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532 | Throwback - But God (Part 2) · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  She's a happy girl. Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman.
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  At the Well Ministries, where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus
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  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, we invite you to sit down with us as we look
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  to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Nevertheless, God, that comforted those that are cast down, comforted us.
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  When life seems more than you can bear, remember, but God.
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  Join us in this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim continues to
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  walk us through the scriptures, displaying the power of the presence of God in any situation.
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  Hello and welcome to this broadcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as we continue
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  on with the most wonderful, comforting thought, but God.
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  No matter what situation we're in, no matter where we are, no matter what seems
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  to be facing us, as a child of God, we can proclaim with authority and true confidence, but God.
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  And we know in our heart of hearts that he
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  hears us he listens to us he
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  knows what's best for us he has plans for
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  us to prosper us to give us a hope he knows
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  the need we have before we even ask and he prays for us so when we begin to
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  think about but god you can't help
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  but have this overwhelming sensation of absolute joy and peace Thank you.
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  Because I feel, as David felt, the battle's not mine. It belongs to the Lord. Shall we pray?
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  Our kind and most gracious, dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we just thank you for
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  this and another opportunity to come before you. We thank you for your love
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  and your mercy and your grace.
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  We thank you that you care about us and that you're mindful of us.
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  And we thank you, dear Heavenly Father, that wherever our feet may take us,
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  that we know that you are there.
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  We thank you, dear Heavenly Father, that you have the way and that you are the
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  way and that you planned a way for us. and that if we but follow you,
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  Lord, we will stay in the way and in the center of your will.
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  And Lord, we pray that you would just help us to realize that we are never alone
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  and that we can do all things through you which strengthen us.
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  And dear God, we pray that you would just continue to speak to our hearts and
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  help us to realize that the place we're in, you said to be content in whatever state we're in.
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  And Lord, that where we're at is the place that you have chosen for us.
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  Therefore, you have picked out all that we need in order to be more than conquerors
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  through you, Jesus Christ.
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  Lord, just speak to our hearts over these next few moments as we pray and as
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  we speak and as we study and meditate upon your word.
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  Lord, just bring all of our hearts together in one accord, sitting at your throne,
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  hearing the words that you would have us to speak and hearing you speak to our hearts.
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  And all these things we ask in thy most precious and holy name we pray and all
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  of God's people said, amen.
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  I'll tell you, I believe one of the things that I love so much about being able
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  to teach on the subject of, but God, is being able to just flip through his
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  scriptures and watch him just jump out.
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  And I hope that if you are able, that you'll just sort of go through the scriptures
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  with us, maybe jot down where we are, because I believe as you begin to see
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  page after page in verse after verse, in book after book.
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  Of his blessed book when you begin to
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  just see all these places that god just
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  shows up on the scene and his intervention not
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  only makes a difference it is the difference that you can just wave your little
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  white hankies of victory and know that jesus christ is victorious and you are
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  more than conquerors through him and you can see a place after place after place
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  that it will begin to strengthen your heart,
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  begin to allow you to just begin to trust him the way that he would have you to trust him.
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  You see, we are strengthened in Jesus Christ because he is our hope.
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  And we're not in despair and we're not struggling when we focus on Jesus because
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  we have a hope and that hope is found in Jesus Christ.
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  And we're not like the people who don't have a relationship with him.
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  I don't understand how in the world people can take a step who don't have a
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  relationship with Jesus Christ I don't understand how they make it through adversity
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  I don't understand how they.
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  Go through the troubles and trials that just beset us
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  on this earth and I say that and
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  at the same token I have to wonder why it is so
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  many times I try going on and through all those
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  things by myself i have the blessed hope
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  of jesus christ i have the promises that he's given me i
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  can come to him with all of the things that are on my
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  heart because he said to cast all your care upon him because he cares for you
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  he told me in hebrews 4 to come before the throne of god and i would obtain
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  help and mercy in time of need repeatedly through the scriptures he said if
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  i had a question i could ask him if i was looking for an answer i could seek
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  and find he says that if I would just knock on his heart's door, he would open up.
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  Yet so many times, I walk around.
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  As if I have no hope. That ought not be, friends, for you, and it ought not be for me.
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  Because what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us,
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  that he hath called us the sons of God.
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  And as sons, we are join heirs with Jesus Christ, and he loves us.
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  Did you hear me? He loves us. And oh, how he loves us.
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  So much that he prepared the way, and God gave his son Jesus Christ,
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  that we might have life and have it more abundantly.
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  Did you hear me? More abundantly.
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  We're not supposed to live around as people without a hope. He came and he died
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  and he bought our salvation and he lives evermore that we might have an abundant life.
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  Please don't mistake abundant life with worldly abundance.
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  I found in my life and in my experience, the less of the world I have,
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  the more abundance of Jesus I have.
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  I found that the more joy and peace in my heart is reflected by how much time
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  I am spiritually with Jesus and how much my focus is upon the things of above
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  and not of things of earth, as he told us in Colossians to set our affections.
