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Today we are going to take a posture of peace by being naive.

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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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Okay so today I'm going to be sharing with you guys a clip from a real life mentoring

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moment.

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Every month my friend and mentor Graham Cook and I lead online challenges on Facebook and

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it's like a three day live study on topics that we both love exploring and diving into

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and sharing and back in May I said something during one of these challenges that Graham

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had to correct.

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Like I said this is a real life mentoring moment and I wanted to share it with you because

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we've been talking about joy this week and toxic positivity and you know there is so

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much fear and intimidation floating around right now in our world and there's this stinging

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accusation that those who are not fearful are just being naive.

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Now in this clip I was sharing with Graham quite passionately how living in our kingdom

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reality instead of the world's reality didn't mean we were being naive and this was Graham's

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response.

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Let me just say one thing about the word naive.

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The original meaning when the word naive was first coined is it means to be pure and innocent

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and what's happened is the world got old of it.

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The devil gets hold of words like that and he twists them to mean naive means well you're

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a little simple, you're a little stupid, you're a little backward or whatever.

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You're naive.

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He doesn't know anything really but the word naive means I know who God is and God is pure

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and innocent towards me.

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That's why he will never say anything or do anything to harm.

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He will never lie.

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He will never deceive you know.

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You always know where you are with God because he's always the same and Luke 6 35 says that

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you know God is kind to evil and ungrateful men.

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What does that mean?

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He's going to be himself regardless of who you are.

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That's why he tells us to love our enemies because there's a purity, there's a strength

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in that kind of love that overwhelms me but I love the fact that my prayer has been Lord

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I want to be innocent.

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I want my innocence back you know.

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I want to have the innocence of a small child but I want to have your purity and your innocence

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so that nothing overwhelms me.

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Nothing makes me annoyed or angry because I just want to be like you.

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You're always the same.

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That's what I most love about God.

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He never changes.

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I always know who he is for me because he never changes.

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Simple math.

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He never changes.

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That means he's always the same.

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That is amazing.

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I didn't even know that about the word naive.

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So I'm receiving an increase right now in my understanding.

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I'm being mentored live in front of all of you.

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That is amazing.

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That is so amazing.

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Thank you Lord for your redemption.

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Thank you for your original meaning and that you're redeeming that word for me.

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Thank you so much.

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In addition to the beautiful truth that Graham shared, I want you to notice something.

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The tone.

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Notice how Graham corrected my thinking gently and with delight in the truth.

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Now do you think that Graham is treating me more kindly in my learning process than God?

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No.

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God also delights in sharing his truth with us and he delights in our learning and in

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our growth.

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There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

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There is holy conviction of the truth that sets us free and God delights in setting us

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free.

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Notice how I responded.

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You know, I could have been embarrassed.

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There was a lot of people watching.

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I could have defended myself or been like, Oh, that's not what I meant.

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But you know, I'm learning to surrender this superficial need to always be right so that

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I can always be free.

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In the world, learning is often rushed and it's a harsh process.

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But in the kingdom, everything about our lives is totally different, including our learning,

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our growth, and our development.

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Graham and I are going to be hosting another challenge next week on how God walks with

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us in our learning and growth.

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And let me just say, what we are going to be sharing during this challenge has truly

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transformed my walk with God from feeling like I'm hustling through spiritual disciplines

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in order to learn.

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level up into a peace-filled lifestyle of delighting in his revelation and truth.

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So I'll put the link in the description of this episode for you to learn more about

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joining that challenge.

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I hope you can join us next week.

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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, nothing missing, nothing broken.

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This is who you are in Jesus, because of Jesus.

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You are a living testimony of Jesus' ultimate win.

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With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus' victory on display and Satan's defeat

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on replay.