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Episode 11 - God Will Provide (Philippians 4:19) · Women At The Well: REJOICE

0:27
SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the day that the Lord has made, and we will be glad in it.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, I'm Rose, your host, and I want to thank you for joining me this morning here at Women at the Well Rejoice Podcast.
0:51
SPEAKER_00: Sisters, this is a new day.
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SPEAKER_00: Fresh and rewarding.
1:01
SPEAKER_00: It is always a blessing to see one more day.
1:07
SPEAKER_00: The very fact that God chose to bless you with the opening of your eyes means this morning that God is still with you and He is still taking care of you.
1:25
SPEAKER_00: Now, knowing that God is taking care of you should bring you a deep sense of joy.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: But let's be honest, there are days when we look at the world and we look at our own lives, and we might quietly question where is God?
1:54
SPEAKER_00: We see wars going on, children being killed, the pain of divorce, the crisis of homelessness and the erosion of family values.
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SPEAKER_00: These events can weigh heavily on our hearts and create a feeling of hopelessness.
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SPEAKER_00: But sisters, this morning at the well, we remind ourselves that God is still providing and He is still in charge.
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SPEAKER_00: This morning we'll discover that God doesn't just provide some of our needs.
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SPEAKER_00: He provides all of them.
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SPEAKER_00: Excuse me.
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SPEAKER_00: Through Philippians 4.19, we'll see his promise to supply.
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SPEAKER_00: In Matthew 6.34, we'll get a little instruction.
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SPEAKER_00: We'll learn why we do not need to worry.
3:08
SPEAKER_00: And in first Peter, we'll learn the power of casting our cares directly on God.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, get ready to release your anxieties, your worries, and your doubts as we sit together at the well.
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SPEAKER_00: So grab your coffee, tea, or lemon water, and open your Bible.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's rejoice together because God will provide.
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SPEAKER_00: Father God, as we come to sit at the well this morning, we ask that you meet us here.
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SPEAKER_00: We ask that our worries, our anxieties, the things that keep us awoke at night, the things that trouble our hearts, that we leave them with you.
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SPEAKER_00: Heavenly Father, teach us today how not to worry, how to remember that you are still in charge, how to keep our faith.
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SPEAKER_00: No matter the circumstances, no matter the situation.
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SPEAKER_00: Our faith tells us that God will see us through and bring us out.
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SPEAKER_00: Heavenly Father, come sit with us this morning.
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SPEAKER_00: We need your Father God.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you for all you do and all that you're going to do in this episode.
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SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' name, amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Alright, sisters, let's open our Bibles together to Philippians 4 and 19 and discover the promise of God's provisions.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, sisters, I'll be reading from the King James Version.
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SPEAKER_00: Philippians 4, 19.
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SPEAKER_00: It says, But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Let that just settle in your spirit for a moment.
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SPEAKER_00: My God will supply all your needs, not some.
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SPEAKER_00: Not just the ones you think are spiritual enough.
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SPEAKER_00: All of them.
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SPEAKER_00: Now let's look at three specific word phrases in this verse that changes everything for us as women of faith and believers.
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SPEAKER_00: First of all, we see the words my God.
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SPEAKER_00: Notice Paul didn't say the God or a God, he said my God.
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SPEAKER_00: That makes it personal.
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SPEAKER_00: This tells us that the provision is personal.
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SPEAKER_00: God isn't just a distant landlord or a cosmic bank.
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SPEAKER_00: He is our father.
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SPEAKER_00: He knows our name.
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SPEAKER_00: He knows your bank account balance.
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SPEAKER_00: And he knows those silent prayers you cry into your pillow at night.
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SPEAKER_00: He knows the things that are on your heart.
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SPEAKER_00: My God, our God.
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SPEAKER_00: The other words I saw was all your needs.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes we get needs and wants mixed up, don't we?
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SPEAKER_00: I know I do.
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SPEAKER_00: We want the storm to stop, but God knows we need the strength to walk through it.
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SPEAKER_00: We want the easy way out, but God provides the grace to endure it.
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SPEAKER_00: He provides for our physical bodies, our emotional stability, and our spiritual hunger.
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SPEAKER_00: All your needs.
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SPEAKER_00: Lastly, Paul says, according to his riches, this is the best part.
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SPEAKER_00: God doesn't give out of riches.
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SPEAKER_00: He gives according to them.
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SPEAKER_00: But if he gives you a million, he is giving according to his wealth.
