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Today, we're going to take a posture of peace

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by recognizing that our demise is not on God's agenda.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay VanZale.

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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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If you missed yesterday's episode,

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please be sure to go back and watch it.

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All this week, I'm sharing clips

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from my recent conversation with Graham Cook.

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This was a part of a three-day challenge

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we hosted together on Facebook.

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It was really fun.

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People from all over the world joined in for three days,

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and we're hoping to do it again soon.

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So if we do, I will let you know

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on how you can join our next challenge.

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In this clip, Graham and I are talking

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about the beautiful truth highlighted

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in Colossians chapter two, verses nine and 10.

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You know, God is not dealing Himself out to you

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in incremental measure.

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He has given you His fullness,

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and you now live from His fullness, not towards it.

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And yesterday, I mentioned,

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when we're talking about key number one

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and the us who is alive,

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I realized I had to stop thinking like a dead person.

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Right.

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I had to renew my mind like Romans encourages us to do,

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stop being conformed to the patterns,

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those habits of the world,

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but be transformed by the renewing of my mind.

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Stop thinking like a dead person.

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Start thinking about a person who is alive in Christ.

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And one of those dead thoughts that I had to get rid of

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had to do with fullness.

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It was the thought of everything being in measure,

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everything being incremental.

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Right.

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And you really helped me break free from this.

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Can you explain the difference between fullness and measure?

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I think, first of all,

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the scripture in Colossians 2, 9, and 10 says,

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for in Him, all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form.

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And in Him, you have been made complete.

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And so if Jesus is in you in fullness,

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then He cannot be in you in measure.

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It's like, it's one of those dead things.

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Measure has to go away.

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It has to go away, you know, because fullness is here.

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So, and I love the idea of, you know,

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that the whole idea of being double-minded

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is because you've got the new man thinking,

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and then you've got your old man thinking.

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And that's what being double-minded is.

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And sometimes your experience in the world

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makes you cancel out what is truth in the kingdom.

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You know, so we have a double mind

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and we hear two voices.

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We hear, we want to hear the voice of the Lord,

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but most often we hear the voice of the dead person,

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you know, and so it's fascinating.

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Part of our development is getting rid of those anomalies.

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So starting from fullness in Jesus means

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you always start from where He is,

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because He's the yardstick.

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He's the leader on our journey.

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He's bigger than us, a lot bigger than us.

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So we take all our cues from who He is

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as the Son of God, as the Savior, as the Redeemer,

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as the one who knows us best and loves us best.

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So fullness in the kingdom

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is where God gives you everything up front

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and then teaches you how to use it, you know?

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So in the kingdom, in the world rather,

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you do so much and then you get an upgrade,

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you get an increase, you get a raise.

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So increase is incremental,

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but in the kingdom, it's a solid block.

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This is all yours,

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but I'm just going to teach you how to use it.

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So when you come into your next situation,

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you've got all of this to draw from

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and I'll give you something in particular from it

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that will help you right here.

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That's why God's provision is ongoing,

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because it's part of fullness.

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So we don't have to beg God to give us something.

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We know that we're in Christ, we have an inheritance.

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And that's what fullness means.

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You have everything up front.

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It's not out there and the Lord isn't saying,

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well, you know, when you get out there,

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when you get to that point, you'll receive it.

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It's not like that.

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It's like, you're here right now

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and everything is available

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because you are actually living with us.

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We're living with you,

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but you primarily, you're living with us.

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And so you get everything we have all the time.

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That's why we said yesterday

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that it's a gift that keeps on coming.

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You know, Jesus said, I think it was John 4, 10, to the woman at the well,

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he said, if you knew the gift of God, you would ask.

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And this is what God is doing by talking to us about fullness. He's saying, no, it's all full,

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it's all here right now, and we're gonna teach you how to use it, how to move in it, how to expect it.

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You know, because he wants us living from a different mindset, not that what have I got to do to get that,

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but it really is, I am somebody in Christ right now, and all this is available.

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And as God, you know, releases it to me, it makes me bigger and more full. So it's a mindset, really.

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This is, I mean, this is huge. And like, I've heard this truth, and I've lived this truth,

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but I will never not be astonished by this truth. Because this is what empowers us to not have to work on the negatives anymore.

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You know, you say something like that, like, hey, we're not working on the negatives.

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And the initial thought sometimes is, how is that even possible?

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You know, when I'm anxious, when I'm fearful, how do I not focus on those things or try to fix,

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you know, that's the first response is like, how do I not be anxious?

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Versus, how do I receive peace?

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Right. I mean, it's, peace is already in you. It's not you that has to apply peace to your circumstances.

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The Prince of Peace is living in you. This is what fullness means. It means everything.

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Everything you need is already in you, in Christ. So we're just going to teach you how to ask differently.

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So I honestly, I think it's time that we stopped praying like a widow and started praying like a bride.

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Say it again, Graham.

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It's time that we stop praying like a widow. You know, we're begging, we're pleading.

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Oh, Lord, please, if you could see your way to whatever. We're not praying like a widow who's got nothing.

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We're praying like a bride who's just come into everything.

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So when you get married, as soon as that ceremony is over, it's like you are now operating a whole different level of life.

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And that's what salvation means. It means that God does away with our thinking from the world and says,

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you don't need to think the way the world thinks. This is the way we think.

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So Colossians 3 says, set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.

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Why? Because they see differently and they think differently.

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And what they're doing when giving you fullness is they're teaching you, this is the line of your privilege.

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Don't fall below it. So get your thinking, gear your thinking up.

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And the Holy Spirit is amazing at that, the way he teaches us how to think like Jesus thinks so that we have the mind of Christ.

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So not praying like a widow, but praying like a bride means we're praying, you know,

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in the context of who God is for us and what God wants to be for us.

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So I love that. So measure is all is a part of that process.

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So fullness is a part of that process. So everything that God is doing in us,

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everything is always about us understanding the fullness that is available.

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And because he won't think any other way. Here's the thing I know about God.

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Two things I know about God that I most love. One, he says, I am the Lord.

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I don't change. Therefore, Graham, you are not consumed. I don't change.

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So, you know, your demise is not on my agenda. I don't change.

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And then it says, that's in Malachi 3.6. And then in Hebrews 7.25, in Hebrews, it says that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.

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I don't change. I'm always the same. So I feel like my life is lived in that space between those two verses because they are concrete.

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Because God is an absolute. He doesn't change. That means he is the same towards you on your worst day as he is on your best.

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He doesn't change. It's not like, oh, well, I'm modifying my blessing because you just did that.

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I mean, that's legalism. That's religion. It's not Jesus. It's not how God thinks.

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Today, settle into this truth. Your demise is not on God's agenda.

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He's not working on fixing the dead you and he is not looking to use your old, dead, sinful nature as a means to separate himself from you.

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Because of Jesus, God is relating to the you who is alive and he's not changing.

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You have His fullness today, and He is delighted in teaching you how to live in it.

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The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3, and in Hebrew it is Shalom Shalom, meaning

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complete wholeness.

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Nothing missing, nothing broken.

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This is who you are in Jesus.

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Let's declare this together.

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Today, I am kept in perfect peace.

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With my whole heart, I trust the Lord.

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I am strong.

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I am victorious.

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I am whole.

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Remember, friend, you are a living testimony of Jesus' ultimate win.

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Not because of anything you did, but because of what He did for you.

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With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus' victory on display and Satan's defeat

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on replay.