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323 | Walking in Him - Finding True Peace: Trusting God in Every Battle · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Music.
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  God will save us if we make Him Lord of our life. He doesn't just save our soul
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  from hell, but He also saves us from the despair living in this world often brings into our lives.
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  The psalmist David said, As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me.
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  Psalm 55, 16 Do you have the confidence of God to say, As for me,
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  I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me?
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  Do you know Him and His promises well enough to have the confidence to know
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  when you call unto to him, he will show you great and mighty things that you
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  don't know, as we're promised in Jeremiah 33.3?
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  Is your relationship with God in good standing so that he can hear you when you pray?
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  Do you need to do business with God before calling upon him for your needs in
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  order for him to hear you?
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  If we give God his rightful place in our lives and we completely trust him as
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  Lord, we can rest assured that he will save us. He will save us from our sins.
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  He will save us from our troubles, and he will save us from despair.
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  Join us in this podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries as Kim takes us on a
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  journey through the scriptures, revealing the truth that God saves us.
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  The psalmist David makes a declaration in Psalms 55-16 that says,
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  As for me, I will call upon God, and the Lord shall save me.
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  He gives us the perfect recipe that we all must follow to invoke the power of God in our lives.
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  We call on God.
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  Now, interestingly enough, that may sound simple, and it is.
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  But we have to be in a place where we can call upon God and him hear us.
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  The reality of it is that God hears every prayer of a repentant sinner.
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  But those of us who are his children, if we regard iniquity in our heart,
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  we are told in Psalm 66, 18, that the Lord won't hear us.
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  And so I'm afraid that many of us find ourselves in this situation where we
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  need God's immediate help, but we are delayed in our request to him because
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  we have to get ourselves in shape to speak to him.
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  It's an interesting way to live our lives.
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  Now we know that we are frail and
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  that we have an inclination
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  to do the wrong thing and that our flesh wars against our spirit and so he gives
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  us first john 1 9 that says if we have faith in christ he tells that if we confess
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  our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  So we have an understanding that when we step left or right of center,
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  if we allow the Holy Spirit to convict us, then we can receive that forgiveness.
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  But we have to live a life that understands the privilege of being a child of
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  God And the privilege that we are afforded as a child of God is that we can walk in him.
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  But we must choose to walk in him. We must choose to deny self and take up our
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  cross and daily follow him.
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  We must choose to trust in him, not on ourselves, not in our friends,
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  not in a self-help book, but strictly and solely and wholly fully in him.
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  And the Psalmist David in this verse in Psalms 55,
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  16 is explaining to us that when you do call upon him, when you really call
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  upon him, when your trust in your faith is opening up your heart and your mind to Jesus Christ,
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  when you have placed God on the throne of your heart, He will hear you.
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  We learn that in Jeremiah 33, 3 as well.
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  He says, call unto me and I will answer thee and show thee great and mighty
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  things which thou knowest not.
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  And when he answers us, he saves us. Now, he doesn't just save us from an eternity in hell.
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  He's far more than fire insurance.
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  The Lord saves us from our problems. He saves us from our troubles.
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  But notice I said, our Lord saves us.
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  We must give him his rightful place in our heart.
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  But with God on our side, according to 2 Corinthians 4, 8 and 9,
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  we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed.
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  We are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken,
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  cast down, but not destroyed.
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  We live in this world, and the Bible says man born of a woman a few days full of trouble.
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  He says, hey, in this world, you're going to have trouble, but I have overcome the world.
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  If you recall, he was the fourth man in the fire. The three Hebrew children
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  were not spared the fire.
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  They were spared the effects of the fire.
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  If you recall, he shut the mouths of lions, but Daniel was in the lion's den.
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  He doesn't circumvent these situations.
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  He pushes you through. and walking with him is incredibly important to the life of a Christian.
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  Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so.
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  When we think about who God is and we think about what he has done for us,
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  it's important that we put our faith in the truth.
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  Isaiah tells us in chapter 41, verse 10, he says this, Fear thou not, for I am with thee.
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  Be not dismayed, for I am thy God.
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  I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with
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  the right hand of my righteousness.
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  In 13, he repeats and says, For I, the Lord thy God, will hold thy right hand,
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  saying unto thee, Fear not.
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  I will help thee.
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  We must place him.
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  As Lord of our life. And we're only going to do that if we have confidence in him.
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  We call upon him and he delivers our soul from the battles that war against us.
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  And he gives us peace when we trust in him.
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  Isaiah 26, 3 says, I will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on
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  thee because he trusteth in thee.
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  What does it mean to trust? trust it means to rely fully upon something it means
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  to be sure and confident in the expectations it means you're not wondering if
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  or what or where or when but you have a calm assurance.
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  That that person you have put trust in
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  who you have faith in is going
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  to deliver as they promised and when you
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  truly know God and you truly understand who God
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  is and how he works and how his character is
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  and what his actions and his behaviors are that's when you can have full confidence
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  in him because you're going to understand that the battle isn't yours it belongs
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  to the Lord but you have to allow him to have it you can't just speak about
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  it you can't just pray about it, and say words,
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  you've got to submit to him and allow him to surround you, to direct your footsteps,
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  to take captive your thoughts, to be your strength, to supply your every need.
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  See, some of us have not because we ask not, and we ask not because we simply
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  aren't sure in who Christ is.
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  But the psalmist David in Psalms 55-16 said, very declarative,
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  I will call upon God. That's what he's going to do. That's his strategy.
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  And he's assured he'll have the victory.
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  We have to trust God fully, as we're told in Proverbs 3, 5, 6,
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  and 7, which is trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding.
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  In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
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  Be not wise in thine own eyes. Depart from evil.
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  Friends, we have to depart from evil.
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  And you say, well, what does that really have to do with calling on God and him delivering us?
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  Because unless you are departing from evil, you have not fully put your trust
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  in God and you're not calling on him.
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  You haven't made him Lord of your life. So none of those things fit with the.
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  Declaration that the psalmist David said when he says, I'll call upon God and he will save me.
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  Because if you have iniquity and evilness and sin in your life,
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  you're not allowing God to direct your footsteps.
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  You don't trust him completely because he said, be holy for I'm holy.
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  He said, take up the cross and follow me.
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  He explained that you can't outgive him and that the reward for following him
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  is much greater than any temporary satisfaction you might get in that pleasure for sin for a season.
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  So we have to stop for a second and really take inventory.
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  Have you put Lord Jesus Christ as Lord of your heart? Is he calling the shots of your life?
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  Do you submit to his will or do you still sift things through your own logic,
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  or pick and choose what you're going to listen to?
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  Do you wonder if he'll do it?
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  Most of us who are Bible students of any length of time know that he's all-powerful.
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  We know that he's all-knowing.
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  And we never wonder what he can do.
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  No, an unbeliever wonders what he can do or if he's real.
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  Generally not the case of
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  a born-again believer in Christ Jesus we just
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  wonder if he will and when
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  we get into that trap that the devil puts in front of us wondering if he will
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  we clearly have taken him off the throne and we've discarded our trust and our
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  faith because now we're looking at what we know he can do,
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  and instead of listening to what he says he's going to do and accepting that
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  and embracing that as his will for our life, we are now measuring that against
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  what we think he should do.
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  We're now measuring that against what we think should happen.
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  And so now we are qualifying. We are measuring.
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  We're suggesting and we're submitting our mind and our thoughts and our fleshly,
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  limited, finite mind and trying to determine if the will of God is going to fit in that.
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  But that's not what Thomas David says in Psalm 55, 16. seem to know,
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  he says, as for me, I will call upon God.
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  You know why he's calling upon God? Because he knows he's going to answer him.
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  Because then he says, and the Lord shall save me.
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  He doesn't say the Lord can save me, so I'm going to call on him.
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  He doesn't say the Lord might save me, so I'm going to call upon him.
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  No, the psalmist David says, I'm going to call on God, and he shall save me.
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  Because he fully has made the Lord Lord of his life.
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  And if you know anything about the psalmist David, you know he didn't get it
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  perfect. He didn't get it right all the time.
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  But he was a man after God's own heart, and his intent was to follow after the Lord.
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  And he had strong conviction and sorrow when he stepped out of the will of God.
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  The Lord would always clean him up and put him right back in the center of his
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  will. still, because if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive
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  us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  That's 1 John 1, 9, and we've already talked about it.
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  But maybe some of us don't really recognize that when we're wondering what he's
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  going to do, we're losing confidence.
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  Because, see, we shouldn't wonder what God's going to do. We should just be
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  sitting back excited and embrace what he is going to do.
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  We have a front row seat to see a miracle when there are situations in our life
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  that don't make sense, when there are problems in our life that only God can solve.
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  When trouble and heartache and problems come our way, it is then we must have confidence in God.
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  Because you see, when we truly trust in God, there is nothing that can overtake
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  us because he is fighting our battle. We aren't.
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  We're simply trusting in God to fight for us and following the directions of
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  an all-knowing, all-powerful God who loves us.
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  In fact, in Romans 8, 30, 70 says, nay, in all these things,
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  we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
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  Sometimes in life, you just kind of eke out a win.
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  Those of you who play sports may be very familiar or watch them.
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  You know, the buzzer beater is down to two seconds in a basketball game.
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  You're down by one point, and you throw the ball in, and it goes in,
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  and you score two points, and now you've won by one.
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  It's a buzzer beater. That's eking out a win.
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  Sometimes if you're a tennis player, maybe you're playing the best out of three
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  sets, you split sets, and you win the third set in a tiebreaker. That's eking out a win.
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  But that's not how it is when you are a Christian, when you're a child of God. You don't eke out wins.
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  You're more than a conqueror in Jesus Christ. It's the equivalent of a 6-0, 6-0 straight set.
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  It's the equivalent of a 40-point spread in a basketball game.
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  You're more than a conqueror. You do more than just win. You don't eke it out.
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  Whatever God does, God does big, and he does completely.
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  See, you've got to change your attitude and your stinking thinking.
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  When situations come your way, this is when you shore up your faith.
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  This is when you dig deep for the confidence and the assurance,
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  and you hold tightly to that, and you truly trust him.
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  Because whatever you are facing, whatever giant that is in your path,
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  God is greater than that.
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  We're told that in 1 John 4, 4, greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world.
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  Whatever questions you have, Jesus is the answer.
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  Regardless of your situation, regardless of your need, Jesus is what you need, and he bids you come.
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  In Matthew 11, 28 through 30, he says,
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  He says,
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  You're tired. And part of the reason you're tired is you're trying to fight
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  the battle yourself, and it doesn't even belong to you.
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  You are not capable of fighting it.
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  Some of you are just resisting the Lord and his call upon your life.
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  Some of you are resisting God and his path he has for you. Some of you are just stinking angry.
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  You don't like what he's given you. And if that's where you fall,
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  then you can't tell me honestly and truthfully that you fully trust him,
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  that you have confidence in him, and that he's Lord of your life.
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  But you can change all of that, and you can begin to see God in the truth of who he is.
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  He says in John 14, 6, that he's the way, the truth, and the life,
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  and no man comes under the Father but through him.
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  You can begin to see God for his all-knowing, all-powerful person that he is.
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  You can begin to see him for his unconditional love. You can begin to cling
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  to Romans 8, 28 says that we know that all things work together for the good
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  to them that love the Lord, to them that are called according to his purpose.
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  You can submit your life to him and rest comfortably and peacefully under the
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  shadow of the Almighty. mighty.
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  There is peace and rest where there is Jesus.
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  There's no peace and no rest where he isn't.
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  And you, my friends, have the opportunity to make the choice to submit and walk
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  with him, walk in him, get on board with his plan and his direction,
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  or to walk outside of him,
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  and in a different path and distant from Him.
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  See, so many of us want the Lord to come and come alongside us.
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  But we don't need to be the one in charge because we don't know the way. We aren't the way.
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  His plans are bigger than our plans. No, we have to get on board with His plan.
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  We need to come alongside Him. Let Him envelop us with His unconditional,
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  unfailing, never-ending love. of.
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  Let him lead us into the way everlasting.
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  We need to be walking in him, completely trusting, in full obedience,
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  and then and only then will we enjoy the abundant life he promises us in John 10 10.
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  Remember you are loved, Jesus.
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  Music.
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  Music.