WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200
Today, we're going to take a posture of peace by doing away with regrets.

2
00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:13.440
Hi, I'm Lindsay Van Zale. Posture is a podcast that serves as a short audible fist bump to remind

3
00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:18.720
you that God is in everything. Together, we're going to be emboldened to take a daily posture

4
00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:27.680
of perfect peace. In Lamentations chapter 3, verses 21 through 23, it says,

5
00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:36.560
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope. The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.

6
00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:43.680
His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

7
00:00:44.720 --> 00:00:49.680
This week, I'm sharing clips from my recent conversation with Graham Cook in our three-day

8
00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:57.200
challenge on Facebook, and in this clip, we discuss what new mercy means for past regrets.

9
00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:02.640
What we're talking about reminds me of something that Dave asked yesterday. Dave said,

10
00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:08.640
How do we stay clear of the enemy reminding us of our past mistakes and living in regret?

11
00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:14.240
I never even bothered to think about that, because it's irrelevant.

12
00:01:16.080 --> 00:01:19.520
You spoke to illegal thoughts. What's illegal to think about now?

13
00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:26.240
It is. It's not God's way of thinking. So when we come up with an old way of thinking,

14
00:01:26.880 --> 00:01:33.280
and he won't listen to it, because he's totally programmed himself on the new person in you. He's

15
00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:40.640
totally focused on that. But anyway, the answer, Dave, really is, your past is under the blood,

16
00:01:41.680 --> 00:01:47.920
and therefore it no longer speaks. The blood is like acid to sin. It destroys it. I mean,

17
00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:54.800
it just dissolves it. And God will not remember your sins anymore. I love it when he says that.

18
00:01:54.800 --> 00:02:01.760
That's Hebrews 8.12. And the Holy Spirit brings all the truth to our remembrance. So the Holy

19
00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:07.520
Spirit is constantly working on our mindset, constantly saying, This is the truth walking

20
00:02:07.520 --> 00:02:12.480
out. Every time you read a scripture, you're listening to, you're reading truth. So it's not

21
00:02:12.480 --> 00:02:18.000
about you applying it. It's about you knowing that truth is actually in me, and the Holy Spirit can

22
00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:25.120
make it real to me. So I'm going to ask him for that. And he stirs us up by putting us in

23
00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:32.800
remembrance. That's 2 Peter 1.13. The Holy Spirit stirs us up by putting us in remembrance. Hey,

24
00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:38.720
remember this. This is who you are. I had that so many times in the early days of me learning the

25
00:02:38.720 --> 00:02:43.920
new man. He would just say, Wait, we don't think like that. We think like this. So forget that.

26
00:02:43.920 --> 00:02:49.120
Just think like us. That's all we're asking. We'll make it all clear to you. But you start

27
00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:55.440
thinking it, you start believing it. And at some point in that whole conversation,

28
00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:03.040
your whole interior will light up. Because you know, you get to know this is my truth. Now,

29
00:03:03.600 --> 00:03:10.640
it's not just a truth that's in the Bible. It's my truth. You know, and I love that. And

30
00:03:11.600 --> 00:03:18.800
the whole thing of past mistakes and living with regret. Let's not even go there.

31
00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:25.360
What if there are no regrets? What if the only regrets you have are the ones the enemy wants

32
00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:30.720
you to have? What if the only regrets you have are the ones that your old man thinking brought

33
00:03:30.720 --> 00:03:37.680
you to? But in the new man, what if there are no regrets? I like the scripture, Lamentations 3,

34
00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:45.040
that talks about new every morning is the goodness of God. And I have this practice

35
00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:54.800
through Lamentations 3 of every morning I wake up and I wake up new every day. I don't carry

36
00:03:54.800 --> 00:04:03.120
any negative from yesterday into today. I start every day fresh. One because it's good for me.

37
00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:09.360
Two, because it annoys the enemy intensely. They have to start working all over again. And it's

38
00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:14.960
one of the best ways of tiring him out. Because he hasn't got the energy of God at all anymore.

39
00:04:15.600 --> 00:04:22.160
So new every morning to me is I wake up fresh, I wake up new. And I start new every day. So

40
00:04:22.880 --> 00:04:28.720
if I have a situation, some situations we have are so good, you know, they're difficult,

41
00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:34.000
but they're so good, they can last for three weeks. And that is brilliant, because we get

42
00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:41.600
three weeks of opportunity about being you in this kind of scenario. So when we come out of it,

43
00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:46.960
we're totally different. And every time that situation comes back, we know how to deal with it.

44
00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:54.560
So I had a situation that lasted about 27 days. So I had 27 first days.

45
00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:59.360
It was hilarious, because you can just

46
00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.600
Feel the enemy screaming in the background.

47
00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:05.440
You know, because every day what happened was

48
00:05:06.320 --> 00:05:08.580
my understanding of what God was doing

49
00:05:08.580 --> 00:05:12.040
began to build and build and build and build.

50
00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:14.640
And I realized what this situation was for.

51
00:05:14.640 --> 00:05:18.520
This situation wasn't, it can't be against me

52
00:05:18.520 --> 00:05:20.400
if God is for me.

53
00:05:20.400 --> 00:05:24.080
So what he's gonna do is he uses our life situations

54
00:05:24.080 --> 00:05:26.920
to actually teach us how he wants to be with you.

55
00:05:26.920 --> 00:05:29.600
It's like, Graham, this is a great opportunity.

56
00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:33.480
You learning how I want to be with you in a crisis.

57
00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:35.480
You know, how I want to be with you

58
00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:37.760
when you're being persecuted.

59
00:05:37.760 --> 00:05:40.320
So I love that, it's like an object lesson.

60
00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:43.280
So it's like every difficulty is God saying,

61
00:05:43.280 --> 00:05:45.480
we have a great lesson planned for this.

62
00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:47.140
You're gonna love this.

63
00:05:47.140 --> 00:05:50.800
And so straight away you're engaging with who God is.

64
00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:53.480
And I think that is all a part of fullness.

65
00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:57.160
You know, so I don't have any regrets.

66
00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:59.240
You know, because I don't remember past sins

67
00:05:59.880 --> 00:06:01.440
or anything like that.

68
00:06:01.440 --> 00:06:03.000
You know, when you get through on something,

69
00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:04.840
all of that goes away.

70
00:06:04.840 --> 00:06:08.320
And so I'm learning to be like God,

71
00:06:08.320 --> 00:06:09.920
you know, new every morning.

72
00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:14.080
I'm learning how to be, you know, to stay fresh.

73
00:06:15.560 --> 00:06:19.880
If you stay fresh, you don't really need to be refreshed.

74
00:06:19.880 --> 00:06:22.100
The same fresh is the best thing.

75
00:06:22.100 --> 00:06:24.080
But if you can't stay fresh, getting refreshed

76
00:06:24.080 --> 00:06:26.000
is the next best thing.

77
00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:28.640
We look at refreshing as being, I need refreshing.

78
00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.680
I'm thinking, I wanna live in such a place

79
00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:33.400
that I don't need refreshing.

80
00:06:33.400 --> 00:06:36.320
Because I'll be like Jesus, I'll be fresh every day.

81
00:06:36.320 --> 00:06:40.600
So Lamentations 3 for me, I'm practicing that little pony.

82
00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:44.560
I'm writing that, I love Lamentations 3.

83
00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:46.360
I love waking up fresh.

84
00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:49.920
I love coming to God fresh in the morning,

85
00:06:49.920 --> 00:06:52.840
not carrying any negative, I'm starting every day

86
00:06:52.840 --> 00:06:54.760
like it's my first day.

87
00:06:54.760 --> 00:06:58.040
So I'm in a situation, however long it lasts,

88
00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:00.200
every day is a first step.

89
00:07:00.200 --> 00:07:03.200
And that to me is, it's a gorgeous way to live.

90
00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:06.720
Today, instead of wrestling with regret

91
00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:11.400
and getting stuck in failure, engage with who God is.

92
00:07:11.400 --> 00:07:14.600
His steadfast love never ceases

93
00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:17.840
and His mercies never come to an end.

94
00:07:17.840 --> 00:07:22.480
They are new every morning, including today.

95
00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:27.120
The promise of perfect peace is found in Isaiah 26.3.

96
00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.600
And in Hebrew, it is shalom, shalom,

97
00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:35.600
meaning complete wholeness, nothing missing, nothing broken.

98
00:07:36.320 --> 00:07:38.960
This is who you are in Jesus.

99
00:07:38.960 --> 00:07:41.000
Let's declare this together.

100
00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:44.600
Today, I am kept in perfect peace.

101
00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.680
With my whole heart, I trust the Lord.

102
00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:52.200
I am strong, I am victorious, I am whole.

103
00:07:52.200 --> 00:07:54.880
Remember friend, you are a living testimony

104
00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.280
of Jesus's ultimate win.

105
00:07:57.280 --> 00:07:58.920
Not because of anything you did,

106
00:07:58.920 --> 00:08:01.160
but because of what He did for you.

107
00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:02.680
With every step you take today,

108
00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:05.640
you're putting Jesus's victory on display

109
00:08:05.640 --> 00:08:08.080
and Satan's defeat on replay.