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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by giving Jesus what he deserves.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale. Posture is a podcast that serves as a short audible fist bump to

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remind you that God is in everything. Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily

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posture of perfect peace. Okay, so I saved my favorite clip from my conversation with Graham

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Cook for this 75th episode. This is a special episode, and I'll share why at the end, but

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what Graham shares here captures the heartbeat of posture so well. So we are just going to

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dive right in today. Fullness gives you an expectation.

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Yes. God is not under resourcing you. It's not an incremental increase. It's full on.

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So you have to know that fullness gives you an expectation of who God is and what is available.

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So the Holy Spirit gradually, by using fullness, they're gradually bringing you into the culture

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of their extravagance, because most of us have a poverty mindset about ourselves, because we

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think we're no good. We're not doing it. God must be angry. We have all these negatives,

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and it creates a poverty mindset that I can't really ask him for anything, because my life is

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like on the floor. Or I can't expect anything, because I don't want to be disappointed.

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I don't deserve anything. Here's the thing about deserving. Think of it this way. It's not about

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you deserving the blessing of God. It's about Jesus deserves you to be blessed.

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Oh, say that again, Graham. That is so powerful. It's not about you trying to deserve something.

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It's not on the table. It's not an issue. You deserve everything, because Christ is in you,

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and Jesus deserves you to be happy, to be peaceful, to be blessed, to be in your right mind,

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to have a great today. He deserves you to be blessed. And so it's about him. He lives in you.

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He deserves it. He paid the whole price for everything. Don't live like you're unredeemed.

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You know, he took away sin. I mean, he really took it away. It's a little like, you know,

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in Santa Barbara, we have this marvelous group of people who work for the local council.

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And like every Wednesday, if we put our trash on the sidewalk, they come and take all our trash

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away every single week. And so I just put it out, and I forget about it, because they come and take

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it away. Wouldn't it be interesting if on Wednesday evening, you're having dinner, and the

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doorbell rings, and it's the trash guys. They say, hey, my name's Bert. This is Fred. This is Al.

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We've never met before, because you're always asleep when we come around. But we take your

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trash away. I go, oh, thanks, guys. He said, yeah, but just for a change, we brought it back.

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So we couldn't find your trash cans, so we just laid it out on the lawn, you know. And you probably

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got a little bit from the neighbor on this side, the neighbor on that side. But anyway,

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have a super Wednesday evening. Has that ever happened in the history of trashdom?

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We wouldn't put up with it. We wouldn't stand for it. We wouldn't stand for it, exactly.

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But the enemy brings our trash up every single day, and we take it, and we even try and sort

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through it, you know. It's weird. It's a weird mindset. That's what being double-minded really

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is. God says, no, think about this. And we say, no, actually, we're thinking this.

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You know, I don't deserve it. I'm this, I'm that. And, you know, I'd like to pray, but, you know,

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I just don't have any expectancy. That's the truth, you know, because we're taking our trash

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back every single day. Jesus took it away. Nobody is allowed to bring it back, especially you.

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Especially you. It's dead. It's gone. It's finished. Get over it. You're a new person.

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Get under that, you know. So, and then you can start to think differently. You get a different

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lens by which you view yourself. You get a different mindset that you can think about

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yourself. And then you get a different language, which means you can't rubbish yourself in your

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self-talk. You know, I'm this, I'm that. You know, I'm kind of, you know, I'm not a good learner.

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I'm not this, I'm not that. I mean, you're in Christ. He's good at everything.

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So fullness means if he's good at everything, I'm going to get better at everything. That's

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what it means. So the truth gives you a lens to see yourself, and it gives you a mindset,

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and then it gives you a language that says, this is who I am in Jesus. I love that. And I love that

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all of our lessons, all of our life lessons, are about seeing something new, thinking something

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better, talking differently. They're all about that. You know, and it's just a challenge of

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God's delight in empowering us to go through that process with him. You know, and that's where he

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loves to be in all our life situations. I mean, it's his favorite place to be is your low place.

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Speaking of dumpster fires, the low places.

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He loves the low places because that's where he gets to be something big for you. And he loves

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that. Honestly, he loves that. Today is Posture's season one finale. You know, 15 weeks ago,

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I dove heartfirst into creating a daily podcast called Posture because I had a vision for our

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future that I just couldn't shake. I saw our generation, and not just a specific age group,

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but all of us living and breathing for such a time as this, I saw us breaking off the chokehold

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of powerlessness as we pulled back from perfectionism and performance, and we took a

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posture of perfect peace. Do you see it too? Do you see us doing that? Jesus deserves it. He deserves

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to get what he paid for you and I to have. And he will get it. I know he will, because his people

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are rising all over the world right now displaying his splendor. And as you rise and shine in your

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own sphere of influence, Posture is going to continue to be here reminding you of the fullness

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of Jesus's wholeness in you. I'm cheering you on always. It's why I'm here. It's why I come daily.

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I'm so thankful for you guys. I'm so thankful for you watching, listening, engaging, sharing with

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others, taking the time to let me know what God is doing with you through Posture episodes.

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We are just getting started. So what does it mean for the end of season one? Just only that I'll

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be taking a short break from posting daily episodes, but season two is right around the

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corner. It will premiere Monday, June 15th, so get ready. The promise of perfect peace is found in

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Isaiah 26 3. 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

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on display and Satan's defeat on replay.