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358 | Throwback - Under His Wings - Embrace Being the Apple of God's Eye · 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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  Do you know what it means to be the apple of God's eye?
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  It means your every thought and movement is not only important to Him, but is cherished by Him.
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  It means He loves you beyond your wildest imagination.
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  Your mere presence is important to Him.
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  Join us in this program under his wings as Kim Miller of Woman at the Well Ministries
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  takes us through Psalm 17, 8, which says, keep me as the apple of the eye.
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  Hide me under the shadow of thy wings. Hello and welcome to this broadcast of
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  Woman at the Well Ministries. Let us pray.
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  Our kind and most gracious to heavenly father, Lord, we're thankful for the
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  protection that you put upon us. We're thankful, Lord, that we're important
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  to you, so important to you that you allow us to be the apple of your eye.
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  We're thankful, Lord, that you love us and that if we confess our sins,
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  you're faithful to forgive us, Lord, and that nothing changes the love that
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  you have for us and that nothing can separate us from it.
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  I pray to Heavenly Father that you would be with us over these next few moments
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  as we look at this scripture, that you would help us to hold on to it with great certainty.
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  And Lord, that you would give us the faith and the courage to grasp the fact
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  that you love us so much and that we truly are the center of your attention.
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  Lord, I pray that you would be with us, that you would lead us and guide us.
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  And Lord, that we would be all that you'd have us to be.
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  In Jesus' name we pray. And all of God's people said, Amen.
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  The Bible tells us in Psalms chapter 17, 8, as Erica read in your hearing,
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  to keep me as the apple of my eye.
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  I love how this verse begins because it doesn't say, make me the apple of thy eye.
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  It doesn't say help me to become the apple of your eye, but it says to keep me the apple of your eye.
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  And when we think about being the apple of someone's eye,
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  we realize that that means we're their focus, that that's where their attention
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  is and that they take great pride and great joy in whatever is the apple of their eye.
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  And Zachariah told us as well that we were the apple of his eye.
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  And David is telling us that when he prays to the Lord, he's praying,
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  keep me as the apple of my eye.
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  And when we think about that, we should think about our prayers and how we pray to the Lord.
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  First of all, we need to make sure that we are praying to the Lord.
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  Second of all, we need to realize that when we come to him and he's invited us to come to him,
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  to come boldly to his throne, that we realize
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  that we are there in full assurance and full authority to be in the presence
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  of God because of the relationship that we have in Jesus Christ because of his
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  saving grace that has allowed us the right to call upon the Father,
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  expecting him to hear us.
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  In this psalm of David, if you go up a little bit further, he says that show
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  thy marvelous loving kindness.
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  Oh, thou that save us by the right hand, then which put their trust in thee
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  from those that rise up against him.
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  And he says to show thy loving kindness.
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  David is in a situation, obviously, where he is asking the Lord to protect him
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  from those around him who are causing him harm.
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  And David has gone to the one place that he can go that he is assured that he
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  will find the help he needs.
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  And you and I as Christians, as children of God, can come to the Lord understanding
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  that he will help us and he will protect us and he will give us what we need.
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  But our trust needs to be in him. and as
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  apple as the apple of his eye we know
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  that he wants to help us and that
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  he has us surrounded by his loving kindness but
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  he tells us that he has that he wants him to do this and he explains to him
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  he says i have called upon thee for thou wilt hear me oh god incline thine ear
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  unto me and hear my speech.
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  When David comes to the Lord in prayer, he comes in faith believing.
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  And the Bible says that when we come to him, we must believe that he is and
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  that we must believe that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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  And as David is coming to the Lord to ask him for assistance and help,
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  he is coming with a heart that truly believes God will hear him.
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  And he fully understands that he is protected under the wings of God.
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  And I wonder, as we say our prayers, are we in that same assurance?
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  In Psalms chapter 91, he tells us,
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  He says.
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  David is praying to... to God in full assurance that he is protected under the wings of God.
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  He understands fully that he is the apple of his eye.
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  And as he goes about this time of prayer, it's evident that he knows how much God loves him.
