WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.360 Today we're going to take a posture of peace by calling peace to rise up in us. 2 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:14.880 Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale. Posture is a podcast that serves as a short audible fist bump to remind 3 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:20.160 you that God is in everything. Together, we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture 4 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:28.160 of perfect peace. In John chapter 14 verse 27, Jesus said, 5 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.880 This week, I'm joining Graham Cooke for a five-day challenge on Facebook called 6 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:53.520 Three Plus Me, where together with people from all over the world, we are exploring the depths 7 00:00:53.520 --> 00:00:59.280 of God's empowering presence within us. We'd love for you to join us this week. It's not too late. 8 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:05.519 The link to join is in the description of this episode. Now, a few years ago, when I was in the 9 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:13.280 battle of anxiety and panic, Graham said something to me that honestly, I did not respond too well 10 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:22.000 at first. It rubbed me the wrong way, but now I know it was rubbing away my unbelief. Graham's 11 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:29.200 testimony that he shared with me during that time actually planted a seed of possibility in me that 12 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:35.520 led to my total victory over anxiety. I'm going to be sharing a clip from our conversation in the 13 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:42.080 Three Plus Me challenge that highlights this story. Graham, you said something to me a couple 14 00:01:42.080 --> 00:01:47.600 years ago, actually. It's been a couple years now, but it has always stuck with me, and my initial 15 00:01:47.600 --> 00:01:55.440 reaction to it was actually pretty volatile. What you said was, I have not worried in over 30 years, 16 00:01:55.440 --> 00:02:00.240 and when you first said that, I thought, that can't be true, which is a horrible implication, 17 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:05.760 because it was really implying that you were lying to me, but as I've sat under your mentorship as 18 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:11.600 being a brilliant TV subscriber for many years, and I've just watched as you've lived this out, 19 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:17.600 lived this truth out, that we do not have to be worried about anything. How is that possible? 20 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:28.160 I think it's because Jesus is the Prince of Peace, and He lives in you, and He was very clear 21 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:36.560 in John 14, 27, when He said, My peace I give you, not as the world gives. Don't let your heart be 22 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:43.440 troubled. You know, I've overcome the world. So here's the Prince of Peace living in you, and He's 23 00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:51.600 never had a day of worry in His life. So what He's saying is, if I'm making you like me, then you get 24 00:02:51.600 --> 00:03:00.800 to come into all of this territory in terms of identity, in terms of who we are, and you get to 25 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:07.760 live from a different place. And so I realized the Prince of Peace is living in me, because before 26 00:03:07.760 --> 00:03:14.160 then I was always thinking that peace is something on the outside that I need to bring inside, and 27 00:03:14.160 --> 00:03:21.120 then what I was realizing is I already have peace inside, because there are three of them, and they're 28 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:27.920 all practicing their peace in me. So I need to get with the program, and really I needed to come into 29 00:03:27.920 --> 00:03:38.400 alignment with my inner self and God, that God is always in me. I need to line up, so that who He is 30 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:44.720 rises up inside of me. You know, God isn't going to give me something from outside. He put Jesus on 31 00:03:44.720 --> 00:03:51.760 the inside of us, so that Jesus could be the one who receives everything, and the Holy Spirit allows 32 00:03:51.760 --> 00:04:00.560 that to come up out of my heart into my conscious mind, and so on. So I'm living in 33 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:08.000 this three, and they have a different picture of my circumstances than I do. So I'm the one that 34 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:14.880 needs to refocus. So I love the whole idea of Three Plus Me, because it's so simple on the one hand, 35 00:04:14.880 --> 00:04:25.200 but it's so profound on the other, and it has a hugely powerful focus for us, 36 00:04:26.400 --> 00:04:33.280 because straight away we're right there with the Lord. Yeah, I think I used to live backwards too, 37 00:04:33.280 --> 00:04:38.880 like you talked about, where when I needed peace, I was trying to get it from like my head down, 38 00:04:38.880 --> 00:04:45.760 you know, like if I just, and instead it was about letting the peace that was already in me, 39 00:04:45.760 --> 00:04:52.320 in my spirit, rise to then permeate my thoughts and my emotions, and settle all the head noise, 40 00:04:52.320 --> 00:04:56.960 right? Settle the negativity, silence the accusation, silence the confusion, 41 00:04:57.600 --> 00:04:59.840 and that has really what has made the 42 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.000 difference. You know, part of my testimony is I used to have numerous panic and anxiety attacks 43 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:12.800 and now I'm totally free because I have this revelation of the Prince of Peace in me. 44 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:19.280 Always there, never leaving to then, you know, show up later again. Right, right, right. 