Today we are going to take a posture of peace by showing up and sharing our message.
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.
In Isaiah chapter 61 verses 1 through 3, it says,
The spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim
good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim
freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim
the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn
and provide for those who grieve in Zion, to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,
the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of
his splendor. So if you are watching this right now, I would first like to apologize for my
appearance. I am coming to you full-blown casual today, and I'll tell you why. It has been a crazy,
beautiful, busy week, and I have had the time of my life. I birthed something this past week,
and no, it wasn't a baby. She's about another month or so from coming, but this past week
I launched a one-week workshop to help Kingdom Messengers launch their channels online, basically
to do what I did with this Posture podcast around this time last year. Our first one-year
anniversary for Posture is actually coming up pretty soon this month, and you know, when I
started this workshop, I didn't know if five people would show up or 50, but it turned out 250 people
joined this workshop. 250 Kingdom Messengers from 39 countries representing every continent, except
for Antarctica. We'll get them next time. You see, I launched this workshop because for months I had this
prompting, it was this like deep sense that God is stirring the hearts of his messengers all over
the world right now to innovate and create, to leverage this digital landscape to disciple nations,
and now after these past seven days, it's no longer just a sense that I have. It's a deep
knowing, and I realized, you know, many that are watching and listening right now are Kingdom
Messengers too. You have something stirring in you. You are carrying a message, a testimony, an
encounter with Jesus that you just can't shake, but you know will shake the world around you.
There is something that the Lord has redeemed in you that you want to restore in others, and that
is the treasure of Isaiah 61. God has redeemed our ashes and given us a crown of beauty so that we
can be that for other people too. He has given us the oil of joy instead of mourning, so we now have
it to give away to others. What gets redeemed in you empowers you to restore people in the places
around you. It's how you get to experience and live out that promise in 1 John 4 17. As he is,
so are we in this world. So I want to ask you a question. What has been redeemed in you
that you want to restore in others? I would love for you to comment and tell me. Maybe it's peace
like me. Maybe it's physical healing. Maybe it's wholeness and marriage and families. Maybe it's
bringing kingdom culture to your specific industry like education or government or the marketplace
or entertainment. Maybe it's freedom from addiction or trauma. Maybe it's the fullness of
joy. You know, the world doesn't need just one of us or a few of us or only 250 kingdom messengers.
It needs thousands of us.
So today, I want to encourage you, act on this truth, you know, because we all have
an enemy, and it's not each other, and it's not the person to the right or the left of
us, and it's not the person on our social media feeds.
His name is Satan, and the one way you can shut his mouth today is to open yours.
As you show up in other people's lives, whether it's in person or online, scrolling through
your social media feeds, instead of, you know, opening your mouth to criticize or correct,
open your mouth and be a massive encouragement today.
You are an oak of righteousness, the planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor.
Amen.