Today we are going to take a posture of peace by resting in God's resilience.
Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.
Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.
Lamentations chapter 3 verses 22 through 24. Now I know that we have been in this scripture
many times before as a posture community. I love the promises that we find here. And today I'm
going to be reading from the New Living Translation. It says, The faithful love of the
Lord never ends. His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness. His mercies begin afresh
each morning. I say to myself, the Lord is my inheritance. Therefore, I will hope in him.
Today is a fresh day. You don't have to hold on to any of the negatives from yesterday,
and you don't have to hoard any past blessings. God's mercies are new each morning. His faithful
love never ends. He is resilient in this. Our God is more resilient than any attack of the enemy
against us. Our God will outlast any pain, any hard circumstance, any injustice. He holds the
victory firmly. He holds us firmly and nothing, nothing will loosen his grip on us. Another
translation of Lamentations 3, the NIV translation, says this. It says, Because of the Lord's great
love, we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. You do not have to fear destruction
today because you will not be consumed. That is a promise. Today is a fresh day. You don't have to
hold on to the negatives from yesterday, bringing them into your today or your future, and you don't
have to try to hoard any of the past blessings. I want to encourage you to rid yourself of any
thought or feeling that promotes this scarcity mindset. You know, rid yourself of any thought
that is trying to convince you that your best days are behind you or that the current goodness
you may be experiencing in your life right now just cannot last, or perhaps the current struggle
that you're facing is just how it's always going to be. No, it's a lie. Do not believe it. Why?
Because it's not the truth. Think about this instead. The creator of the universe, the one who
was and is and will always be, the one who is not bound by time or space, who cannot be held back,
the Most High God, has made himself your loving father. He calls you his own, and he didn't have
to do this. No one made him. Nothing you did made him be your loving father. He was not obligated,
he was not manipulated, he was not tricked. He chose you because he loves you. Because he loves
you. Because he loves you. He held nothing back. He gave you himself. And not just a little bit of
himself, but all of who he is is now yours. The amplified translation of this chapter of
the scripture that we read says great and beyond measure is your faithfulness. Colossians chapter
two verses nine and ten seals the truth about measure, about amount. It says for in Christ
all the fullness of the Godhead lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to
fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. So think about this. You are full of
the one that no one and nothing can top. I give you permission today because of the truth, because
of what God's word says about you, to rid yourself of any thought that tries to convince you of being
scarce, of having a poverty mindset, of living in unbelief and doubt. The bible says in first
corinthians 2 16 you have been given the
mind of Christ. You have been given the mind of Christ. So you can think with the
same abundant mindset Jesus has. You can see the world through the lens in which
Jesus sees the world. There is only one way to think about your life, your story,
and the circumstances you face, and that is the way Jesus thinks about them. And
his thoughts are victorious. Today I want to declare the
victorious truth over you. You are the head and not the tail. You are above and
not beneath. You are vulnerable only to the goodness of God. Christ's fullness is
your starting point. Abundant life is your inheritance. Great is your peace
because you are taught by the Lord. You will overcome because you are more than
a conqueror through Christ who loves you, and he gave himself up for you so
that you can share in his victory. Today is a fresh day and you are full of a
resilient God. He is resilient and therefore so are you. So today let's rest
in God's resilience.