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Welcome to episode 20. Today we're going to take on a posture of peace

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by elevating trust in the Lord over the things that trigger us.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale. Posture is a podcast that serves a short audible

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fist bump to remind you that God is in everything.

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Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture

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of perfect peace.

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Jeremiah chapter 17 verses 7 and 8 say this,

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Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,

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whose trust is the Lord. They are like a tree planted by the

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water that sends out its roots into the

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stream, and does not fear when heat comes,

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for its leaves remain green, and it is not anxious in the year of drought,

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for it does not cease to bear fruit. I love that scripture so much.

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I decided today to actually scrap what I was originally planning on sharing

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because I felt prompted to share with you guys instead

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something that I'm currently walking through with the Lord, something that I

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am actively surrendering to him, and it

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has to do with triggers. I'm sure you're familiar with the term

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triggers. I'm sure you've been triggered, you've had to fight triggers,

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and you've heard other people speak of their triggers.

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Okay, so I used to love to travel, and now I don't so much anymore because

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travel has become a trigger for me.

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It happened in 2018. I was basically fighting sickness

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all throughout the year of 2018. Doctors weren't really sure what was going on. A

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lot of poking and prodding and testing, not a ton of answers,

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and I was having to also travel during that year a lot for work,

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which meant anytime I traveled, I was sick.

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So imagine, if you will, being in an unfamiliar city,

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hotel rooms, planes, cars, not feeling well. It wasn't great,

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and that season really sucked the joy of traveling

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for me, and it really it stole my heart for adventure. That's what really

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happened. So since then, I've been pretty

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grounded, if you will, and I've just avoided traveling as much

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as I could. I haven't done a ton of it since then

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because it just triggered those flashbacks of being sick and being on

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planes and all of that stuff, and so I'm getting

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ready to enter a travel season again. It's time, and I can't avoid it. I don't

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want to avoid it because quite honestly, I want my heart for adventure back. I

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believe part of my calling is to travel internationally,

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and this trigger is getting in the way of that,

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and fear is not my inheritance. Faith is. So I brought all this to the Lord, if you

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will, and I said, Lord, I want to surrender

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the fear to you, and I felt like in that moment with him, he said this to me.

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He said, Lens, you decide what triggers you. You

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decide what triggers you. I know that it doesn't often feel like a choice,

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but as people of the kingdom, we have been given the authority

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and the power to choose and decide what is going to trigger us. So I just

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want to share with you, because I'm this week, I'm traveling, I want to

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share with you what I'm leaning on, the posture that I'm taking as I enter

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into this travel season, and making the decision, travel's not

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going to be a trigger for me anymore. I am leaning on Proverbs 3,

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chapters 5 and 6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

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and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways,

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acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

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I, this week, and for the rest of my life,

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but especially this week, I'm deciding to choose trust over triggers,

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and I'm going to trust in the Lord with all my heart, and instead of

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leaning on the memories, instead of leaning on my understanding of the

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situation and what happened to my health in 2018, instead of

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leaning on the flashback, I'm gonna lean on his truth.

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I want to be like that tree that's planted by the water, that is not

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swayed by the elements, that is not fearful of what's going on

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around him, because that tree has planted its roots into the stream.

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I believe that stream, for me and you, represents

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the living, active, powerful Word of God.

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So today if you're feeling triggered or if you have things that have kept you from living the life

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You are called to out of fear. I want to encourage you today

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You decide what triggers you

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Be like that tree that is unswayed by the elements by leaning

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trusting with all your heart into the Lord and not your own understanding and the promises that

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He is gonna make your way

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straight

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The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3 and in Hebrew it is shalom

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shalom

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meaning

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complete wholeness

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Nothing missing nothing broken. This is who you are in Jesus

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Let's declare this together

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Today, I am kept in perfect. Peace with my whole heart. I trust the Lord

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I am strong. I am victorious. I am whole

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Remember friend you are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win

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Not because of anything you did but because of what he did for you with every step you take today

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You're putting Jesus's victory on display and Satan's defeat on replay