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Welcome to episode 23. Today we're going to take on a posture of peace

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by anchoring ourselves to the word of God.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale. Posture is a podcast that serves as 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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All right, this week we've been talking a lot about practicing

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possibility, and I want to take a little bit of a different angle.

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As many of you know, a part of my testimony is being completely healed

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from anxiety, including panic attacks, really

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constant anxiety for a while, and I get a lot of questions about that.

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And I just want to speak to this area of possibility because

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something that was illuminated to me through an author teacher pastor named

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Wendy Backlund in her book, which I highly recommend,

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Living in the Unseen, she said something that has stuck with me forever, and it

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was regarding fear. And she said, you know, fear

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is just faith pointed in the wrong direction.

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And I used to think of myself as a very fearful person, and it was an identity

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that I attached to myself, and it kind of filtered the way that I

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viewed life and did life and interacted with other people.

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You know, I was always thinking about possibility in the negative. It's like,

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well, anything is possible, and it would be

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this worst-case scenario. And when I read the words from Wendy

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Backlund who said, fear is just faith pointed in the wrong

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direction, I realized I am a faith-filled person, but Satan has

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tried to pervert that in me by pointing my faith in the wrong direction. So I

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began through different things, but specifically through reading the

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word of God and anchoring myself in the word of God,

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I began to turn the ship of my faith into the right direction,

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pointing it to the truth, not to the lies.

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So if you resonate with any of that, and if you think, man, possibility

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is not really a safe place for me because anything is possible, and you

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always thinking about worst-case scenarios, I want to encourage you

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with this scripture. Hebrews chapter 3 verse 12 says this,

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For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword,

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piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints

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and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions

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of the heart. The word of God is living and active. When I was in the

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chokehold of my anxiety, I did not always feel a shift

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when I read the word of God, and I was tempted to just kind of stay away from

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the word of God because it didn't feel like it was making a difference, and we

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talked about this before, feelings are not our highest indicator

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of truth, truth is our highest indicator of truth,

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and our truth as kingdom people sits and is founded in the word of a living

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God. The promise to us today is that the word

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is living and active, so if you find yourself maybe in the

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chokehold of anxiety, of fear, in difficult circumstances, you maybe

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feel stuck, confused, hurt, broken, go to the word of God and begin to shift

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that fear, that faith into the right direction. I

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want to also encourage you in this, maybe you're not the one that is

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finding yourself in the chokehold of anxiety, but maybe you know someone who

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is or is facing a difficult situation and you find yourself thinking,

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I just don't know what to say, I don't have the words.

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I find myself there often and I just want to encourage you,

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share the scripture, share a verse, share a promise,

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it is living and active and it is doing something even if you don't see

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necessarily the physical tangible evidence of that today.

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When I was in the chokehold of anxiety, I tell you there were friends,

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mentors who gathered around me and would speak the truth of God's word and I am

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sure there were many times that I just stared back with dead eyes,

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and they may have been tempted to back off, they may have been tempted to think

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maybe this is trite for me to share scripture with her right now when she's

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facing such a difficult time, but I'm telling you

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it made such a difference in me because what was not

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necessarily tangible in the physical, things were

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shifting in the spiritual realm. So if you or if someone today

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is suffering, give them the words that are living and active and sharper

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than any two-edged sword. Guys, anything is possible and today I

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want you to partner with a God who can do impossible

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and read his scripture and declare the truth over your life and declare it and

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share it with other people. Watch those seeds begin to grow.

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The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3

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and in Hebrew it is shalom shalom, meaning complete wholeness, nothing

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missing, nothing broken. This is

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who you are in Jesus. Let's declare this together.

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Today, I am kept in perfect peace.

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With my whole heart, I trust the Lord.

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I am strong. I am victorious.

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I am whole. Remember, friend, you are a living testimony of Jesus'

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ultimate win. Not because of anything you did, but because of what he did for you.

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With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus' victory

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on display and Satan's defeat on replay.