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Today, we are going to take a posture of peace by turning our eyes away from looking at worthless things.

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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 119 verse 37,

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it says, turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things and give me life in your ways.

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Now, worthless things is not necessarily hard things.

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You know, we have to face hard things in this life.

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We know this.

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And as people of the kingdom, who better than us?

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Because we can bring solution and answer to the hard things in this world.

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But as someone who is on her screen a lot,

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and I'm sure a lot of you watching are on your screen as well,

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while you're on your screen right now, while you're watching this,

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or perhaps listening to this,

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it's very easy to consume in one day a lot of worthless things,

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worthless information, worthless content as you're scrolling your screen.

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And, you know, a good gauge, of course, we have the Holy Spirit and he's our helper

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and he'll lead us and guide us in all truth.

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But a good gauge for me that I've been asking the Holy Spirit as I'm consuming content

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and really a lot of days just deciding not to scroll or to stop the scroll

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is asking myself, is this life-giving?

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Is the information I'm partaking of life-giving?

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And another great question to ask is,

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can I engage with this content with the perspective of heaven?

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Can I see with the eyes of God, whatever the content is?

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And some days I'm able to, and some days I have to just turn off the screen.

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I have to look away.

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And so it's a prayer of mine.

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Often I've adopted this prayer, this request of Psalm 19, asking the Lord,

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you know, Lord, turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things

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and give me life in your ways.

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And as I've been practicing this in my own life,

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what I have found is the quickest way to look away from something

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is to look to something.

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And I have been looking to scripture and it's been a beautiful shift for me.

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And so that's what we're going to do today.

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Together, we are going to turn to scripture

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and I want to read Psalm 91 over you today.

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I'd love for you to just soak this in as I read it.

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I'm going to read the whole chapter.

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It's not a super long chapter, but man, this is the chapter for 2020,

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if you ask me.

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What's beautiful is that this is a Psalm that's very personal to me

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because it has followed me most of my life.

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This was our family's favorite Psalm.

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We recited it often together.

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And I can't help but think about the prophetic nature of that.

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I want to thank and honor my parents for doing that from such a young age

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because I feel like having that Psalm tucked away in my heart and my spirit

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early on was preparing me to take on a year like 2020.

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And so you can receive this as well.

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Maybe this is a Psalm that you're familiar with,

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or maybe you've never heard it before.

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I want to read it to you because this Psalm is chock full of promise

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that you can partake in.

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It's conditional.

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And the only condition is it's for whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High.

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So if you want to dwell in the shelter of the Most High,

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these promises are for you to partake in today.

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So let me read this over you.

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Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High

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will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

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I will say of the Lord.

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Some translations say, I will say to the Lord.

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I will say this to the Lord.

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He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.

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Surely, most certainly, that's what surely means.

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He will save you from the fowler's snare, from the deadly pestilence.

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He will cover you with his feathers and under his wings, you will find refuge.

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His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

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You will not fear of the tear of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

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nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

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A thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand,

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but it will not come near you.

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You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.

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If you say, the Lord is my refuge, and you make the Most High your dwelling,

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no harm will overtake you.

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No disaster will come near your tent.

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or near your home. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you

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in all your ways. They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not

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strike your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the cobra. You

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will trample the great lion and the serpent." And then this is what the Lord

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says to you, who has the one who has chosen to make him your shelter.

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Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him. I will protect him for he

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acknowledges my name. He will call on me and I will answer him. I will be with him

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in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him. With long life, I will satisfy him

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and show him my salvation. The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3.

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In Hebrew, it is shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing,

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nothing broken. This is who you are in Jesus because of Jesus. You are a living testimony

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of Jesus's ultimate win. With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus's

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victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay.