Welcome back it is season three and today we are going to take a posture of peace by doing things
a little bit differently this season. 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 Psalm chapter 36 verses 7 through 9 it says, how precious is your steadfast love O God
the children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings they feast on the abundance of your
house and you give them drink from the river of your delights for with you is the fountain of life
in your light do we see light. In this season three of posture we're going to do things a
little differently. Now up until this point posture has been a daily podcast and vlog
releasing episodes Monday through Friday every week and it has been a blast. I often get asked
about the daily workload you know about how much work it takes to produce a daily podcast and I
won't lie it is a lot of work but in this last season of my life I've had the grace and the
capacity to do it so it's been a real joy even though it is a lot of work to pull off a daily
podcast. What I've wanted to highlight by doing a daily podcast is how knowing experiencing God
is our fountain of life and it's a fountain that never runs dry. We can always draw on him every
day every moment he never runs out he is the solution for every problem we will ever face
and he is the answer to every question we will ever have. It's so important to seek him daily
we can trust him and when we do we will be kept in perfect peace that's not an ideal or a concept
that's a promise it's our kingdom reality and so for the last 100 episodes of posture we've all
shown up together daily and we drew from this beautiful fountain of life and we're going to
continue to do that every week but the format will look a little bit different moving forward.
Instead of episodes releasing daily they're going to be released Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and
here's why. I'm entering a new season and I sense the Lord is asking me for some time and I don't
even know what that all means yet but I'm proactively setting aside time and I'm learning
I've been learning how to set my pace with the Lord not the pace of the expectations I place on
myself or the expectations that others place on me but I want to set my pace to the Lord to his
timing to his provision to his pace and so I'm sharing my process with you today because I know
that you're a person of the kingdom of God and so I know I'm talking to movers and shakers and
builders and pioneers and we've all been given ministries and jobs and businesses you know
beautiful things to pour our lives into to serve other people and it can be so tempting in our
passion to please the Lord in our service to others to push beyond the pace that he has set for us
some of us push so hard that we live our lives trying only to please the people we've been called
to serve now this hasn't happened with posture but it has happened in other seasons of my life where
you know I set out to please the Lord but really I was hustling and hurrying to please other people
and let me tell you from experience that leads to burnout so much of my past work
have really just been monuments to what my stress and striving can pull off posture is never going
to be that posture is never going to be a monument to my hustle posture and any future work of my
hands is going to be produced in peace and I hope that what I'm demonstrating with this you know
minor change is that we have so much freedom in Christ it doesn't have to look the same seasons
change and even though many of us I know have experienced vast changes in the last year with
all that is going on with the world we have a fountain of life that never runs dry so we don't
have to run dry either and we won't because you and I are going to set our pace to God's movement
that's where real momentum is birthed and sustained you and I are called to be displays of the glory
of God here on earth not displays or reflections of the world's pace the world's hustle and hurry
I'm gonna leave you today with Psalm chapter 16
It's one of my favorite psalms, and in verse 5, and I'm reading from the Passion Translation, it says,
Lord, I have chosen you alone as my inheritance.
You are my prize, my pleasure, and my portion.
I leave my destiny and its timing in your hands.
The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3.
In Hebrew, it is shalom, shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken.
This is who you are in Jesus because of Jesus.
You are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win.
With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus's victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay.
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