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Welcome to episode 22.

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Today, we're gonna take on a posture of peace

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by continuing to practice possibility.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale.

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Posture is a podcast that serves a short audible fist bump

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to remind you that God is in everything.

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Together, we're gonna be emboldened

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to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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Matthew chapter 16, verse 19, Jesus says this,

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I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.

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Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.

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And whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

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I mentioned yesterday that this week

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is all about practicing possibility in our lives.

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And when we practice possibility,

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what happens is we change the way

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that we see our everyday lives.

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We're no longer waiting around

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for some extraordinary mission from God

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to fall in our lap and take us to a faraway land

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to really do the work of the ministry.

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What happens is we realize that we are,

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today, living the mission.

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And we serve a God who loves to leverage the mundane

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to show off his miraculous.

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And like I mentioned in our last episode,

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God is so eager to partner with us

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in taking ground to advance his kingdom.

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And often, it's the ground that's right beneath our feet.

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I used to think so differently.

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I structured my life in a way where I thought,

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I'm gonna work so that I could really be freed up

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to go do the ministry.

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For me, the ministry was happening on the weekends

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when I was at church, not necessarily during the week.

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And also, I thought, when I was able

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to kind of be more financially free,

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then I could really just sow myself full-time

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into the ministry and go do the work of the Lord,

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the really important stuff.

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And thankfully, the Lord has, since then,

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tapped me on the shoulder

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and shown me an entirely different way,

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his way, for how he sees us when he places us

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in our different industries and homes and families

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and geographic locations.

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You know, I'm no longer now fighting the tension

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between the mundane and wanting the miraculous

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because I expect the miraculous to show up

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in my mundane when I practice possibility.

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So right now, let's practice possibility together.

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I want you to consider a few things, okay?

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The first is this.

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Maybe your family didn't just happen to you,

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no matter how healthy or dysfunctional they are.

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Maybe you happened to your family.

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Maybe God wants to partner with you today

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in changing, perhaps, some generational dysfunction.

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It's possible.

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Okay, here's another one.

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Maybe you're not stuck in an industry

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because of your certain degree or your lack of education.

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Maybe the industry is stuck with you.

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Maybe today, God wants to partner with you

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in bringing innovational shifts to law or medicine

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or education or technology or commerce.

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Maybe he wants to do something through you

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to the lives of your coworkers, your boss,

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your clients, your customers.

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Okay, here's another one.

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Maybe your socioeconomic status isn't a result

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of your own brilliant success or of your lack of resources.

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Maybe God wants to partner with you

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in bringing freedom to those who are locked

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in their ivory towers or perhaps locked in poverty.

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It's possible.

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So let's move forward today

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by starting to consider the possibilities

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instead of dwelling on what we deem to be impossible

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by worldly standards.

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Let's ask ourselves a few questions

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as we move forward into our day.

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If God is living in me, what's possible?

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If my resources are truly unlimited

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because my source is the unlimitedness of heaven,

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then what's possible?

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If God is good and I can always expect his goodness

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to show up in my life, then what's possible?

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When we practice possibility,

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we are anchoring ourselves in hope.

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Hope is the expectation for God's goodness

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in every area of our lives.

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So when we see ourselves, our communities,

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our world through the lens of hope,

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we cannot help but think to ourselves.

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What is possible? And just watch, friend, as atmospheres begin to shift when you walk into

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the room, as cultures begin to change as you engage, and as your life is transformed by a

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miraculous God who loves to do the impossible. The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26.3,

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and in Hebrew, it is shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing

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broken. This is who you are in Jesus. Let's declare this together. Today, I am kept in perfect peace.

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With my whole heart, I trust the Lord. I am strong. I am victorious. I am whole. Remember, friend,

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you are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win, not because of anything you did, but because

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of what he did for you. With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus's victory on display

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and Satan's defeat on replay.