45 00:05:21.440 --> 00:05:26.720 And I loved it. I remember God teaching me the whole thing. I was staying in a hotel, 46 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:32.720 I was on the 40th floor and he was talking to me about, Graham, everything's in you and it has to 47 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:38.240 rise up within you. You've got everything you need right now but it has to, it's in you, it has to 48 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:43.840 rise up. And I'm on the 40th floor and I'm meeting a friend down in the lobby and as I'm walking 49 00:05:43.840 --> 00:05:51.600 towards the elevator it said, so how does the elevator work? I said, Lord, you press the button 50 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:57.280 and it comes up. And he goes, huh, like something else I know. And I'm thinking, 51 00:05:59.440 --> 00:06:06.000 oh my gosh, that's it. That's the perfect illustration. I can grab hold of that. I call 52 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:12.720 peace up and it comes. You press the button and it comes, it rises up within you. And it's not 53 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:18.160 coming from outside, it's coming from within. It's like you call it up in the same way you call up 54 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:26.720 the elevator. Lord, let your peace rise up in me, in Jesus' name. And so I just started practicing 55 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:35.840 that and that literally is how it works. You know, you don't, you can't understand it, you have to 56 00:06:35.840 --> 00:06:40.800 experience it. Because the Bible says, I think it's in Philippians, that it's the peace of God 57 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:46.800 that passes all understanding. In other words, you can't understand it, it's a pure gift and a pure 58 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:52.640 experience. Just let it rise up. You call it up, it will come. Just like the elevator, it's the same 59 00:06:52.640 --> 00:07:00.960 principle, the same practice. And I love how God makes things so available to us, you know, by 60 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:09.040 example. So I've been calling up peace all the time. And it, you know, I call it up and I just 61 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:15.600 get on with things. And then sometimes the elevator comes right away. Sometimes it's like, you know, 62 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:21.040 it's a process, it comes up, but I'm always expecting it to come. And it does. More often 63 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:27.040 than not, it's an express elevator. I think it depends on circumstances, maybe, you know. 64 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:34.000 And if you know, if you know in a situation how to practice peace in that situation, you have 65 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:40.400 the permission to have the answer straight away. Because you've had an experience. So I like that too. 66 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:48.720 Now, did you catch that? Graham said he started practicing calling peace up and letting it rise 67 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:53.840 in him. You know, too often I've been tempted to think that, well, if it's true, it's just going 68 00:07:53.840 --> 00:07:57.760 to happen. And if it doesn't happen or if it doesn't happen immediately, it must not be true. 69 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:03.520 This thinking causes a double-mindedness in us. It causes doubt and unbelief because 70 00:08:04.080 --> 00:08:09.600 the truth is an invitation. And it's an invitation that we must receive and a way 71 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:14.880 for us to receive it is to start putting it into practice. And, you know, there's so much 72 00:08:14.880 --> 00:08:20.000 grace within this relational journey with God. He's not looking to trick us or trip us up or 73 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:27.920 make it complicated for us. He makes himself available to us always. So today, put peace into 74 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:38.159 practice, call it up, expect it to rise, because the truth is the Prince of Peace is always present. 75 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:48.080 The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26 3. And in Hebrew, it is shalom shalom, meaning 76 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:55.920 complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken. This is who you are in Jesus. Let's 77 00:08:55.920 --> 00:09:04.320 declare this together. Today, I am kept in perfect peace. With my whole heart, I trust the Lord. 78 00:09:04.320 --> 00:09:11.520 I am strong. I am victorious. I am whole. Remember, friend, you are a living testimony 79 00:09:11.520 --> 00:09:17.760 of Jesus's ultimate win, not because of anything you did, but because of what he did for you. 80 00:09:17.760 --> 00:09:23.840 With every step you take today, you're putting Jesus's victory on display and Satan's defeat 81 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:33.120 on replay.