WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.840 Today we are going to take a posture of peace by not getting stuck in the state we are in. 2 00:00:09.280 --> 00:00:14.560 Posture is a short audible fist bump to remind you God is with you in everything. 3 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:18.800 Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture of perfect peace. 4 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:27.760 Romans chapter 6 verse 10 and 11 it says this about Jesus, it says, 5 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:38.640 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. 6 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:46.960 So you, yes that means you, yes you, you also must consider yourselves dead to sin 7 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:50.160 and alive to God in Christ Jesus. 8 00:00:51.040 --> 00:00:59.280 Your starting place for truth cannot be what you are not or what you perceive yourself not to be. 9 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:03.440 It has to be who Jesus is for you. 10 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:07.120 Who Jesus is for you is your starting place for all truth. 11 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.720 You know this week we've been talking about the power we have, 12 00:01:10.720 --> 00:01:15.120 the power we've been given in Jesus to prevail in every circumstance. 13 00:01:15.520 --> 00:01:20.080 All this week I've been co-hosting a challenge with my friend and mentor Graham Cook called 14 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:21.600 The Power to Prevail. 15 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:27.840 You know, your enemy, Satan, would love nothing more than for you to see yourself 16 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:30.800 outside of Christ and then live accordingly. 17 00:01:30.800 --> 00:01:36.960 You know, Satan wants us to stay frustrated with our lives and stuck in our circumstances 18 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:41.920 and disappointed and disempowered by the year that we're living in and all that's 19 00:01:41.920 --> 00:01:42.800 happening in our world. 20 00:01:42.800 --> 00:01:51.120 But you know, in that state we will create excuses and all kinds of reasons for staying stuck 21 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:55.120 and not living free and not being more than a conqueror. 22 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.320 So I want to share this clip from my conversation with Graham this week. 23 00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:02.080 It brought so much clarity to me and so many of our challenge members, 24 00:02:02.080 --> 00:02:07.600 I mean the comments went wild when Graham was sharing this so I wanted to share it with you. 25 00:02:07.600 --> 00:02:11.360 Okay, so let's talk about gifts because again, 26 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:15.920 I think that's something we sometimes misunderstand. 27 00:02:16.640 --> 00:02:17.200 Right. 28 00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:23.840 There are so many gifts in the kingdom and I think that our expectation is really low 29 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:25.280 when it comes to gifts from God. 30 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:28.640 I think sometimes we limit ourselves by thinking it's only material 31 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:35.440 or it's only fixing the situation in the exact detail that I would like the Lord to fix the 32 00:02:35.440 --> 00:02:36.960 situation or whatever. 33 00:02:36.960 --> 00:02:39.440 But that's just secondary. 34 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:41.120 Those gifts are so secondary. 35 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:44.480 The real gifts of the Lord, well, first of all, we talked about one of them. 36 00:02:44.480 --> 00:02:45.920 He gives us the gift of himself. 37 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:49.360 I want to ask you, Graham, and I don't mean to put you on the spot, 38 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:52.480 and I have an answer for me in case you didn't think about it. 39 00:02:52.480 --> 00:03:00.160 But what's a gift that the Lord has given you recently that you're just loving receiving? 40 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:03.760 I'll tell you the first gift he ever gave me, 41 00:03:04.320 --> 00:03:08.160 because it's the most important thing he's ever done apart from getting me saved. 42 00:03:08.160 --> 00:03:17.360 You know, I was in that whole position of thinking my behavior was the issue. 43 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.000 If I could control my behavior, he'd be happy with me. 44 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.520 You know, if you be good, God will be good to you. 45 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:25.920 That whole religious nonsense stuff. 46 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:30.880 And he asked me a question one day, out of the blue, and he just said, 47 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:38.880 Graham, why is it that you are more aware of your state than you are your standing? 48 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:44.880 I'm thinking, I don't even understand what that means. 49 00:03:44.880 --> 00:03:49.120 He said, son, there's a difference between your state and your standing. 50 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:52.080 Your state is how you see yourself. 51 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:56.240 I'm weak, I'm no good, I'm not good at this, I can't do that. 52 00:03:56.240 --> 00:04:01.120 So your state is really about the context of how powerless you feel. 53 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:02.000 This is what I am. 54 00:04:02.640 --> 00:04:09.680 And sometimes we live in that place for so long, we think those are personality traits. 