Today we are going to take a posture of peace by giving Jesus what he deserves.
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. Okay, so I saved my favorite clip from my conversation with Graham
Cook for this 75th episode. This is a special episode, and I'll share why at the end, but
what Graham shares here captures the heartbeat of posture so well. So we are just going to
dive right in today. Fullness gives you an expectation.
Yes. God is not under resourcing you. It's not an incremental increase. It's full on.
So you have to know that fullness gives you an expectation of who God is and what is available.
So the Holy Spirit gradually, by using fullness, they're gradually bringing you into the culture
of their extravagance, because most of us have a poverty mindset about ourselves, because we
think we're no good. We're not doing it. God must be angry. We have all these negatives,
and it creates a poverty mindset that I can't really ask him for anything, because my life is
like on the floor. Or I can't expect anything, because I don't want to be disappointed.
I don't deserve anything. Here's the thing about deserving. Think of it this way. It's not about
you deserving the blessing of God. It's about Jesus deserves you to be blessed.
Oh, say that again, Graham. That is so powerful. It's not about you trying to deserve something.
It's not on the table. It's not an issue. You deserve everything, because Christ is in you,
and Jesus deserves you to be happy, to be peaceful, to be blessed, to be in your right mind,
to have a great today. He deserves you to be blessed. And so it's about him. He lives in you.
He deserves it. He paid the whole price for everything. Don't live like you're unredeemed.
You know, he took away sin. I mean, he really took it away. It's a little like, you know,
in Santa Barbara, we have this marvelous group of people who work for the local council.
And like every Wednesday, if we put our trash on the sidewalk, they come and take all our trash
away every single week. And so I just put it out, and I forget about it, because they come and take
it away. Wouldn't it be interesting if on Wednesday evening, you're having dinner, and the
doorbell rings, and it's the trash guys. They say, hey, my name's Bert. This is Fred. This is Al.
We've never met before, because you're always asleep when we come around. But we take your
trash away. I go, oh, thanks, guys. He said, yeah, but just for a change, we brought it back.
So we couldn't find your trash cans, so we just laid it out on the lawn, you know. And you probably
got a little bit from the neighbor on this side, the neighbor on that side. But anyway,
have a super Wednesday evening. Has that ever happened in the history of trashdom?
We wouldn't put up with it. We wouldn't stand for it. We wouldn't stand for it, exactly.
But the enemy brings our trash up every single day, and we take it, and we even try and sort
through it, you know. It's weird. It's a weird mindset. That's what being double-minded really
is. God says, no, think about this. And we say, no, actually, we're thinking this.
You know, I don't deserve it. I'm this, I'm that. And, you know, I'd like to pray, but, you know,
I just don't have any expectancy. That's the truth, you know, because we're taking our trash
back every single day. Jesus took it away. Nobody is allowed to bring it back, especially you.
Especially you. It's dead. It's gone. It's finished. Get over it. You're a new person.
Get under that, you know. So, and then you can start to think differently. You get a different
lens by which you view yourself. You get a different mindset that you can think about
yourself. And then you get a different language, which means you can't rubbish yourself in your
self-talk. You know, I'm this, I'm that. You know, I'm kind of, you know, I'm not a good learner.
I'm not this, I'm not that. I mean, you're in Christ. He's good at everything.
So fullness means if he's good at everything, I'm going to get better at everything. That's
what it means. So the truth gives you a lens to see yourself, and it gives you a mindset,
and then it gives you a language that says, this is who I am in Jesus. I love that. And I love that
all of our lessons, all of our life lessons, are about seeing something new, thinking something
better, talking differently. They're all about that. You know, and it's just a challenge of
God's delight in empowering us to go through that process with him. You know, and that's where he
loves to be in all our life situations. I mean, it's his favorite place to be is your low place.
Speaking of dumpster fires, the low places.
He loves the low places because that's where he gets to be something big for you. And he loves
that. Honestly, he loves that. Today is Posture's season one finale. You know, 15 weeks ago,
I dove heartfirst into creating a daily podcast called Posture because I had a vision for our
future that I just couldn't shake. I saw our generation, and not just a specific age group,
but all of us living and breathing for such a time as this, I saw us breaking off the chokehold
of powerlessness as we pulled back from perfectionism and performance, and we took a
posture of perfect peace. Do you see it too? Do you see us doing that? Jesus deserves it. He deserves
to get what he paid for you and I to have. And he will get it. I know he will, because his people
are rising all over the world right now displaying his splendor. And as you rise and shine in your
own sphere of influence, Posture is going to continue to be here reminding you of the fullness
of Jesus's wholeness in you. I'm cheering you on always. It's why I'm here. It's why I come daily.
I'm so thankful for you guys. I'm so thankful for you watching, listening, engaging, sharing with
others, taking the time to let me know what God is doing with you through Posture episodes.
We are just getting started. So what does it mean for the end of season one? Just only that I'll
be taking a short break from posting daily episodes, but season two is right around the
corner. It will premiere Monday, June 15th, so get ready. 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.