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587 | Daily He Loadeth Us With Benefits · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  God is in control.
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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 and listen to Jesus.
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  With us as we look to the scriptures to learn more about God and to strengthen
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  your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Do you know that you are loaded with God's benefits? Join us in this program
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  of Woman at the Well Ministries as we open God's Word and explore the benefits
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  He daily bestows upon us.
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  Hello, and thanks for being with us for this program.
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  It's exciting to chat with you about, I think, one of the really upbeat,
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  positive, encouraging verses that we find in the Scripture, which is Psalm 68, 19.
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  That verse of Scripture says, Blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with
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  benefits, even the God of our salvation.
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  It's interesting to me how so many times in our life we get up and we just can't
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  seem to find anything to be excited about. We just can't seem to find anything to be happy about.
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  And the world has us so pressed down and has us so messed up that we're constantly
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  dwelling on the negative things in our lives or the negative things in the world.
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  And we get up in the morning, we open up the newspaper and headline after headline
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  after headline gives us something to be even more distressed about or distraught about.
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  But when we open up our Bibles, it's a different story.
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  You see, we see that there is hope and that Jesus Christ is that hope.
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  We see that we are loved and that God loved us so much that he gave his only
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  son that we might live and have life eternal.
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  It's such a wonderful thing to know that the God of the universe from Genesis
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  to Revelations wrote us a love letter.
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  And the psalmist David began to look at our lives as he wrote and he looked
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  at his own life and explained to us a very important fact.
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  And that fact is that daily god
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  loads us with his benefits now
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  let's just take a little look at that and i guarantee that at the end of this
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  chat that we're having in this look that we're taking on this verse of scripture
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  we're going to feel more uplifted and we're going to feel better because we're
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  going to really see how much god really loves us first of all i want you to
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  see that his contact with us is daily.
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  Now, we have the opportunity as sons and children of God to pray to him at all times.
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  And in fact, the Thessalonians were told to pray without ceasing.
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  We have the opportunity to bring our burdens to him. He tells us that in Hebrews
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  chapter 4 verses 14 through 16 and come boldly to the throne.
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  In Matthew 7, 7, he says, ask and you shall receive.
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  Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
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  He gives us many invitations.
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  Those invitations are available to us readily. But this scripture starts out with the words daily.
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  Daily he loadeth us with benefits.
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  You see, blessed be the Lord. We have a reason to love him, a reason to worship
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  him, and it's all wrapped up in who he is.
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  And as we look at the scripture, what we see is that every single day, the Lord loadeth.
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  Think about the word load. What does that mean?
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  He loads us.
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  Loads is heavy. load is
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  excessive load is a lot
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  and so if we look at what he does is every
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  day he gives us an abundance
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  of blessings some of those
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  blessings are readily seen we are given life
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  he gives us sunshine he gives us air some of those might be a little harder
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  to see he gives us companionship with himself because he said he'd never leave
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  you nor forsake you he gives us grace which he says is sufficient for all of our needs.
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  He gives us tangible things that we might have all that we have need of.
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  In Matthew chapter 6, we've learned that he clothed the grass and he feeds the fowls of the air.
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  How much more will he love us and care for us who are made in his image?
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  You see, every single day we are blessed by the God of the universe.
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  He says that it's even the god of our salvation so the very god who loads us with our benefits,
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  gave us the ultimate benefit in salvation
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  and that is free to all because he says in
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  romans 10 13 that whosoever shall call upon the name of
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  the lord shall be saved he extends the
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  invitation to everyone in romans 3
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  23 when he says that all have sinned and come short of
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  the glory of god so when we get up in the morning i think it's high time that
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  maybe we put aside the daily newspapers maybe we turn away from the tv and maybe
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  the first things we get out and read in the morning should be that love letter
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  somewhere between genesis and revelation.
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  The Bible tells us in 2 Timothy 2.15 that we are to study to show our self-approved
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  unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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  Many of those benefits that he loads us with are wrapped in the faith that he requires of us.
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  Many of those benefits that he has for us are going to be disseminated when
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  we're standing in the center of his will.
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  And so those blessings are pouring out upon us over and over and over and over
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  and over again, but we're not receiving them because our vessel is not fit to
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  receive them or we're not standing under the spout where the glory comes out.
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  You see, my friends, He is ever on His throne and He's watching to and fro.
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  And He is blessing us every day. But it requires us to live a life of faith,
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  to live a life that is centered in His will.
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  And even those of us who are not doing that have
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  the absolute privilege of being.
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  Alive and as long as we're alive
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  and as long as the holy spirit is drawing upon you
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  and he has pulled you to the place where you are listening
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  right now to his word be spoken then you
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  still have the awesome opportunity to come
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  to know him as savior this is the god of
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  salvation for there is none other name given
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  among men under heaven whereby we must be saved there's
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  salvation in no other in john chapter 14 and
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  verse 60 says i am the way the truth and the life and no man cometh unto the
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  father but by me every day we are renewed by the god of the universe who supplies
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  our every need and who enables us to walk in his strength i have good news for you.
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  The headlines of the newspaper probably aren't going to tell you that Jesus loves you, but he does.
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  The six o'clock news is probably not going to show you what God has done for
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  you today, but the Bible will.
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  You see, regardless of what time it is right now, God has already blessed you.
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  And he loads blessing upon blessing upon blessing upon you.
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  As I was growing up, I can remember singing the song, Count your many blessings, name them one by one.
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  Count your many blessings, see what God has done.
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  My friends, if I begin to name to you just the blessings that he has given me
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  just this day, and the day is no ways near over, time would not permit me to
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  give you every single thing that he's done for me.
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  But just for a quick look at them, let's take a little look.
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  We can start with the alphabet.
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  And A, he gave me an awareness of his presence.
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  B, he allows me to believe in who he is.
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  C, he has given me a call on my life that I might know him and work for him
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  and that I might be with him. Where are you at now with those?
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  D, I have a divine presence that goes before me.
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  E, he lets me eat. And I find that amazingly wonderful because he creates the things in which I eat.
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  F, he's given me friends to comfort me, to guide me, to make me accountable,
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  to love me, to walk with me.
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  G, I am able to see his glory and his greatness unfold in my life every single day.
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  H, he has given me heaven, a home not made with hands that he's building me
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  a mansion in as we're told in john chapter 14 i he's given me the invisible
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  holy spirit to dwell inside of my heart,
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  J, I have Jesus, my friend, my companion, my father, my guide,
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  my protector, my judge, the one in whom will make all things right,
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  the one in whom all things are created and under his feet.
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  K, he has given me the knowledge of who he is.
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  Because I can read from Genesis to Revelations, and I can fully know Jesus because he speaks about him.
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  And by fully knowing jesus i can fully know god and i can have an amazing relationship,
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  and i have the opportunity to work for the kingdom l he's given me love and
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  he's given me liberty he's allowed me to be free in christ jesus whom the lord
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  sets free he's free indeed,
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  he's given me a love that is unconditional he's given
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  me love here on earth he's given me life not just for this world but for the
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  next m m stands for the mansion that he has for me for the memories he's created
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  in my heart in my life to help me know to go to him.
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  M is for the mind that can know God and follow.
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  N, he's given me a never-ending source of strength, a never-ending supply of
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  faith, if I but just call upon it, because faith comes from God.
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  O, he is the open door. I can come to him, and I can go with him,
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  and I can do all that he needs me to do. P, he's given me a peace that passeth all understanding.
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  Q, he's given me quiet rest by still waters.
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  R, he is the resurrection and the life, and I know him personally,
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  and I have life because he's resurrected in me, a new person,
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  dead to this world and dead to sin, but alive in Christ Jesus.
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  S, he is my Savior, my friend, and my guide, and he has paid my sin debt.
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  T, he has given me time to speak to others about who he is.
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  Trusted me with his word in my heart.
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  U, there's an understanding of who he is that's available to all who ask,
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  seek, and knock to find him.
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  V, I have victory in Jesus over hell, death, grave, and sin.
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  W, he is the wise God who walks with me.
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  X, he makes me exuberant. It starts with an E and sounds like an X.
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  Y, he takes my yoke and my burden and allows me to have his.
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  And Z, he's made me zealous to good works.
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  I encourage you to go through that alphabet and see what God has done,
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  and you'll feel better than you did when you started.
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  Others will see him in you, and he will come up in you a new life.
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  Because blessed be the Lord who daily loadeth us with benefits,
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  even the God of our salvation.
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