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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by eagerly looking for 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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Psalm 27 verses 13 and 14 says I

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Would have lost heart

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Unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living

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Wait on or eagerly look for the Lord

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Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart

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Wait, I say on

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The Lord, you know often when I'm writing posture episodes. My first question is Lord

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What do you want people to know what do you want people to believe today and

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Here's what I'm sensing from him and from my own heart as well. This is my desire

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Here's what I want you to know and believe there is peace for you today. There is goodness for you today

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There is an abundance of joy and love and hope for you today

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no matter what circumstances you may be facing because

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Circumstances are not your source

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for any of those things

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There is this lie that I used to buy that says God is not logical. God is not very practical

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He doesn't often make sense. His ways are confusing and

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That lie is so easy to buy when you try to connect with God with a worldly mindset

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Because God's ways do not make sense to this world

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And if you buy that lie long enough it really grows into

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Discouragement and that discouragement breeds pure unbelief

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Because living with a worldly mindset will blind you to your kingdom reality

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You know if we place a higher value on the ways of this world the logic of this world if we live only by what?

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We see here in the natural world

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Then we will carry a very low expectation of who our God is and who we are

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What he is able to do and who we are able to become for example a people healed whole

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well and strong

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If we embrace the wisdom of this world and merely attach our theology to it

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Instead of firmly attaching our experience in this world to the wisdom of God

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We will make ourselves susceptible to deceit doubt and double-mindedness

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if we allow our experiences with the world to be what shapes our perspective our mindset our

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lifestyle

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Instead of entrusting our encounters with God to make us into his image and likeness

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We will be so easily intimidated so easily discouraged and we will live

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Constantly under pressure instead of in perfect peace

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Here's the beauty here's the good news that I want to share with you today

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You don't have to live

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Discouraged not today not ever not in the middle of pain not in the middle of weakness

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not in the middle of battles because our God is

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Mighty to save and his salvation is not proved by a certain outcome in our circumstances

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It is proved by his presence

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He gave us himself. He is with you today. He is with you in

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2020 and your response to his presence

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matters

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Do you believe that you will see his goodness today?

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Are you eagerly looking for God that posture that expectation it will make all the difference

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Remember God is unchanging. We don't change God by believing him. He's already good. He's already faithful

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He's already kind it's believing him believing his word to be true that transforms us

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God doesn't show up from some distant place because we start to eagerly look for him. He's already there

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He's never leaving us. He's never forsaking us. It's that we see him when we look for him

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Don't lose heart today be

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Expected be eager. You will see his goodness

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

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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.

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With every step you take today,

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you're putting Jesus's victory on display

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and Satan's defeat on replay.