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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by believing strong.

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Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything.

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Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace.

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Philippians chapter 4 verses 12 through 13. Now before I jump in let's just all take a deep breath

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because we are about to take in some life-changing truth. Okay don't miss this I'm about to read it.

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Philippians 4 12 and 13 it says, I know what it means to lack and I know what it means to

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experience overwhelming abundance for I'm trained in the secret of overcoming all things whether in

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fullness or in hunger. That's interesting because that means it has nothing to do with what type of

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circumstance you might find yourself in right now. That's good news. And I find that the strength of

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Christ's explosive power infuses me to conquer every difficulty, all things, every difficulty

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whether in fullness or in hunger. Now this is the passion translation which I love. You may be

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familiar with Philippians 4 13 from other translations that says I can do all things

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through Christ who gives me strength. Now have you ever felt pressure to be strong or to be the

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strong one or to be the one who can just keep it all together? If so I have very good news for you

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today. Ephesians 6 10 actually tells us to be strong but listen to this it says be strong in

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the Lord and in the strength of his might. So take note of the language here in both Philippians 4

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and Ephesians 6. It's talking about through Christ and in Christ. First John 4 4 says you

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are of God and have overcome because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

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Strength is not a feeling. It's your identity in Christ. It's who you are today right now at this

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very moment whether you're in hunger or in fullness. You are strong because it's who he is

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and he is in you right now and you are in him. You are one with Jesus. You know Jesus prayed for this

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oneness in John 17. He desired oneness with you. Let me read what he prayed in John 17.

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Verse we'll start in 22. Jesus prayed he said the glory that you have given me I have given them.

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He's talking to the father so we have we have the glory that has been given Jesus

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that they may be one even as we are one I in them and you and me that they may become perfectly one

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so that the world may know that you have sent me and love them even as you have loved me.

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You know the answer to Jesus's prayer is what we find in first John 4 17 when it says as he is

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so are we in this world. Strength is not a feeling. It's your identity. You know Jesus

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is not depleted by whatever hard circumstance or anxious thoughts you may be wrestling with today

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and if Jesus is not depleted by them you don't have to be depleted by them either. Your identity

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in Christ is nothing that you earned like everything in the kingdom. It can only be

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received and how do you receive it? You believe. You receive by believing. Let me read over you

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first John chapter 5 verses 4 through 5. It says for everyone who has been born of God overcomes

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the world and this is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith. Who is it that

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overcomes the world? The one who believes that Jesus is the son of God. This is the truth about

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you today. You are an overcomer. You are victorious. You are strong. Why? Let this blow your

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mind today. You are all these things in Christ because you are loved by Christ. Romans 8 37 says

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all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Jesus loved you so he gave himself

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up for you so that you could be raised as him so that as he is so are you in this world. So just

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bask in the glory of this truth today. Soak in this truth. Let's all practice

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being strong today by believing strong.