makes us susceptible to low expectations. It makes us vulnerable to

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weariness and heaviness. If we set aside our adoration of God, if we stop being overwhelmed by

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who he is, if we put him on the sideline of our lives so that we can finally get the real work

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done, we only position ourselves to become overcome by anything the enemy throws at us.

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Lack of intimacy with God keeps us believing the lie that we are stuck in a place where we have

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no real power. And so instead of engaging with God, instead of expecting what his presence can do,

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we just want to be rescued from the current need or from the current pain. Or we think we can rescue

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ourselves while God watches from the sidelines of our lives. I've been there. I have believed

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these lies for too long. I used to think rescue was breakthrough. I used to think rescue and relief

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would be the thing to transform me instead of relying on the transformative relationship I have

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with God. And through the lens of these wrong beliefs, I viewed the secret place as merely

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a place of escape. Living by these wrong beliefs made me powerless and ineffective in the world

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because I was always living for a way out. But Jesus didn't die to just rescue us over and over

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again. He didn't die for us to live a life here on earth that we would want constant escape from. He

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died to give us a life of his lasting victory. He gave us himself so that the world would know.

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So that as he is, so are we in this world. This is real breakthrough. This is real power.

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The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26.3. In Hebrew, it's called the perfect peace.

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It is shalom, shalom, meaning complete wholeness.

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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's ultimate win.

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With every step you take today,

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you're putting Jesus's victory on display

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and Satan's defeat on replay.