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Today we're going to take a posture of peace by getting practical.

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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 Psalm 10 verse 4 it says,

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In their pride the wicked do not seek the Lord.

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In all their thoughts there is no room for God.

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I get a lot of questions about peace.

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I mean no surprise, right?

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Of course the whole topic of posture podcast is of course embracing the promise of perfect peace.

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So I get a lot of questions about peace.

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I get a lot of questions asking for the practical.

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How do I get peace?

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How do I stay peaceful?

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How do I overcome the opposite of peace?

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Anxiety, worry, fear, doubt, etc.

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So to answer that, let's go back to the promise for perfect peace that we find in Isaiah 26 3.

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It says this about the Lord.

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It says,

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When it comes to perfect peace, it really doesn't get more practical than this.

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You have to keep your mind stayed on God.

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How do you do that?

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You keep your mind stayed on God, remaining fixed on God.

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Leaning into his nature, resting in his promises, set on his truth.

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This is the posture of peace.

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You know, you don't always get to choose the thoughts that pop in your head.

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Like not every thought you think is your own, right?

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Like you may see something, you may hear something, and that can spark immediate thought.

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You don't always get to choose what thoughts come in your mind.

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But you do get to choose which thoughts stay in your mind.

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And which thoughts your mind will stay on.

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If you choose to keep your mind stayed on anything other than the Lord,

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you will not be kept in perfect peace.

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You may have moments of relief, you may have temporary release,

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but that is not the peace you've been promised.

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That's not the peace that calms storms.

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That's not the peace that drives out evil.

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It's merely a sedative that will quickly wear off at the next sign of trouble.

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This is why people struggle so much with believing that perfect peace is possible,

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because they don't understand what peace is.

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Do not be deceived into believing that you have no control over your mind.

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And do not buy the lie that thinking only of the Lord is somehow short-sighted.

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That his ways, his majesty, his nature, his promises, his truth,

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should not be at the forefront of every thought we think,

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every word we speak, every action we take.

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You know, Satan tries to camouflage pride as enlightenment and faith as foolishness.

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This past weekend, this past week,

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have you been seeking the Lord more than you've been scrolling through your post or news reports?

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Is there room in your thoughts for him?

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Or have you bought the lie that to make much of his majesty,

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even in the midst of painfully hard circumstance,

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is somehow backwards, or unloving of others, or irresponsible,

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or spiritually bypassing an issue, or a form of toxic positivity?

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If you've bought the lie, I have such good news.

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You can change your mind.

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You can change your mind right now.

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It's called repentance.

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Changing your mind.

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Moving forward in the truth.

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Only you can change your mind.

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I can't change your mind.

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And the Lord won't change your mind.

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Because you're not his puppet, you're his beloved child,

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and he has given you your own will so that when you worship him,

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it's in spirit and in truth, not out of obligation or because of manipulation.

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How do you practically get peace?

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Have peace?

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Keep peace?

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You practice this.

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You may have to change your mind a thousand times today,

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but you know what, tomorrow it may just be a couple hundred times,

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and the next day even less than that.

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Practice will make permanent.

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Practice today keeping your mind stayed on God,

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and you will be kept in his perfect peace.

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The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3.

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In Hebrew, it is shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness.

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Nothing missing. Nothing broken. This is who you are in Jesus because of Jesus.

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You are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win. With every step you take

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today, you're putting Jesus's victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay.

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