Today, before we jump into our episode, we are going to meet our newest and probably
youngest member of our posture community, Ms. Hannah Lee.
Do you want to say hello to everyone out there?
We just want to say thank you so much to this community for all of your prayer and encouragement
during my pregnancy with Hannah, the labor and delivery, and just our soaking up the
early days of her life during my maternity leave.
We have felt every prayer.
You guys are such a treasure to us, so thank you.
I'm excited to be back from maternity leave this week, coming out with new episodes for
Posture Season 6.
And don't you worry, this is probably not the last you're going to see of Ms. Hannah
during Season 6.
So let's go ahead and jump into today's episode.
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.
Today, we are going to take a posture of peace by pointing our imaginations in the right direction.
Philippians chapter 4, verses 6 through 9 says this.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving,
let your requests be made known to God.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and
your minds in Christ Jesus.
That sounds like a very safe space.
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence,
if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things, and
the peace of God will be with you.
I love Philippians 4.
You know, throughout our lives, we're going to experience a lot of new seasons.
As you know, I have entered a new season called motherhood.
Maybe you're in this new season with me.
Maybe your new season has to do with a career or a relationship or perhaps you've moved
to a new place.
And these new seasons are wonderful and full of excitement, but often there is a lot of
unknown in our new seasons because we've never been here before, right?
We just don't know.
And because it's unknown, there is a lot of opportunity to utilize our imaginations.
We think about, what is this going to be like?
How will this change affect me?
What might never be the same about my life again?
We might think about all that we loved in the old season and wonder if we're going to
have the same amount of goodness in the new season moving forward.
We may think about all we hated in the old season and wonder, is that negativity going
to continue on and follow me into this new season?
There's so much to think about.
There's a ton of opportunity in transition, in new seasons, in transformation to exercise
our imaginations.
And our imaginations, by the way, are a gift from God.
They're not a dirty thing.
They're a holy thing.
Now, do you find that your imagination often heads down the path of all that could go wrong
in the new season, especially when you maybe come up against a hard circumstance in the
new season?
You might think, oh shoot, here we go again, or where is this going to lead?
I definitely have experienced that.
And for me, I found that often it wasn't the hard thing in front of me, it wasn't the circumstance
I was facing right then that was causing the anxiety or the panic or the stress.
It was instead where I was allowing my imagination to go that was causing the panic and the anxiety,
the stress, the fear.
I was thinking about where is this hard circumstance going to potentially lead?
And I realized I was pointing my imagination in the wrong direction.
I was allowing what could potentially go wrong to prophesy to me about what would go wrong.
And in some cases, I was allowing what did go wrong in past seasons, what I had experienced
in past seasons, dictate how I would move forward in the new season.
And as sons and daughters of the Most High God, you and I have been promised a much better
way.
And Philippians 4 gives us some really helpful encouragement about how we can use our God-given
imaginations.
You know, it talks about bringing all of our requests to God.
Don't hold anything back.
Tell Him about everything in your life.
That's what I'm practicing doing.
right now. I'm actually practicing bringing things to the Lord before I bring it to anyone else.
And then Philippians 4 encourages thanksgiving, gratitude. I believe thanksgiving protects our
imaginations, especially when we feel vulnerable to the unknown. And then it gives specifics here
in Philippians 4 about what specifically to think about. You know, David wrote in Psalm 27 13, he
said, I would have lost heart unless I had believed I would see the goodness of the Lord
and the land of the living. And later, David writes in Psalm 145 7, he says, they shall
utter the memory of your great goodness and sing of your righteousness. One version says they shall
bubble up with the memory of your great goodness. Speaking of God's goodness, when you feel pressed
by circumstances, when you feel pressured by the pain of the past, you know, you get to choose
what am I going to be overwhelmed by in this new season and this hard thing? Will it be the hard
thing? Or will I be overwhelmed by the goodness of God? What will you allow to bubble up inside of
you in those moments? Will it be the memories of God's goodness? Will it be thoughts of his
goodness in your future? Or will it be fear or worry or trauma? You know, God's goodness is
present with us in every situation, good, bad, or ugly, because he is present in every situation.
The Bible says he will never leave us nor forsake us. So we can always carry a healthy expectation
of his goodness. We can always be looking for his goodness in every season of our lives. It's
healthy to carry that expectation in our hearts always. Now take note of what it says in Philippians
4 verse 9. It says, practice these things. And I find that so encouraging that I don't have to
execute this perfectly today, but I get to practice it over and over again until it becomes permanent
in my life. So that's what I want to encourage you to do today. Start practicing this truth.
Start pointing your imagination in the direction of God's goodness. And here's the promise, you
know, in verse 7 it says that the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, is going to
guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. And in verse 9 it promises that the peace of God
will be with you in the practice. So remember today, even if our circumstances don't change
immediately, even if we continue to have to face the unknown in this new season, you know, things
might not change immediately, but we will. We are going to be transformed from glory to glory.