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  Because worldly things sort of keep us down.
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  I have to share this with you because it just crossed my heart and my mind.
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  I recently lost my mother. I didn't lose her. I know exactly where she is.
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  She's deposited in heaven and she's in the wonder care of my heavenly father.
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  And she's there with my earthly father.
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  But as I began to go through all the things that you have to go through when
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  people die and had all these people that were talking to me about all the estate
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  and all the affairs and all the things, and I thought in my heart,
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  my mother left this world,
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  with very few earthly attachments.
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  Did you hear me? She left with very few earthly attachments.
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  She didn't leave with many things that you would call possessions on this earth.
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  She had what she needed and God blessed her and she had a wonderful life.
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  But if you were looking at her so-called estate, she left without very many earthly possessions.
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  And my mother always referred to them as attachments.
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  But when my mother left this world and opened up her eyes in glory.
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  What possessions she must have had what amazing things must have been in her mansion,
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  jesus christ said lay not your treasures up here on earth where rust and moth the corrupt,
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  but you lay them up in heaven where neither thieves nor
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  steals can get neither thieves nor moth
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  or anything can get to them she she had
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  attachments but just like they were
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  if you looked in the book of hebrews and they were beginning to chat and
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  chat and it talks about abraham and they were beginning to move
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  out he said i'm looking for a city whose builder
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  and maker is god i'm just a pilgrim on a journey and the attachments that my
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  mother have are all in heaven the things that were important to her were in
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  heaven and she left this world building treasures in heaven,
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  even her very last days were days that were spent lifting God up and glorifying him.
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  And when it came time to go through her possessions, let me tell you,
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  probably the absolute most valuable thing my mother held was a Bible.
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  And let me tell you, the treasures in that word, her attachments were few here and great over there.
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  And as we began to look at this lesson on but God, I want to ask you,
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  where are your attachments?
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  What's weighing you down here? Remember in Romans 12, getting rid of the weight
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  which so easily doth beset us?
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  Remember how he told us to put off the old thing and put on the new?
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  And how it will be transformed daily. Do you remember any of those things that
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  the word of God preached to us and spoke to our hearts?
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  You see, it's all about heaven.
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  It's all about Jesus. It's all about God.
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  And as we begin to spend time with him, and we begin to focus on God,
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  the things of this earth begin to grow strangely dim.
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  And let me tell you, that's when you've got some possessions.
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  That's when you've got some hope.
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  You see, because your hope isn't built on something here that will fail.
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  It's not built on an individual who can't sustain whatever reputation you may
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  have or confidence you've placed in him.
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  No, hope is built on Jesus Christ and nothing less than his righteousness.
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  And that hope will never fail.
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  It's important that we look at the scriptures and figure out where our hope is.
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  In psalms chapter 33 and verse
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  22 he says let thy mercy o lord
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  be upon us according as we
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  hope in thee if you
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  just scoot forward just a few more chapters in psalms 38 and verse 15 he says
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  for in thee o lord do i hope thou wilt hear me o lord my god see he's not hoping god will hear him.
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  He has a hope in God, knowing that he will hear him.
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  Just a couple pages, a couple of chapters more. Psalms 39, 7.
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  And now, Lord, what wait I for?
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  My hope is in thee. What are you waiting for, people?
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  What more does God have to do to show you who he is?
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  What more does God have to do for you to place your faith in him and you to
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  be confident that he's going to carry you through this world and that he's going to take care of you.
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  Psalm 78, 7, that they might set their hope in God and not forget the works
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  of God that keep his commandments.
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  Your strength going through this world is found in God. You see,
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  but God changes everything.
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  But God is our hope will take us through.
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  He's never going to leave us nor forsake us. If you remember what he's done
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  and what he's done for others, he'll do for you.
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  He will deliver you he has delivered you
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  remember all the times that he's taken you through the trial all the times that
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  just in time he showed up on the scene all the times that you thought you were
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  in your last moments of despair and suddenly god was there yes but god changes everything.
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  In Psalm 119, verse 114, he says, Thou art my hiding place and my shield.
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  I hope in thy word.
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  Are you listening as we just read the scriptures, strengthening our faith in
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  knowing that he is our hope?
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  Regardless of what your situation, God is there and he's your shield.
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  Nothing will happen to you that hasn't
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  already passed through his nail-scarred hands those hands that prove his love
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  for you are sifting out the things that come into your life and he has promised
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  that through him you can make it through let's move now to the book of jeremiah.
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  Jeremiah 17, 7 says, blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is.
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  Jeremiah 33, 3 says, call unto me and I will answer thee. Did you hear me?
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  Jeremiah 33, 3 says, call unto me and I will answer thee.
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  And show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.
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  See, we're not hoping in something that'll fail.
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  And we're not hoping that he'll hang on through
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  this life and get me to the next i have a hope i
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  can get up tomorrow with joy unspeakable and full of glory i can have a peace
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  that passes understanding i can know who god is because from genesis to revelations
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  he reveals himself to me that i might have a personal relationship with him
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  you see there's a but god in every situation,
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  In Romans 15, 13, he says, Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing,
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  that ye may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost.
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  See, I just don't think the devil wanted that verse read, so we're going to read it one more time.
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  Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing that you may
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  abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost.
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  Fill you with all joy do you
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  have joy he said that he come to give you life and that you might have it more
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  abundantly and then he says the god of hope fills you with all joy if you don't
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  have hope and joy and faith then your relationship with jesus christ is out
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  of kilter because he wants to fill you.
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  Perhaps one of my favorite verses in all of Scripture, Titus 2.13.
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  Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and
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  our Savior, Jesus Christ.
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  Regardless of what your situation is, you need to be looking for God on the scene.
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  You need to be looking for how God is actually intervening. You need to be looking
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  for God's direction on how he's sending you through.
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  You need to stay in his light that it may guide your footsteps.
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  Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and
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  our Savior, Jesus Christ.
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  When you're all alone, there's a but God.
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  When you're all alone, there is definitely a but God.
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  He said in Hebrews 13, 5, that he would never leave you nor forsake you.
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  In john 14 16 he says
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  and i will pray the father and he shall
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  give you another comforter that he may abide with
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  you forever my friends
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  sometimes you lose people you love and
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  sometimes it makes you feel like that you just can't
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  go on but you see god knows what it's
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  like to lose and see someone die you see
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  god watched his son die on the cross of calvary so
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  he knows what it's like to lose someone he loves he
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  knows the pain that you're feeling he knows exactly what you're going through
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  and he has said i will send the comforter to comfort you he has said i'll never
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  leave you nor forsake you he understands what you're feeling there's a but god
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  even in that horrible situation.
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  He says and israel said unto joseph behold i die but god shall be with you and
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  bring you again into the land of your fathers and that's in genesis 48 21 maybe.
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  Trial you're facing is one where
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  you feel alone because that one that you loved has gone on before you.
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  But he said, but God shall be with you.
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  And he says, and he'll bring you again unto the land.
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  Sad days are upon you. But he said, let not your heart be troubled.
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  And he said, I'll bring you again.
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  And he told us that he was our hope and that by so he could fill us with joy.
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  Oh my friend there's a but god in every situation maybe
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  your situation is that your friends have forsaken you
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  and that's how come you are feeling all
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  alone my friends it's a very scary place to be when you feel like you're alone
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  but you don't ever have to feel alone because the lord says in proverbs 18 24
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  a man that hath friends must show himself friendly and there is a friend that
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  stick a closer than a brother.
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  There's a friend who can go with you when no one else can or will.
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  There's a friend who can pass through the operating room with you.
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  There's a friend that can walk up that lonely road to the cemetery and be in
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  your heart and comfort you.
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  There's a friend who can be with you in the middle of the night and still your
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  heart and say, peace be still.
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  There's a friend who will stick closer than a brother in john chapter 15 and
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  verses 13 and 14 he says greater love hath no man than this than a man lay down his life for his friends,
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  you are my friends if you do whatsoever i command you old people like to drop
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  names of who their friends are you can say i'm a friend of jesus christ but
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  your life needs to reflect it.
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  Need to be able to see a change in you they need you to be to be able to see you glorifying him,
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  when you don't know your way there's a
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  book god in nehemiah chapter 9 verses 12 and 19 he says moreover thou lettest
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  them in the day by a cloudy pillar and in the night by a pillar of fire to give
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  them light in the way wherein they should go yet thou in thy manifold mercies
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  or suck us them not in the wilderness.
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  The pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way,
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  neither the pillar of fire by night to show them light and the way wherein they should go.
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  You don't know your way. You're lost, confused.
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  Jesus said, I am the way, and he will show you the way.
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  In Psalms 119 and verse 105, he says, thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.
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  He leads you in the way that you should go.
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  And when you're in need, there's a but God.
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  When you are in need, there is a but God, and he loves you.
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  In Isaiah 58 11 he says and the Lord shall guide thee continually and satisfy thy soul in drought,
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  and make fat thy bones that thou shalt be like a water garden and like a spring
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  of water whose waters fail not I don't know what your need is but I know the
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  answer because Jesus is always,
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  the answer and I leave you with this thought.
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  That God is always faithful. So you can count on the but God in your life because he's faithful.
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  In 1 Corinthians 10, 13, he says, there hath no temptation taking you,
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  but such as is common to man.
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  But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are
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  able, but will with the temptation also make a way of escape that you may be able to bear it.
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  In 1 Corinthians 1, 9, he said, God is faithful by whom you were called into
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  the fellowship of his son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
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  You have fellowship with the God of the universe and his son, Jesus Christ.
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  And regardless of your situation, there is a but God, and you need to but call upon his name.
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