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379 | Throwback - Through Eyes of Faith: Discovering the Beauty of God's Presence · 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 can and will see the splendor of your King and Savior if you just look through eyes of faith.
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  Such beauty and majesty the world has never known and will ever know.
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  But for His children who worship and fellowship with Him constantly,
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  this beauty and splendor is an everyday blessing.
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  Join us in this program through Eyes of Faith as Kim Miller of Woman at the
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  Well Ministries takes us through Isaiah 33, 17, which says, Thine eyes shall
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  see the king in his beauty.
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  They shall behold the land that is very far off. Hello and welcome to this broadcast
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  of Woman at the Well Ministries.
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  I love this verse in that it says that you shall behold the land that is very far off.
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  And it's a promise. When the world looks at us and we talk to them about this
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  Jesus that lives inside of us, they can't comprehend that if they don't know him as personal Savior.
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  And when we talk about heaven, for those of us who know the King of Kings and
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  the Lord of Lords as Savior, heaven is very near to us.
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  And many of us have loved ones and friends who've gone on before us,
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  and it makes it even more near to us.
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  But it's not something that we think about as this far off place beyond the
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  sky, beyond the stars, beyond the galaxies, and there would be heaven.
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  For most of us who have Jesus as our heavenly father, heaven is as close as
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  a whisper and heaven is as real as a whisper.
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  As the hands you hold with your loved one. So when we talk to others about heaven
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  and about Jesus and about this home we're going to that's not made with hands
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  and it's eternal into the heavens.
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  We talk about the fact that we have a mansion that God is preparing for us.
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  They always think in terms of it being so, so far away.
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  And man understands the distance of galaxies and the distance of stars And the
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  distance is so great that it's hard for our mind to wrap around.
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  And somehow those who don't know the Lord, that's what they think of heaven as.
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  And when we see this verse, we know that in that reality, we will transcend this world.
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  And we will be in that place that physically is a long way away.
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  But for those of us with faith, the only ones of us who are going to ever make
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  it to that place whose builder and maker is God, that place we call heaven.
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  For those of us who've placed our faith in Jesus and have laid our claim on
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  heaven, heaven isn't far away.
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  Faith does amazing things.
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  Faith is what allows us to have salvation through Jesus Christ Because we place
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  our faith in him And because we place our faith in the work of Calvary that he has done,
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  Because it's not misplaced, but it is correct, it is sure, and it's on a firm foundation.
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  Faith is what allows us to get up every day and navigate through the trials
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  and troubles and temptations that beset us regularly, our faith in Jesus Christ,
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  our faith in that he loves us,
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  our faith and that he hears us.
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  When we pray our faith that he
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  has our best interest at heart our faith that
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  all things are going to work out to the good because we
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  love him our faith in the
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  strength and surety of his word our.
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  Faith and his amazing grace and
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  his wonderful love that he bestows upon us but faith
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  also provides us with a glimpse into
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  what heaven is like because we know
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  that the bible says that there's no darkness there
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  we know that the bible says that jesus
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  is the light and that he's there with us all the time but
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  faith allows us to live like
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  that right now understanding that he
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  tells us in the book of hebrews that he will
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  never leave us nor forsake us and so
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  we're not living our lives waiting to get to
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  that place far beyond the skies far beyond
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  the galaxies we live our
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  lives with jesus in our very presence every
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  single day and it's faith that allows us to
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  do that and it's that faith that will see us through our storms it's that faith
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  in jesus christ that will strengthen us to do that which he calls us to do It's
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  that faith that gives us peace that passes understanding and a joy unspeakable and full of glory.
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  It's that faith that allows us to live this world bountifully and wonderfully blessed with a hope.
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  With a hope that endures, with a hope that strengthens, with a hope that satisfies.
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  The child of God who believes in Jesus as their Savior,
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  who walks with him and talks with him, who studies his word and believes the
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  accounts that are listed in his holy word are true and applicable today,
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  and that he's the same today as he was yesterday and the same he'll be tomorrow.
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  That person lives the abundant life.
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  And we're not talking about materialism. We're talking about something that.
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  Money can't buy, and that is peace and joy.
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  And as we follow God the way he tells us to, we have the promise that he supplies our every need.
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  We are not without help, not
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  only in time of trouble but when everything is going
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  great he is an ever presence in our
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  life that's amazing we may
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  find ourselves in our life alone maybe
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  for short periods of time maybe for extended
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  periods of time with no earthly person around us but
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  we as children of god are never truly alone
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  the lord has placed the holy spirit within us to comfort us to guide us and
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  to teach us and to lead us and he's there with us we can pray at any moment
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  in fact he says that we are to pray without ceasing our hearts should be in
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  an attitude of prayer every day all the time.
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  When we do things in our life, we should be interested in what he thinks about them.
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  And therefore, we should walk our lives following the footsteps that he has
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  laid before us in his holy scriptures.
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  We should be consulting him for guidance in every decision through prayer.
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  We should be modeling our life after his example and governed by the commandments
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  and the statutes of his holy word by reading and studying what he has to say to us,
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  from genesis to revelations he has written the greatest love letter ever written,
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  and we sit down with that and understanding that the word was made flesh and
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  dwelt among us and so So as we read
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  the word of God, we are in the very presence of Jesus, the son of God.
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  As we commune with the Holy Spirit through prayer, asking the Holy Spirit to
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  help us understand the words of Christ, the words of his holy word.
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  To help us be able to to grow closer to Jesus, that we may be closer to God,
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  that we may understand our builder and our maker, that we may understand the promises.
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  That he has for us, that we may understand the peace that is enveloped in knowing
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  that we are surrounded by the grace and the mercy and the love of God that is faith.
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  And through eyes of faith, we can do amazing things.
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  The Bible says, if thou can't believe, all things are possible to him that believe us.
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  The Bible says that if you have faith of that as a little mustard seed,
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  you can say to that mountain, be thou moved, and it will move.
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  And that mountain most likely is not Mount Everest in your life.
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  It might be a financial burden. It might be a health issue.
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  It may be conflict in your family. It may be a job situation.
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  I don't know what it is. But God not only knows, he is the answer.
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  And through faith, we can tap into that infallible resource of Jesus.
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  Who loves us more than we can imagine.
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  Who cares for us. Not just when we're good, but all the time.
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  Who has a plan for us to prosper us and to give us a hope. He believes in us. Do you understand that?
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  It's one thing for us to believe in an infallible God.
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  It's so amazing to know that he believes in you and he instills in you a purpose
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  and he will cultivate that purpose and he will provide for you to make that purpose happen.
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  Because he from the very beginning before you even breathed your first breath
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  had a plan for you because he loves you and he cares for you and he's got his
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  eyes on you and he's constantly blessing you and he's leading you and he's guiding you.
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  Jesus loves me, this I know and I see it all around me. And you can too.
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  And to be perfectly honest, it doesn't take a lot of faith to recognize the blessings of God.
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  They're that real and that abundant and that clear.
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  But as a child of God, I encourage you to wake up in the mornings with a heart
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  full of joy and anticipation of what God is going to do through you that day.
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  To wake up with a hope knowing that he is with you and he is guiding you and
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  that it's another day that he has given you breath on this earth and he has
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  plans for you and he cares for you.
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  And if something should come across your heart and mind that troubles you,
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  remember to cast it upon him, knowing he careth for you.
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  Through eyes of faith, we can do many things.
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  It is so wonderful to know that our Savior can move us to heavenly places and
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  back in a twinkling of an eye as we experience our time with him through prayer and his scriptures.
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  I promise you that the greatest cure for sadness is this moment spent with Jesus.
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  I promise you that as you pray
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  and as you read his scripture and as you draw closer to him and you allow him
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  to increase your faith your life will be forever changed and you too will have
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  a beautiful life irregardless of what is happening around you to God be the
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  glory for the great things He has done.
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