55 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:12.160 Oh, well, you know, I'm not really bright. 56 00:04:12.160 --> 00:04:13.680 I'm not this, I'm not that. 57 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:15.120 Well, this is the way God made me. 58 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:15.920 No, he didn't. 59 00:04:16.880 --> 00:04:18.240 God never made you this way. 60 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:19.440 He made you this way. 61 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:20.320 No, he didn't. 62 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:22.960 God never made anyone stupid. 63 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:25.280 The devil makes you stupid. 64 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:32.880 So he said, how is it you're more aware of your state than you are your standing? 65 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:37.680 And I cried because I just suddenly, you know, when he talks to you, he's like, 66 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:38.400 I saw it. 67 00:04:38.400 --> 00:04:40.480 I'm thinking, oh, my goodness. 68 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:45.120 Well, I didn't exactly say that, but I'm not going to tell you what I really did say. 69 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:50.080 It's like, shoot, I have never heard that in my entire life. 70 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:54.160 Graham, you don't have a state. 71 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:58.800 Jesus took all the things that comprise your state and took them to the cross. 72 00:04:58.800 --> 00:04:59.840 And then he took them to hell. 73 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.880 left them there. You have a standing in Jesus. So from now on we're going to practice your standing 74 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:18.320 and we have been doing that for 43 years, practicing my standing. So it's like when 75 00:05:18.320 --> 00:05:24.000 he talks to you, you know that he's making you aware of another level of your standing. 76 00:05:24.640 --> 00:05:30.720 So peace became part of my standing. Resting in the Lord is part of my standing because I could 77 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:36.400 stand in it. I learned how to stand in it no matter what was occurring. So joy became my 78 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:42.960 standing and they're all things connected to his nature because he's making us in his image. 79 00:05:43.520 --> 00:05:51.200 He's the happiest person I know. He has the sunniest disposition of anybody, of any 10,000 80 00:05:51.200 --> 00:05:58.960 people I've ever met all at once. He's like majestic in his joy. He laughs at everything 81 00:05:58.960 --> 00:06:04.560 and he likes laughing with me and occasionally he laughs at me because he thinks I'm funny. 82 00:06:08.320 --> 00:06:14.080 So it's like Graham, you're not much of a challenge to my grace, to my love, you know. 83 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:21.280 So why don't you just get over that and let's concentrate on who you are right here. This is 84 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:27.360 your standing. This is what I'm doing right now. When he gives you a prophetic word, he's telling 85 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:33.360 you you're standing before him. When he gives you a promise, he's giving you a place to stand. 86 00:06:33.360 --> 00:06:40.160 He said this promise is your standing. So I want you to live in it and we're going to practice that 87 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:45.280 until it becomes part of your lifestyle and then it just like flows out of you, 88 00:06:45.280 --> 00:06:52.320 regardless of circumstances. So you're never going to be circumstantial or situational again. 89 00:06:52.320 --> 00:06:57.440 You're going to be absolutely on point with who I am and what I am. So that for me, 90 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:05.280 knowing the difference between state and standing has been part of my foundation 91 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:10.960 of walking with the Lord. And we still laugh about some aspects of that and he still talks 92 00:07:10.960 --> 00:07:18.160 to me on that level. So you know that when God talks about your standing, he's moving you out 93 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:24.400 of your state into a higher place of being. And so I love the fact that when God says, 94 00:07:24.400 --> 00:07:30.240 come aside, he's saying, I've got something for you. So come out of that and come here. 95 00:07:30.880 --> 00:07:37.440 And that to me is what state and standing is. I can't remember the last time I was ever 96 00:07:38.320 --> 00:07:45.760 overtaken by a state because my standing now is ingrained in my thinking, in the way I see 97 00:07:46.400 --> 00:07:53.600 and the way I talk. Perception, mindset, language. This is my standing. This is who I am, 98 00:07:53.600 --> 00:08:02.320 regardless of events. The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3. In Hebrew, 99 00:08:02.320 --> 00:08:09.520 it is shalom, shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken. 100 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:18.240 This is who you are in Jesus because of Jesus. You are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate 101 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:24.400 win. With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus's victory on display and Satan's 102 00:08:24.400 --> 00:08:32.320 defeat on replay.