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Today's gonna be a little bit different, a little bit shorter maybe than most

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episodes. So today we're going to take a posture of peace by leaning on our

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helper, our teacher, the Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us in this truth.

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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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Just a little fun fact, when I first started teaching and preaching years

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ago, I hated public speaking. I hated it. I would dread speaking engagements for

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like months in advance. I'd get sick before an event, sometimes I would be

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sick during an event. It was not great, it wasn't always enjoyable, but I had felt

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strongly like the Lord was wanting to develop my teaching and my

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communication gifting for the calling he was preparing me for. So out of obedience

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I kept saying yes when these opportunities to speak, to teach, to

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preach would arise. And it wasn't necessarily easy, but I learned so much

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in that season and I remember a conversation I had with the Lord before

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one of those speaking engagements. You know, I went to the Lord and I said, I

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know that this fear is not of you, I know this anxiety is not of you, so

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Father, if there is anything in my heart I need to repent of, to change my mind

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about so that I can walk in peace and this calling, show me. And what he showed

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me was I had been carrying a need to be profound. I was carrying an unnecessary

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weight, this responsibility to wow the crowd into transformation, to communicate

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in a way, to be clever enough in language so that they would get it. And you know,

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what had happened was I forgot that I'm not people's Holy Spirit. I can partner

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with him and his agenda, but I don't ever need to feel like it's all up to me and

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my presentation to woo people to God. God and his kindness draws people to him. And

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so with that being said, I changed my mind that day years ago and I have

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walked in that direction ever since. So I don't need to be profound, I just need to

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be obedient. And today I woke up with this one thing that I feel like the Lord

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is prompting me to share with you today, so I'm just gonna be obedient. I know it

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may seem basic to some of you, it may seem unimpressive, but I believe that

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there is someone out there that needs to hear this today, and that is God wants

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you to know that he is patient with you. He's not fed up, he's not mad, he's not

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standing at a distance waiting for you to get it right. He's not limited in his

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patience, he is relentless in it. And I don't feel like I need to expound on

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that any further today, so I'm just going to trust your Holy Spirit, my Holy Spirit,

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our helper, and our teacher to lead us in that truth today. He is a genius and he

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knows exactly how to guide us. So I'll leave you with this one verse from 2

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Peter chapter 3, verse 9. It says the Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise

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as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should

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perish, but that all should reach repentance. Today, focus on this truth, the

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Lord is patient with you. The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3. In

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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

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

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Jesus's victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay.