Today we're going to take a posture of peace and I am going to remind you who you are.
Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale. Posture is a podcast that serves as a short audible fist bump to remind
you that God is in everything. Together we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture
of perfect peace. In Isaiah chapter 61 verses 1 through 4 it says,
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim
good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for
the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord's
favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn and provide for those who
grieve in Zion, to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead
of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of the spirit of despair. They will be called oaks
of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor. They will rebuild the
ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated. They will renew the cities that have
been devastated for generations. All this week I'm here to remind you that you have the heart of a
restorer. I have had this strong sense in my spirit that you need to know this truth and settle
it in your heart. You are a restorer and it's not about it all being up to you. It's about who God
is in you, reflecting all that he is to all of your world. In Isaiah 61 I see both redemption
and restoration. I see redemption leading to restoration. I see a people who have been
redeemed becoming restorers. You have been redeemed, set free to restore, to bring freedom.
And as much as this promise is for the rest of your life, it is also for today. So don't wait
around for the opportunity to go out and restore countries and nations and cities when today you
can restore communities. And don't wait for the opportunity to restore communities if today the
invitation from heaven for you is to restore peace in your home. God is always focused on bringing
you into a fuller experience of who he is because as we've talked about before, 1 John 4 18 says,
as he is, so we are in this world. You have to know who he is so you can know who you can be.
Don't be intimidated by it. Don't back down. Don't be impatient with the process and don't allow the
insanity of brokenness in this world. Steal your awareness of God's empowering presence within you.
You're not helpless and you're never alone. You're redeemed, empowered, and you're equipped
to bring heaven to your world, your world. Today is the perfect day for your world,
those who are with you and around you right now, to experience through you God's good news,
his healing, his freedom, his favor, his comfort, his beauty, his joy. Let this sink in right now.
There is a strength inside of you who is unmatched in this world. Stay aware of him.
You're going to come up against some stuff. You probably already have maybe ruins,
maybe devastations of many generations, but know this, the devastation stops with you
because you have the heart of a restorer. 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' victory on display and Satan's defeat
on replay.