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  And I wonder sometimes ourselves, if we come to God in prayer with that same assurance,
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  in psalms chapter 91 there's a
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  happiness of those that are godly there's a
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  happiness state for them that understand
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  that they're under the presence of the shadow of the almighty that
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  he takes care of them that it's a place of safety and refuge being the apple
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  of god's eye is a place where god is watching and for some of us that might
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  be scary because all of us are going to have a moment in their time of life.
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  Where maybe they are not acting exactly as they should act.
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  And maybe they may say or do something in a moment that they wish they could take back.
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  But it won't change how much God loves you.
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  And maybe you're in that place right now.
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  And you're getting ready to come to the Lord in prayer.
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  But you're thinking about things in your own life that maybe make you feel unworthy.
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  Let me tell you, none of us is worthy of God's love.
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  But all of us are assured of God's love.
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  None of us are perfect. it's only Jesus
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  who's perfect but Jesus in us allows us
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  to strive towards the prize of the high mark and Jesus
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  in us allows us to stand when others will not stand to cling to what is right
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  when others will just fall by the wayside and Jesus in us will allow us that
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  forgiveness when we ask him so that when we do make mistakes he is able to cleanse
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  us from all unrighteousness and we pick ourselves,
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  we allow him to pick us up and we place ourselves in the presence of his hands,
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  in the presence of who he is.
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  And we move forward because we are the apple of his eye.
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  And I believe just in my mind that we are like a golden apple.
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  And I believe he shines and polishes us.
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  And as we get a little tarnish on us from the world and we come to him in faith
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  believing and we pray, he cleans that.
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  But it doesn't change the fact that we are pure gold in his eyes because he
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  sees the blood of Christ.
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  Do you realize who you are in Jesus Christ?
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  Regardless of what you've done, regardless of where you've been,
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  regardless of the faults you've had, regardless of the things you haven't done.
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  When God saw your need, which was before you were ever born,
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  he loved you so much that he gave his son to die on the cross of Calvary that you might go free.
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  He sacrificed his only begotten son to pay the penalty for your sins.
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  That's how valuable you are.
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  And Jesus loves you so much that he gave his only life,
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  his self, all that he had all that
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  he was and he left the wonder of
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  heaven to come and pay for your sin's debt
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  and he holds you close and he
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  watches you and he protects you and
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  he supplies your every need that's how
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  much he loves you that's how valuable you are and
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  when david speaks to keep me as
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  the apple of his eye he understands that
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  he is the apple of god's eye you have the
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  word of god from genesis to revelations to tell you how much he loves you you
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  have the new testament that speaks of god's giving his only son that you might
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  have life you can read in the scriptures the accounts of how God keeps his children safe,
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  how God supplies their every need.
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  You have every reason to understand and believe that you are the apple of his eye.
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  And when you are the apple of his eye, when you come to God in prayer and you
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  speak to him and you know that Jesus is ever living to make intercession for
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  you, you can come in full of confidence that what you ask him, he's going to hear.
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  You can be sure that he's going to incline his ear to you.
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  You can be sure that he's going to take your burden and make it light because
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  he's promised it throughout the scriptures.
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  He's proved it through the lives of the accounts of those that are recorded in the holy word of God.
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  You have full assurance when you come to Jesus that he loves you.
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  This, my friend, should change everything for you. You're not coming hoping he hears.
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  You're not coming hoping he cares. He says, cast all your care upon me, for he careth for you.
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  You're not coming hoping that he can. You're coming knowing that he can.
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  Knowing that he will. Knowing that he's right.
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  Knowing that he has everything under control. Everything is under his feet and
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  you rest under his wings.
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  As a child of God, when you read this verse, keep me as the apple of thy eye,
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  hide me under the shadow of thy wings.
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  When you read this verse, you should take comfort and rest.
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  It's peaceful in the wing under the wings of God.
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  Your focus should be on asking him to cleanse you that you would be all that
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  he'd have you to be, opening your ears to hear what he has to say.
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  Filling your heart with his word and with time and prayer with him that you
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  would be what he'd have you to be,
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  in full assurance that he loves you, in full assurance that you're worthy because
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  of the blood of Christ, in full assurance that you're part of the family of God.
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  When you go to prayer, you're praying to the Father as his child,
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  knowing that he loves you and he cares for you. is a wonderful thing to be under
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  the wings of an almighty God.
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