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409 | Throwback - Praying with Confidence · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the well in John chapter 4.
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  Our highest priority is making God real in your life.
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  Whether you are listening in our app, in your favorite podcasting app,
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  or on our website at watwm.org,
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  we invite you to sit down with us as we look to the scriptures to learn more
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  about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living a life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  Music.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  You have Jesus. the Son of God, fighting your battles.
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  So it is very important that you keep the faith and hold strong to your beliefs in Him.
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  There is no reason not to believe in Him because He is worthy of your trust.
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  He can fight for you because He knows exactly what you are going through.
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  Join us in this program, Praying with Confidence, as Kim Miller of Woman at
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  the Well Ministries takes us through Hebrews 4, 14-16, which says,
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  Seeing then that we have a great high priest,
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  that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
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  For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
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  infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
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  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy
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  and find grace to help in time of need.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  I believe that as different things have happened in my life,
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  I have probably had verses in the scripture that has been more important to
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  me at that time than perhaps at other times.
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  But at no time in my life has this verse not been one of the most important verses to me in my life.
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  It is an amazing honor that every child of God has that the Son of God would
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  bid you come boldly to his throne.
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  You know, oftentimes in this world, we find ourselves in need of something.
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  And when we need to ask a family member or need to ask a friend or a neighbor
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  or perhaps you have to ask a co-worker or you have to ask a boss,
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  oftentimes when we make that request, we make it very timidly because we don't
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  feel like that person's going to receive that request in a way that allows us
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  to feel comfortable to ask.
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  Other times we know that if we ask whatever it is we need to ask that they're
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  going to feel like they're putting they're put out or it's going to in some
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  way inconvenience them.
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  And even though your need is great, you still feel this sort of angst when you
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  come towards them to ask them for that request that you so desperately need.
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  But when you come to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords,
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  when you come to your Savior with a request as a child of God,
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  a full privileged member of the family of God, you can come boldly and make that request.
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  Because you have the right to stand before an almighty God because of the finished
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  work on Calvary that Jesus Christ has done for each and every person.
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  And every believer has received from Christ the blood of Jesus that has washed
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  away our sins though they were scarlet or now white as snow.
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  And we have received the pardon and forgiveness of sin, and he has imputed in us his righteousness,
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  which the blood of Christ applied to our heart that forgives us of our sins
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  is the very blood that makes us part of the family of God.
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  And as members of the family of God,
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  in Hebrews chapter 4, beginning in verse 14, we are given this picture of what
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  Christ allows every believer to have when they come to the throne of God.
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  He first tells us why it is we would come to the throne of God.
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  And he says, because we have a high priest that is passed into the heaven, Jesus, the son of God.
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  Jesus came to earth walked
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  among us lived as we did was tempted like as we are but was without sin and
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  he went to the cross of calvary fully intending and absolutely completing the
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  bearing of yours and my sins on the cross.
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  And he placed himself enmity with God because God couldn't look upon sin and
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  he bore upon himself the sins of the entire world.
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  You and I have never felt what it's like to be rejected by an almighty God.
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  In fact, we live the exact opposite scenario. Every day the Holy Spirit is wooing
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  us and trying to get us to see Christ for who he is.
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  But on the cross of Calvary, Jesus Christ bore our sins, placing himself in
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  a place where his father God was unable to look at him.
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  Because he could not look upon sin. Which is why every person must come to Christ
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  and understand who he is in the form of his Savior and receive his redemptive grace.
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  Because you can't be in heaven with God and not have your sins forgiven.
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  So Christ on the cross of Calvary bore our sins.
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  And he is the high priest that we are able to come to. and he ever liveth to
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  make intercession for us.
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  And he is always what allows us to have access to the throne of God.
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  And so in this beginning part of Hebrews chapter 4 verses 14 through 16,
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  we are given the confidence of why we come to Christ in prayer.
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  And then we are given the encouragement to hold fast our profession.
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  See, don't pray with wavering.
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  Don't be wishy-washy about who Christ is in your life.
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  But stand in full assurance that he is the one and only true God.
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  That he is the King of kings and the Lord of lords.
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  Stand firm in knowing that he loves you and that in him you are perfectly complete.
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  That he has fully washed you
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  that he's fully regenerated you that
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  you are sanctified in christ you're justified
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  as if you'd never sin and he enables
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  you to stand worthy of the
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  calling that is upon your life and worthy
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  to be called a child of god
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  not because of you not because of what
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  you've done but because of the finished work of
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  calvary because of what christ has done
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  and because of what christ has done in you
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  this passage of scripture he
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  quickly tells us who christ is and gives us that admonition to affirm who he
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  is in our life and realize that christ Christ doesn't just love us.
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  The Bible says, casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you.
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  To realize that Christ isn't just able. He is the one true God. He is the great I am.
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  But that he is willing to hear our cry and to supply our every need.
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  It's coming to God and understanding who he is, realizing that he understands
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  exactly what you're going through and felt exactly what you feel.
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  And so when you come to him to make your request, Yes, you have every reason
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  to be confident that he is able, that he is willing, and that he cares.
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  And as he further tells us that he conquered the very battles we are failing at and falling.
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  Because though he suffered and though he experienced the things we experience, he never sinned.
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  And so he tells us, for all of these reasons, when you come to the throne,
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  which he's bidding you to come, he says, come boldly.
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  When you come to me and he's telling you to come, come in full assurance.
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  Come in full confidence don't be
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  timid don't be wondering but come
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  and stand in the full authority that
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  a child of god has to make the request
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  made known unto god so that the peace of god
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  can fill your hearts and minds through christ jesus
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  that you may obtain mercy and
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  find grace in a time of
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  need when you come to the lord in
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  faith believing in full confidence of
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  his love for you in full assurance of
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  he of who he is then you can
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  come and pray knowing that
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  the effectual fervent prayer of a
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  righteous man availeth much you
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  see me and you the children of god we have
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  a hope in this world that those who have not received him as savior don't have
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  and in such we should walk about with a witness that shows that we know we are
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  not hopeless for we have hope in jesus Christ.
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  That we know we're not helpless, for we have help in Jesus Christ,
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  to know that we're not alone because he will never leave us nor forsake us,
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  to know that the best is yet to come, for eye hath not seen and ear hath not
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  heard what lies in store for them that love him.
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  We need to come boldly to the throne of God, that we may obtain mercy and find grace in time of need.
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  We as Christians, not only should we pray, but we should pray with confidence.
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  We need to know who he is in our life. We need to take advantage of the resource
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  of being able to come to him in good times, bad times, easy times, hard times, all times.
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  For the scripture says that we are to pray without ceasing.
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  It's not just saying some words. It's not memorizing some lyrics.
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  It's pouring your heart out to the Lord, understanding fully and wholly that
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  he will hear you, he will answer you, and that Jesus loves you.
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  Know it, believe it, and pray it.
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  quotes from today's podcast and scripture references.
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