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SPEAKER_00: Because he's a billionaire.
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SPEAKER_00: Now our God owns, and I know you've heard this, but I want you to really grasp it and believe it.
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SPEAKER_00: Our God owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
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SPEAKER_00: God's supply is not limited by the economy, the oil prices, your job status, or your background.
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SPEAKER_00: That's good news.
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SPEAKER_00: And sisters, let's reflect for a moment.
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SPEAKER_00: Think about what you are carrying this morning.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you worried about how the mortgage or the rent will be paid?
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SPEAKER_00: Are you worried about a child who has wandered away from the foe?
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SPEAKER_00: Are you worried about your health?
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SPEAKER_00: Are you worried about your marriage?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, sisters, the well is a place of exchange.
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SPEAKER_00: You see, we bring our empty jars, which are our needs, and he fills them from a source that never runs dry.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember, he's the living water, and that well is deep.
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SPEAKER_00: It won't run dry.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to manifest it.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to hustle for it.
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SPEAKER_00: You simply have to trust the source.
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SPEAKER_00: Trust God.
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SPEAKER_00: He will provide.
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SPEAKER_00: Now let's go to Matthew 6.34 so we can release that weight that we're carrying around.
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SPEAKER_00: That weight of tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_00: These are the words of Jesus Himself, Matthew 6.34.
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SPEAKER_00: I am reading from the New International Version.
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SPEAKER_00: He says, therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
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SPEAKER_00: Each day has enough troubles of its own.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_00: Isn't that the truth?
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SPEAKER_00: We spend so much energy trying to solve problems that haven't even happened yet.
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SPEAKER_00: We always think it further along the road.
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SPEAKER_00: Like for instance, I'm making this recording today on Wednesday.
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SPEAKER_00: But sometimes when I'm making the recording on Wednesday, my mind is already stressed out about Friday or next month's bills.
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SPEAKER_00: I've got to release that.
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SPEAKER_00: You see, Jesus is giving us a divide boundary here.
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SPEAKER_00: He is saying, I have given you the grace for today.
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SPEAKER_00: But I haven't given you the grace for tomorrow yet.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus is operating in today.
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SPEAKER_00: And we should be operating in today.
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SPEAKER_00: Worry is a vision problem.
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SPEAKER_00: When we worry, we are acting like we have to provide for ourselves.
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SPEAKER_00: Anybody ever felt that way?
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SPEAKER_00: We take the weight off God's shoulders and try to put it on our own.
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SPEAKER_00: But guess what?
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SPEAKER_00: Our shoulders weren't built to carry the future.
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SPEAKER_00: They were built to carry the cross of today.
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SPEAKER_00: See, sisters, I want to ask you a hard question.
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SPEAKER_00: Is your worry changing the outcome?
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SPEAKER_00: Is your anxiety adding a single hour to your life?
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SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_00: It's only still in the peace and joy you could be having right now.
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SPEAKER_00: When we worry about tomorrow, we miss the miracles of today.
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SPEAKER_00: We miss the way the sun hit the kitchen table this morning.
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SPEAKER_00: We miss the sound of our children's laughter.
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SPEAKER_00: We miss the small ways God is already providing because we're too busy looking for the big thing that we think we need later.
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SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, if Philippians is the promise and Matthew is the boundary, first Peter is the physical release.
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SPEAKER_00: It's how we actually hand over the heavy lifting to God.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's look at our final scripture for this morning.
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SPEAKER_00: 1 Peter 5 is short, it's very short, but it is powerful.
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SPEAKER_00: Reading from the New International Version, it says, Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, hold on just a moment.
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SPEAKER_00: I want to read to you from the King James Version.
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SPEAKER_00: King James puts it this way, casting all of your care upon him, for he careth for you.
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SPEAKER_00: I wanted you to really hear that last part because he careth for you.
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SPEAKER_00: God isn't asking for your burdens because he's a collector of problems.
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SPEAKER_00: He's asking for them because he loves the one carrying them.
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SPEAKER_00: He cares for you.
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SPEAKER_00: The word cast is so intentional.
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SPEAKER_00: In the original Greek, it means to hurl or throw something, like a fisherman throwing a heavy net out into the deep sea.
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SPEAKER_00: You've seen that in the movies.
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SPEAKER_00: You might have seen that in person.
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SPEAKER_00: It is an active move.
