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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by entrusting our season to God.

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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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In Daniel chapter 2 verses 20 through 22 it says, Daniel answered and said,

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blessed be the name of God forever and ever to whom belong wisdom and might.

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He changes times and seasons. He removes kings and sets up kings.

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He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.

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He reveals deep and hidden things.

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He knows what is in the darkness and the light dwells with him.

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Now if you know anything about Daniel, you know that he was a man who trusted God deeply.

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And as we've talked about before on past episodes, we know from Isaiah 26 3

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that trusting the Lord is what unlocks perfect peace in our lives.

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And I love the revelation that Daniel has here about who is in charge of seasons and times.

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You know, I'm coming into the last lap, so to speak, of my pregnancy.

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And I realized something.

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July Lindsay, the Lindsay who first found out that she was pregnant, is not March Lindsay.

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Meaning something has shifted in me in these past, you know, nine months.

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I've grown. I've upgraded.

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I've learned a new kind of surrender in facing the unknown of this journey.

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And because of that, I'm so much more ready now than I was in July for the next season,

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for the season when baby finally arrives.

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And I believe that this journey of a season is the kindness of God to me.

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You know, maybe you've experienced this shift in your own season of life.

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Maybe you can think back on the start of your career, your ministry, your marriage,

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and you think, wow, you know, I am not in the same state

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that I was at the beginning of this journey.

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Your heart maybe has been healed.

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Your mind renewed.

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Your skills sharpened.

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Your body strengthened.

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You know, whatever the case may be, what might used to have made you nervous or anxious

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is now done in confidence.

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Or what used to be unknown to you is now fully known.

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You've experienced transformation in the process.

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You've experienced upgrade while on the journey.

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You know, and I want to remember this transformation that I've just experienced

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moving forward into new seasons because some seasons will be joyful like the one I'm in now.

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But I also know that seasons can be painful.

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But for the people of God, all seasons will be purposeful.

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You know, remember Romans 8, 28 says that we know that for those who love God,

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all things work together for good for those who are called according to his purpose.

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So every season, every season has purpose.

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I used to have categories for my seasons of life.

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I used to think, you know, joyful, happy seasons were definitely from God,

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but painful seasons of suffering were definitely from Satan.

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The problem with that belief is I lived as though even though I belong to God

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through the surrender of salvation, I felt vulnerable that my life could

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still be authored somehow by Satan in these painful seasons.

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And that left me feeling susceptible to evil and carrying that belief and that

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that susceptibility will steal your peace in a heartbeat.

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But here's the truth.

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If I am in Christ, like the Bible says, so are all of my circumstances.

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If you are in Christ, like the Bible says, so are all of your seasons.

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You and I are never separated from his goodness, even in pain or suffering.

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He changes our times and seasons, not Satan.

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Now, I don't believe that this means that God causes bad things to happen to us,

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because I truly believe it is anti his nature to cause evil in our lives.

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But we know that in this world, we will have trouble because it's a troubled world.

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But for the people of God, trouble will not have us because we are in this world,

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but we are not of it.

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We don't have to live susceptible to it.

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You know, think about this.

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God doesn't

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save us to hand us back over to Satan and his schemes.

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Remember what we read last week

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when Jesus said in John 10,

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talking about my sheep know my voice.

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They listen, they follow me

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and no one will snatch them from my hand.

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Even in suffering, God in his kindness strengthens us,

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he guides us, he never leaves us or forsakes us

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and he makes us more than conquerors.

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This is the power we have because he gave us himself.

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We can go into, we can come out of season stronger

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than when we came into them.

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Paul, another person we know trusted the Lord deeply

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wrote in Romans 8, 18, let me read what he wrote.

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He wrote that I consider that our present sufferings

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are not worth comparing with the glory

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that will be revealed in us.

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David, another person who deeply trusted the Lord

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wrote in Psalm 16, five.

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He says, Lord, I have chosen you alone as my inheritance.

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You are my prize, my pleasure and my portion.

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I leave, I entrust my destiny

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and its timing in your hands.

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So no matter what kind of season

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you find yourself in right now,

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know that you are in his hands.

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You can entrust your season of life to him today.

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As you look to him and trust in him,

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know that you are being transformed from glory to glory.

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I've heard it called before, this is our training for reigning

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and I just love that.

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So remember, your seasons and the timing of those seasons

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rests in the Lord's hand.

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One last scripture before we leave,

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something else for you to meditate on this week.

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Jeremiah 17, seven through eight says,

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blessed is the one who trust in the Lord,

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whose trust is the Lord.

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They are like a tree planted by water

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that sends out its roots by the stream

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and does not fear when heat comes

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and leaves will remain green

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and is not anxious in the year of drought

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for it does not cease to bear fruit.

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This is the power of trust.