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Today, we're going to take a posture of peace by receiving the love that God has no doubts about.

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Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale.

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Posture is a podcast that serves as a short audible 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 of perfect peace.

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In Galatians chapter 2, verse 20, it says,

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that he doesn't already believe.

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God binds himself to the same truth that he teaches us to walk in.

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We may be struggling to believe that we are one with God, but God is not struggling

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to be one with us.

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He's not double-minded about you or what he has said about you in his words.

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God carries no doubts about you in his heart.

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He carries no doubt about the finished work of Jesus.

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God is not shifting between, you know, still fixing the old you and then relating to the

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new you over here.

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No, he is entirely focused on the new creation you have become in Jesus.

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The you that is still alive.

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Second Corinthians 517 says,

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The old has gone.

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It's not going away.

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It's gone.

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And the new is here.

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It's not coming around someday.

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It is here.

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God is so committed to you.

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And not because of anything you have done for him, but because of who you are to him.

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The Bible says in Hebrews 12 too, that Jesus endured what he did laying down his life on

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the cross because of the joy that was set before him.

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And you are that joy.

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You are his joy.

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God is in a relationship with us based in love and joyful affection, not some kind of

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forced obligation.

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You know, I've had to rethink some things.

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I've had to ask myself, am I as joyful as Jesus about this relationship?

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Am I as settled in the Father's love for me as Jesus is?

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And honestly, the answer used to be no.

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I wasn't joyful about it and I definitely wasn't settled because deep down, I didn't

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really believe that God was very joyful about me.

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I had this nagging doubt that he was always slightly disappointed.

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I could only think about all the things that I had yet to become, to do, to perfect.

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And honestly, I was just disappointed in myself.

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And I thought that meant he was disappointed in me too.

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I kept trying to earn his love.

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Of course, I didn't call it earning.

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No, I called it servant leadership.

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I called it volunteering.

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I called it bringing my strength.

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I called it being a good example.

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I called it laying down my life.

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And all of those things are good until they're not.

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Until they become our way to God.

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Until they become what we think pleases God.

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Until they become the reason we think God loves us.

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Doing well is good until it replaces in our hearts and minds who Jesus is for us and what

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he did for us.

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Nothing in this relationship with God depends on you.

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Everything depends on who God is.

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We don't get anything from God because of performance.

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We receive everything from God because of our placement in Jesus.

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Jesus is your proof that you are completely loved and fully accepted.

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You know, today if you find yourself striving in any way to be lovable, to be favored by

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God, to matter in his kingdom, there is an invitation for you today to rest and receive

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this love from him.

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In the kingdom, everything is received by faith.

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So today, decide.

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God, I'm going to believe what you believe about me.

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He longs to show you the love that you long for.

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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 missing, nothing

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broken.

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This is who you are in Jesus.

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Let's declare this together.

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Today, I am kept.

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perfect peace. With my whole heart, I trust the Lord. I am strong. I am

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

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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's victory on display and

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Satan's defeat on replay.

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you