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SPEAKER_00: Casting isn't a polite handoff.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes our worries are so heavy and we've held on to them for so long that we have to physically and spiritually hurl them away from ourselves towards the Father.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, now we have learned to cast our problems.
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SPEAKER_00: We have learned to not worry, and we have learned that God will provide.
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SPEAKER_00: Now let's see if we don't have a reason to do some releasing.
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SPEAKER_00: I can handle the weight that is crushing you.
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SPEAKER_00: So let's rejoice in that truth.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's say it together.
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SPEAKER_00: I am provided for.
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SPEAKER_00: I am loved.
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SPEAKER_00: I am not forgotten.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh sisters, doesn't it feel good to say?
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SPEAKER_00: We are letting go of the lies the enemy told us about being alone in our struggle.
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SPEAKER_00: We are not alone because God is there.
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SPEAKER_00: We are rejoicing in the fact that our Father owns it all.
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SPEAKER_00: We are daughters of the king.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't beg for Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: We sit at the table of the provider.
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SPEAKER_00: Rejoice, sisters.
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SPEAKER_00: The pressure, the pressure is off.
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SPEAKER_00: You're not alone.
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SPEAKER_00: God is right there with you.
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SPEAKER_00: And He is the provider.
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SPEAKER_00: Rejoice.
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SPEAKER_00: Rejoice.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, what are you clenching so tightly that your knuckles are turning white?
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SPEAKER_00: Is it your marriage, your health, your children, your finances?
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SPEAKER_00: As we sit here at the well this morning, I want you to literally open your hands.
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SPEAKER_00: Just open your hands if you're driving.
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SPEAKER_00: Just keep your hands on the wheel.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay?
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SPEAKER_00: Open your hands.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're driving, you can do it in your heart.
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SPEAKER_00: If you're at home with your coffee physically, set your coffee down.
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SPEAKER_00: Open your hands.
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SPEAKER_00: Open your palms towards heaven.
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SPEAKER_00: Say it with me.
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SPEAKER_00: Lord, I cast this on you.
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SPEAKER_00: Whatever it is, you know what it is.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell him.
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SPEAKER_00: You cast this on him.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to carry it back into the kitchen with you.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't have to carry it into your workplace.
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SPEAKER_00: Leave it here this morning at the well.
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SPEAKER_00: God's shoulders are big enough.
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SPEAKER_00: His grace is sufficient, and his provision is already on the way.
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SPEAKER_00: Sisters, before we depart from the well today, we're going to go to the throne of grace together one more time.
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SPEAKER_00: Tell God what you need to cast to him.
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SPEAKER_00: Give it to him.
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SPEAKER_00: Let it go.
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SPEAKER_00: Heavenly Father, we come to you this morning with open hands and open hearts.
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SPEAKER_00: Lord, we thank you for the promise that you will meet all of our needs according to your glorious riches.
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SPEAKER_00: We repent for the times we've tried to be our own providers and for the nights we've stayed awake worrying about tomorrow.
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SPEAKER_00: We trust.
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SPEAKER_00: Right now, Lord, we cast every anxiety, every bill, every heart health report, every family concern onto your strong shoulders.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, we can trust, and we trust that you are working even when we can't see it.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, fill my sisters today with a peace that surpasses all understanding.
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SPEAKER_00: Let them walk out of their homes, drive in their cars today with their heads held high, knowing, Father God, that the King of Kings is taking care of them.
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SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you that you provide for us.
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SPEAKER_00: And we thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't have to worry anymore.
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SPEAKER_00: Lord, we cast all our problems on you this morning.
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SPEAKER_00: We thank you, Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: In the mighty and providing name of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: Lord, the victory is yours, and we know this.
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SPEAKER_00: I say thank you again.
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SPEAKER_00: Amen.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, sisters, thank you for sitting at the well with me today.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope you felt encouraged and reminded that you are never walking this path alone.
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SPEAKER_00: As you go about your day, remember, don't carry what God has already conquered.
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SPEAKER_00: And he has already conquered all of your problems.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm Rose, and this has been the Woman at the Well Rejoice podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: May the Lord bless you and keep you.
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SPEAKER_00: May His face shine upon you and give you peace.
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SPEAKER_00: If God said so, I'll see you next time at the well.
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SPEAKER_00: Go and join, because God will provide.
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SPEAKER_00: And remember, the water's living and the well is deep.
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SPEAKER_00: Be blessed.
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SPEAKER_00: Have a wonderful day.