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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by resting in God's faithfulness, not our own.

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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 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 24 it says this about our God. It says he who calls you is

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faithful. He will surely do it. Now as a posture community over the last couple of weeks we have

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been focusing on the nature of God, exploring each aspect of his nature as revealed in the fruit of

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the spirit that we find in Galatians 5. And I am so passionate about this because so much of my

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Christian life had been this pursuit to know more about God instead of knowing God more. And for so

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long it never occurred to me that while knowing about God is most definitely helpful, it's knowing

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God through relationship that is absolutely transformative. Jesus said in John 10 14,

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he said, I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me. And that word know,

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it speaks to relational intimacy, not head knowledge. And it's not even about this like

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casual acquaintance. It is a close intimate relationship. It's not like, oh, I know who that

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Jesus guy is. No, it's, I know what Jesus is like. I know his nature. I know what to expect.

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I have experienced him and I know I can trust him. And by the way, if you've missed any of

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the episodes that we have explored these fruits, please go back and watch or listen. We've talked

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about his love. We've talked about his goodness, his kindness, gentleness, self-control, and in

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even earlier episodes, which I will make sure that I link in the description, we have talked

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about joy and peace and patience. And today you've guessed it. We're talking about faithfulness.

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Everything God is, he is relentlessly. God is always going to be love, always gentle,

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always patient, always kind. Faithfulness is the unchanging, unwavering nature of God. He is

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consistent, constant, unceasing, firm in his promises, and he can be trusted at all times.

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You know, you can come to a place in your relationship with God where it is actually

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easy to believe his promises because your greatest reality becomes faithful is he who has called me

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and I know he will surely do it. What he says is the truest thing about your life. What he says

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is the truest thing about your life. Do you know how much peace I have forfeited in my lifetime

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trying to have enough faith for something? Woof. I mean, never again. Never again will I live like

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that because when we see our faith as a response to his faithfulness and not a currency to earn

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something, our striving to have more faith ceases because we can be at rest knowing his faithfulness.

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His faithfulness is meant to be our focus, not our own, not another person's faithfulness.

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So when Satan wants to stir up doubt, offense, panic, condemnation, I just refuse to even have

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that conversation anymore because I am too captivated by the faithfulness of God. I rest

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in his faithfulness. God is relentless in his faithfulness, and it's that very nature of

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relentlessness that cultivates the fruit of faithfulness in us. We're not earning, we're

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learning. We're being made in God's image and likeness just like he planned in Genesis 126,

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and let me tell you, it is a joyful process because he is always joyful. So when we encounter

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his nature, our passion rises to the same level. God changes us. We never change him because he

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never changes. Faithfulness means faithfulness. Don't miss this. He has not dropped his kindness

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all of a sudden just because of how the world is acting. He has not forfeited his peace just

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because the circumstances have gotten

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chaotic. God has not disregarded his goodness towards you just because people have not been

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good, just because maybe you have not been good. Everything God is, he is relentlessly.

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You can trust him to be the same yesterday, today, and forever. And from that place of

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trust, you too can become unchanging no matter what is occurring.

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The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26.3. In Hebrew, it is shalom, shalom, meaning

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complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken. This is who you are in Jesus because

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of Jesus. You are a living testimony of Jesus' ultimate win. With every step you take today,

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you're putting Jesus' victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay.