Today, we're going to take a posture of peace by doing away with regrets.
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 Lamentations chapter 3, verses 21 through 23, it says,
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope. The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
This week, I'm sharing clips from my recent conversation with Graham Cook in our three-day
challenge on Facebook, and in this clip, we discuss what new mercy means for past regrets.
What we're talking about reminds me of something that Dave asked yesterday. Dave said,
How do we stay clear of the enemy reminding us of our past mistakes and living in regret?
I never even bothered to think about that, because it's irrelevant.
You spoke to illegal thoughts. What's illegal to think about now?
It is. It's not God's way of thinking. So when we come up with an old way of thinking,
and he won't listen to it, because he's totally programmed himself on the new person in you. He's
totally focused on that. But anyway, the answer, Dave, really is, your past is under the blood,
and therefore it no longer speaks. The blood is like acid to sin. It destroys it. I mean,
it just dissolves it. And God will not remember your sins anymore. I love it when he says that.
That's Hebrews 8.12. And the Holy Spirit brings all the truth to our remembrance. So the Holy
Spirit is constantly working on our mindset, constantly saying, This is the truth walking
out. Every time you read a scripture, you're listening to, you're reading truth. So it's not
about you applying it. It's about you knowing that truth is actually in me, and the Holy Spirit can
make it real to me. So I'm going to ask him for that. And he stirs us up by putting us in
remembrance. That's 2 Peter 1.13. The Holy Spirit stirs us up by putting us in remembrance. Hey,
remember this. This is who you are. I had that so many times in the early days of me learning the
new man. He would just say, Wait, we don't think like that. We think like this. So forget that.
Just think like us. That's all we're asking. We'll make it all clear to you. But you start
thinking it, you start believing it. And at some point in that whole conversation,
your whole interior will light up. Because you know, you get to know this is my truth. Now,
it's not just a truth that's in the Bible. It's my truth. You know, and I love that. And
the whole thing of past mistakes and living with regret. Let's not even go there.
What if there are no regrets? What if the only regrets you have are the ones the enemy wants
you to have? What if the only regrets you have are the ones that your old man thinking brought
you to? But in the new man, what if there are no regrets? I like the scripture, Lamentations 3,
that talks about new every morning is the goodness of God. And I have this practice
through Lamentations 3 of every morning I wake up and I wake up new every day. I don't carry
any negative from yesterday into today. I start every day fresh. One because it's good for me.
Two, because it annoys the enemy intensely. They have to start working all over again. And it's
one of the best ways of tiring him out. Because he hasn't got the energy of God at all anymore.
So new every morning to me is I wake up fresh, I wake up new. And I start new every day. So
if I have a situation, some situations we have are so good, you know, they're difficult,
but they're so good, they can last for three weeks. And that is brilliant, because we get
three weeks of opportunity about being you in this kind of scenario. So when we come out of it,
we're totally different. And every time that situation comes back, we know how to deal with it.
So I had a situation that lasted about 27 days. So I had 27 first days.
It was hilarious, because you can just
Feel the enemy screaming in the background.
You know, because every day what happened was
my understanding of what God was doing
began to build and build and build and build.
And I realized what this situation was for.
This situation wasn't, it can't be against me
if God is for me.
So what he's gonna do is he uses our life situations
to actually teach us how he wants to be with you.
It's like, Graham, this is a great opportunity.
You learning how I want to be with you in a crisis.
You know, how I want to be with you
when you're being persecuted.
So I love that, it's like an object lesson.
So it's like every difficulty is God saying,
we have a great lesson planned for this.
You're gonna love this.
And so straight away you're engaging with who God is.
And I think that is all a part of fullness.
You know, so I don't have any regrets.
You know, because I don't remember past sins
or anything like that.
You know, when you get through on something,
all of that goes away.
And so I'm learning to be like God,
you know, new every morning.
I'm learning how to be, you know, to stay fresh.
If you stay fresh, you don't really need to be refreshed.
The same fresh is the best thing.
But if you can't stay fresh, getting refreshed
is the next best thing.
We look at refreshing as being, I need refreshing.
I'm thinking, I wanna live in such a place
that I don't need refreshing.
Because I'll be like Jesus, I'll be fresh every day.
So Lamentations 3 for me, I'm practicing that little pony.
I'm writing that, I love Lamentations 3.
I love waking up fresh.
I love coming to God fresh in the morning,
not carrying any negative, I'm starting every day
like it's my first day.
So I'm in a situation, however long it lasts,
every day is a first step.
And that to me is, it's a gorgeous way to live.
Today, instead of wrestling with regret
and getting stuck in failure, engage with who God is.
His steadfast love never ceases
and His mercies never come to an end.
They are new every morning, including today.
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's victory on display
and Satan's defeat on replay.