Today we are going to take a posture of peace by relying on real power and breakthrough.
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.
Okay, y'all, I am back in John 17 today. I just cannot get enough of this prayer
that Jesus prayed for us. In John 17 verse 23, Jesus prayed this to the Father for us. He says,
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one and that the world may know that
you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me. I want to continue the conversation
from yesterday's episode by sharing some clarifying questions that I have had to ask myself
recently in light of everything that is going on in our world right now. And those questions are,
are you heavy? Are you feeling hopeless? Have you placed a higher expectation on what can be done
by ministries, organizations, governments, influencers than what you are expecting God can do?
Are you expecting influencers, governments, organizations, ministries to move in ways that
you haven't even taken the time to ask God to move? Are you engaging more with human beings
than the Holy Spirit? Are you leaning more on worldly wisdom than the spirit of wisdom?
If you answered yes to any of those questions or perhaps all of those questions,
there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. There is only holy conviction of
the truth that sets us free. So I want to remind you today of the truth. The truth is that you are
the beloved of God. He is permanently passionate about you. And beloved, we need the presence of
God and we have it. So let's stay aware that he is the answer to every question we will ever have.
He is the solution to every problem we will ever face. Lack of intimacy, lack of awareness of the
presence of God in our lives makes us susceptible to low expectations. It makes us vulnerable to
weariness and heaviness. If we set aside our adoration of God, if we stop being overwhelmed by
who he is, if we put him on the sideline of our lives so that we can finally get the real work
done, we only position ourselves to become overcome by anything the enemy throws at us.
Lack of intimacy with God keeps us believing the lie that we are stuck in a place where we have
no real power. And so instead of engaging with God, instead of expecting what his presence can do,
we just want to be rescued from the current need or from the current pain. Or we think we can rescue
ourselves while God watches from the sidelines of our lives. I've been there. I have believed
these lies for too long. I used to think rescue was breakthrough. I used to think rescue and relief
would be the thing to transform me instead of relying on the transformative relationship I have
with God. And through the lens of these wrong beliefs, I viewed the secret place as merely
a place of escape. Living by these wrong beliefs made me powerless and ineffective in the world
because I was always living for a way out. But Jesus didn't die to just rescue us over and over
again. He didn't die for us to live a life here on earth that we would want constant escape from. He
died to give us a life of his lasting victory. He gave us himself so that the world would know.
So that as he is, so are we in this world. This is real breakthrough. This is real power.
The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26.3. In Hebrew, it's called the perfect peace.
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.