Welcome to episode 22.
Today, we're gonna take on a posture of peace
by continuing to practice possibility.
Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale.
Posture is a podcast that serves a short audible fist bump
to remind you that God is in everything.
Together, we're gonna be emboldened
to take a daily posture of perfect peace.
Matthew chapter 16, verse 19, Jesus says this,
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven.
And whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
I mentioned yesterday that this week
is all about practicing possibility in our lives.
And when we practice possibility,
what happens is we change the way
that we see our everyday lives.
We're no longer waiting around
for some extraordinary mission from God
to fall in our lap and take us to a faraway land
to really do the work of the ministry.
What happens is we realize that we are,
today, living the mission.
And we serve a God who loves to leverage the mundane
to show off his miraculous.
And like I mentioned in our last episode,
God is so eager to partner with us
in taking ground to advance his kingdom.
And often, it's the ground that's right beneath our feet.
I used to think so differently.
I structured my life in a way where I thought,
I'm gonna work so that I could really be freed up
to go do the ministry.
For me, the ministry was happening on the weekends
when I was at church, not necessarily during the week.
And also, I thought, when I was able
to kind of be more financially free,
then I could really just sow myself full-time
into the ministry and go do the work of the Lord,
the really important stuff.
And thankfully, the Lord has, since then,
tapped me on the shoulder
and shown me an entirely different way,
his way, for how he sees us when he places us
in our different industries and homes and families
and geographic locations.
You know, I'm no longer now fighting the tension
between the mundane and wanting the miraculous
because I expect the miraculous to show up
in my mundane when I practice possibility.
So right now, let's practice possibility together.
I want you to consider a few things, okay?
The first is this.
Maybe your family didn't just happen to you,
no matter how healthy or dysfunctional they are.
Maybe you happened to your family.
Maybe God wants to partner with you today
in changing, perhaps, some generational dysfunction.
It's possible.
Okay, here's another one.
Maybe you're not stuck in an industry
because of your certain degree or your lack of education.
Maybe the industry is stuck with you.
Maybe today, God wants to partner with you
in bringing innovational shifts to law or medicine
or education or technology or commerce.
Maybe he wants to do something through you
to the lives of your coworkers, your boss,
your clients, your customers.
Okay, here's another one.
Maybe your socioeconomic status isn't a result
of your own brilliant success or of your lack of resources.
Maybe God wants to partner with you
in bringing freedom to those who are locked
in their ivory towers or perhaps locked in poverty.
It's possible.
So let's move forward today
by starting to consider the possibilities
instead of dwelling on what we deem to be impossible
by worldly standards.
Let's ask ourselves a few questions
as we move forward into our day.
If God is living in me, what's possible?
If my resources are truly unlimited
because my source is the unlimitedness of heaven,
then what's possible?
If God is good and I can always expect his goodness
to show up in my life, then what's possible?
When we practice possibility,
we are anchoring ourselves in hope.
Hope is the expectation for God's goodness
in every area of our lives.
So when we see ourselves, our communities,
our world through the lens of hope,
we cannot help but think to ourselves.
What is possible? And just watch, friend, as atmospheres begin to shift when you walk into
the room, as cultures begin to change as you engage, and as your life is transformed by a
miraculous God who loves to do the impossible. The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26.3,
and in Hebrew, it is shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing
broken. This is who you are in Jesus. Let's declare this together. Today, I am kept in perfect peace.
With my whole heart, I trust the Lord. I am strong. I am victorious. I am whole. Remember, friend,
you are a living testimony of Jesus's ultimate win, not because of anything you did, but because
of what he did for you. With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus's victory on display
and Satan's defeat on replay.